(Video and transcript) Tiffany King will join the American Studies Department as Anschutz Distinguished Fellow for the spring 2022 semester. King is currently an associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Virginia. King discusses her upcoming spring seminar “Black and Indigenous Feminist Survival and Experimentation in the Americas,” her work within the intersecting fields of Black, Native/Indigenous, and Feminist studies, and her 2019 book “The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies.”
(Podcast) Our guest in Episode 209 of Class Dismissed is here to help us make some sense of memory. He’ll also give us some teacher tips on how to make a more memorable lesson plan. Dr. Daniel Willingham is a psychologist and professor at the University of Virginia. He’s also the author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?” His book dives into how the mind works and what it means for the classroom.
Allen is joined in the partial class by world champion whitewater canoeist Jon Lugbill, former University of Virginia football star Anthony Poindexter and three-time Pro Bowl running back Chris Warren. Lugbill, who attended Oakton High in Fairfax County and UVA, is a five-time world champion in C1 Slalom canoeing, a seven-time team world champion and a three-time World Cup gold medalist. He’s the only paddler ever to appear on a Wheaties box. Poindexter, a Lynchburg native, is one of the most decorated defensive players in UVA football history. He was a first-team All-American and ACC Defensiv...
For Dr. Yao-Lun Yang, an astronomy post doctoral fellow at the University of Virginia, Webb represents the opportunity for deep research into fundamentals such as the “chemical heritage” of Earth and other celestial bodies. Webb will help scientists better understand something as complex as how a star is made, he said in a Nov. 18 public webcast sponsored by Massanutten Regional Library in Harrisonburg.
(Press release) At a Congressional hearing in 2003 on the Tibetan language and Tibet’s future, David Germano of the University of Virginia forewarned, “by losing the Tibetan language, the specifically Tibetan identity and world, the culture, insights, values and behaviors, is essentially consigned to the past.”
Though the economy has seen a drop in unemployment claims and a rise in stock prices, those big-picture indicators have been eclipsed by a historic 6.2% inflation spike since last year, which has rankled consumers. Republicans have seized that narrative early and argue it reflects on how poorly President Joe Biden and his Democratic colleagues have managed the country since taking power. “Midterms are often implicitly or even explicitly about the perceived overreach or perceived mistakes of the presidential party,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the Crystal Ball, a political analysis new...
At a panel discussion on the Mississippi case sponsored by the Federalist Society, University of Virginia law professor Richard Re said the court has not really prepared the public for an outcome that would overturn decades of abortion rights. That might suggest some sort of half-measure, as the court has employed before. That would set off rounds of legal battles, such as over Mississippi’s six-week ban.
If it turns out vaccines need to be adjusted to target the new omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, a University of Virginia infectious diseases expert said it could be done quite quickly. It’s about how messenger RNA vaccines, such as the COVID-19 vaccines, work. “It’s very, very simple to change a single mRNA molecule so that your vaccine now is effective against the most recent variant,” said Dr. Bill Petri, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health at the University.
(Co-written by Peter Gray, a professor in the McIntire School of Commerce) Few habits are harder to break than “the way we do things around here.” Organizational culture is notoriously difficult to change, in part because it reflects people’s values — their deeply held beliefs about what is good, desirable, and appropriate.1 Relationships can complicate matters further. When colleagues are embedded in informal networks with others who share and reinforce their values, they often become entrenched rather than open to new attitudes and behaviors. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Those same n...
According to data from the University of Virginia, cyber insurance has been the biggest security investment. In fact, in 2016, fewer than 50% of organizations had coverage, while today, that number has risen to 79%. That also means that the loss ratio for cyber insurance has risen. In 2019, it was 44.8% and grew to 67.8% in just one year.
As next-generation sequencing advances, emerging techniques could prove key to new areas, such as tackling obesity. New research from UVA’s College of Arts & Sciences has added a significant contribution to the growing evidence that lifestyle choices aren’t solely responsible for obesity: our genes can be responsible too. The regulation of fat storage, the ways that the body converts food into fuel, and the genes that control these functions can also contribute to obesity.
Brett C. Tjaden, a computer scientist from the University of Virginia, conducted research and discovered that out of the approximately 300,000 actors who have ever appeared on television or film, the average degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon are exactly 2.83! Ponder the implausible odds that there are less than three degrees of personal connectivity between one actor and every other actor who has ever participated in the history of the industry. And Kevin Bacon did not even make the top 50 of actors and their connectivity in Tjaden’s study.
Recent studies are emerging that point to red wine as potentially having the ability to reduce cancer risk by preventing the growth of cancerous cells, particularly those associated with breast cancer and esophageal cancer. That’s because a protein in grape skin can actually kill cancer cells, according to researchers at the University of Virginia.
With COVID-19 variants on the rise, doctors at UVA Health are working to create a universal vaccine for the virus. A universal vaccine is built to protect against any variant of COVID without needing to modify or alter what’s in the shot. Doctors are pretty far along in the testing process for such a vaccine.
UVA researchers are working on a universal vaccine that would fight all current and future variants. The vaccine is still in the laboratory stage, meaning it still has to go through mice and then to a clinical trial on humans. However, Dr. Steven Zeichner, a pediatric infectious disease expert leading the work, is optimistic about the team’s discoveries and said there is a sense of urgency.
At UVA’s Darden School of Business, by 90 days after graduation, 97% of the Class of 2021 had received a full-time offer – better than any top-25 school last year and in league with Wharton and Kellogg numbers from 2019 – and 95% had accepted, up from 93% and 91%, respectively.
An ambitious renovation and expansion on the campus of the University of Virginia offers important lessons for structural engineers, surveyors, and general contractors. Originally built in 1938, Alderman Library serves as UVA’s main library. Initially designed in a horseshoe shape, a major addition to the library in 1967 filled the horseshoe. As the school has grown to become a research powerhouse, the library’s needs have evolved as well. The University wanted to transform the library to better utilize space, make it more efficient, and add amenities. The 1967 addition was targeted for demoli...
After holding the line on tuition for the current school year, University of Virginia officials are recommending up to a 4.9% hike in tuition and fees for students in the next school year and again for the year after that.
Xfinity/Comcast, the largest television provider in Virginia and the United States, has agreed to carry the ACC Network, giving the nascent project full national distribution in just its third year.
(Commentary co-written by Margaret Burchinal, research professor in the School of Education and Human Development) The Congressional Budget Office report released earlier this month offers a clear picture of the costs of the Build Back Better Act to America. Yet the report fails to account for the longer-term payoffs of investing in a social and economic package that would dramatically change the landscape for children.