After stints as an industry analyst and security executive for different companies, [UVA Ph.D. graduate] Chenxi Wang is developing the next-generation of security companies and women executives in security.
You may recognize [UVA Law alumna] Courtney Carter. Perhaps you’ve seen her running around the Anacostia Trail or the National Mall — two of her favorite local running routes; you may know her from Instagram, where her handle @eatprayrundc has more than 11,500 followers; or you may know her through her work with diversity, equity and inclusion and her posts about it on sites like Women’s Running, Oiselle’s blog or her own website. She’s using her social media presence to show runners and people of color that they can accomplish amazing things. And Carter, who lives in D.C.’s Trinidad neighborh...
Lured by the beauty of their bucolic spaces and untrammeled scenery, the North Carolina mountains have long been a mecca and an inspiration for writers. Now another skilled young author has emerged with ties to the region. Though a native New Yorker, Palmer Smith spent 15 years at summer camp in Cashiers. The split between the North and South has shaped her perspective and identity. [Smith is currently a master’s student at UVA.]
The 1st Helicopter Squadron flew more than 50 cadets from the University of Virginia’s ROTC Detachment 890 here, Aug. 27, 2021. The flights provided the future Air Force leaders the opportunity to meet with active duty pilots and receive one-on-one mentorship on various aspects of the life and job of an Air Force officer.
(Audio and transcript) In this installment of “In the Pages,” Robert Goulder of Tax Notes and Ruth Mason of the University of Virginia School of Law discuss the reasoning behind the OECD/G-20’s two-pillar agreement compromise and debate whether a final agreement will be unanimously approved.
To complete the deal, Buenos Aires used a controversial strategy called “re-designation” to leave portions of two bonds out of the restructuring, allowing the rest of them to go through. Used in both Ecuador and Argentina’s debt workouts last year, re-designation is intended to help restructurings cross the finish line when a deal’s success is threatened by just a few small series of bonds. “The province’s offer didn’t seem designed to persuade people to enter a quick and consensual debt exchange,” said Mitu Gulati, a law professor at University of Virginia who writes about sovereign debt cont...
A four-in-one pill containing “ultra-low doses” of different medications can provide better blood pressure control than standard drug treatment, a new clinical trial from Australia shows. There were few serious side effects in the group that took the quadpill. “The side effects from any of these medications at the ultra-low dose would be exceedingly small. Side effects are almost always dose-related, and these are ultra-low doses,” said Dr. Robert Carey, dean emeritus of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and co-author of the American Heart Association’s blood pressure treatment gui...
In a scathing 2019 article in Tax Notes, a journal catering to tax professionals, University of Virginia law professor Michael Doran questioned whom Portman’s and Cardin’s efforts—along with successful bills like the SECURE Act of 2019—really serve. Portman-Cardin reforms enacted in 1996, 2001, and 2006, he wrote, all “promised to improve retirement income security for everyone, but instead they delivered expensive and unnecessary tax subsidies to higher-income families and a windfall to the financial services industry.”
“Senate Democrats have to be completely united to pass anything without Republican support,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “As of now, both Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have balked at the $3.5 trillion price tag for the Democrats-only spending package. They hold a lot of leverage here, because this cannot pass without both of their support.”
Cash also isn’t everything. There’s also institutional change to consider. Also: “It’s not just about where you’re going, but it’s also about owning up to where you have been, and how you may have contributed to a situation that exists right now, and that the wealth and prosperity of your business could be rooted in, is likely rooted in, some deep-seated inequities,” Laura Morgan Roberts, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, told us last year.
“COVID does not happen in isolation,” said Cameron Webb, a physician and University of Virginia professor working as a senior policy adviser for COVID-19 equity. Webb led the White House team that met Tuesday in an auditorium at Impact Church at Jacksonville on Arlington Expressway to talk about what he called “synergistic epidemics” of COVID-19 and food access problems such as food deserts.
Rabih Alameddine writes about topics many would rather forget. In his new book, “The Wrong End of the Telescope,” he tells the story of a transgender doctor attempting to care for people fleeing war-torn Syria. … In August, Alameddine moved cross-country to teach at the University of Virginia’s creative writing program [as the Kapnick writer-in-residence].
This 168-bed expansion extends from the existing hospital with a fluid, curvilinear facade that creates a memorable entrance to the UVA Health’s University Hospital expansion.
Doctors and researchers at the University of Virginia Health System developed a new artificial technology for heart imaging that could improve care for patients. This could allow doctors to examine hearts for scar tissue while eliminating the need for injections.
What happens when the ground beneath one’s feet buckles? Or what if one was never quite stable to begin with? What hope is there for finding a path to the good life? For the last six years, Oishi and his team at the University of Virginia have been hammering out their response: a third path to the good life coined “psychological richness.” Their research suggests that the ingredients of a rich life come not from stability in life circumstances or in temperament. Rather, the path to a rich life arises from novelty seeking, curiosity and moments that shift one’s view of the world. Rich experienc...
Last year, University of Virginia atmospheric chemist Sally Pusede and Ph.D. student Mary Angelique Demetillo used data from a NASA flight campaign to validate the use of satellite measurements to examine variations in NO2 concentrations within a city. They demonstrated that daily measurements of NO2 made by the TROPOMI satellite could be used to illuminate air pollution inequality among census tracts in Houston. In their new work, Pusede and Demetillo expanded their study to 52 major US cities where about 130 million people live. They saw inequality in every city, but cities with wo...
It’s possible to design a city that promotes mental health, by providing places of sensory respite, or by encouraging socialization, physical exercise, or play. Before the pandemic, Layla McCay, the founder and director of the London-based Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, and her colleague Jenny Roe, an environmental psychologist and professor at the University of Virginia, began assembling a volume collecting the latest research from a field that, as the planet continues to urbanize, was becoming increasingly critical. Their new book, “Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Hea...
With University of Virginia game day just a few days away, there are some things you need to know before heading into Scott Stadium. The University’s current mask mandate means you will need to bring one with you to the game. Masks will be required in all interior public spaces around the stadium. This includes restrooms, elevators, press boxes and suites. You will not be required to wear masks in your seat or in outdoor sections of suites.
Sept. 1 marks two years since a Honduran judge ordered seven community leaders into pretrial detention for opposing an iron ore mine in Tocoa, a municipality in the country’s northern Colón department. Their detention kicked off a series of convoluted legal proceedings that have been far from fair, as the University of Virginia International Human Rights Law Clinic demonstrated in an August 2020 report.
4. University of Virginia: The University of Virginia is one among nine rarefied higher education institutions to receive the Green Ribbon School recognition by the U.S. Department of Education. The university engages students and staff to live more sustainably through several programs. They include the Green Labs Program, the Recycling and Waste Diversion Program, and the Green Workplace program.