Before Herman Moore was a Detroit Lions star, he was an All-American at the University of Virginia. Moore was so moved by the images rolling across his TV – of white supremacists and Nazis marching through the streets where he rose to stardom – that he returned to Charlottesville to help the city begin to heal.
Having leeway to vote against the president on certain issues in order to preserve voter support back home has been common under past administrations. According to Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, there’s good reason for that.
Robert Salzar, a UVA blast injury biomechanics specialist, told Nature that blast trauma is usually not instantly deadly. Instead, he suggested, the pressure waves may have killed the crew indirectly by knocking them out and causing the Hunley, with no one conscious to steer it, to sink.
As UVA demographic researchers noted on their website, StatChat, “Not only are other options opening up for high school grads, but there are also just fewer warm bodies to go around.”
From those who stood their ground near the Rotunda, looking out for each other and distracting torch-wielding white supremacists from marching on a nearby church, to a young journalist who spent a week covering the events at UVA so her fellow students could stay informed, UVA students, faculty and staff are lending their voices to the conversation in a major way.
As the debate rages over what role Confederate monuments do – and should – play in commemorating U.S. history, Jennifer Allen says we can learn a lot from Germany. Allen is an assistant professor of German history at Yale University, and she specializes in something called memory politics. She also attended the University of Virginia, located in Charlottesville, where violent clashes earlier this month over a statue of Robert E. Lee brought this debate back into the national spotlight.
The types of friendships you form during your teenage years can affect your mental health in adulthood, according to a new UVA study.
A fascinating study from the University of Virginia has shed new light on the much-ignored problem of social anxiety. In 169 adolescents assessed at the age of 15 and followed up for 10 years, the researchers found a strong relationship between close friendships in adolescence and fewer social anxiety symptoms at age 25. On the other hand, in adolescence “peer affiliation preference” – or popularity, as most of us call it – was found to predict more social anxiety symptoms in adulthood.
The sight of white supremacists marching through the heart of the University of Virginia, carrying flaming Tiki torches and shouting “Jews will not replace us!” – followed by the killing of a counterprotester at a rally in downtown Charlottesville the next day – may put the brakes on state efforts to strengthen campus free speech protections.
With students moving in and the first classes already underway, UVA has come back to life. And for many, it is time for a reckoning. How much will one traumatic weekend change the university?
Ralph Sampson was on the West Coast when he received a call from his family, asking if he had heard about the racial and social unrest in Charlottesville. When Sampson turned on his television, he was horrified with what he saw.
Steve Macko, a UVA professor of environmental sciences, and the artists who created the show are hoping to raise awareness around the world – to inspire new laws and rules for fishing and reporting ghost nets. Macko and the curator of the Kluge Ruhe Aborginal Art Museum will lecture on the subject Friday at 4 in Clark Hall.
One organization worthy of the spotlight is UVA’s Virginia College Advising Corps. The nonprofit serves 28 partner high schools around the entire commonwealth, pairing recent college graduates with students as they prepare for college.
Washington PostThey swarmed the monument with Tiki torches that flickered in the dark, their shouts piercing what had been a quiet evening on the Lawn at the University of Virginia. There, at the foot of the bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson, they chanted, “Jews will not replace us!” The neo-Nazis and white supremacists who recently descended on Charlottesville ignored one key historical fact, among others: Monticello, Jefferson’s beloved iconic mansion just a few miles southeast, was saved from ruin by Jews.
“Finland has universal health care, a robust visiting nurse system for families who just had a baby, and extended maternity and paternity leave. All of these we know impact positively on infant mortality rates,” said Rachel Moon, a University of Virginia pediatrician and chair of the task force. “The U.S. has none of that,” she said.
Union Bank & Trust continues as a lead underwriter for Leadership Charlottesville. Union is now joined with the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia Health System as lead underwriters for the Leadership Charlottesville program.
The last time the world paid so much attention to Charlottesville, it was the summer of 1940, and Europe was on fire. In a few short months Hitler had conquered much of western Europe, and France itself was on the verge of succumbing. On June 10, the day that Mussolini took Italy into the war on the side of the Nazis, Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled by presidential train to Charlottesville to deliver a commencement speech in the University of Virginia’s elegant Memorial Gymnasium.
New research published in the journal Child Development – led by Rachel K. Narr, a PhD candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia – shows that teens aged 15 and 16 who had a close friend, rather than a bigger peer group featuring less intense relationships, reported higher levels of self-worth and lower levels of social anxiety and depression at 25 compared with their peers who were more broadly popular as teens.
Aiming to quash concerns of parents of perspective and current UVA students, more than 200 African-American UVA graduates mobilized and activated altruistically “to support the efforts in Charlottesville in order to strengthen the community that helped to shape our individual characters over the years.” Condemning the white supremacist march and shedding light on racism, through the prism of an African-American in UVA’s environment, Quentin Washington and his fellow alumni – Cameron M. Webb and Gregory Jackson Jr. – led an organized effort to engage incoming freshman throughout move-in weekend...
As classes began Tuesday at this historic school founded by Thomas Jefferson, 10 days after deadly violence jolted the community, UVA is seeking not only to heal, but to learn from what happened.