In August 2017, Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon were in the midst of designing a memorial on the Grounds of the University of Virginia. The intention was to acknowledge the labor of more than 4,000 slaves who built Thomas Jefferson’s exquisite Rotunda and flanking pavilions, and who toiled at the University from 1817 through the Civil War. The architects were working with historians, faculty, students, and other stakeholders to determine what form the project would take. Then, like a bad dream, a mob of white nationalists descended upon UVA and nearby downtown Charlottesville, wreaking havoc ...
Former UVA and Milwaukee Bucks guard Malcolm Brogdon spoke to the press for the first time Monday as an Indiana Pacer.
There can be something uniquely energizing about the experience of finishing second instead of first. Adam Leive, an economist at the University of Virginia, assembled a database of medal winners in Olympic track and field events, between 1846 and 1948, and looked at what happened to their lives after they had won a medal.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies) We won’t need Russia in 2020. We will hijack our democracy ourselves. And Facebook is sure to be a major factor in that hijacking – once again.
22-year-old singer/songwriter Grant Frazier, a 2015 graduate of Loudoun Valley High School, is currently in his fourth year at the University of Virginia. In 2016, he released his debut album, “Runaway.” He was named a Top Ten Artist in Charlottesville by TheOdysseyOnline that same year, and has earned much more critical acclaim, since. His music can also be found on iTunes and Spotify.
Experts and physicians say they are at a higher risk of committing suicide than the average person, but UVA is working to battle the trend. Doctors at the UVA Health System said they're seeing an increase in burnout and stress in the workplace.
“Thinking about the history of lynching, thinking about America’s racial history – it’s something that we all understand that we need to face, and I appreciate that you all are doing it so boldly by creating a proclamation and a day to remember it,” Andrea Douglas, director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, said Wednesday. The trip and efforts around the Community Remembrance Project have been organized by Douglas and Jalane Schmidt, a local Black Lives Matter activist and UVA professor.
Matthew Hedstrom, a UVA associate professor of religious and American studies, teaches 240 students a year about that demographic. Contrary to popular belief, Hedstrom said, many people believe in general in a higher power and might even pray – in whatever way they understand those two concepts. Others might be seeking something else to believe in, he said.
But for some super fans, there is no such thing as the offseason. Frances Newman, Rachael Inlow, Davida Rimm-Kaufman and Clare Inlow are four such super fans, who know that as the Virginia Cavaliers men’s basketball program loses five players – one to graduation, three to the NBA Draft and one to the transfer portal – the school also gains five new players, and that preparations for the 2019-20 season have already started. To that end, the four painted Beta Bridge the night of June 22 to thank the departing players and welcome the new ones to Charlottesville.
As hundreds of guests explored the grounds at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest on Thursday for the 243rd anniversary celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Savhanna Long dug into a patch of soil just east of the plantation’s only surviving slave quarters. Long, a rising fourth-year archaeology student at the University of Virginia, made a surprising discovery in the bright red clay: a pink dime-sized ceramic shard with a floral pattern.
(Commentary) I consulted with a handful of presidential scholars and historians. One of them, Larry Sabato from the University of Virginia, not exactly a raging progressive, said to me in my book that he has never contemplated a scenario where a president would try to attempt a coup to stay in power, at least not since Nixon, until Donald Trump came along.
With several other Republicans and Democrats already in the race, [Larry] Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political handicapping site at UVA’s Center for Politics, declared the seat up for grabs if Amash, a five-term incumbent, ran as an independent.
UVA Assistant Professor of Media Studies Lana Swartz noted that Facebook isn’t trusted by most consumers. “People don’t trust Facebook. They do trust Starbucks. Trust is a huge part of how money works,” Swartz said. Starbucks has a greater geographical reach in terms of branches than any bank in the world, she says.
Samantha Kenner, communications director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home in Abilene, Kansas, said that their reference archivist recently researched this question and did not find instances of him using those exact words. But Wiliam I. Hitchcock, a University of Virginia historian and author of "The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s," told PolitiFact that the views do mesh with Eisenhower’s.
While Harris’s support for mandated busing may play well with the ideological leftists who will vote in Democratic primaries, this could very well come up again in the general election, especially if Harris is the nominee. “If she’s the nominee, Trump will never let it go,” said Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics.
UVA political analyst Larry Sabato said in a Twitter post following the Democratic debate that busing was so unpopular in the 1970s that Democrats running for office often had a choice to “be a profile in courage and lose, or oppose busing in whole or in part & win to fight another day on stronger ground.”
Town-gown disputes “generally come down to issues of resources and land use,” said Josh Yates of the University of Virginia and co-author of the “Field Guide for Urban University-Community Partnerships,” a survey of relationships at 100 universities published this year.
“Unique concerns about safety surround the use of compounded bioidentical hormone therapy, including the lack of regulation and monitoring, the possibility of overdosing or under dosing, the lack of scientific efficacy and safety data, and the lack of a label outlining risks,” said Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UVA Health System and executive director emeritus of the North American Menopause Society.
It’s not simply that she got her role through nepotism, explains Jennifer Lawless, professor of politics at UVA. It’s the fact that she now seems to have so much power with zero accountability: “She’s not secretary of state, but she’s acting like she has the same clout as Mike Pompeo. She is not a formal diplomat, but she’s the one having formal conversations.”
Russell Riley, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center, said the president’s fascination with the show is reflective of a presidency more concerned with style than substance. “This is a president who came to the office primarily because he’s a showman, and he loves this stuff,” he said. “There’s almost a childlike joy at being able to move the tanks and the airplanes around on the board.”