A new study found a correlation between the location of Confederate monuments and the number of lynchings the area had. According to the University of Virginia study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, counties in once-Confederate states with numerous Confederate monuments and memorials were also discovered to have had more lynchings.
Researchers have discovered a ‘quantifiable connection’ between Confederate monuments and the prevalence of lynching. The study, conducted by a team at the University of Virginia, aimed to explore whether there was evidence to support claims that Confederate monuments were symbols of hate, by comparing the number of lynchings that have taken place in a given area with the prevalence of Confederate monuments in that same area.
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Last summer, in the wake of the George Floyd murder, UVA’s Darden Graduate School of Business dean convened two groups to assess and confront the issues surrounding social justice and equity on the Darden campus. One was the Working Group on Race and Equity and the other was a high-level cabinet of Black alumni that could propose recommendations to leadership and oversee their execution. From the groups sprouted a number of initiatives focused on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
PVCC has received support from its bigger sibling, the University of Virginia, several times this year, including a $300,000 donation announced earlier this month to expand its nursing program to graduate 150 nurses a year and work in cooperation with the UVa Medical Center.
Bonumose, a food technology company, is investing $27.7 million in its expansion in Albemarle County, which will add 64 employees over the next three years. The company, which specializes in “healthy sugar,” is relocating from University of Virginia’s North Fork research park to a 50,000 square feet section of the former State Farm building on Pantops. Ed Rogers, Bonumose CEO and co-founder, said the company wants to make healthy sugar affordable for the global mass-market and to have a positive impact on public health. “Central Virginia is a beautiful place,” he said. “UVA helps attract reall...
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced the 2021 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. Twenty early-career scientists and engineers working in fields including astrophysics, evolutionary biology, engineering, geosciences, nanotechnology, neuroscience and physics will each receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research. The awardees include UVA chemist Robert Gilliard.
(Video and transcript) UVA landscape architect Julie Bargmann, a woman who has made a career of turning toxic and industrial sites into usable, community spaces, has won the first prize of its kind in landscape architecture.
The University of Texas men’s team and University of Virginia women are ranked first in the College Swimming Coaches Association of America Division I preseason poll, released Thursday. Both teams won national championships in 2021, with the Virginia women claiming their first title and the Longhorns their 15th. (The UVA men are ranked No. 9.)
Katherine “Kitty” Dudley Garner, founder of The LoveBolt, a Charlotte-based nonprofit committed to eliminating systemic racism, died on Oct. 7 after a seven-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 57. [She was a graduate of the UVA School of Law.]
(Commentary) Every young American is entitled to a K-12 education. Mostly, we have Thomas Jefferson to thank for that. He championed his idea of tax-funded general education for all children of citizens. Nearly the entire world has since adopted his concept. Literacy, once reserved for aristocracy, makes social mobility and the middle class possible. … I wonder what Jefferson would say about how America has implemented his concept?
UVA’s women’s and men’s teams are both listed among the contender for the NCAA championship.
It’s a tight race for governor in Virginia, and a political expert says the Republican Party is currently doing better at getting people to vote. Larry Sabato, political analyst and founder of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, says winning this race isn’t a matter of changing minds. It’s a matter of motivating voters.
(Audio) Next month Virginians will decide who will replace outgoing Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat. Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate, is running for a second non-consecutive term. Polls show the race tightening between him and businessman Glenn Youngkin on the Republican side. “Here & Now’s” Scott Tong speaks with Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan election forecasting newsletter published by the UVA Center for Politics.
(Commentary) Once we notice the different ways nature can benefit us without our even knowing, it’s easier to understand why the subconscious may be drawn to it. If feeling connected to nature can reduce stress and increase happiness, then how can we expand on that to benefit our everyday lives? It reminds me of a professor at the University of Virginia, Tim Beatley, who introduced me to the concept of biophilia. He encourages students to look for ways to “bring the outdoors in.”
(Commentary) A very clear and compelling statement of the case for preserving every single Civil War monument is made by one of the most distinguished historians of the Civil War, Gary Gallagher, the John Nau Professor of Civil War History at the University of Virginia. He recounts how he uses Confederate monuments to teach about the Civil War, and he makes the equally important point that Confederate memorials like the Talbot Boys are artifacts that record not only memories about a war fought 160 years ago, but also the points of view of those who put them in place roughly 110 years ago.
(Commentary) As it turns out, several of the Confederate officers in question were not highly respected military leaders. Bragg, Polk and Hood, for example, “were widely deemed failures both during and after the war,” says Gary W. Gallagher, a UVA professor emeritus of history. “Did someone in Washington have a sense of humor?”
Diving deeper into employing AI as an assisting technology, I first asked Rich Ross, who is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, for his thoughts. He told me what I’ve heard time and time again from faculty. “While many are developing ways to have AI replace interactions, I think that AI should be viewed through the lens of maximizing each interaction: students interacting with each other, and instructors interacting with students.”
(Subscription may be required) Reaction from college educators was what might be expected. Siva Vaidhyanathan, the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, tweeted, “Have you no shame? Seriously. What is wrong with you people?”
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, also argues that we would be better to focus on reducing Facebook’s ability to surveil and target us rather than relying on antitrust and other mechanisms to solve our problems.