(Commentary co-written by Brad Wilcox, sociology professor director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia) It was one of the most notorious lines associated with the Affordable Care Act: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” Now, with the “Build Back Better” framework being negotiated in Congress, Democrats are trying a similar line: “If you like your child care situation, you can keep it.” The Democrats’ current plan could easily sideline one particular type of child care: the faith-based, community grounded organizations that millions of families acro...
(By Caitlin Donahie Wylie, assistant professor of science, technology, and society) In the vertebrate paleontology laboratory of a natural history museum, volunteer fossil preparator Keith was hard at work. He was searching for the dinosaur bones encased inside a “jacket” — a basketball-sized chunk of rock wrapped in plaster and burlap that had been collected by museum staff on a field expedition to Montana. Muted sunlight filtered through the lab’s dusty windows, falling across fossils, tools, houseplants, toy dinosaurs, and other workers at nearby tables as Keith used a pen-sized steel pick ...
(Co-written by Sarah Lebovitz, assistant professor of commerce in the McIntire School of Commerce) Forget traditional brainstorming — tools used for rapid prototyping can speed product development when used for idea generation.
Nearly 15% of middle school students in Virginia say they use electronic vapor devices. The University of Virginia and others are partnering to stop this. The UVA Cancer Center is working with Southwest Virginia Community Advisory Board and Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth. They’re bringing students from UVA Wise to kids in middle schools to discuss the harms of vaping and smoking.
The effects of racial disparities within disciplinary practices in schools has been a growing topic of conversations that warrants further deliberation. In a new EdWorking Paper, University of Virginia researchers Amanda P. Williford, Pilar Alamos, Jessica E. Whittaker, and Maria R Accavitti reveal that teachers are more likely to use certain exclusionary practices--short of suspension--on Black kindergartners than White students due to preconceived assumptions about differences in social skills.
Scientists at the UVA School of Medicine say the human body has a natural ability to fight off cancer, but a particular gene mutation robs some people of that protection. The researchers found the mutation in the UTX gene disrupts cells’ ability to suppress tumors, though how that occurs is still not clear.
Virginia hasn’t encountered a repeat of increased cases that occurred last fall. It was in October 2020 when daily infections started creeping up ahead of holiday gatherings. So far, that path has been avoided and reduces the possibility of a large holiday surge, according to Friday’s report from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute.
The version of the American Revolution narrated by Alan Taylor, who holds UVA’s Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair in American History and has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, is raucous, complicated, unheroic and based on extremely rigorous scholarship. It also asserts that among the motivations of the colonists who broke away from Britain was the protection of slavery.
Time is running out for a generation of World War II veterans to tell their stories. Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a professor at the UVA School of Medicine, along with UVA students and volunteers, has taken up a project to capture local veterans’ narratives on video.
The UVA Biocomplexity Institute’s COVID-19 model shows there’s a 30% chance that we could see a winter surge that will have case numbers surpassing what we experienced in the summer because of the Delta variant. If we do, that surge could come in the first quarter of 2022.
WVIR’s signal went live on March 11, 1973. Harold Wright made that possible. Harold came to Charlottesville as an engineering student at the University of Virginia. It was there he fell in love with broadcasting, first with radio. Harold decided Charlottesville deserved, and could support, its own television station. So, with about $500,000 in capital and secondhand equipment from a failed station in North Carolina, WVIR was born. Harold Wright passed away peacefully at his Lake Monticello home Saturday.
As far back as summer 2010, near the midpoint of his 12-year pro basketball career, Roger Mason Jr. left money on the table to sign a contract with the Knicks, knowing that playing and networking in New York could fuel his post-retirement business. After retiring, Mason heeded an invitation from NBPA executive director Michele Roberts to join her as the deputy director of the players’ union. He served in that role for two years, became commissioner of the Big3 basketball league and is now CEO of Vaunt, a sports and entertainment development company he co-founded with his business partner, Omar...
(Press release) The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the appointment of Erica Y. Williams as chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Williams earned both a J.D. and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.
Trevor Scott Floyd was one of three theater workers who shared a fourth-floor walk-up in San Francisco’s Richmond District for part of 2019 and 2020. Kate Robinson, Bethany Byrd-Hill and he had all worked a range of theater gigs, but they had all at one point managed the box office at Marin Theatre Company. By the end of their lease, all three had left the industry — and the Bay Area. “I was paying $1,100 a month to live in what the last people had used as a closet,” said Floyd, who is now in law school at the University of Virginia. He got a lot of advice not to become a lawyer unless he was ...
Serving your country is a calling. “Overall I felt called to serve, so that’s why I decided to join ROTC,” said University of Virginia third-year cadet Jessica Bachman. For her, it was a call that came in part from her family and led her to ROTC at UVA. “I decided that, really based on my familial ties, that I wanted to join the military and serve my country,” she said. Her story is not unusual. Many of those in ROTC were inspired by a family member who also served.
Cadets at the University of Virginia have started their 24-hour vigil for veterans. The cadets will be marching across McIntire stage, switching out every 30 minutes, until Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. The march is to honor veterans including those who are missing in action and prisoners of war.
Albemarle County contains clusters of highly engaged voters that routinely show out at polls at higher rates than other voters in the state, according to Paul Freedman, associate professor of political science at the University of Virginia. “Voters in the county may have been paying particular attention to this election, not only to the gubernatorial race at the top of the ticket, but to some of the local contests as well,” Freedman said.
Abe Sutherland has been one of the loudest voices urging lawmakers to remove 6050i from the infrastructure bill. Sutherland, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, wrote a report for the Proof of Stake Alliance, a trade association he advises, in which he warns against crypto regulation that would expand surveillance of everyday Americans.
“Miners, stakers, lenders, decentralized application and marketplace users, traders, businesses, and individuals are all at risk of being subject to this reporting requirement, even though in most situations the person or entity in receipt is not in the position to report the required information,” warned attorney Abraham Sutherland, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and adviser to the Proof of Stake Alliance, an industry group, in a September report.
“The most significant requirements of the Clean Economy Act are durable because they are in the legislation,” said Cale Jaffe, professor and director of the Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic at the UVA School of Law. “There are enough different actors that are either outside of any governor’s control or where a governor’s role is indirect that it seems the broad path is durable. That would be my prediction.”