(Audio) UVA Vice Provost for Global Affairs Stephen Mull, former U.S. ambassador to Poland and lead implementer of the original Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, discusses the talks surrounding a nuclear deal with Iran. He spoke with Bloomberg's David Westin.
(Commentary) Here’s the real problem: The oversight board was a flawed idea from the start. Such self-regulation “is an excellent way to appear to promote particular values and keep scrutiny and regulation to a minimum,” UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan observed last year.
Academics and policy experts have been pushing for Facebook and other social media companies to permanently ban the former president. UVA School of Law professor Danielle Keats Citron and University of California, Berkeley, computer science professor Hany Farid wrote in Slate in February: “The decision around Trump’s ban will be among the first the Facebook Oversight Board will make, but it is hard to imagine a more consequential case. The world is watching to see if the board is capable of speaking truth to power, to both Zuckerberg and Trump. In saying enough is enough, the board will show t...
UVA professor John Edwin Mason, the scholar National Geographic tapped to examine the archives for the magazine’s Race Issue, noted to Vox in 2018 that “the magazine was born at the height of so-called ‘scientific’ racism and imperialism,” a time when the U.S. was rapidly developing as a leading global industrial power. It was also birthing the American eugenics movement. It was this culture of white supremacy, Mason said then, “that shaped the outlook of the magazine’s editors, writers, and photographers, who were always white and almost always men.”
Meredith D. Clark, a UVA assistant professor of media studies, argues that the misuse of woke is a combination of an elite class taking the word and making it toxic to serve their own purposes; and in some cases, a not-so-subtle form of anti-Blackness.
(By Lisa Russ Spaar, professor of English and creative writing) For this entry in my Second Acts column, I take the liberty of pairing Judith Hall’s second and fifth poetry collections.
Children, of course, have personality for miles, and there’s no doubt that some kids are more playful than others. But there’s still no clear connection between playfulness and overall abilities, says UVA psychologist Angeline Lillard. Lillard and colleagues reviewed the state of the science on pretend play and cognitive development in a 2013 report in Psychological Bulletin. Whether studies looked at problem-solving, creativity, intelligence or social skills, there was no consistent sign that playful children had any advantages. “People will say, absolutely, pretend play helps development, bu...
A new UVA study is looking into what happens in the brain when children learn math.
Boffins in China and the U.S. have developed a technique to hide a backdoor in a machine-learning model so it only appears when the model is compressed for deployment on a mobile device. Yulong Tian and Fengyuan Xu, from Nanjing University, and Fnu Suya and David Evans, from University of Virginia, describe their approach to ML model manipulation in a paper distributed via ArXiv, titled “Stealthy Backdoors as Compression Artifacts.”
Northam also stopped by the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia on Wednesday. He signed bipartisan legislation establishing the Enslaved Ancestor College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program.
Gov. Ralph Northam made a stop in Charlottesville Wednesday morning to sign a bill that will honor descendants of enslaved laborers. Northam signed a bill that establishes the Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program. It will provide scholarships to descendants of enslaved people who helped build the University of Virginia and other colleges in the commonwealth. At a small ceremony in front of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, Northam called this bill – which will provide scholarships to descendants of enslaved laborers – a huge step in the right direction.
With institutions more focused than ever on diversity, equity and inclusion, so too has QS in a revamped list of top U.S. colleges and universities. The company that oversees the esteemed World University Rankings felt it was important again to highlight the category and showcase “which are doing most to reduce sectoral gender and racial inequities.” [UVA ranks in the top 50.]
Historians from UVA’s John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History officially launched their second digital history project during a webinar on Tuesday. “UVA Unionists” takes an in-depth look at the nearly 70 UVA alumni that fought against the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Melody C. Barnes is an American lawyer and political adviser. Formerly an aide and chief counsel to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, she has served as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Barack Obama and as executive vice president of the Center for American Progress. She currently co-directs the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia, tackling the most pressing issues facing democracies around the world.
Melody C. Barnes is an American lawyer and political adviser. Formerly an aide and chief counsel to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, she has served as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Barack Obama and as executive vice president of the Center for American Progress. She currently co-directs the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia, tackling the most pressing issues facing democracies around the world.
(By Rochanda Mitchell, Fellow in Maternal-Fetal Medicine) Mother’s Day is a happy day for millions, but for those who have experienced a miscarriage, the day can be devastating. As many as one in four recognized pregnancies result in miscarriage.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders have selected Canadian receiver Terrell Jana in the second round, 17th overall during the 2021 CFL Draft. Jana had a productive NCAA career making 122 receptions for 1,473 yards — 12.1 yards per catch — and five touchdowns in 33 games with the University of Virginia.
Melissa Gismondi experienced a touchstone moment that confirmed for her the potential of the humanities to buttress the dynamics of liberal democracy. It happened in 2017 when she was at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, when the far-right protest against the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue occurred. Inside the classrooms were lectures and group discussions about the origins and purpose behind the mounting of Confederate statues. Despite taking place under a pervasive atmosphere of violence, the sessions powerfully connected past to present. “I don’t know if it’s too sappy to...
Michaela Barnett founded KnoxFill, a zero-waste way for Knoxville consumers concerned with sustainability to get the home cleaning and hygiene products they need. She is pursuing a Ph.D. from UVA’s Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative, an interdisciplinary program between the schools of engineering and business. She’s examining the behavioral science of waste, examining how to keep things from entering the waste stream, how to reduce the amount of materials being mined for production and “how are we kind of opting out of this crazy consumption that’s really unsustainable for us and for the...
A doctor at UVA Health has been honored for his work to improve care for patients with mantle cell lymphoma. According to a release, the Lymphoma Research Foundation honored Dr. Michael E. Williams with the Mantle Cell Lymphoma Leadership Award.