Former National Football League and UVA football player Chris Long is starting a new program, called EdZone. Long was at King Family Vineyard Saturday afternoon for his “Wheels, Wine and Wonder” fundraiser. Some of the money raised will go toward EdZone. “So, I look at kids that don’t have this stuff and you really just want to help them,” Long said. “There’s so many great people in Charlottesville that can do that.” Long is giving back to students in a big way. By stuff, he means making sure kids have enough school supplies, clothes, and hygiene items to succeed.
Natalie Romero looked straight ahead from the witness stand as she fielded questions about the 2017 Unite the Right rally weekend, when a neo-Nazi fractured her skull in a car-ramming attack. Romero is now 24, identifies as a queer woman and is living in New York City. But in 2017, she was a first-generation college student from Houston entering her second year at the University of Virginia.
Charlottesville resident and UVa student Zyahna Bryant was featured along with Civil Rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis in a documentary called “Truth Tellers,” as it made its Virginia premiere Sunday as part of the Virginia Film Festival.
Before the pandemic, only one or two of the 30 students in Lana Swartz’s classes had any investing experience. After the pandemic, about 40 percent of her students said they’d done investing, says Swartz, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. Many of them traded on platforms such as Robinhood, which offer free trades and fractional shares, making investing easier than before.
Recent historical research has identified a site now called “Proctor’s Ledge” as being the place where the convicted were hanged at Salem. In 2017, Salem erected a memorial for the people who were executed at the site. The bodies of those hanged were dumped in a location near Proctor’s Ledge. “An eye witness account says the bodies were dumped into shallow rocky crevices in the ledge under the shallow soil. There are references to several bodies being removed at night by family members and buried at their homes,” said Benjamin Ray, a professor emeritus of religious studies at the University of...
“When people lack science to explain things, they rely on magic and religion,” said Stanley Stepanic, an assistant professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of Virginia who teaches a popular course on “Dracula.” “When there was a void in knowledge about disease, the vampire filled in.”
“African-American families were not seeking to acquire homes outside of Black, urban housing markets to immerse themselves in a sea of whiteness,” says Andrew Kahrl, professor of history and African-American studies at the University of Virginia. “They were seeking to escape from the clutches of predatory conditions within their own neighborhoods.”
Experts say the project would inject millions into two pivotal moments in a child’s education – preschool and middle school – when children are experiencing a lot of physical change and brain development. For Charlottesville, the long-discussed and multi-pronged reconfiguration project would upgrade 55-year buildings and shake up a 33-year-old setup. “... If you want to think about protecting your investments, this is how to do it,” said Nancy Deutsch, a professor with UVA’s School of Education and Human Development, of the project. “Protect the investment you made in early childhood by invest...
Oyler’s book recalls a familiar truth: that our environment shapes our existential orientation to a profound degree. Woven into daily life, digital platforms inject their own logic into the basic structure of our thought. “Because our brains are so plastic and formable,” writes Matthew Crawford, a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, “the grooves that we wear into them through repeated behavior may become deep enough that they function like walls.”
(Podcast) Wharton’s Stephanie Creary speaks with University of Virginia professor Sean Martin and Deloitte’s Thalia Smith about how social class and upward mobility shape careers, especially for people of color.
Funders, including NIH, do not reward research institutions for the rate at which their scientists publish replicable studies – and do not penalize them for irreproducible research. Therefore, neither institutions nor researchers are incentivized to focus on ensuring replicability. As Brian Nosek, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia who was the corresponding author on the Science paper, described it: “Fundamentally I’m rewarded for publishing, not for getting it right. I don’t get rewarded for demonstrating the validity of somebody else’s work. I don’t get rewarded for prod...
Bill Petri, a UVA professor of infectious diseases, said, “There truly could be a biologic link between being anxious and having worse COVID-19.” He added, “Someone who is in a good state of mental health, it’s easier to manage all these chronic underlying illnesses, and stress can directly and biologically impact your response to things.”
It’s almost time to trick-or-treat, but it’s also important to stay safe from COVID-19. Dr. Costi Sifri, an epidemiologist from University of Virginia, offers advice to parents with unvaccinated children. “Outdoors are always safer than indoors. So, those outdoor activities like trick-or-treating or outdoor parties are really fantastic and allow kids to be close to each other,” Sifri said.
George Rutherglen, a professor at the UVA Law School, cast doubt on the idea that free speech would prove a strong defense. “I don’t think the First Amendment is going to get them very far in defending racially discriminatory confrontations and violence,” he said. “You have no First Amendment right to go out to attack people based on race.”
After the Times-Mirror sent a follow-up inquiry to the sheriff’s office as to whether the threats school board members had been receiving met its standards for prosecution, a spokesperson from the LCSO wrote via email on Thursday that, “the messages received at this time do not meet the elements of a crime under Virginia Code.” But according to Douglas Laycock, the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, some of the messages “would reasonably intimidate the recipients and they are not protected speech.”
Ruth Mason, a professor of law and taxation at the UVA School of Law, said there is no conclusive data that corporations pass tax costs on suppliers or consumers. “That’s an empirical question whether the cost is borne by the shareholders, the clients or labor,” Mason said. “There is a lot of discussion among economists about who bears the corporate tax, so the median position is that it is borne by the owners of capital, which is mostly the shareholders.”
For political scientist Larry Sabato, Youngkin has seized on the debate, which splits Republicans and Democrats. “This issue is mainly stirring energy among GOP voters and might increase their turnout,” the University of Virginia professor said. “I find it very strange that such a localized matter has become prominent fodder in a statewide campaign – but that is what Youngkin has chosen to make it.”
Days ahead of the Virginia gubernatorial election, UVA’s Center for Politics talks about Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s campaign. J. Miles Coleman says McAuliffe is leaning on his previous term as governor in his message to Virginia voters.
Shots at Carlyle’s controversial deals in nursing homes have not landed in the way Barack Obama was able to sway voters against former Bain Capital head Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election. “It didn’t sell,” said Larry Sabato, founder of the UVA Center for Politics, of the McAuliffe campaign’s attacks on Youngkin’s business record. “All [voters] know is the guy is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and to the vast majority of Americans, that signals success.”
Paid leave is far from the only divide between the candidates, but McAuliffe’s emphasis has elevated debate over workers’ need for paid time off amid a pandemic that’s heightened public awareness of the issue – and employer pushback against it. McAuliffe’s stance aligns him with President Joe Biden’s agenda, which included paid family and medical leave, boosting the national overtone of the race. “Part of the reason paid leave is getting so much attention in the Virginia governor’s race is that it’s been getting so much national attention as well,” said Jennifer Lawless, a professor of politic...