An online Ph.D. or professional doctorate is the real deal. Working professionals who want to earn the highest degree in their field – along with the expertise, respect, and career advancement that comes with it – no longer have to take time away from their career to go back to school. The revolution in online learning over the last decade means that many of the most prestigious, reputable and influential universities in the nation offer fully online doctoral programs in a wide variety of fields. (UVA ranks No. 4.)
(Commentary by Jalane Schmidt, associate professor of religious studies) Charlottesville has finally received the green light to remove our spurned Confederate statues. After enduring years of legal delay and violent white supremacist attacks, on April 1 the Supreme Court of Virginia decided in favor of the city’s effort to rid its downtown parks of Jim Crow-era propaganda art.
(Commentary by Christine Mahoney, professor of public policy and politics and director of social entrepreneurship at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) What if you could grow your money by investing in companies whose missions align with your own? Whether that means improving the environment, housing, education or health care, “impact investing” is appealing because it combines the traditional ideas of investing and philanthropy, allowing investors to make social impact as well as financial return.
An online nonprofit directory aims to be a one-stop shop for Central Virginians looking to volunteer their time or resources. The website, called ReImagine CVA, launched March 30. The Center for Nonprofit Excellence partnered with The Equity Center at the University of Virginia and other community partners to create the website.
Wearing a sash bearing the phrase “100 and fabulous,” Elizabeth Overton waved at her friends and fellow church members as they drove past her at Commonwealth Senior Living on Sunday afternoon. The drive-by parade was a special celebration in honor of a special lady on her 100th birthday. At a time when few women finished high school, Overton earned a degree in home economics from Virginia Tech in 1943. Overton eventually earned a master’s degree in special education from the University of Virginia in 1974 and began a career in teaching.
Innovative, clean, prestigious hair care was a white space in the market Nancy Twine recognized in 2010. Founder of Briogeo, Twine created a clean product line up that combined non-toxic and safe ingredients. She was a true visionary, such that, at the time there were very few options for people who wanted luxury and clean hair care. Twine attended the business school at the University of Virginia, and graduated with a degree in finance.
The news made a happy day for Zyahna Bryant, who spearheaded the first petition to remove the Lee statue five years ago, when she was in ninth grade. Now a second-year student at the University of Virginia, Bryant said the court’s ruling was a “full-circle” moment for her. “I feel almost overwhelmed, because around this time in 2016 is when we were, like, pushing the petition and organizers were trying to get people to even have that conversation,” she said. Now Bryant said she is looking ahead to not only rethinking the public spaces around the monuments but pushing the city to tackle problem...
Constitutional scholar Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia, said he would be surprised if most judges, or a majority of the Supreme Court would accept the argument that the religious exemption is unconstitutional. He argues the all-or-nothing approach many have taken on the religious liberty vs. gay rights debate has been counterproductive. LGBTQ students are free to attend secular colleges and universities or to attend religious colleges and universities and comply with their rules, he said: “What they seek, but are not entitled to, is to attend a religious college ...
Dr. Rebecca Dillingham, director of the Ryan White HIV Clinic at the University of Virginia, works with hundreds of people living with HIV. She said the updated legislation aligns with scientific updates to treatment of HIV, which, in itself, should be seen as a public health issue, not a crime. “The changes in the laws decriminalizing HIV are an incredibly important first step in ending discrimination and lessening the stigma experienced by people living with HIV,” Dillingham said. “HIV right now is like, should be like, living with diabetes or high blood pressure. It shouldn’t be different t...
Even though more people are being vaccinated in the Blue Ridge Health District each week, doctors at UVA Health are worried about a potential fourth wave of the coronavirus. “At most, about half the population has some level of protection against COVID either from vaccination or from natural infection. That’s a half glass full, half glass empty proposition,” Dr. Costi Sifri, an infectious disease doctor at UVA Health, said. “There are places in the U.S. – in Michigan around Detroit and the New York City area – where we are seeing increased case counts and those have been trending up for the la...
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at UVA’s Darden School of Business) When Joe Biden was elected president, investors were divided about whether he would govern as a centrist or as a progressive. By now, the answer seems clear: Biden is seeking the largest expansion in the federal government’s involvement in the economy since Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “Great Society.”
(Commentary by Kimberly A. Whittier, assistant professor at the Darden School of Business) In the first quarter of each year, I reach out to different experts to generate insight on what lies ahead for the next 12 months. Below, David Fischer, Chief Revenue Officer of Facebook, provides thoughts on a post-Covid world including: consumer behavior, AR/IR, vendor management, disruption, personalization, diversity, resilience, and others.
(By Dr. William Petri, professor of medicine) It’s OK for fully vaccinated people to travel domestically again without quarantining, so long as they wear a mask and maintain social distancing guidelines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced April 2 in its updated guidelines for travel.
While a proposed change to legislation phasing out Virginia’s coal tax credits could benefit a Southwest Virginia college, another longtime regional agency is waiting to see the full impact on its revenues. Jonathan Belcher, executive director of the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority, said Gov. Ralph Northam’s call to change General Assembly House Bill 1899 to allocate expected coal production and use tax revenue to UVA’s College at Wise would be a good move for the region.
(Commentary) It all began about a hundred years ago, when American streets were unlike what they are today. It was common to find horse-drawn vehicles, push-cart vendors, pedestrians and children sharing street space. As the number of automobiles increased, and the number of casualties rose, an all-out feud ensued between pedestrians and motorists, according to “Street Rivals – Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street,” a paper by Peter D. Norton, associate professor of science, technology and society at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) Researchers from UVA and James Madison University followed 165 adolescents as they aged from 13 to 30 to learn what best predicted who would experience satisfying romantic relationships in their late 20s and much later in adulthood. It turns out the best practice comes from friendships. The study's lead researcher, Dr. Joseph P. Allen, UVA’s Hugh P. Kelly Professor of Psychology, says the "greater stability found in same-gender friendships, allows for more long-term practice with the kinds of give-and-take needed to successfully handle romantic relationships in adulthood."
Next year, the census bureau will release new numbers for the nation, documenting, among other things, the racial makeup of the United States. But experts at the University of Virginia say there’s one big problem – the way the census counts multi-racial people.
A study co-authored by Kevin Pelphrey, the Harrison-Wood Jefferson Scholars Foundation Professor of Neurology at the University of Virginia Brain Institute, suggested that autism may be fundamentally different in girls and boys. Pelphrey's work is the latest in a series of recent investigations into a fascinating -- and perplexing -- statistic: Boys are four times as likely as girls to be diagnosed with autism.
Combining stem cell transplants with cutting-edge immunotherapy prevents leukemia relapses in young people and improves their chances of survival, new research suggests. The findings – published recently in the Journal of Clinical Oncology – suggest that stem cell transplants offer long-term benefits for young patients who get CAR T-cell therapy, according to the University of Virginia researchers.
UVA School of Engineering and Northwestern University researchers create a new polymer-based electrical insulation for circuits that could help put more power in smaller spaces.