Unbiased policing is the goal of new training for the University of Virginia Police Department. It’s called justice training and is hosted by the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement, or NOBLE.
The next few days will look a bit different for the University of Virginia Police Department. The entire staff is receiving training from National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives. The goal is to engage in procedural justice. It’s a combination of reading, talking, and exercises to help the officers understand the community and its goals better.
For the second straight year, University of Virginia students living on the Lawn have canceled the community trick-or-treat that attracted scores of neighborhood children, both older and younger than 18.
The University of Virginia has broken ground on a facility for a new data science school on its Charlottesville campus. The School of Data Science will sit on 14-acre campus area that also will have a hotel and conference center, a performing arts center and other academic buildings, the university says in a news release.
(Subscription required) “When photography was invented and developed, it was almost entirely used in the West,” said John Edwin Mason, a UVA associate professor of African history and the history of photography. “The technology and the practical techniques that photographers developed were to capture white people’s skin tones.” He added, “Film and digital technology both are still biased toward doing justice to white skin tones, with Black skin tones being an afterthought.”
(By Rachel K. Alexander, a postdoctoral research associate and lecturer in the Department of Politics) As more Americans opt out of traditional burial, it’s worth considering the political significance of graveyards.
(Subscription may be required) Dr. William A. Petri, an immunologist at the UVA School of Medicine, answers this week’s COVID-19 questions from readers. And there’s big news: an FDA panel says that the benefit of the Pfizer vaccine for kids 5-11 is greater than the risks.
Naturally, some people are better at certain things than they are at others; this can be related to the differences in ability to process various types of information. However, learning styles are often treated as a superior way for people to understand content — and studies don’t support the prediction that leaning into them will help learners remember material better, says Daniel Willingham, a cognitive psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Virginia.
Spine implants do not have to be one size fits all any more. Doctors at the University of Virginia Health System are customizing to each patient’s unique spine shape to provide personalized care.
The findings from University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators help explain why specialised bone cells called osteoclasts begin to break down more bone than the body replaces.
“We’ll be screening over 85 films in that five-day period on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville and on the Grounds of the University of Virginia,” Festival Director Jody Kielbasa told WTOP.
Once the new data science center opens in early 2024, it will anchor a 14.5-acre parcel on the campus at Emmet Street and Ivy Road.
The civil trial that starts Monday will examine whether the far-right organizers had plotted to foment violence. “The trial will provide a detailed look into the world of far-right extremism and organization, but that world should not be understood as an outlier,” said Richard C. Schragger, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Prozac may not only help fight depression; it also could help you keep your eyesight. A University of Virginia Medical School review of insurance databases containing records from more than 100 million Americans shows that fluoxetine, best known as Prozac, may offer a first-line treatment for atrophic, age-related macular degeneration, also known as dry macular degeneration.
(Subscription may be required.) “The Catholic Church in this country has never been as divided as it is right now, and the meeting is going to be put in terms of this division in the American church,” said the Rev. Gerald P. Fogarty, UVA religious studies professor.
Siddhartha Angadi, professor in the UVA Department of Kinesiology, and Arizona State University professor of exercise physiology Glenn Gaesser reviewed 200 past studies and concluded that "a weight-centric approach to obesity treatment and prevention has been largely ineffective."
(Subscription may be required) Jefferson, for all of his blindness concerning the evils of slavery, championed religious liberty in Virginia and in the nation as a whole.
Chris Taylor, a 31-year-old University of Virginia product, has provided more drama for these Dodgers than just about anyone. He is the reason the Dodgers are here, still alive, after a postseason of looking like a team on the brink. He is the one who hit the walk-off homer in the wild-card game that allowed them to get here in the first place, the one who seemed to walk or single when his team desperately needed to start rallies late against the San Francisco Giants in the National League Division Series.
“It’s not enough for us to merely support things like ‘reusable straws’ anymore,” said Sadey Rodriguez, University of Virginia discus thrower and co-founder of Green Athletics, a UVA student-athlete organization. “It’s time to go big. Since I am privileged enough to have an athlete’s platform, I am happy to use it to urge the leaders of the COP to take real climate action to help people who don’t have a voice.”
The University of Virginia Center for Politics is keeping an eye on the races for the upcoming general election. J. Miles Coleman thinks Republican Jason Miyares is running a good campaign against Attorney General Mark Herring. “I’ve heard from some of my Republican sources that Miyares may be, if you look at the three campaigns, he may be running the best campaign on the Republican side,” he said. “So we’ll see if that can help him overperform the rest of the ticket.”