The Supreme Court’s decision Monday allowing employers to keep employees from joining together in wage and hour disputes could have a dramatic and lasting impact on the American workforce. UVA law professor Daniel Ortiz, who represented one of the employees in a trio of cases the court consolidated, called Monday’s ruling a loss, but one he hopes Congress can correct in the not-too-distant future.
One of her memories of their time on the road, Rebecca Abdul said, is of her mother dodging soldiers, bombs and other fleeing refugees to help a woman give birth by the side of the road. Her mother had no formal midwife training, but was determined to help. Abdul said the long, arduous immigration process made her question American immigration laws, but helped her feel closer to her family and friends. After graduation, Abdul is considering working in Nashville, Tennessee, or Washington, D.C. Her mother will live with her, study English and, they hope, also become a nurse.
When you’ve flown war-zone helicopter medevac missions and spent more than a year sailing the ocean, you’re pretty much equipped to handle most of life’s stress.That includes starting medical school at the age of 36, less than two weeks after your first child’s birth. “I wouldn’t say it was easy because it hasn’t been easy,” said Dr. Patrick Marvil, who graduates Sunday from UVA’s School of Medicine.
From 2000 to 2017, net migration to counties classified as retirement destinations increased 169 percent in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, compared to 67 percent nationwide, according to UVA demographer Hamilton Lombard. The U.S. Department of Agriculture classifies a county as a retirement destination if net migration caused its 60-and-older population to grow at least 15 percent in a decade.
Though a growing number of universities are lining up to work with Facebook, Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA professor of media studies and author of “Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy,” said that universities should think carefully before collaborating with the company in developing technologies. “We know that Facebook depends on user data to make its products work and work well,” he said. “We have seen that Facebook’s accumulation of data is a serious problem. One that legislators are finally taking seriously. Universities should therefore be careful about the pr...
“The pitch there is more about representation of under-represented people. That might be also a part of the emergence of women candidates on the Democratic side,” said Kyle Kondik, an election analyst with Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA. “As the country is becoming more diverse, the Democrats are becoming more reliant on nonwhite voters and women and it shows up in who’s running.”
When we started preparing for the symposium, my students, mostly women, were worried that they knew nothing about AI governance – a reminder that the rhetoric of advanced technology excludes many people from important political discussions. Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship, cautions that presumptions like these, about who interacts with technologies and who can claim expertise, mean that “we forge policies and design systems and devices that match those presumptions.”
What’s the Center for Effective Lawmaking? The center Trump cited is a nonpartisan effort directed by two political scientists – Craig Volden of UVA and Alan E. Wiseman of Vanderbilt University. The duo wanted to come up with a way of measuring the success of members of Congress in passing legislation.
(By Jeff Bergner, visiting professor at UVA’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) First, some good news. You are all very talented. You have the intellectual ability to succeed at pretty much whatever you choose to do. Now, some harder news. You are all good rule followers. By following the rules, you did well in high school and were accepted at UVA. When you leave here, however, you will leave all these rules behind.
Dr. Dan Gioeli of the UVA Cancer Center, working with local biotech company HemoShear Therapeutics, is creating 3-D models that mimic the microenvironment of pancreatic and non-small-cell lung cancers. The model aims to replicate the complex nature and behavior of a real tumor by incorporating different cell types that are found within them, such as vascular endothelial cells that are exposed to the tremendous shearing forces of blood flow.
A recent UVA study suggests that moving can be associated with “shallower or lower-quality social relationships.” Add to that the notion that people start losing friends at 25, an age at which many young people are still finding new homes, and it becomes easy to see that the idea of making friends can be a rather daunting one.
Chris Long was sitting at his parents’ kitchen table in Albemarle County the night before his first day of classes at the University of Virginia when he logged into his university email for the first time. “It was magical,” he said during his keynote speech at UVA’s Valedictory Exercises on Friday. “I felt like I had opened a portal into a new dimension of knowledge and possibility. I could do anything I wanted. On days like these, we make a lot of promises to ourselves, but they fade quickly, and you know exactly what I’m talking about.” In his speech, Long, a two-time Super Bowl champion, en...
On Friday, as all the festivities kicked off, the graduating fourth years had an opportunity to hear from Chris Long, one of UVA’s most impressive recent graduates, at the Valedictory Exercises. Long, who has helped the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles to Super Bowl titles in back-to-back years, was a standout defender for the Virginia football team.
(Commentary by alumna Khalilah L. Brown-Dean) UVA graduates are very particular about language and tradition. We have Grounds rather than a campus. We refer to students by their status (e.g. first-years, fourth-years) rather than the titles of freshman and senior. Notable alums like Dawn Staley, Katie Couric, Leland Melvin and Chris Long shared the time-honored tradition of hanging out on the Lawn, never the quad.
Teresa Sullivan strode to a podium at Old Cabell Hall, looked down at her notes and then beamed at her final crop of University of Virginia graduates. On Saturday, she focused not on her accomplishments as UVA’s first female president, but instead on the difficulties the University has faced the last four years and the students’ resilience in these challenging times.
Students graduating in this year's class from UVA are getting their degrees after a rocky four years. From the disappearance and death of Hannah Graham, to the recent white nationalist violence from last summer, students faced a different challenge year after year. President Teresa Sullivan called this year's class 'resilient.'
(Commentary by Bob Gibson of UVA’s Cooper Center for Public Service) I bet you think the U.S. Supreme Court opened up some interesting possibilities, either dire or opportunistic, when the high court ruled May 14 that states are free to legalize sports gambling.
Researchers compiled a list of characteristics and behaviors that many shooters shared and concluded, “there was no single profile of these kids that would be scientifically reliable,” UVA psychologist Dewey Cornell said. “People say, ‘Well, these kids are victims of bullying, these kids are paranoid, these kids play violent video games, these kids are narcissistic.’ And many of the kids who have committed school shootings have those traits. But so do a million other kids.”