Reddit got its start after Steve Huffman, now the chief executive officer, and Alexis Ohanian met at the University of Virginia. Reddit diverged from its social media contemporaries like Twitter Inc. and Facebook when it was acquired by Conde Nast in 2006. The magazine publisher later spun off the company, and Reddit went through a pair of chief executives before Huffman returned to the helm in 2015.
For those who love books, “THE OLD U(VA) AND I” (olduvabook.com) is a surprisingly captivating story of Frank Briggs’ undergraduate tenure at the University of Virginia, which really marked the end of an era before the explosion of the Vietnam protests and the youth rebellion manifested in the hippies, which has become the politically correct culture of our day.
Jared Brown, a 30-year-old University of Virginia graduate, was grateful for the gubernatorial pardon he got in October for an assault and underage intoxication conviction that landed him in jail for about a month during his freshman year. “It felt really empowering to be here with other people,” said Brown, one of five people Gov. Ralph Northam has pardoned who shared stories last week at event celebrating Northam’s pardons on Brown’s Island in Richmond near the new Emancipation and Freedom Monument.
(Press release) Global swimwear brand, arena, is proud to announce the signing of its first-ever college athlete, and its second amateur endorsement deal, under the new NCAA name, image, and likeness rules that came into effect July 1. Kate Douglass, a 20-year-old Olympic bronze medalist, currently in her third year at the University of Virginia, is one of the top student-athletes across all college sports.
(Video and transcript) New Virginia head coach Tony Elliott on UVA’s new class but also how the early signing day period and the college football needs to adapt and change. Here is the interview with VirginiaSports.com’s Jeff White.
(Video and transcript) UVA head coach Bronco Mendenhall spoke to UVA’s Jeff White about the 2022 class and his thoughts on the playmakers signed to this year’s class.
Ten players signed with the Virginia football program on the first day of the national early signing period on Wednesday. Both Bronco Mendenhall and Tony Elliott made some comments on the signing recruits, who honored the commitments they made to play for Virginia despite the coaching change.
There’s been an introduction to the business of college football for those prospects who signed with Virginia on Wednesday. The Cavaliers inked 10 signees in total during the early signing period and all 10 were originally committed to play for the Hoos before outgoing coach Bronco Mendenhall earlier this month decided to step down from his post following their bowl game and ahead of UVA’s official hiring of Tony Elliott as its new coach this past Friday.
(Subscription required) The University of Virginia didn’t impress in the national signing day rankings Wednesday, but the current and future head coaches said the job is not finished. New coach Tony Elliott and outgoing coach Bronco Mendenhall indicated the Cavaliers will be looking to supplement a recruiting class ranked last in the 14-team ACC by both 247 Sports and Rivals. ESPN was more charitable, ranking the Cavaliers eighth in the ACC.
In history, it is not perfect bureaucrats with specific targets, but rather people who are the most adaptable to changing environments that survive. That approach is also interestingly more realistic than goal-settings, Burkeman notes. In the business world, most successful businessmen usually make no formidable plans to achieve their own standings, according to Saras Sarasvathy, an associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia.
Microsoft has been developing sophisticated technologies aimed at detecting deepfakes for over two years now. Deborah Johnson, emeritus technology professor at the University of Virginia School of Engineering, refers to this method as an “arms race,” in which we must develop technology that detects deepfakes at a faster rate than the deepfake technology progresses.
“When you’re somebody who has the experience that Hillary Clinton has, you never write [yourself] off, at any given time or any given age,” said David Ramadan, a resident scholar at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “That said, I don’t think the public is ready to welcome back Hillary Clinton on the left side, just like the public is probably not ready to welcome back a Bush on the Republican side.”
(Commentary) Political analysts say we should expect more of this kind of rhetoric and attacks on the written word. Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said the strategy is effective and Republicans will likely use it in the midterm elections. “They’re going to throw everything but the kitchen sink at Democrats,” he said.
(Commentary co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project) With Jack Dorsey bowing out and Parag Agrawal taking over as CEO of Twitter, Indian immigrants now captain not just Twitter but many of the biggest companies in the tech sector, from Google to Microsoft. In a comment highlighted by many in the Indian press, Tesla CEO Elon Musk picked up on the trend in a Tweet that read, “USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!”
Hospitals that invest in nurse burnout reduction programs may see less burnout-attributed nurse turnover and associated costs, according to a new study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Patient Safety. The study — led by Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System emergency room nurse and School of Nursing doctoral student Jane Muir, BSN, RN — examined the cost of nurse burnout-attributed turnover using data from more than 20 separate studies. Data was compiled using a probability forecasting model called a Markov model, which created hypothetical hospital scenario...
There were reports of a fire on Wednesday at Balz-Dobie House on Grounds at the University of Virginia. Students evacuated the residence hall and the fire was contained and extinguished. No injuries were reported.
The Center at Belvedere is looking for some volunteers to serve as jurors for mock trials. The Trial Advocacy College at the University of Virginia will be holding mock trial on Jan. 12 and 13. Volunteers are needed to act as jurors, who will hear a mock civil case and then deliberate on it and reach a verdict.
Wise County has received Gold designation from the national SolSmart program for making it faster, easier and more affordable for homes and businesses to go solar. The Virginia Department of Energy partners with University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service to serve as no-cost technical advisers with the program.