“If you look at the [US invasion] now with hindsight, you can say that it was a major failure, it didn’t change Haiti, it didn’t democratize Haiti. If anything, the situation now is probably more catastrophic than it was in the mid-1990s. … It was a euphoric moment, which ended in disaster,” says Robert Fatton, a Haitian-born historian who is now a professor in political science at the University of Virginia.
“It is true that foreign interventions have left a trail of sorrow and have at best been a short-lived palliative that never addressed the deep inequalities of Haiti’s political economy that are in fact the cause of the nation’s current predicament,” said Robert Fatton, a Haiti-born political scientist at the University of Virginia who closely monitors the country. “That said, it is clear that the country’s climate of impunity nurtured by a total void of legitimate authority cannot last long.”
(By Kimberly A. Whitler, Frank M. Sands Sr. Associate Professor of Business Administration) Why are brands risking market share and brand image erosion to weigh in on important but hot-button topics on which consumers, shareholders, and employees do not agree? Marketers have been told, “You must take a stand,” in reports, articles, and surveys. But what is driving this belief?
James and Tania Kitchen are parents to Jonah, a baby who lost his life in UVA Children’s. They donated 1,000 special onesies to babies in the NICU on Monday.
Scientists and advocates from three main entities have been breathing fresh, green life into what, over decades, had become a barren, muddy ocean floor. The College of William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science instigated the first eelgrass plantings around 20 years ago and it monitors their progress through a variety of techniques, including regular aerial surveys. The Nature Conservancy participated in seed collection and cultivation. The third entity is the University of Virginia and its Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center, whose long-term carbon data-monitoring has made it ...
Low-income people of color in the U.S. are exposed to 28% more nitrogen dioxide in the air they breathe compared to their wealthier white counterparts, a new study using satellite measurements reports. The researchers find this is largely caused by the distribution of diesel truck routes, which has long been implicated as a source of environmental inequality. “There’s a whole racist history of freeway placement in that freeways didn’t end up where they ended up by accident,” Sally Pusede, a UVA assistant professor of environmental science and senior author of the study, said.
Assuming people wearing a biometric device sensitive to colds and flu acted on the warning, they could take precautions against infecting others and seek medical attention if needed. A 10-person team of researchers tackled the project. The scientists were part of Duke University; the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Imperial College London; the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan.
A vaccine development foundation in Norway is currently giving $200 million in grants to scientists working on a universal coronavirus vaccine. In addition to Northwestern Medicine, there are scientists trying to develop universal coronavirus vaccines at the University of Virginia, UNC Chapel Hill and the University of California–Irvine.
While COVID-19 case levels remain high in Virginia, they are declining in most areas of the state. Thirty-one health districts are in declining trajectories, and only one — the Southside Health District — is in a slow-growth trajectory, according to the UVA Biocomplexity Institute’s latest report, released Friday.
A new analysis found a troubling, though not surprising, link between the number of Confederate monuments and the number of lynchings in history: Places with more Confederate statues have a history of more lynchings. Researchers at the University of Virginia reviewed county-level lynching data between 1832 and 1950 and found that the number of lynchings in an area was linked to a higher likelihood of having monuments honoring Confederate leaders.
(Subscription may be required) In the Gulf War of 1991 he became known for the so-called “Powell doctrine” of military force, which was, in essence, that the U.S. needed to employ overwhelming strength. This approach worked well in expelling Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1991 – perhaps too well even for Chairman Powell. As Iraqi forces streamed back toward Baghdad under withering U.S. fire, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff began to push for an end to hostilities, remembered then-Deputy National Security Advisor Robert Gates in an oral history archived at the Miller Center of the Universit...
“I thought it was a stroke of genius to recommend him for the job, one of my best decisions,” former Vice President Dick Cheney told the University of Virginia. “When I think back now on my time there, it’s not possible to conceive of my tour without Colin Powell as an integral part of it.”
Powell said it changed war forever, recounting in his oral history with the Miller Center at the University of Virginia how he went to Cheney before the ground war commenced and said, “‘Dick, so far you’ve been seeing a nice air war. It’s clean, it’s neat, pilots fly, then come back. They all look like Steve Canyon. If you lose a plane, you lose one guy. If you lose a two-seater, you lose two guys. ... When the ground war starts, ground war ain’t air war. It’s ugly, it’s dirty, and you’re liable to see pictures coming out of some kid laying halfway outside of a tank on fire. He’s burning. It’s...
Yale’s Skull and Bones is probably the best known collegiate secret society, but for sheer drama and spectacle, none can top the University of Virginia’s Seven Society.
The Jefferson School’s “Swords Into Plowshares” proposal has raised over $500,000 in funding commitments. Its application is supported by many local, state and national arts and advocacy organizations, including The Memory Project of the University of Virginia’s Democracy Initiative and the Descendants of Enslaved Communities of the University of Virginia.
Larry Sabato of the UVA Center for Politics will talk to an administrator at NASA on Tuesday. During a virtual forum, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, a UVA School of Law alumnus, will discuss the latest developments at the civilian space agency.
(Subscription may be required) “The vast majority of Haitians don’t like foreign military intrusions, especially given the failed intervention of the U.N.,” said Robert Fatton Jr., a professor in the UVA Department of Politics who was born and raised in Haiti and has written several books about the country. “When they left there was nothing.” On the other hand, Mr. Fatton said, “the police in Haiti are completely dysfunctional now – the gangs have taken over Port-au-Prince, and they are probably better equipped than the police.”
(Commentary; subscription may be required) The ACC has staged 69 football seasons. The only one in which two of the league’s team ascended to No. 1 was 1990. The University of Virginia has played 1,345 football games. None was larger than Nov. 3, 1990 against Georgia Tech. To commemorate that extraordinary convergence, the ACC Network on Monday introduced a documentary: “We’re #1: The Story of 1990 ACC Football.”
A local couple translated their heartbreak into hope on Monday. They donated 1,000 specialized onesies to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at UVA Children’s in honor of their late son.
(Subscription may be required) Christopher J. Ruhm, a UVA professor of public policy and economics, found that under California’s paid leave law, new mothers who had worked during their pregnancy were estimated to be 17% more likely to have returned to work within a year of their child’s birth. During the second year of their child’s life, mothers’ time spent at work increased. “The evidence is pretty strong that we’d see favorable effects,” Mr. Ruhm said.