The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia has won the top spot of Project of the Year by The Architect’s Newspaper, as well as earning best public and social impact honors.
A national newspaper has honored a local memorial to enslaved laborers. According to a release, Architect’s Newspaper selected the University of Virginia’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers as its Project of the Year in the 2020 Best of Design Awards.
There were objects that projected information loud and clear, as was the case with commemorative political monuments after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Two that made news this year were in Virginia. In Richmond, protesters transformed a colossal statue of Robert E. Lee into a jubilant paean to Black Lives Matter. And in Charlottesville, the scene of a violent 2017 Unite the Right rally, a new “Memorial to Enslaved Laborers” was installed at the University of Virginia, on a campus famously designed by Thomas Jefferson, a slaveholder, and built, brick by brick, by enslaved ...
Wastewater surveillance is now being used in the Charlottesville area to help forecast surges in COVID-19 cases. The samples, combined with other data, are part of an epidemiologic model project at the University of Virginia.
After enjoying quite the run at UVA, Mamadi Diakite is looking to experience similar success now that he’s joined the Milwaukee Bucks.
(Video) The CDC is now urging “universal mask use” as coronavirus cases continue to surge. Dr. Cameron Webb, the director of health policy and equity at the UVA School of Medicine, breaks down the latest in the fight against the virus.
Kyle Kondik, an Ohioan and the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a closely watched political newsletter published by UVA’s Center for Politics, recently wrote a lengthy article for the Crystal Ball which he called a very early look at 2022 U.S. Senate races. Kondik lists three 2022 races as “potentially competitive,” including Democrat Michael Bennett of Colorado, Republican Marco Rubio of Florida and Portman, from Kondik’s home state. He includes this proviso: Overall, these are Senate races where we give a solid edge to the incumbent party to start.
“Republicans came out of the general election attacking Democrats on policing and socialism and a variety of issues and they saw that they were able to draw blood,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the nonpartisan Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, which has rated both Georgia Senate races as toss ups. “Given how Republicans made gains in the House and have been able to hold the Senate for now, it makes sense that they would stick to the same playbook.”
“One thing I think he brings to the conversation is a model for the diverse ways that Catholics live out our values in public life,” said Flores, an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia sociology professor Brad Wilcox warns against jumping to conclusions about a universal spike. “Data that we have from four out of five states reporting divorce in real time - Arizona, Florida, Missouri, Rhode Island and Oregon - indicate that divorce has fallen,” he says. “No doubt, some of this decline can be attributed to the fact that some couples had difficulty getting divorces amidst the lockdowns.”
University of Virginia Cancer Center researchers believe they have identified a gene responsible for the spread of so-called “triple-negative” breast cancer to other parts of the body – a process called metastasis – and developed a potential way to stop it, according to a press release from the university.
Throughout his tenure, Trump has tried to limit U.S. spending on Chinese technology. “I think this was a proxy for larger international political issues the Trump administration has with China and an opportunity for the Trump administration to flex,” said Christopher Ali, a UVA media studies professor. “But these are serious and important questions regarding the ownership of apps and communication platforms. Is this a conversation we need to have? Perhaps. But this can’t be a conversation only about TikTok.”
A study out of the University of Virginia found that seasonal depression may be linked to a genetic mutation in the eye that makes seasonal affective disorder patients less sensitive to light.
In a video posted online Nov. 19, UVA President Jim Ryan said the University had accomplished “what many said couldn’t be done,” and showed the world “what being a great and good university looks like.” Since August, the University has identified just under 1,300 COVID-19 infections among students, faculty and staff. Those cases resulted in zero deaths and zero hospitalizations, reports university spokesman Brian Coy.
“People wanted Trump out, but they didn’t want Democrats in control,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “If that isn’t clear now, they just haven’t kept up with the election results. … This kind of compromise is probably the only thing that can get through,” Sabato said in an interview on Tuesday.
President Trump lost the election but surprised many by making new Republican inroads with Black and Latino voters. Whether or not the gain can be maintained, it's a reminder that no demographic constituency is monolithic. “I definitely know that Trump made some inroads with those groups this time, but it always surprised me that Democrats did so well with them in the first place,” says J. Miles Coleman, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. “It reminds me of something Lee Atwater would always say: How come Democrats are basically trying to tell poorer and working-class constitu...
Multiple academic studies have found companies with more diverse boards get greater return on investment in research and development. Professor Yo-Jud Cheng at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business pointed out that boards also hire CEOs. “Having a more diverse board might lead to having a broader network that allows an organization to have a more diverse candidate pool,” Cheng said.
Ultimately, Giving Green reveals the value—and the limits—of an evidence-based approach to philanthropy. Jennifer Rubenstein, a political theory professor at the University of Virginia who has written about effective altruism, told me that she thinks the methodology is good at helping donors avoid the worst 15% of nonprofits. Giving Green has likely done so here.
(By Francesca Fiorani, art history professor, excerpted from her new book, “The Shadow Drawing: How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint”) We know why the candle was on Leonardo da Vinci’s desk – to bring light into the darkness. But why a ball and a small screen, perhaps made of thick paper, or of simple wood? … Why this obsession with shadows? Because of some new invention or experiment he was considering? No. His goal was a different one: to learn how to paint.
A 1992 study by James Ryan, now president of the University of Virginia, found that federal courts of appeals heard 97 free exercise of religion cases applying the “compelling interest” test between 1980 and 1990, and they rejected 85 of these cases