“This is a widespread phenomenon, a global phenomenon, and what has taken place in this city and in this diocese is really representative of a larger trend,” Nichole Flores, a religious studies professor at the University of Virginia, said. Flores says this type of abuse is not confined to the Catholic Church.
Pouring through the University of Virginia’s old yearbooks, history professor Kirt von Daacke is uncovering countless examples of blackface and other mockery of minorities.
Dr. Irene Mathieu, who chairs the Equity and Inclusion Committee at UVA’s Department of Pediatrics, talks about bias in physicians and patients.
New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville will host a book talk and signing with Claire Millikin and Blake Calhoun on Friday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m. Millikin, who has taught at UVA since 2007 in art history and English, and Calhoun, an alum who works in the UVA Engineering School, will be discussing their book, “Substance of Fire: Gender and Race in the College Classroom.” This event is free to attend.
(By Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics) Richmond chaos could threaten state legislative takeover, but big-picture trends still favor team blue.
Hamed Joodaki, a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at the UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics, is conducting research into a more effect seat belt for all.
Alban Gaultier’s lab was studying the sigma-1 receptor, a protein within cells that influences inflammation. Gaultier’s team typically studies inflammation related to multiple sclerosis, but doctoral student Dorian Rosen thought existing drugs might be candidates to treat sepsis.
An antidepressant drug used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder could save people from deadly sepsis, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests.
While the Charlottesville scene has its own lore, the city also occupies an important point on global hardcore punk timeline: Back in 1981, WTJU DJ Aaron Margosis was the first person ever to play releases by seminal hardcore punk label Dischord Records over the air.
(Commentary by Veronica Haunani Fitzhugh, who earned a B.A. in English literature) While an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, I risked sharing my writing as my probationary presentation to the Thomas Jefferson Literary and Debate Society. I made people cry. And, I won a sterling Jefferson cup for the best showing of that semester. It changed me as a writer.
UVA is developing an “artificial pancreas,” and is prepping to present early results from a nationwide clinical trial of the device on Friday.
Journalist Jack Crosbie ran a few scenarios by Kyle Kondik, the managing editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball, which is run by the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Everything’s sort of on the table at this point,” Kondik said.
Though Mr. Fairfax has denied the allegations and may survive in his current term in office, the likelihood of winning a future election “is dim in a Democratic primary and even dimmer in a general election,” said Larry J. Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
“We just think it’s important given current events to let survivors - both male and female - know that there are people who believe them and will speak out for them,” said Tallulah Tepper of Team One Love at UVA. Students plan to host another fundraiser on UVA Grounds Wednesday and Thursday.
In the spring, law students from across the state organized and sent letters to the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners asking it to eliminate a portion of the application that prompts the disclosure of mental health conditions, saying that students who need mental health counseling aren’t getting it out of fear that they will be denied admission to the state bar. The changes took effect Jan. 1 and were announced this week at the first Law Student Wellness Summit at the University of Virginia School of Law.
The American Jewish Committee has joined with Christian and Jewish advocacy organizations in filing an amicus brief calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to rule unconstitutional a large Latin cross on government property in a Washington, D.C. suburb. The brief was prepared by Professor Douglas Laycock, a church-state scholar affiliated with the University of Virginia and University of Texas.
“When women run for office,” point out Danny Hayes and Alexandra D. Kurtz of George Washington University, and Jennifer L. Lawless of the University of Virginia, in a recent working paper, “they raise as much money and are just as likely to win their races as men.” They also receive similar press coverage, Hayes and Lawless found in their 2016 book, “Women on the Run.”
Kathryn Crespin, a researcher at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, took a deep dive for you and put out a list of the five things baby boomers need to know. The researcher examined men and women 85 years and older.
The UVA Facilities Management Apprenticeship Program teaches a skilled trade through a combination of on-the-job training, technical education and classroom instruction in a four-year program.
Recently, the University of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation have devised the first nitrogen calculators.