(Commentary by Natasha Roth-Rowland, an editor and writer at +972 Magazine, and a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Virginia) From Tel Aviv to East Jerusalem and New York, Noam Shuster-Eliassi is using comedy to deliver home truths about injustice in Israel-Palestine.
CAV Angels is a non-profit club composed of University of Virginia alumni, faculty, parents, students, and friends of UVA who share goals.
MBA students at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business are known to work quite hard amid the rigors of the case method. Each day, they are expected to read a business case and perform their own analysis of the situation presented.
(Commentary by Shaun Armstead, a history doctoral candidate at Rutgers University and a pre-doctoral fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia) The struggle against white supremacy cannot be won within a national framework. Black Americans have long recognized the global dimension of this project.
The Brody Jewish Center’s Chutzpals Mentorship Experience, a student mentor-mentee program to help new Jewish UVA undergrads adjust to college life, has matched 40 mentees and mentors. The program’s popularity, forged in the desire to build meaningful connections at college, can be traced to the fact that it started during the pandemic.
According to top Russia expert Paul B. Stephan, a professor of law at the University of Virginia who served from 2020 to 2021 as special counsel to the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense – with previous Russia-oriented roles in the U.S. State Department, Treasury and CIA over decades – it is Britain that is likely to be the biggest drag on any Western sanctions initiative against Russia.
“In terms of fighting words, it’s about as dramatic as you get,” says Marc Selverstone, an associate professor in presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “You would think that in this circumstance, that's a word that President Biden would have reached for.”
(Audio) With Michael Gerard Mason, associate dean and director of the Luther Porter Jackson Black Cultural Center at the University of Virginia.
“This is a beautiful study and very exciting,” says Kevin Pelphrey, professor of neurology at the University of Virginia, who was not involved in the work. “This is good evidence for an autism-specific form of anxiety.”
If you find yourself at a Taco Bell, consider ordering two of these black bean soft tacos for a meal that's not only packed with protein and fiber but also lower in sodium than other menu items, says Katherine Basbaum, a registered dietitian at the Heart and Vascular Center at the University of Virginia.
(Subscription required) In the summer of 2021, as COVID case numbers ebbed and vaccination rates shot up, Nicole Ruzek, the director of UVA’s Counseling and Psychological Services, saw the “writing on the wall”: When students returned to in-person classes in the fall, demand for in-person counseling services would rise again. UVA’s counseling center contracted with TimelyMD – the Texas-based telehealth company that runs TimelyCare – in the fall of 2021.
(Video) University of Virginia Political Science Chair Jennifer Lawless appeared on GoLocal LIVE where she discussed the politics of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – as well as the shifting political landscape in the race to succeed U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin in Rhode Island.
What are the rights of homeowners, and what are the rights of an HOA’s board? Richard Schragger, a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, said, “When they purchase a home, and in a homeowners association, they’re also signing on to a whole raft of rules that the homeowners association has adopted in their signing on to a governance structure.”
(Podcast) Kent Haines and Robert Q. Berry, associate dean of DEI and Samuel Braley Gray Professor of Mathematics Education in UVA’s School of Education and Human Development, cover a wide range of topics in their conversation today, from building math classrooms where students feel confident participating, to committing to DEI work in mathematics.
Community College of Baltimore County is a member of Universities Studying Slavery, a consortium of nearly 90 schools based at the University of Virginia. CCBC is one of only two community colleges in the project. “We thought, ‘What can we do so that this isn’t schools doing this one by one, siloed off on their own?’” said Kirt von Daacke, the managing director of Universities Studying Slavery.
Alan Taylor, the author of “American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850,” has been named the winner of the New-York Historical Society’s 2022 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize, awarded each year for the best work of American history or biography.
The station’s sports director, Jermaine Ferrell, caught up with University of Virginia Athletic Director Carla Williams.
UVA Health officials say the number of COVID cases in the University’s medical facilities continue to drop as the post-holiday surge created by the omicron variant continues to abate.
A discovery at the University of Virginia Cancer Center could lead to new treatment for small-cell lung cancer. The discovery came as researchers were investigating the role of the EP300 gene in the development of small-cell lung cancer in lab mice.
People from 39 states and 11 countries took part in a webinar Thursday from the University of Virginia discussing the life of Booker T. Washington.