(Audio interview) There are many similarities between cryptocurrencies and social networks. And the rise of payment apps like Venmo make the link between payments and social media explicit. But this convergence between money and social media goes back a long time. On this episode, we speak with Lana Swartz, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia, about her book, “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media.”
It may seem more Harry Potter than Star Trek, but the universe is literally full of dark energy and dark matter, and a University of Virginia professor joined colleagues across the country to measure it. Professor Anatoly Klypin, an expert in numerical simulations and cosmology, helped to develop a mathematical formula utilizing a lot of letters and the Greek alphabet to determine that about 69% of the universe is composed of dark energy.
An associate professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering at the University of Virginia, Christopher Goyne is the director of the Aerospace Research Laboratory at the University of Virginia. Goyne spoke with Air & Space senior associate editor Diane Tedeschi in August.
The pantry also created new donation partnerships with Cavalier Produce, 4P Foods, Innisfree Village, Keswick Hall's organic garden, Pasture to Produce and the University of Virginia's Dining Services to increase the amount of fresh food it could provide.
The pantry also created new donation partnerships with Cavalier Produce, 4P Foods, Innisfree Village, Keswick Hall's organic garden, Pasture to Produce and the University of Virginia's Dining Services to increase the amount of fresh food it could provide.
Not everyone can be with their families on Thanksgiving, but at the University of Virginia they wanted to make sure no one felt alone.
Due to the coronavirus, many students at the University of Virginia did not travel home this Thanksgiving. This is one of the reasons why UVA Dining and the Food Insecurity Resource Group decided to host "Hoosgiving."
Positivity rates in the Thomas Jefferson Health District, as well as in Albemarle and Charlottesville specifically, have dropped significantly as the University of Virginia ramped up testing over the last two months. Public health officials have said UVA-affiliated testing has skewed the percent of positive tests reported over a seven-day timeframe. From Nov. 15 to Nov. 21, 71% of all testing encounters in the health district were either for UVA students, faculty, staff or contract workers, according to a Daily Progress analysis of area testing data.
The University of Virginia has opened an office in downtown Charlottesville to connect the school with community-focused initiatives. The Center for Community Partnerships at UVA recently opened in the old Albemarle Hotel Building at 617 W. Main St.
The good news is that, physiologically, science now understands the origin of the sadness and anger fueling our current mental-health challenges. Blame it on the prefrontal cortex, Jim Coan, a neuroscientist, clinical psychologist, and the director of UVA’s Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, told me.
(Transcript) UVA law professor Douglas Laycock, an expert on religious liberty, said, “This is the first case where Amy Coney Barrett really makes a difference as compared to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And it flipped the result. And they're not going to be deferential to governors anymore. They’re really going to examine closely for signs of discrimination.”
When students enroll at UVA, they sign a pledge not to cheat, but that doesn’t mean professors ignore that risk – especially with exams happening off campus. Some use technology to monitor test-taking with websites keeping an electronic eye on students.
The birding world lost a luminary on Sunday, November 22, when Edward S. (Ned) Brinkley died during a birding trip in southern Ecuador. He was the author of the National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Birds of North America, and he was formerly a professor of literature and film at the University of Virginia.
UVA alumna Kate Bedingfield has come from working for the Obama administration to working with the Biden-Harris presidential campaign, and is once again on the path to the White house. The daughter of a former CNN-er has been lending her political communications expertise to Joe Biden since he was the veep. And rumor has it that she could be a key White House staffer when Biden enters the Oval Office in 2021. Who is this senior Biden official?
Meet some of the newest members of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business in this edition of Real Humans: MBA Students.
Every business school is known for something. Call it branding. Some schools are associated with excellence in fields like marketing or finance. Others differentiate themselves through close-knit cultures and alumni engagement. Of course, there are programs that excel in critical areas like leadership development and career services. By that measure, you could say the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business suffers from an identity problem. That’s because it is impossible to size up the Darden MBA in one dimension.
A visiting professor at the University of Virginia says US-Taiwan relations could regress under the administration of President- elect Joe Biden. According to Shirley Lin, that possibilty is due to Biden's support for multilateralism and the US' need of Chinese support on many issues – one example of which is climate change.
(Commentary) Allan Stam, University of Virginia professor of public policy and politics, spent 10 years researching the Rwandan Genocide with University of Michigan political science professor Christian Davenport. In Stam’s presentation “Understanding the Rwandan Genocide,” he said that the Pentagon had imagined that the cost of installing Kagame might be 250,000 Rwandan lives, but instead it cost something closer to a million.
“No one has been able to convince me that our criminal policies of marijuana prohibition are anything other than profoundly misguided,” said Josh Bowers, a law professor at the University of Virginia. According to Bowers, legalization is a must if we want to fix several societal problems in this country, specifically in Virginia. Because, he points out, keeping marijuana illegal isn’t working.
Advocates for exonerated persons believe changes are needed. "The House Appropriations Committee’s report flags some of the important shortcomings in the current law, though it doesn't recognize all the appropriate options," contends Jennifer Givens, a director of the University of Virginia School of Law Innocence Project.