The Diplomat and the US-China Perception Monitor recently had a joint interview on the topic of U.S.-China relations with Professor Harry Harding of the University of Virginia. Harding is a specialist on Asia and U.S.-Asian relations. His major publications include Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1966; China’s Second Revolution: Reform after Mao; A Fragile Relationship: the United States and China since 1972; and the chapter on the Cultural Revolution in the Cambridge History of China. Below are Harding’s thoughts on the idea of a new Cold War – what he calls the “Cold War 2...
Another potentially effective strategy is to try cutting the interrupter out of the conversation, denying them the attention they desire. This is something that Biden did occasionally during the first debate, by turning toward the camera and addressing viewers directly. “The full shift in body position, eye position, tone, etc., really excluded Trump from the conversation,” said Jim Detert, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business who studies workplace communication. He’d recommend more of this.
(Video) The 33rd Annual Virginia Film Festival is underway, but many changes had to be made due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Wednesday was opening night of the 2020 Virginia Film Festival, which kicked off with a drive-in movie at the Morven Farm in southern Albemarle County.
The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation has announced 124 recipients of the Community Recovery and Catalyst Grant Program. CACF says this is the third phase of its COVID-19 response following the emergency helpline and the Rapid Response grants. This year, the organization combined the funding it had for four independent grant programs with Bama Works of Dave Matthews Band, the University of Virginia Health System, Twice is Nice, and Enriching Communities.
(Free registration required) A class of drugs long used to treat HIV and hepatitis B viral infections appears to prevent the development of diabetes in a substantial proportion of patients who take these agents, an analysis of multiple databases has shown. "Nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors, drugs approved to treat HIV-1 and hepatitis B infections, also block inflammasome activation," Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and colleagues write in their article, published recently in Nature Communications.
A new study by Elizabeth Mollard at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Amaya Wittmaack from the University of Virginia School of Medicine published on the preprint server medRxiv* in October 2020 reveals that pregnant women may feel less supported during their childbirth experience due to the changes in maternity unit practices related to the pandemic.
A model by the University of Virginia predicts that cases will continue to rise and will peak by Thanksgiving. Based on the model, Virginia could exceed 200,000 coronavirus cases by Nov. 26.
No one who planted the 50 trees at the Blandy Experimental Farm on Wednesday will be around in a century, but they hope the trees will still be standing tall. The planting in an approximately 200-yard long, 100-yard wide pasture in the community forest is part of ongoing climate change reduction and nature preservation efforts at the 700-acre farm off John Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) in Clarke County. Blandy is a research field station affiliated with the University of Virginia's Department of Environmental Sciences and the State Arboretum of Virginia.
After a difficult year, the MBA job market is finally bouncing back. But what does the future hold for MBA candidates and business schools? TopMBA spoke with Jeff McNish, Assistant Dean of the Career Development Center at The University of Virginia Darden School of Business to find out more.
It seeks to be a memory device for gatherings and assemblies, and it is the result of a group project, the new memorial with which the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, confronts its unjust past.
Though a UVA model now projects a potential new peak in Virginia COVID-19 cases in November, a top state health official says it’s too soon to tell whether an uptick in cases over the past few weeks is indicative of a bigger trend.
Drawing out missing works is what the exhibition’s organizing curators – Austen Barron Bailly, formerly at the Peabody Essex and now chief curator of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and Elizabeth Hutton Turner, a professor at the University of Virginia – had hoped would happen as they worked to reconstitute the dispersed series through many years of research.
Have you ever wondered what the top colleges and universities would look like if they were ranked based on alumni ratings? Thanks to a recent study derived from the largest source of representative surveying of college graduates, we have a sneak peek into what it might look like.
Ruth Kluger, whose unforgiving memoir of growing up Jewish in Nazi-occupied Vienna and escaping death in a concentration camp unsentimentally redefined the conventional mythos of the heroic Holocaust survivor, died on Oct. 5 at her home in Irvine, Calif. She was 88. She taught at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, the University of Kansas, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Virginia and Princeton.
Ruth Kluger, whose unforgiving memoir of growing up Jewish in Nazi-occupied Vienna and escaping death in a concentration camp unsentimentally redefined the conventional mythos of the heroic Holocaust survivor, died on Oct. 5 at her home in Irvine, Calif. She was 88. She taught at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, the University of Kansas, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Virginia and Princeton.
Ryan Shores grew up in the Florida Panhandle, attended Huntingdon College in Alabama, and graduated at the top of his class from the University of Virginia School of Law.
As the campaign enters its final two weeks, Florida has again emerged as a critical state, and Pinellas, one of the largest counties in the state, is one of those places likely to track the final outcome. “It shifted further to the right than the state as a whole did,” said political analyst Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) This conversation with Aynne Kokas – associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia; senior faculty fellow, Miller Center for Public Affairs; and author of “Hollywood Made in China” (2017) – is the 243rd in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.”
(Co-written by Karen McGlathery, environmental sciences professor) A century ago Virginia’s coastal lagoons were a natural paradise. Fishing boats bobbed on the waves as geese flocked overhead. Beneath the surface, miles of seagrass gently swayed in the surf, making the seabed look like a vast underwater prairie.