“You get two chances at securing sponsorship now,” explains Denise Karaoli, senior associate director of international programs, opportunities and diversity at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
(By Aimee Hunt, associate academic curator, The Fralin Museum of Art) Since 1998, more than 3,000 refugees from countries on three different continents have relocated to Charlottesville. Many of them are families with young children, and with the parents working long hours to make a life in their new city, family time and enrichment activities are in short supply and often take a back seat to everyday needs. At The Fralin Museum of Art, we had been seeking to meet this need in the community when I met Angela Corpuz, the art teacher at Greenbrier Elementary School.
There’s always a risk of certain groups not being in the census, but a census with a citizenship question “could feature an undercount more severe than usual,” said Spencer Allen Shanholtz, research and policy analyst of the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Adam Haseley has spent almost three weeks in the big leagues with the Philadelphia Phillies and is learning the ropes. The former UVA star was called up from the minors in early June.
Katrina Sherrerd has big shoes to fill. Rob Arnott, the previous chief executive at Research Affiliates, founded and headed the business for 16 years and was dubbed “the godfather” for his approach to investing. Californian Ms Sherrerd is undaunted. “You’ll see me writing more and speaking more [but] I was pretty much running the firm anyway,” she says. Her promotion in August followed a dozen years as president of the Newport Beach-based provider of indices and data analytics.
A person familiar with the situation says the Philadelphia 76ers and forward (and UVA alumnus) Mike Scott have agreed to a $9.8 million, two-year contract.
UVA alumnus and Milwaukee Bucks guard Malcolm Brogdon has agreed to join the Indiana Pacers in a sign-and-trade deal. ESPN and The Athletic reported Brogdon, a restricted free agent, agreed to a four-year contract with the Pacers. Brogdon cannot officially sign his new contract until Saturday.
The University of Virginia men's basketball team will have several former members playing in the NBA Summer League this year, but they won't all be able to play right away. The Summer League begins in Salt Lake City and Sacramento on Monday, before moving on to Las Vegas.
Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics writes in his Crystal Ball report Friday morning: “Some critics found [Kamala Harris] to be too hard-edged, even mean, but that was not a view widely shared among Democratic pols and pundits,” Sabato shares. “Simply put, Harris is a contender.”
Presidential hopefuls will turn their attention to Detroit after skirmishes at the first Democratic debate shook up the dynamic primary field. Front-runner Joe Biden’s campaign will seek to regain his footing in Detroit after a poor showing in Miami Thursday. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the former vice president showed weakness when U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., hammered Biden on his past record.
Tucker moved to a more academic life, becoming a professor of law at the University of Virginia and, a year later, chairman of its faculty. It was at this time he wrote these words — “I, A.B., do hereby certify on my honor that I have derived no assistance during the time of this examination from any source whatsoever” — words central to the university’s famed Honor Code.
Larry Terry, executive director of UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, provided the keynote presentation on the importance of partnerships and interconnectivity in rural areas. Through asset capacity mapping, he underscored the importance of identifying and starting with what communities have instead of focusing on what they don’t have.
Despite these shortcomings, some people who are in favor of stricter oversight over opioids are happy to see the guidelines issued. "What I can say is that we are pleased that the agency has taken this first step in implementing our recommendations,” said University of Virginia professor Richard Bonnie, chair of a National Academies panel that called on the FDA to develop a special process for approving new opioids.
“It’s really cool to see how early infants are distinguishing between different forms of laughter,” says Adrienne Wood, a UVA psychologist who was not involved in the study. “Almost every waking moment is a social interaction for [babies], so it makes sense that they are becoming very attuned to their social worlds.”
(By Dr. Bryan G. Sauer, associate professor of medicine and director of endoscopy at the UVA Health System) Endoscopy centers perform predominantly upper endoscopy and colonoscopy procedures. The most common reason to undergo a colonoscopy is for colon cancer screening, which is typically recommended for everyone at age 50.
(Commentary by Nicole Hemmer, visiting research associate at UVA’s Miller Center) The Democratic presidential primary officially kicked off last week with the first round of televised debates. Going in, it was hard to imagine we would learn much of anything from the overstuffed event, which split 20 candidates between two nights. Yet not only were there winners and losers, but there were also surprising new revelations about the divisions in the Democratic Party.
(By Morela Hernandez, associate professor in the Darden School of Business) Researchers have come to know a great deal about how people choose to behave toward future generations, and why. Over the past 18 years, studies have identified the psychological barriers that define intergenerational dilemmas, such as when a current generation must give up benefits to act on the behalf of future generations. What we don’t know enough about is how previous generations influence our current decisions.
The ACC Network’s first football game will be Clemson’s season-opener versus league rival Georgia Tech on Aug. 29. Four days earlier, the network will air the first of a four-part mini-series entitled “All In: The Clemson Football Family.” So might the conference and its partner, ESPN, be plotting a similar, all-access project with the NCAA men’s basketball champions at Virginia?
Research from the University of Virginia suggests that humans are inherently empathetic, especially toward those who are closest to them, like friends, family, and romantic partners.
Connecticut’s ‘red flag law’ was the first in the nation. Twenty years later, it’s saved many lives.
(Commentary) June 29 marks the 20th anniversary of Connecticut’s first-in-the-nation “red flag” law. The law has several important steps and safeguards: If police investigate a report that a person possesses firearms and poses an imminent risk to himself, herself or to others, and if a judge agrees and signs a special warrant similar to a search or an arrest warrant, then police can seize that person’s firearms and make a referral to mental health professionals. In 2017, legal, medical, and social work scholars at Duke, Yale, UConn and the University of Virginia published an extensive study of...