University of Virginia President James Ryan sent a letter to the community on Tuesday addressing the university's preparations for the upcoming weekend.
A University of Virginia commission that spent years studying slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s university just dropped its damning report, which concludes “slavery, in every way imaginable, was central to the project of designing, funding, building, and maintaining the school.” But it’s just the beginning of the work at UVA – and at dozens of other universities now searching for ways to atone for their past.
(By Julia Payne, a fourth-year student interning with the High Atlas Foundation in Marrakech, Morocco) Aug. 12, 2018 marks the 18th celebration of the U.N.’s annual International Youth Day. This awareness day is a unique opportunity to reflect on youth’s challenges and to celebrate and support the world’s future leaders. This year’s theme, “Safe Spaces for Youth,” marks the importance of youth’s engagement, participation, and freedom of thought.
As a midfielder in Westport, Connecticut, Kyle Martino was the country’s top high school player and earned an athletic scholarship to UVA. As much as he loved soccer, he still had to scramble to watch matches on television. “I would watch it in Spanish, do whatever I could to breathe it,” says Martino, who is now 37 and a studio analyst of Premier League coverage on NBC, which begins Friday.
After a five-year plunge into the history of slavery at UVA, a commission has concluded that slavery played an integral role in the founding, construction and operations of the public university. A new commission will continue the examination of race by studying the years of segregation there.
Anita Kumar has become the first Indian-American to be elected to the board of the White House Correspondents Association, more than a century-old apex body of journalists covering the U.S. president. Born and brought up in Charlottesville, she went to the University of Virginia. Kumar is now the White House Correspondent for the McClatchy group of newspapers.
Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, pointed to a categorization system created by James Pfiffner that ranks different types of political deception by severity. “To base a policy on a, quote, fact or statistic that I presume he knows is false, or someone who wrote that statement for him knows is false — to me that’s the worst of all,” she said.
To mark the 49th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival, the award-winning documentary “Woodstock” will be screened at Vinegar Hill Theatre on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. After the film, Slate pop critic and assistant professor of American studies and media studies at the University of Virginia Jack Hamilton will lead a discussion on the “rockumentary.”
Startups can be tricky. To be able to handle the curveball thrown at you, one needs a lot of support and a strong ability to handle it. Saras Sarasvathy, a leading scholar on the cognitive basis for high-performance entrepreneurship and Paul Hammaker Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of Virginia Darden School of Business, recently conducted a workshop for students, entrepreneurs, educators and faculty at Flame University, Pune.
When looking at overall trends in child abuse, Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project, said that studies show children who come from unstable homes with unmarried parents are most likely to be abused, especially by someone close to them. “Family drama and family chaos are breeding grounds for abuse,” Wilcox said. “Kids who are exposed to instability are more likely to be exposed to unrelated adults, especially unrelated adult males.”
(Commentary by David Leblang, professor of politics and public policy; students Ankita Satpathy, Alexa Iadarola, Ben Helms and Eric Xu; recent graduate Kelsey Hunt; Rebecca Brough; and Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy research scientist Mahesh Rao) Since taking office, President Trump has shown a firm commitment to reducing the number of immigrants in the United States, in keeping with his campaign promises. Some of his attempts toward this end have run into difficulties, but others have been successful. In particular, by refusing to extend a federal program known as temporary pro...
Both of Charlottesville's hospitals are prepared for the worst-case scenario ahead of the anniversary of the deadly Unite the Right rally. The University of Virginia Health System and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital will both have extra staff ready to go in case of a mass casualty incident.
Dr. Scott Commins, an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of North Carolina, is part of the team that first discovered that the Lone Star tick can cause a meat allergy. He did that while working at the University of Virginia with Dr. Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills, the doctor who discovered alpha-gal was the cause of allergic reactions to a cancer drug. Platts-Mills published his first paper on alpha-gal in 2008, and he and Commins published about the link to a meat allergy in 2009, although they say they’ve have heard of cases as far back as the 1970s.
If there is any good news to be had about the super gonorrhea, it’s coming out of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where researchers and their collaborators in the United Kingdom have discovered a new way the bacteria that cause gonorrhea resist the body’s immune defenses. Researchers said scientists can use this knowledge to develop vaccines or empower our immune system to take down a sexually transmitted disease that has already conquered most antibiotics.
In a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, scientists examined how pettiness can change the way people perceive one another. Results continuously showed that being petty made people seem less likeable, regardless of whether it was in the interest of others. “Being precise isn’t always a good thing for the quality of relationships,” says study co-author Tami Kim, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. “Sometimes, leaving a little room for error might be a good idea.”
The University of Virginia has added $100 million of strategic funds to support new student scholarships. On Saturday, the Board of Visitors approved a second sum from the university’s strategic investment fund. In 2016, the board approved a similar $100 million investment that was fully matched by donors for new scholarships within 18 months, instead of the expected five years.
IoT in health care is helping specialists reach out to patients in impactful ways. The UVA Health System installs telemedicine toolkits in ambulances for stroke victims, linking field emergency professionals to the UVA emergency room via video. This immediate precaution can save lives and prevent paralysis, speech and vision problems, and permanent disability.
(Commentary) The 2019 “American Evolution” Commemoration will feature highly substantive dialogues on the challenges confronting representative democracies today. In May, UVA and surrounding presidential homes will be the site of the Global Pathfinder Summit, a program that will embed 200 students and young adults – half from the U.S. and half from other countries – in a week-long series of reflections and discussions on civic engagement.
An assistant professor with UVA’s Miller Center who’s an expert on the “alt-right” has launched a podcast series focuses on the events that led up to and occurred on Aug. 12, 2017. Dozens of community members gathered Monday at the Miller Center to hear from host Nicole Hemmer about the making and inspiration behind the six-episode series.
This year patients were able to receive free teeth cleanings and fillings and other dental procedures in a more comfortable, air conditioned environment thanks to our partner (the University of Virginia’s College at Wise).”