It can be tough to keep young kids, whose play is often quite physical, six feet apart. It’s not so much that children can’t estimate distance – many can. But “the much more tricky part is their inhibitory control – their ability to not act impulsively and do things that they want to do,” said Jamie Jirout, an educational psychologist at UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development.
Kai Millner graduated from the University of Virginia in May. He came to the protest with his graduation cap on to show that his identity is more than being a black man from Charlottesville. “I do think the demographics at UVA need to change,” said Millner. “There does need to be more black students. There do need to be more black voices because of all of the inequity that UVA has directly promoted throughout the history of this school.”
“Federal grant and equipment programs for policing are often designed in ways that incentivize harmful policing and undermine local and state political accountability,” says Rachel Harmon, a professor of law and director of the Center for Criminal Justice at the UVA School of Law. Harmon added, via email, that such programs “far more often focus on effective policing than ensuring that policing is fair, minimally harmful, or consistent with the law.”
(Commentary co-written by UVA law professors Micah Schwartzman and Richard Schragger) The government is allowing federal pandemic aid to pay for clergy salaries, something that once would have been unthinkable.
(Commentary co-written by UVA law professors Micah Schwartzman and Richard Schragger) The government is allowing federal pandemic aid to pay for clergy salaries, something that once would have been unthinkable.
UVA’s Darden School of Business has launched a new suite of MOOCs on Digital Product Management for learners across the world on the Coursera platform. Taught by Darden professor Alex Cowan, the Digital Product Management course provides learners with a different and effective approach to product development, one that results in valuable solutions to meaningful problems. This course will help provide one with a focused approach to the role, which revolves around testing for — and scaling — product and market fit with a mix of qualitative and quantitative evidence.
Leading through a crisis with humanity is not simple, acknowledges Morela Hernandez, a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. “But it’s not an impossible task,” she contends. Hernandez, this week’s guest on the “Three Big Points” podcast, explains that we know from social science how to address the key issues of leading through difficult times at the individual, relational, collective and contextual levels.
(Commentary co-written by UVA law Micah Schwartzman and Richard Schragger) During the American Revolution, four times more black Americans served as loyalists to the Crown than served as patriots. They joined the British in high numbers in response to promises of emancipation. And yet the enduring memory of black participation in that war would become the image of the faithful slave.
Seventy-five percent of Australians hold an implicit bias against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, a study has found. The study, published in the Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, is based on more than 11,000 unique responses to an implicit association test over 10 years. The data comes from an implicit association test that was established as part of a collaboration between Project Implicit, a global project founded by researchers at Harvard University, the University of Washington and the University of Virginia.
UVA professor Tomonari Furukama and his team of engineers are working on a new robot that uses ultraviolet light and heat rays to kill COVID-19 pathogens.
UVA will spend nearly $400,000 to purchase masks and protective gear in an effort to safely reopen in the fall. The university has ordered 25,000 “welcome back kits” from Bright Ideas LLC, a business in Troy. It also has ordered face masks.
The University of Virginia says it will be providing all staff and students masks prior to the start of the fall semester. UVA recently announced faculty and staff will receive two face masks, one gray and one black. In addition to masks, students will receive a full welcome back kit that contain a drawstring bag, hand sanitizer, and a tool to help open doors and press buttons without the use of fingers.
A large Black Lives Matter protest and march occurred Monday afternoon. Hundreds of protesters began along Main Street near the University of Virginia Medical Center, and protesters marched toward downtown, then returned to UVA. The protest, organized by a black resident at the UVA School of Medicine, was organized with goals such as releasing more people from prisons and jails due to high risk of COVID-19, demilitarization and defunding of the Charlottesville Police Department and removing CPD from Charlottesville City Schools.
(Commentary) Eighteen years ago, John Edwin Mason, who teaches African history and the history of photography at UVA, began making photographs at Eastside Speedway, a minor-league drag racing outpost in Waynesboro. There, to his surprise, he found a multiracial community of racers, fans and track personnel, united by their love of racing, with tight, interracial friendships going back decades.
Researchers from UVA, Virginia Tech and Australia’s University of New South Wales have come across a new molecule that manipulates the metabolic process so that the body burns off more fat than is actually necessary, reducing body fat in mice without changes to their diet.
(Commentary) Given the challenges in bringing these cases and getting convictions, is there a better way to prevent unjustified force by the police? UVA law professor Barbara Armacost presents an alternative approach to preventing excessive force by police officers.
In an election most analysts believe will come down to a handful of closely divided states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, even minor defections or a dip in turnout among the Republican ranks could imperil Trump’s chances. “It probably should be concerning for the president, even though it’s reasonable to say he still maintains strong support among Republicans,” said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, media studies professor at the University of Virginia, says: “Mark Zuckerberg has been unwilling to stand up for the interests of Facebook users over the interests of Donald Trump.” Many point to fear of antitrust, content and privacy regulation around the world as the motive for the decision. But Vaidhyanathan argues that Facebook faces an even “blunter threat” from strongman leaders such as Trump, the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro.
The Monument Fund, plaintiffs in a long-running civil suit against the city of Charlottesville that sought to stop the city’s removal of its Confederate statues, is asking the judge who ruled in their favor last year to partially dissolve a key part of that decision. “At this point there’s not actually a real reason for the current judge, Judge Moore, to maintain that permanent injunction," UVA law professor Richard Schragger said, “because the law under which it was granted is no longer in existence.”