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 Virginia Festival of the Book starts Wednesday and is expected to draw thousands of readers to Charlottesville, but it will also attract some aspiring authors for a unique event called the Write Start Speed Critique.
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The University of Virginia has announced a major push to study and develop treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia. The news comes as one family donates $30 million to the cause.
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Communities around the state have been finding a class of dangerous chemicals in their drinking water. Now, one non-profit group is pressing the state to require a sewage treatment plant remove PFAS or forever chemicals before discharging water into the James River.
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Virginia has announced plans to stop burning fossil fuels and produce all of its energy from renewable sources by 2045 -- five years before many other states, but there’s a problem. Sandy Hausman reports that our regional energy grid can’t accommodate the demand for transmission lines.
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The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors has finally made a controversial decision, settling a debate that has gone on for years. The school will rename is main library.
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Universities have long emphasized the importance of books when studying culture, but at UVA one professor has built two rich courses around TV shows. Sandy Hausman reports on what students gain from a study of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul – series produced by Richmond writer and director Vince Gilligan.
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A police officer who was seriously injured at the Capitol on January 6th of 2021 is touring Virginia this week – hoping to counter misinformation about what really happened there.
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Summer is high season for wildland fires, but even now they’re a growing problem. This month alone there were more than 300 blazes on public land, two of them here in Virginia. Putting out those fires can be dangerous work. About 17,000 people hired to do that job have another concern-– getting paid.
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With Democrats now in the majority, state lawmakers could send as many as 47 gun-control bills to the governor’s desk.
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Economics is sometimes referred to as “the dismal science,” and business courses can be a bore, but for one student at UVA, those things were the ticket to a life of laughs.