Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin announced today four additions to his senior staff, including UVA alumna Rebecca Glover as a deputy chief of staff and communications director.
The Indy Autonomous Challenge has announced the details of the upcoming IAC events at CES 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan. 3-8. Nineteen universities from eight countries – including UVA, represented by Cavalier Autonomous Racing – will form nine race teams and will seek to compete in the Autonomous Challenge at CES.
(Podcast) In this episode we speak with social scientist and University of Virginia professor Caitlin Donahue Wylie, who takes us inside the paleontology lab to uncover a complex world of status hierarchies, glue controversies, phones that don’t work—and, potentially, a way to open up the scientific enterprise to far more people.
Aynne Kokas, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia and the author of the book "Hollywood Made in China," predicted that fewer Hollywood releases would be approved in China in the future, and those that are would face tighter regulatory approval. "There are Chinese blockbusters that Chinese filmmakers are making that people want to watch, and they feel less derivative than those made in Hollywood," she said.
(Subscription required) “It’s hard for faculty to understand sometimes that the science of teaching and learning is built on lots and lots of smaller studies that give us this broader picture,” says Lindsay Wheeler, assistant director of STEM-education initiatives at the University of Virginia’s teaching center, who has studied what prevents faculty members from changing the way they teach.
(Commentary) An incipient illegitimacy crisis is under way, whoever is elected in 2022, or in 2024. According to a University of Virginia analysis of census projections, by 2040, 30% of the population will control 68% of the Senate. Eight states will contain half the population. The Senate malapportionment gives advantages overwhelmingly to white, non– college educated voters. In the near future, a Democratic candidate could win the popular vote by many millions of votes and still lose. Do the math: the federal system no longer represents the will of the American people.
“It tells us that this papercut discrimination is pretty systemic,” said Dr. John Holbein, an assistant professor of public policy, politics, and education at the University of Virginia, and a co-author of the study. “It’s really troubling to think about potential policy solutions to address papercut discrimination in a world where those who control the policy levers also exhibit discrimination themselves.”
(Press release) New research reveals that Black and male teachers in Tennessee have received lower observation scores than white and female teachers every year since the state's evaluation system began in 2011. Jason A. Grissom, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy and Education at Vanderbilt's Peabody College and TERA's faculty director, and Brendan Bartanen, assistant professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia, examined classroom observation score gaps over time along racial and gender lines using school data from the 2011–12 to 2018–19 school years....
“Well-being, or the felt experience of health, happiness, and flourishing, predicts several desirable outcomes including better health and work performance, longevity, and more positive social behavior and relations,” say the authors of the research, led by Angeline Lillard of the University of Virginia. “Here we explored whether a different childhood experience, Montessori education, might predict higher adult well-being.”
Though total research and development spending at higher education institutions grew more slowly than in any period since 2015 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, spending still increased by $2.7 billion in fiscal year 2020. (UVA ranked No. 44.)
UVA has hired Dr. Edward Scott as its deputy athletics director, the school announced Monday. Scott, who has spent the past five years as the vice president and director of athletics at Morgan State University in Baltimore, replaces Ted White, who stepped down in October.
(Video) Larry Sabato of the UVA Center for Politics joins “The News with Shepard Smith” to discuss what could happen in the midterm election next November.
(Audio) Brad Wilcox is the director of the National Marriage Project and a professor at the University of Virginia. He talks about how couples have coped throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, how internet searches of “divorce” spike in January, and how living apart may help save a marriage.
Some great courses opened up. … Others not to be missed would be Payne’s Valley, Tiger Woods’ beast of a course at Big Cedar Lodge Resort in the Missouri Ozarks, and Davis Love Design’s thoughtful renovation of Birdwood Golf Course, home of the men’s and women’s teams of the University of Virginia.
As the clock winds down on 2021 and we approach a new year, it is time to take a look back at what has been yet another successful year for athletics at the University of Virginia. Today, we’re taking our pick of the top five Virginia Cavaliers sports teams of 2021 (in no particular order).
Bronco Mendenhall was slated to end his six-year run as UVA coach in the Fenway Bowl on Wednesday, but the postseason bout was scrapped on Sunday due to coronavirus issues within the Cavaliers’ program. So instead, Mendenhall’s stay in charge of the Cavaliers finished unceremoniously and abruptly.
On Sunday, three schools announced that they wouldn’t participate in bowl games: The University of Virginia Cavaliers dropped out of Wednesday’s Wasabi Fenway Bowl “due to the number of COVID cases impacting its roster, preventing safe participation,” the Fenway Bowl said in a statement announcing the game’s cancellation.
Chef Bin Lu didn’t grow up learning how to cook. In fact, it wasn’t until he started college at the University of Virginia that he started to really even think about it.
Every morning, [UVA Law alumnus] David M. M. Taffet gets up at 6:30 a.m., takes a walk and spends time journaling. About 8:30 a.m., he wakes his wife, Christie Zwahlen, with a fresh cup of coffee in bed, where they talk about the morning he’s had and the day ahead. The couple founded JukeStrat, a consulting company focused on social impact – helping companies identify, develop and expand opportunities to engage in purpose-driven work that creates lasting change in the world – in corporate and nonprofit entities.
As the Nov. 2 election results kept trickling in late into the night, Del. Todd Gilbert [a UVA alumnus] and his staff were particularly interested in the results. With a flip of a few seats, Gilbert – the Republican who has represented the 15th District since 2006 and served as Minority Leader since 2020 – had a good chance of becoming Speaker of the House of Delegates, the most powerful position in the legislative body.