UVA School of Engineering assistant professor Liheng Cai is developing a new synthetic rubber that is not stereotypical of durable materials that are stiff, heavy, and bulky. Cai’s lab is heeding the challenge of coming up with a new soft material that is “soft as a Jello-O or ice cream, or even as soft as biological tissues – but that contains no water or solvents”, according to Cai.
A survey from Reuters/Ipsos and the UVA Center for Politics found that while about one-third of Americans agreed that “America must preserve its White European heritage,” twice as many Republicans (44%) agreed as Democrats (22%). And whereas 38% of Republicans felt that racial minorities were “under attack” in the United States, 63% said the same of white people.
UVA researchers have found that a scalpel-free alternative to brain surgery has the potential to benefit people with Parkinson's disease symptoms that are much more severe on one side of the body.
In 1957 and 1958, William Faulkner was a writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. During that time he held 37 conferences and answered more than 2,000 questions on a wide range of concerns. Almost every word uttered during these exchanges was recorded on tape, and the result is the classic “Faulkner in the University”, originally published in 1959.
Beginning Jan. 18, the University of Virginia’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is planning a series of virtual events lasting through Jan. 31, per a news release. The title of the Rev. Martin Lther King’s 1967 book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” is the theme of the 2021 Community MLK Celebration.
UVA and the Central Virginia Small Business Development Center are partnering to facilitate a community project-based learning program called Propel, which aims to address a wide range of business and technology problems, including market entry, marketing strategy and financial analysis. The initiative engages UVA student teams to support real-world project challenges faced by local small businesses, start-ups and nonprofit organizations.
Booker T. Washington died 105 years ago, but his ideas, thoughts and memories are virtually alive in 14 volumes at the University of Virginia, thanks to a digital offshoot of the University Press.
Amber D’Souza, a professor who studies infectious diseases and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, suggested at least 20% of students should be tested each week. Over the course of a 15-week semester, D’Souza’s suggested testing regimen would amount to 300 tests for every 100 students. Last fall, only UVA achieved such a testing capacity among the state’s 10 largest colleges.
Raheel Tauyyab, a UVA third-year student, said he learned about the flag from a professor who was monitoring the news about the riot on his computer during a virtual class Wednesday afternoon. Tauyyab, a Muslim American who said his goal was to one day work at the Capitol, said he could not forget the traumatized look on his professor’s face. “I won’t lie: I did shed a tear,” he said. “It was really stabbing to the heart to see something like that happen.”
When authors Laura Morgan Roberts [a Darden professor of practice], Alison Maitland and Rebekah Steele began working on their books about diversity, equity and inclusion several years ago, they could not have predicted that they would be contributing to one of the best-selling topics of 2020.
(Commentary by A.E. Dick Howard, professor of law) George Mason's famous Declaration of Rights for Virginia (1776) declares that government is "instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community." But when the declaration turns to the question of who in that community should have the vote, it is more qualified.
Born July 23, 1963, Evelyn McGee-Colbert is the daughter of prominent Charleston litigation attorney and politician Joseph McGee. The 57-year-old was born in Charleston, South Carolina. She attended the University of Virginia College of Arts & Sciences, where she majored in English and drama.
UVA alum Michelle Cusimano Vachris has been selected as a 2021 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award recipient. Vachris is one of seven former college student-athletes to receive the Silver Anniversary Award in recognition of their collegiate and professional achievements, as well as their civic contributions.
(Book review) This is not an impartial review. The majority of the essays in Gary Gallagher’s “The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis” first appeared as columns that he regularly writes for this magazine, and that he began at my behest in 2009. If I liked them when they ran in the magazine, how could I not like them now? Throughout his career he has been committed to reaching out to a popular audience and making Civil War history accessible. His university classes were legendary for filling up, he leads battlefield tours, and he advocates for battlefield pre...
In 2018, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was testifying before Congress as Facebook went through an early round of investigation. At that time, University of Virginia media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan described the company’s mode of operation: “It wants to discern patterns so that they can see what we like, who we care about, how passionately we care about certain things. And then, when it can mathematically distill those patterns, it can compare us to other people like us. That helps them put more things into our news feeds that are likely to generate interest, which hooks us even more. It’s the...
Indiana University Health has convened a panel of national experts on diversity and health care to investigate a high-profile case involving alleged racist treatment at the health care system’s hospital in Carmel, Indiana. Co-chairs Dr. David Wilkes and Dr. Jeannette South-Paul are both leaders in clinical care and cultural competence. Formerly at IU School of Medicine, Wilkes left the university in 2015 to become dean of the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine.
(Video) UVA’s Larry Sabato discusses the implications of Wednesday’s siege of Capitol Hill and whether calls for President Trump’s removal from office are likely to come to fruition.
(Video) "Bloomberg: Balance of Power" focuses on the intersection of politics and global business. The aftermath after pro-Trump mobs storm the U.S. Capitol. Reaction from guests including Barbara Perry of the University of Virginia.
“I don’t think you’re going to see the United States preaching about our great democratic ... system very much, at least for the next few years,” added Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “The sheen is off the shining city on the hill, to use the phrase that [former President] Ronald Reagan liked to use. It’s a tragedy.”
(Audio and transcript) UVA history professor Philip Zelikow calls this a test for America. While he says he was appalled to see some of his fellow Republicans side with Trump, he says the U.S. could still remain a model for the world. “That's a better model for the world than what the Chinese government did the same day, by the way, in the same news cycle – mass arrests of people who want to have democracy in Hong Kong. If you look at how China has responded to its crisis of choice and how the United States will respond to this crisis, the world can draw those judgments.”