The Cavalier Daily reports the UVA Board of Visitors is talking about increasing in-state tuition by 4.5% for the 2022-23 academic year. And tuition would be going up another 3.5% for the 2023-24 academic year. This is in part due to the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has left UVA with more than $38 million in unrecovered expenses for fiscal year 2021-22.
As author of “Strategic Management, A Stakeholder Approach,” first published in 1984, R. Edward Freeman is one of the founders of the theory underlying the Stakeholder Capitalism movement of the 2020s. He’s a professor at UVA’s Darden School and author of the more recently published “Stakeholder Theory,” an update on the topic since the publication of his first book. ESM recently interviewed Freeman to learn his views on the state of the Stakeholder Capitalism movement.
In his forthcoming book “Autonorama,” UVA historian Peter Norton tells the story of British economist William Stanley Jevons, whose 1865 book “The Coal Question” addressed a debate about whether the United Kingdom risked exhausting its coal deposits. Jevons claimed that efficiency improvements in coal mining inevitably boost the demand for the fossil fuel, because a relative reduction in coal’s cost would compel people to find new ways to deploy it. His theory carried a powerful implication: When production costs for something fall, people will uncover new uses for that thing.
Srini Venkatramanan, a research assistant professor at UVA’s Network Systems Science and Advanced Computing division, and his team build statistical models that track the trajectory of epidemics to make short- and medium-term forecasts. Regarding the current COVID case data in the U.S., he said that from the latest set of updates, short-term forecasts are pointed downward, “hinting that we may have peaked as far as the Delta wave is concerned, at the national scale.”
When Natalie Wengroff and Paul Wiley met during their first year at Washington & Lee University’s law school, they found an easy conversation opener in the University of Michigan gear she regularly wore from her alma mater. “I noticed that she was a very vibrant New Yorker, somebody who had strong opinions, a big personality but was also funny, had a great sense of humor, and, most importantly, was a big Michigan football fan,” said Mr. Wiley, who graduated from the University of Virginia.
Lynchburg native Leland Melvin, an engineer and retired NASA astronaut, will be inducted into the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame this November. A Heritage High School grad, Melvin earned a football scholarship to University of Richmond, where he studied chemistry. He initially pursued dreams of a professional football career, but after repeated injuries, shifted gears to attend the University of Virginia and earn his masters in materials science engineering.
As a college freshman in 1994, Darby O’Donnell wasn’t sure what to major in — until he found the answer right in his own backyard. While helping his father build a deck at their Newport News house, they discovered an archaeological site. “We were digging new post holes and found old ceramics and handblown glass,” O’Donnell recalls. “I’d worked as a historical interpreter in the Jamestown glasshouse, so I knew it was old stuff.” O’Donnell began working toward a double major in archaeology and anthropology at the University of Virginia and was drawn back to his yard again and again to dig deeper...
With the release of her memoir, Kiara Whack is spreading awareness on how to make living a healthy lifestyle not just a diet. Through personal experiences and a psychology degree from the University of Virginia, the Hampton native realized her mental health recovery was directly tied to what she ate.
Millennials Akshita and [UVA alumna] Mrinalika M Bhanj Deo of Mayurbhanj, Odisha, make royalty relevant today by using their status to create positive change.
(Podcast) Mike Wells, a native of West Virginia, received his BA degree in history from the University of Virginia and his JD degree from Wake Forest Law School. He has practiced law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for 45 years. Over 15 years, he has written nearly 200 widely acclaimed essays collected as “On the Way to the Courthouse.” Several have appeared on NPR and in print across the state in newspapers and professional journals.
A few familiar places in and around Charlottesville have historic roots. Three UVA alums are now digging into how these staples in Charlottesville functioned years ago and the ways they impacted Black people. Catherine Ziph, Susan Hellman and Anne Bruder are the architectural historians on the project, mapping out safe havens for Blacks during the ’60s.
Hajjar Baban has a shy smile that flickers across her face when she speaks about her work. Her voice is confident, but interrupted by long, contemplative pauses. “I’m someone who just cares a lot, maybe too much sometimes, about everything.” Still in her early 20s, Baban has already earned international notice for her intense and sometimes harrowing poems. We spoke with Baban from Charlottesville, where she is currently pursuing a graduate degree from UVA, about her work and what wonder means to her.
Demilade Adewole is in her second year at the University of Virginia. The daughter of a Navy veteran, she has received two scholarships from ThanksUSA to support her studies. “This scholarship is actually very important, especially this year,” Adewole said. “I was kind of short money this year, because the housing expense increased. When ThanksUSA came in, which was the last scholarship, it took care of the expense that I had been worried about. So that’s how important it is for me to afford college. Like, literally, it was the difference between me having to pull out a loan this year and bein...
(Podcast) The restorative potential of urban green space is described by Jenny Roe, professor and director of UVA’s Center for Design and Health.
Despina Louca, a University of Virginia condensed-matter physicist, says her students are primarily working with in-house instruments, including x-ray machines in her lab and a nearby single-crystal diffractometer. “The basic stuff we can do here. We can’t just sit here waiting; we would be out of business.”
Slicing up liberal cities carries some risk for Republicans, however. In the long term, demographic changes can cause even gerrymandered districts to flip Democratic, as they did in Atlanta’s suburbs over the past 10 years. In Texas, “the Republicans have been using this to torment Austin for a long time, but they may have spread themselves a bit too thin,” said J. Miles Coleman, a political cartographer at UVA’s Center for Politics. Austin’s sole Democratic district, represented by U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, covers only about a quarter of the city’s population and extends to San Antonio, some 8...
J. Miles Coleman, the associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, said that “suburban counties like Loudoun and Henrico, which used to be swingy, are solid blue now. So the best Youngkin can hope to do is keep McAuliffe’s margins down in places like that.”
According to Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, 19 Democratic-held House seats are considered toss-ups in 2022, compared to just two held by Republicans. The redrawing of districts based on the 2020 Census is expected to give Republicans a minor advantage in the House.
Virginia’s first election for governor, in 1851, featured Democrat George Summers versus Whig Joseph Johnson. It was the first time Virginia allowed for people who were not landowners to cast a ballot, although voting was still restricted to white males. “In the 1851 Constitution, they do, at that point, reach something like universal white male suffrage,” said A.E. Dick Howard, a constitutional law professor at the University of Virginia. “And at the same time as the on the other side of the coin, they’re saying, ‘Well, let’s be careful now, there’s still some people that don’t belong.’”
The proliferation of jaywalking laws is a particularly American phenomenon. “Although most of our (safer!) peer nations in Europe have no corresponding rule, jaywalking laws are ubiquitous in U.S. cities. As UVA historian Peter Norton has written, these regulations date back to the beginning of the automotive era, when they were introduced by car-industry-aligned groups eager to shift blame for fatal crashes from drivers to pedestrians.”