The University of Virginia has announced that it will soon stop buying single-use plastics. It’s part of a broader sustainability trend across institutions of higher learning, and it could pose a sales opportunity for promotional products companies. … Promo companies that serve institutions of higher education should be thinking about reusable alternatives that schools will need in the months and years ahead, such as tote bags, drinkware, compostable takeout containers and reusable straws.
UVA’s George Rogers Clark statue was removed Sunday. The Racial Equity Task Force recommended this last summer and the UVA Board of Visitors approved it in September. UVA will assemble a committee, including local indigenous communities, that will offer a recommendation about what's ideally next for George Rogers Clark.
UVA’s Karsh Institute of Democracy will hold a two-day event in September to talk about the future of democracy. The UVA Democracy Biennial will take place Sept. 24 and 25 online and in person at the John Paul Jones Arena.
The Los Angeles Chargers are in trouble if Justin Herbert ever throws a meaningful pass to Alex Stern. You’ll be forgiven for not knowing who Stern, a UVA graduate, is or even what position he plays. Just know that he is someone who could prove instrumental in the Chargers becoming a perennial playoff contender once again. A year after drafting Herbert with the sixth overall pick, the team recently hired Stern, who spent the 2020 season as an analytics intern on UVA’s football team, as a data analyst.
After teaching science and Spanish at Virginia schools for nearly a decade, Erica Tharrington is changing her career completely. The dramatic change was inspired by a very tough personal loss, and now she’s turning heartbreak into healing for others.
It was but one tumultuous year in a brilliant life that has persisted for another highly productive, rewarding 51 years. Yet this is the year that weighs on his heart and mind, the year that prompted Duncan Clarke to write a book. Whether or not he expected to arrive at any great truths, he did imagine it would help get his story off his chest. The thing is, researching and writing and building a story into a book tends to bring it back into focus as if it’s breaking news. Clarke had earned his bachelor’s degree at Clark University, his Juris Doctor at Cornell University, and his Ph.D. in poli...
Undergraduate advisers at the University of Virginia told Joe Jamison to create a business based on his passions, so that’s exactly what he did. It wasn’t cookies, coffee or clothes that stoked his fire, however. It was the effort to help others better enjoy life.
Donovan Jones was taught that the Civil War began over state rights and not slavery in an AP U.S. History class at Cosby High School in Chesterfield County. Now a fourth-year student at the University of Virginia, Jones recalls questioning the lesson at the time in his Advanced Placement class as one of the few Black students in a mostly white, politically conservative class. He said his teacher danced around the question to adhere to the curriculum.
“After petitioning for this statue to come down over five years ago, I still believe that they all must come down,” said Zyahna Bryant, who was a student at Charlottesville High School when she wrote the 2016 petition that ultimately led to the statues’ removal. Bryant, now a third-year University of Virginia student majoring in sociology and a civil rights activist and organizer, said more symbols like the statues should be removed. “We must not continue to offer platforms and dedicate space to honor white supremacy and the legacies of those who fought to uphold it,” she said in a statement. ...
The most recent removal push focused on the Lee monument began in 2016, thanks in part to a petition started by a black high school student, Zyahna Bryant. A lawsuit was quickly filed, putting the city’s plans on hold, and white supremacists seized on the issue. “This is a crucial first step in the right direction to tell a more historically accurate and complete story of this place and the people who call this place home. The work did not start here and it will not end here,” Bryant, now a student at the University of Virginia, said in a statement.
The most recent removal push focused on the Lee monument began in 2016, thanks in part to a petition started by a Black high school student, Zyahna Bryant. “This is well overdue,” said Bryant, who’s now a student at the University of Virginia. “No platform for white supremacy. No platform for racism. No platform for hate.”
One person celebrating the removal of the statues was Zyahna Bryant, who was a high school student in 2016 and started a petition to remove Lee’s statue. “We must not continue to offer platforms and dedicate space to honor white supremacy and the legacies of those who fought to uphold it,” Bryant, now a third-year University of Virginia student, said. “This is a crucial first step in the right direction to tell a more historically accurate and complete story of this place and the people who call this place home.”
“Republicans still see his endorsement as extremely valuable, and he remains a draw at his rallies,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, adding that all GOP candidates had no choice but to pay attention to the losing 2020 candidate. “Trump remains extremely visible for an ex-president,” he said.
More common among voting experts, though, is a view that Republicans, facing unfavorable demographic tides, see their future linked to limiting Democratic turnout. “They’re going to do everything they can to hold on to power, and one essential of that is limiting the Democratic vote,” said Larry J. Sabato, a veteran political analyst and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Some problems, particularly those that arise through data collection and analysis, can likely be solved; some may be more endemic to the methods themselves. But none are as dire as many tweets and headlines proclaim. “It doesn’t hurt to remind people that you’ve got to keep those limitations in mind, no matter how advanced the field gets,” says Kevin Pelphrey, professor of neurology at the University of Virginia Brain Institute.
“As medicine increasingly puts itself in this position of being in the service of emancipatory projects that help self-determination efforts, using all sorts of new technologies, it is a deep corruption,” University of Virginia bioethicist Joseph Davis told the Free Beacon. “Sometimes it’s called a kind of consumerism, or that medicine has become more consumerist…. My view is that what medicine is losing is its ethical nature.”
“Someone’s going to build wealth every time we change the built environment,” says Barbara Wilson, an environmental planning professor at the University of Virginia. “It is just very rare that the people who benefit are those who already live in a low-income community.” If a new green space attracts wealthier residents and real estate speculators looking for cheap property to redevelop, the most marginalized people in the neighborhood may be forced to leave. As a result, they’re left with a longer commute to the city center and higher carbon footprints.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Mark Edmundson, an author and professor of English at the University of Virginia, argues that Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of poetic letters, is an excellent example of resilience. Emerson, like so many of that era, knew loss up close and personally. His wife died at 19, and his eldest son died at age 5. “Life only avails not the having lived,” wrote Emerson in his essay, “Self-Reliance.” “Power ceases in the instant of repose, it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.” Edmundson...
At many B-schools, admissions officers are starting to see that standardized testing is not an accurate, nor fair, way to assess whether a candidate will succeed in an MBA program. “Standardized tests have always been just one indication of a student’s ability to succeed at Darden, and we continue to broaden our criteria for consideration, accepting a number of standardized tests and offering test waivers to create flexibility for applicants,” Dawna Clarke, executive director of admissions at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, says. “Our message to applicants is to find the ap...
“Moïse had a large number of enemies,” said Laurent Dubois, a Haiti expert at the University of Virginia. “One could speculate in many different directions. I imagine this will be traced back to an internal source but it’s hard to say whether we’ll ever really know.”