Barbara Perry, who directs presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, said Washington was so popular that “he could have been president as long as he wanted to be president.”
(Commentary co-written by Deborah G. Johnson, Olsson Professor Emeritus of Applied Ethics, Department of Engineering and Society) Synthetic media technologies are rapidly advancing, making it easier to generate nonveridical media that look and sound increasingly realistic. So-called "deepfakes" (owing to their reliance on deep learning) often present a person saying or doing something they have not said or done. What can be done to mitigate these harms?
UVA Medical Center reported an average daily census for the Feb. 12-18 period of 469.6, 76.5% of its 614-bed capacity. The average number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at UVA for the period was 34.7, down from last week’s average of 45.9.
A new discovery at UVA offers a glimmer of hope. Researchers have identified the gene responsible for causing Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. They’ve developed a potential way to stop the cancer from spreading to other parts of the body.
(Commentary) In other downturns, deaths rates have fallen as unemployment rates have gone up. As I wrote in 2012, recessions are often oddly good for health. More recent evidence from one of the leading scholars in this field, UVA’s Christopher Ruhm, suggests a weakening of the effect, but still suggests that today’s recession should have either had little impact on longevity (outside Covid itself) or brought a modest improvement.
In an extension of their work on malnutrition, the Aga Khan University faculty in collaboration with researchers at the University of Virginia will study the effects of Covid-19 infection on a malnourished gut, one of the first such studies in the world.
Scholars like UVA’s Ben Castleman and Caroline Hoxby at Stanford University adapted the “nudge” apporach for use in higher education. Recognizing that social, physical and psychological factors can often discourage students from acting in their own self-interest, those scholars showed that nudging could help students navigate college and the complex bureaucratic processes that often create barriers to academic success.
Can a dark past lead to a brighter future for someone else? It’s a question Virginia lawmakers are asking, and trying to answer with House Bill 1980.
On Monday, the Senate approved three bills impacting higher education in the state of Virginia. Two were passed by narrow Democratic margins. One prohibits colleges from asking applicants on an application if he or she has a criminal history, an effort known as “banning the box.” The other requires five universities to identify their enslaved laborers and offer a scholarship or economic program to the descendants of the enslaved. A third bill that passed unanimously requires college governing boards to meet a higher level of transparency.
The region’s flagship universities – the University of Maryland at College Park and the University of Virginia – have tracked an alarming uptick in the number of viral cases on campus. And each school has taken a different approach to curbing the spread, illustrating the tensions and uncertainty of trying to operate major research universities in the pandemic and preserve public health.
(Commentary by David Flood, postdoctoral fellow) Two hours into a weekly planning session, the 15 or so black-clothed, tattooed, and pierced activists were getting cranky. People wanted action, and tempers were flaring. I thought that my research on leftist organizing might finally get exciting.
In a recent U.S. Census Bureau working paper co-written with Jonathan Colmer, a UVA assistant professor, we explore the long-term and even the multigenerational effects of pollution.
During the panel, Dr. Cameron Webb, senior White House policy advisor for COVID-19 equity and a UVA assistant professor of medicine and public health science, focused on the importance of equity initiatives.
As students at the University of Virginia, Danya Abutaleb and Taylor Trumble bonded over diversity and inclusion discussions. When George Floyd was killed last year, they decided to resume the conversation full-time, even though it meant quitting their jobs during pandemic. And so Pip DEI Collective was born. Based in Charlottesville, the startup is a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) consulting firm, offering organizations coaching, dialogue facilitation, workshops and training.
In honor of Black History Month, CNN Business asked three of the highest ranked Black women in corporate America to reflect on their career journeys and offer advice to those looking to follow in their footsteps, including Jasmin Allen, a UVA graduate and senior vice president at Moet Hennessy USA.
Anna Beecher, a Londoner currently doing an MFA at the University of Virginia, is a winner of the Henfield Prize for Fiction. Her debut recalls the lyrical exploration of loss in Max Porter’s “Grief Is a Thing with Feathers,” though structurally “Here Comes the Miracle” is less formally inventive.
Central to individualism is a belief in meritocracy, the idea that one succeeds by dint of ability, talent, and hard work, and therefore that every person is the master of their fate. This, too, is a popular lens through which to see the world in the States. But “it’s important to identify that this is a myth,” says Allison Pugh, a UVA professor of sociology. “We all are dependent on others.”
Kiki Petrosino, who teaches poetry at UVA, claimed the 10th anniversary Rilke Prize for poetry with an intimate study of her life as a biracial woman in America. The University of North Texas prize highlights her 2020 book, “White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia.”
The U.S. State Department has named a UVA professor as a trailblazer. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove is one of five Black women featured on the “ShareAmerica” platform in honor of Black History Month.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, said Biden is “well-suited” to deal with the disaster because of his decades of service in the U.S. Senate and as a former vice president and because of “his genuine concern for people. … He’s got to show empathy right off the bat. It’s important for a president to go to a place that’s been battered, but be careful about the footprint. He doesn’t want to make things worse.”