After serving as University of Virginia provost, Stanford Law School dean, and a law clerk to Ruth Bader Ginsberg, M. Elizabeth Magill is set to become Penn’s ninth president. In a wide-ranging interview — covering topics spanning from Penn Medicine and University fundraising to fly fishing — Magill spoke exclusively to The Daily Pennsylvanian and a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer via Zoom after the announcement.
Meet M. Elizabeth “Liz” Magill, the legal expert and longtime academic who will serve as the University’s ninth president. Magill, who currently works as the University of Virginia’s Provost and Executive Vice President and previously served as dean of Stanford Law School, is known for her extensive experience and commitment to the field of law and leadership in higher education.
The University of Pennsylvania has selected a lawyer who once clerked for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and now serves as the provost of the University of Virginia to succeed Dr. Amy Gutman. M. Elizabeth Magill will begin her tenure as the university’s ninth president, the third consecutive woman to hold the position, on July 1, Penn announced Thursday.
University of Virginia Provost Liz Magill will leave the University to take the reins of the University of Pennsylvania as that school’s president, officials announced Thursday. Magill has served as UVA’s chief academic officer and executive vice president and since August 2019, the first woman to hold the position.
The University of Pennsylvania has tapped a lawyer and academic who once led Stanford’s law school and now serves as the provost of the University of Virginia to replace Amy Gutmann, its longest-serving president. M. Elizabeth Magill, 56, who is in line to become Penn’s third consecutive female president, will begin her duties July 1, Penn announced Thursday.
Magill, who currently serves as Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Virginia, will assume the Penn Presidency on July 1, 2022. She succeeds Dr. Amy Gutmann who announced last year that she would conclude her tenure as Penn’s President.
President Biden nominated three new Federal Reserve officials on Friday as he seeks to remake the central bank at a critical economic moment, announcing a slate of candidates that would make for the most diverse Fed Board of Governors in the institution’s 108-year history. Among the nominees is UVA alumnus Philip Jefferson, an economist and administrator at Davidson College, for an open seat on the Fed’s Board of Governors.
UVA starting quarterback Brennan Armstrong, who ranked second nationally in average passing yards per game in 2021, will return for the 2022 season.
The University of Virginia is asking for community input on what it should do with three potential sites for its Affordable Housing Initiative. But those who want to comment have to do it soon: UVA is collecting responses through Jan. 31.
[Darden School of Business alumnus] Todd Whiting, a 17-year veteran with NBCUniversal, has died. He was 45. Whiting died suddenly on Jan. 4 of cardiac arrest resulting from pneumonia and complications from COVID-19, his family said. Whiting left NBCUniversal in March and became self-employed after an 18-month stint as senior VP at Peacock TV. In that role, he oversaw about $600 million in content acquisitions for the launch of the streaming platform, including for series like “The Office,” “Parks and Recreation” and the “Chicago” franchise.
Virginia-based, French composer Nicolas Laget – who holds a master’s degree in composition from UVA – releases his captivating new EP, ‘Dark’, out now on all streaming platforms. Inspired by the likes of Johann Johannson, Max Richter, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds, Nicolas draws from his combined influences to create his own unique brand of Neo-Classical compositions. Fusing modern classical with electronic beats, Nicolas thrives on being able to experiment with his music and the concepts and emotions he’s able to portray.
Life is pretty good these days for Chris Taylor. In addition to signing a four-year, $60 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers last month, the former star at Virginia Beach’s Cox High and the University of Virginia recently got engaged to his fiancée, Mary Keller. Now, Taylor hopes to make life a little better for some ailing children. On Sunday, Taylor’s CT3 Foundation is holding “Driving for Hope,” a charitable event at Topgolf in Virginia Beach.
An interview from a rowboat at sea - 'It’s almost claustrophobic because you’re surrounded by waves'
(Commentary) Former Hanover County resident and UVA graduate Isaac Mackey is a member of a three-person crew rowing approximately 3,000 miles across the Atlantic as part of the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Rowing Challenge. I wrote about Mackey in a column published on New Year’s Day, based largely on a phone conversation with his mother, Carol Mackey. On Wednesday, I spoke with Isaac via his satellite phone as he took a break from rowing and I sat at my dining room table. Ain’t technology grand?
A University of Virginia student does not have to worry about his tuition after getting a present in his Christmas stocking. The Virginia Lottery says Brian Donohue, a mathematics major at UVA, got a winning Bank a Million lottery ticket for the holiday. He won the game's top prize of $1 million after taxes.
“Sometimes you can oversimplify things in politics, but I think midterms benefit from oversimplification,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Historically speaking, unless there's some sort of big outside circumstance or extraordinary circumstance, you would not expect an unpopular president’s party to do well in a midterm. And so I think what we could say from the vantage point of January is that Biden’s numbers need to get better or Democrats are in real danger of losing particularly the House and also the Senate...
"Transmission occurs with large droplets that you cough or sneeze out, and much smaller particles called aerosols can persist in the air," said Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious disease expert with the University of Virginia. According to the CDC, a person wearing a cloth mask standing within 6 feet of an unmasked individual with COVID can become infected within 20 minutes. For a person wearing an N95 mask in the same situation, it would take 2.5 hours to become infected.
(Commentary by K. Jane Muir, emergency department nurse, researcher, and family nurse practitioner student) What ails our nation’s nurses can be solved with changes in how they are paid, an infusion of cash to support them, and policies that link nurse burnout and attrition rates to hospitals’ bottom lines.
A number of sweeping group exhibitions also received funding, including “Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala” at the University of Virginia ($100,000).
(Press release) Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, in collaboration with FAU’s Schmidt College of Medicine, has received a three-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for an automated HIV self-testing assay. Collaborators of the NIH grant include the University of Virginia and University of Pennsylvania.
Researchers with the University of Virginia are using advanced computer models to study treatments for a potentially deadly infection. C. difficile is a pathogen that affects hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. Managing these infections is difficult, because they can be antibiotic resistant.