UVA President Jim Ryan announced an anonymous $5 million gift will now open new doors for Piedmont Virginia Community College students who wish to transfer to UVA.
A UVA donor’s $5 million gift has led to a university scholarship program for students transferring from Piedmont Virginia Community College and the creation of an inter-college liaison to help shepherd students wanting to transfer. UVA President Jim Ryan announced the program to the school’s Board of Visitors on Friday. UVA will match $4.5 million of the gift to create the $9.5 million Piedmont Scholars program.
(Commentary by Jack Hamilton, associate professor of American studies) Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen’s new Spotify podcast “Renegades: Born in the U.S.A.” launched in late February with promises of intimate conversations that would probe and possibly bridge deep divisions in America, represented, supposedly, by these two men from two different Americas.
Some UVA doctors say we could see a glimpse of pre-pandemic life as early as this summer, that is if we don’t let our guard down.
UVA President Jim Ryan told the Board of Visitors yesterday that an anonymous donor had given UVA $5 million. Most of the money will be leveraged to pull in a matching grant to create a $9 million endowment. And that money will establish an extensive scholarship program to help a unique category of students wishing to transfer from Piedmont Virginia Community College.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has reappointed Eric Nichols to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice for terms set to expire on February 1, 2027. Nichols previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas and as Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice for the Office of Texas Attorney General. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English and History from the University of Virginia.
Taylor has started games at six different positions for the team, never fewer than four in any of his five seasons in L.A. At the University of Virginia, he was a shortstop. As he came up through the Seattle Mariners’ system, he was still a shortstop (with occasional visits to second base mixed in). When he made the majors with the Mariners briefly in 2014-16, 70 of his first 72 starts were at shortstop.
Korn Ferry today announced that John Long has joined the firm as a senior client partner in the Global Consumer practice. He is based in the firm’s Dallas office and focused on retail, fashion, and merchandising. Long holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Virginia
Today, President Biden and Vice President Harris announced the appointments of additional policy staff who will serve with the White House National Economic Council: Samantha Silverberg, Special Assistant to the President for Transportation and Infrastructure Policy. Samantha Silverberg served on the Biden-Harris transition team as a volunteer on the domestic and economic policy team and on two Agency Review Teams. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
The honor comes from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education magazine as part of its Women’s History Month edition, released this week. Crowley earned both a doctorate in English and a Master of Arts in English with a certificate in women’s studies from the University of Virginia.
As vaccine supplies are increasing in the region, free health care provider The Health Wagon saw its first allocations of the Moderna vaccine on Tuesday. “I actually cried when we got it,” Health Wagon Director Teresa Tyson said of the shipment. She credited Gov. Ralph Northam, state vaccination program coordinator Dr. Danny Avula, the University of Virginia and regional health director Shelton for getting The Health Wagon’s allocation out of the 1,000-each dose allocation for the LENOWISCO and Cumberland Plateau health districts.
The COVID-19 pandemic is still shaking up higher education as budgets remain tightened and programs continue online. But in the midst of all this, women’s studies scholars across the country are finding ways to celebrate Women’s History Month and emphasize the importance of their research to today’s most critical national conversations. Dr. Allison Pugh, a sociology professor and chair of the women, gender and sexuality department at the University of Virginia, says women’s studies programs are giving campus communities the tools they need to understand what’s going on “outside my window right...
In a study published today in the journal Emotion, University of Florida psychology professor Erin Westgate and colleagues Timothy Wilson, Nicholas Buttrick and Rémy Furrer of the University of Virginia and Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University instructed participants to think meaningful thoughts. Westgate anticipated that this would guide the thinkers into a rewarding experience, but they actually found it less enjoyable than their unguided thoughts.
A team of doctors led by Dr. James Harrison at the University of Virginia published an article on the current and future state of artificial intelligence. "The purpose of the article was to acquaint pathologists with artificial intelligence systems or the kind we’re most concerned with now, which is machine learning systems," said Harrison, a UVA pathologist and professor.
The CDC is expected to release new guidance for vaccinated people. Dr. Taison Bell, critical care and infectious disease physician at the University of Virginia, cautions on taking that vacation just yet even if fully vaccinated. He says there is still much to learn about the vaccine’s ability to lower the risk of infecting others.
Lesley Lokko’s career has been characterised by her enduring commitment to exploring the links between culture, identity and architecture – an interest that spans several decades in which she has been many, sometimes simultaneous, versions of herself, across three continents. Lokko is currently holding visiting professorship at the University of Virginia.
On Thursday, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) hosted a virtual panel, announcing the reintroduction of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act. The act was named after Dr. Lorna Breen, a physician from Charlottesville, who took her own life after fighting the pandemic head-on in New York last year. Dr. Taison Bell, a physician at the University of Virginia, said the virus’s toll on already marginalized communities is hard to face.
As an off-year gauge of national political trends, the Virginia governor's race is set to take center stage again this year. As Biden did last year, Democrat Terry McAuliffe starts off as the front-runner. McAuliffe "is being opposed by three Black candidates, plus a socialist," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "If that doesn't change by June, it's a set-up for a McAuliffe plurality."
Governor Ralph Northam signed it into law in October, House Bill 5058, which says in part that law-enforcement officers are prohibited from stopping pedestrians for jaywalking or entering a highway where the pedestrian cannot be seen. “This is a very long, overdue recognition of the fact that these laws in every state, including Virginia, were huge in problematic in Virginia,” said Peter Norton, an associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia.
(Written by W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology) Parents crave policies that help them raise their kids, rather than funneling them into day care.