Sandy Hausman
Charlottesville Bureau ChiefSandy Hausman joined the Radio IQ team in 2008 after living and working in Chicago for 30 years. Since then, she's won numerous national and regional awards for her prolific coverage of the environment, criminal justice, research and happenings at the University of Virginia. Sandy is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Michigan. Contact Sandy at shausman@vt.edu.
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The recent deaths of two young actors from colorectal cancer has put a spotlight on the rising rate in people under 50. At the University of Virginia, a national expert on the subject says it’s also more common in people who live in one particular part of this state, and he’s hoping to figure out why. -
Virginia’s last election put Democrats in control of the governor’s mansion and the General Assembly, so organized labor thought home healthcare workers and university employees might finally get the right to collective bargaining. Instead, both groups have been cut out of pending bills and are fighting to get back in. -
A band from Appalachia is touring now, raising issues about this country’s current political climate. -
Scientists at the University of Virginia and NASA have come up with a small, hand-held device that could be a big help to farmers and gardeners around the world. -
If you’re an avid reader, you may want to mark your calendar for March 20th through the 22nd. That’s when about 150 authors will be in Charlottesville for the Virginia Festival of the Book. -
Public health experts agree – it’s not if but when. Mankind will see another pandemic, and a team of scientists at the University of Virginia hopes to be ready with a new way of making vaccines. It’s faster and less expensive than anything now available as Sandy Hausman reports. -
About 2,000 people waited in line at the University of Virginia Monday to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday by viewing an original copy of the Declaration of Independence. About two dozen are known to have survived since July 4th, 1776, when the first 200 were printed and sent by horseback to the 13 colonies. -
There are an estimated 60,000 collisions between motor vehicles and wildlife in Virginia annually. It’s a dangerous, sometimes deadly problem, and this year state lawmakers seem poised to do something about it. -
The University of Virginia will begin its celebration of the nation’s 250th birthday by sharing an original copy of the Declaration of Independence – a document found in an Albany, New York attic in 1955.Sandy Hausman reports on what the public will see. -
Seth Michelson has written a new book about those kids and other migrants he’s met. It’s called Hope on the Border.
