A new club means new members. One of the most recent is University of Virginia alum and Basketball Hall-of-Famer Ralph Sampson. “I just happened to walk into the Boys and Girls club one day unannounced and say,’ how can I help?’ And now, here we are,” Sampson said. “It’s gonna be amazing, and I’m looking forward to one year from now, this place being built, and shooting the first basket when it opens.” From a big role on the court, to a big role in the club: Sampson will be a key player in the future of the organization in Albemarle. This is something he’s already been doing for years in his h...
An alum of the University of Virginia is being nationally recognized for her architectural excellence, including her work with the Memorial to Enslaved African-American Laborers at UVA. Mabel O. Wilson was just named the 2021 Vincent Scully Prize Recipient by the National Building Museum.
Area veterans organizations took over Walnut Creek Park for four hours on Sunday afternoon for the fifth annual Seas the Day event. More than 200 people registered for the event, breaking the previous crowd record for Seas the Day. On Sunday, attendees talked with friends and representatives from different organizations that serve veterans, enjoyed lunch from Mission BBQ, listened to live music and participated in other activities such as kayaking and fishing. The free family-friendly event started as the brainchild of a University of Virginia student, Grace Tuttle, who wanted to address the n...
“Ban the Taliban, save Afghanistan” was the message of the University of Virginia Afghan Student Association’s Save Afghanistan Rally on Sunday in Charlottesville.
Appropriate investors with a high capital base and adequate risk tolerance can participate in the alternative investments space with advice and guidance from a financial adviser. This point was aptly made by Rodney Sullivan, the editor of the Journal of Alternative Investments and a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. According to him, alternative investments “are still perceived as a risky asset class, but the risk isn’t bad as long as that risk is diversified and offers a consistent return.”
University of Virginia political analyst and Ohio native Kyle Kondik has a new analysis of redistricting efforts in Ohio and six other Midwestern states. Kondik argues that “Ohio is a major wild card in the national redistricting picture, with a number of possibilities ranging from a maximalist 13-2 Republican gerrymander to Democrats improving on their current 12-4 deficit.” He adds that Ohio’s 13th Congressional District “is a prime candidate to be eliminated in redistricting,” as incumbent Democrat Tim Ryan is running for U.S. Senate.
If Democrats had not shifted power to independent commissions in three states — California, Colorado and Virginia — they would have controlled more districts than the GOP, according to Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Commentary) Justin O’Jack, chief representative for the University of Virginia’s China office and a 20-year-plus resident in China, says, “I’m reminded of three years ago, when a similar announcement made headlines among higher education circles…Clearly the 286 programs in this week’s headlines include the cumulative 234 program closures announced by the MoE in 2018. Perhaps a less sensational, but more accurate, headline would be, ‘China lists 52 more Sino-foreign programs gone dormant since 2018.’ But that wouldn’t attract many clicks, would it!”
Elliott White, Jr., a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Virginia’s environmental sciences department, said using volunteers will increase the amount of ghost forest data available to researchers, especially because scientists may struggle to access all geographical locations. He said the volunteers will help widen the geographic range of ghost forests that researchers can record and motivate volunteers to learn more about the dying trees around them.
Dr. Jennifer L. Kirby, associate professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at UVA Health, commented that “The data is pretty impressive. We have a limited amount of tools in our toolbox when it comes to the treatment of overweight and obesity. The addition of semaglutide is excellent news.”
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at the Darden School of Business) Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sent a clear message today in his Jackson Hole speech: The Federal Reserve is not contemplating raising interest rates any time soon even if it begins to taper its purchases of securities later this year.
(Commentary by Gary Gallagher, professor emeritus of history) Ken Burns’ documentary on the Civil War has reached a larger audience and generated more interest in the subject than any book, theatrical film, or other influence in the past 50 years. First broadcast on PBS stations in 1990 and frequently re-aired ever since, it also appeared in a digitally restored 25th anniversary version with additional material of various kinds. Most viewers have responded positively to the series, though they often disagree about such things as Burns’ relative treatment of the Union and the Confederacy, the d...
Since opening in 2020 this hospital has won several awards for its design and facilities. Its architecture places the emphasis on nature, and what sets it apart is its unique shape, which enables patient rooms to have views of the hospital’s planted roofs, as well as scenic views across the nearby valley. Staff break rooms have similar views with the aim of promoting wellbeing among the workforce. Among its other accolades is featuring on Newsweek’s Best Maternity Hospitals 2021 list.
University of Virginia Health System officials are postponing non-essential medical procedures in an effort to ease possible staff shortages and maintain patient care as COVID-19 cases increase. Physicians and patients are being asked to postpone non-emergency surgeries and procedures that can be put off without an adverse impact on the patient, officials said in a virtual press conference Friday.
The University of Virginia Cancer Center will be awarded this designation starting Feb. 1 of next year. The designation comes from the National Cancer Institute, which is the largest funder of cancer research in the world.
The UVA Medical Center continues to see more and more patients hospitalized with COVID-19 each week, but most of them are either unvaccinated, or immunocompromised. The number of new COVID-19 cases in the state is now in the 3,000s, which is roughly where we were right after Thanksgiving last year. “There is one huge difference, and that is that we now have an effective vaccine,” UVA Health epidemiologist Dr. Costi Sifri said. “And we did not have one in November that was, you know, being used and distributed.”
(Audio) KCRW’s Jonathan Bastian talks with Leidy Klotz, professor and director of the Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative at the University of Virginia about his new book “Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less” and the behavioral and evolutionary characteristics behind us always wanting more.
Do you think a good life is a happy life? A meaningful life? It can be. But there is another dimension of the good life that, until now, has been vastly underappreciated. In an important article just made available online at Psychological Review, “A psychologically rich life: Beyond happiness and meaning,” Shigehiro Oishi of the University of Virginia and Erin C. Westgate of the University of Florida show us that psychological richness is the kind of wealth that can contribute to a truly good life.
“As adults, we know what we’d like to do when it matters most at work: we hope we’d tell the truth, stand up for ourselves or others and say ‘no’ when going along would be wrong,” [Darden School of Business professor] Jim Detert explains near the beginning of “Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work,” his new roadmap for navigating the often-treacherous landscape that increasingly characterizes the modern workplace.
Would the wealthy revolt if taxes rose? Maybe not. A 2019 study by researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Toronto asked this question. It looked at whether Americans would be happier and feel that life would be fairer under more progressive tax systems. Not surprisingly, poorer people did feel this way, but the more eye-opening result concerned the rich. “Our most important finding,” the researchers said, “is that progressive taxation is not a zero-sum game where a large group of poor people benefit from a big loss of a small group of wealthy citizens. Rather...