[UVA alumna] Mallory Graham is no stranger to pageant crowns, but now, through her dedication to education and her compassion for the community, she won a new title — Salem City Schools’ 2022 Teacher of the Year.
In her “How Should a Critic Be?” graduate course at the University of Virginia, Emily Ogden provided students with an account of the history of literary studies to consider what it means to be a good critic and what constitutes a good life. Though no definitive answer was reached—and Ogden will tell you no definitive answer should have been reached—getting others to see what she sees is her goal as a critic. I can assure you that reading her essays in 3 Quarks Daily and the Yale Review or her forthcoming book, “On Not Knowing,” feels like entering into her purview, changing your own perspectiv...
(Podcast) Before the Supreme Court this term is the question of whether all pre-viability bans on abortion are unconstitutional. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the Court must address this question in light of its previous holdings in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Shortly after oral argument in December 2021, UVA law professor Richard Re encouraged the Court to adopt a gradualist approach, making room for the possibility that the justices could uphold both Mississippi’s prohibition on abortions before 15-weeks gestation and its prior precedents in Roe and Casey.
Sodium hydroxide and phosphorous acid are used to remove gums and other undesirable compounds in oil, according to Dansby. But sodium hydroxide is only highly caustic or corrosive in high doses, Dr. Christopher Holstege, a medical toxicologist at the University of Virginia, said. “If it (canola oil) was highly caustic, it would burn (your skin or your body),” Holstege said. “It doesn’t burn because the sodium hydroxide isn’t there. These chemicals may be used initially, but then they’re removed.”
Meals and Wheels “provides not just food, but also companionship, and I think for many who can’t get out very easily it’s a lifeline for them,” University of Virginia President Jim Ryan said. “I think one of the things that makes Charlottesville such an amazing place, honestly, is how many people volunteer to help out their neighbors and this is a great example.”
(Podcast) In this episode of History As It Happens, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor discusses the role of the founding generation – and its compromises over slavery as written in the Constitution – in determining the course of America’s anguished history of race and racism. “As long as race is going to be so powerful in identifying people and polarizing people in politics, then the history of race in this country is going to be a battleground,” said Mr. Taylor, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation chair at the University of Virginia.
As COVID spread across the country, many experts from different fields began weighing in with ideas for battling the pandemic. They had conversations by phone and online. Now, they’ve connected again – led by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He worries the country will abandon caution when it comes to COVID – a view shared by Professor Vivian Riefberg at UVA’s graduate school of business. “We’re going to be living with it for a very long time, just as we live with the flu,” she says.
Barbara Perry with UVA’s Miller Center says this hearing shouldn’t stretch for longer than the usual four days as there are no expected scandals that may pop up. “The Democrats will be lauding Judge Jackson, and those on the other side of the aisle, the Republicans will make a show of saying that they are congratulating her and then they will begin to make very pointed statements about her background and about President Biden and those who support her,” Perry said.
Politico Magazine reached out to a select group of constitutional scholars and Supreme Court watchers to ask: What one question should senators ask to understand how she’ll shape the court? Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, law professor and senior Miller Center fellow: “Do you believe in a living Constitution, one whose meaning changes over time to reflect modern needs and morality? And if so, why shouldn’t the political branches dominate that process of constitutional change?
A doctor at UVA Health has been honored with a big award. Dr. Taison Bell was named in the 40 Under 40 Minority Leaders in Health by the National Minority Quality Forum.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball) The recent spike in gas prices raises a key question: Is there any connection between high gas prices and presidential approval? The short answer is that there appears to be some connection between higher gas prices and lower presidential approval, but the connection is not that strong, and it has become weaker in recent years.
The University of Virginia has found its next women’s basketball coach. Amaka “Mox” Agugua-Hamilton is joining the Hoos after being the head coach at Missouri State for the last three years. In her time at Missouri State, the Lady Bears went 74-15 and played in the last two NCAA tournaments. She also has previous coaching stints at VCU and Old Dominion.
On Saturday night, Virginia won its second-consecutive NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving National Championship in dominant fashion. The Cavaliers won NCAA titles in 11 individual events and broke five American records in the process. The championship is the 30th NCAA team title won by University of Virginia sports teams. The Cavaliers have the 20th-most NCAA team championships among Division I schools, second-most in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and most in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Health care organizations discussed how they’re using data to inform programs that tackle social determinants of health—including a University of Virginia Health System program to dispatch community health workers to areas with high rates of chronic diseases.
The law will provide $5.5 million in funding for mental health for frontline workers in Virginia. UVA Health is receiving more than $2 million of that.
Monday marked the two-year anniversary of the first patient with COVID-19 admitted to UVA Health for care. UVA Health hosted a special event in the main lobby at UVA Medical Center in Charlottesville to reflect and pay tribute to the extraordinary dedication contributions and sacrifices of team members.
March 21 marks the two-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 patient’s admission to UVA Health. Though the pandemic is not over quite yet, the hospital took time Monday morning to recognize the significance of the day with a ceremony.
The death this month of Bernie Nussbaum, White House counsel to President Clinton, sent me to an oral history interview that Nussbaum recorded in 2002 with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. It’s a fascinating source for a variety of reasons, but for Education Next purposes I was struck by Nussbaum’s account of the role that New York City Public Schools—and an exam school in particular—played in his upward mobility.
While there is some association between higher gas prices and lower presidential approval, the connection is actually not as strong as might seem, according to Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a bulletin by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. It’s also gotten weaker over the past decade than it was previously. “Even as gas prices have spiked in the past couple of weeks in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Biden’s approval rating has actually gone up slightly, as measured by the FiveThirtyEight and RealClearPolitics averages,” the Crystal Ball pointed out.
Across the state, the drop is even more dramatic reaching levels not seen since August, the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute reported Friday.