Sandy Hausman
ContributorSandy Hausman is an award-winning reporter for Virginia Public Radio, covering healthcare, the environment and criminal justice reform. Before joining the VPR team, Hausman worked for NBC and CBS in Chicago, serving as a radio news anchor, news director and field producer for ABC TV's midwest bureau. She also reported for Marketplace, public radio's news magazine, and for many of National Public Radio's programs.
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This year, TEDx hosted its first event at a Virginia prison. -
At a news conference Thursday, federal authorities said DNA testing conclusively links the murders of Lollie Winans and Julie Williams to a convicted serial rapist from the Cleveland, Ohio area. -
Now a law student at Harvard, international debate champ Bo Seo offered advice to University of Virginia students and faculty on how to debate with friends and family over Thanksgiving dinner. -
Architecture students from the University of Virginia will visit the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington D.C. to present their ideas later this year. -
Overcrowded animal shelters and the cost of medicine makes it harder to control dog flu outbreaks. -
Only three snake species native to Virginia are venomous and two of those are can be found in Hampton Roads. -
Staff at the Virginia Aquarium are keeping a watchful eye on over a dozen tomistoma eggs expected to hatch this summer. -
About 4,000 beagles are being rescued from a troubled breeding facility in Virginia run by a company that raises and sells animals for research. Animal welfare groups are trying to find them homes.
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In Charlottesville, members of city council suggested melting down Confederate monuments and providing bronze to local artists who could make new sculptures from it.
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Dr. Taison Bell at the University of Virginia explains how to check an N-95 mask.
