How an office’s limited bandwidth is allocated “is a million-dollar question, and probably a struggle for everyone; I’ll bet nobody feels well-resourced,” adds JoonHyung Cho, who just recently assumed the position of director of corporate relations and business development at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is no longer using the sewer to help it track COVID-19 outbreaks. It says it paused its wastewater testing late last year. Now, the commonwealth is using this practice to stay one step ahead of outbreaks across Virginia. It is testing at both a building and community level to stop asymptomatic outbreaks before they spread. “UVA has been doing wastewater testing, not so much at a community level to understand public health transmission, but more as an approach for pooled-surveillance testing on a group of people that live in a building,” Dr. Amy Mathers with UVA Healt...
This is a sign of what media scholar Siva Vaidhaynathan, the director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, has called “the Googlization of everything” and the “Facebook Disconnection.” In short, Vaidhaynathan explains technology platforms like Facebook assume that they deserve a user base measured in the billions of people. To be precise, 2.2 billion people have Facebook accounts. “But none of us can really communicate with 2.2 billion people,” even if we think we deserve such a following.
A.D. Carson, a professor of hip-hop at the University of Virginia, has a simple answer to the question of why conspiracy theories are so prevalent in hip-hop. “We understand that hip-hop is not a unique place that you go to for sexism or misogyny or for any of the phobias,” he says. And just like the world is sexist and misogynist, there’s this: “The world f---ing loves conspiracy theories!”
(Commentary) I reached out to Kevin Gaines, associate director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He’s also a history professor there. Gaines noted race complicates human interactions in the United States. Layering politics on top of that heightens tensions. Maybe Youngkin “meant well in complimenting a speech on Black history,” Gaines told me Tuesday, “but it hasn’t been long since he signed an executive order on critical race theory. “He’s really pandering in a cynical way to a vocal minority of White Virginians.”
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Brad Wilcox, executive director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, told the Register that most demographic surveys show U.S. women want “two or more kids,” but the fertility rate is 1.6 children per woman, which is far below desired expectations and what a country needs for stable population replacement. “I would attribute that in part to people not marrying in their 20s, when they have higher opportunities to get pregnant,” he said.
Kenneth Abraham, a law professor at the University of Virginia, said it’s uncommon for settlements to include the release of company documents and for gun manufacturers to be held liable in situations like the Sandy Hook massacre. “This is unusual. It may well provide a basis for suits against firearms manufacturers in similar situations in the future,” Mr. Abraham said.
It’s too much to argue that cancel culture is canceled, but it is perhaps on notice. And that may not be a bad thing, argue a range of cultural experts and scholars scrutinizing this topic. “In its early stages, cancel culture, whether on #MeToo or racial matters, went too far and in ways that were not ethically sustainable,” says James Davison Hunter, a University of Virginia sociologist whose 1991 book, “Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America,” cemented that two-word term into the vernacular. “The extremism of the activists discredited many of the legitimate concerns of these movements...
Prosecutors also called use-of-force expert Timothy Longo to the stand Monday. Unlike most expert witnesses, Longo testified that he had declined to be paid for his testimony, although the judge wouldn’t let him specify why he made that decision. Longo, a former Baltimore Police Department colonel and current vice president of security at the University of Virginia, testified that the three defendants had not complied with acceptable police practices in their conduct on May 25. He said they should have both intervened with Chauvin and provided medical aid to Floyd.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at the Darden School of Business) Financial markets have turned volatile this year as investors have been reassessing the prospects for higher inflation and tightening by the Federal Reserve. Lurking in the background is the added uncertainty about whether Russia will invade Ukraine and the response it could elicit from the United States and NATO. The announcement by national security advisor Jake Sullivan that an invasion could occur “at any time” triggered a stock market sell-off on Friday.
(Commentary by Russell L. Riley, White Burkett Miller Center Professor of Ethics and Institutions and co-chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program) With several weeks to go before President Biden’s self-proclaimed deadline for nominating a new justice to the Supreme Court, any shortlisted prospects will have to exercise considerable patience before they learn the outcome. The experience of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggests, however, that good things come to those who wait – and wait.
(Commentary by Jeffrey Grossman, associate professor of German and Jewish studies and chair of the German department) On Feb. 8, the U.S. Senate held its confirmation hearing on the Biden administration’s nominee, Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt, for the position of United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. A well-known and respected historian, Lipstadt should be confirmed.
According to the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute, the majority of people hospitalized with the omicron variant – the latest strain of the coronavirus that sent daily infection rates soaring – were unvaccinated. In fact, those who received a booster dose fared better in the surge than those considered only fully vaccinated. “Evidence suggests a three dose vaccine regime is more protective against hospitalization and death than the initial two dose series,” UVA researchers wrote in an interim report Friday. “It may also offer longer lasting, more durable immunity.”
A national network of institutes of Catholic thought will soon launch as part of a new $3.65 million grant, issued by the John Templeton Foundation Feb. 1. The In Lumine Network will include six Catholic institutes, located at top university campuses across the country, to start. They include the St. Anselm Institute at the University of Virginia.
[UVA alumnus] Ryan Zimmerman, the first draft selection in Washington Nationals history and a longtime franchise pillar – from the lean days at RFK Stadium to the still-burning glory of a World Series title in 2019 – announced his retirement Tuesday. And he is going out on his own terms.
Olympian Eileen Gu is a marketer’s dream – a role model who appeals equally to Western brands seeking a piece of the Chinese market and Chinese counterparts hungry for international exposure. “I think it’s really important to note that the reason why Eileen Gu is attracting so much attention is not strictly because of her skill as a skier, but [because] American brands have also amplified her presence and her power because of their interest in entering the Chinese market,” said Aynne Kokas, a UVA media studies professor.
“Everyone enjoyed them because they were equal-opportunity bashers,” says Larry Sabato, the founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, which hired the Steps to perform at numerous events. “That was back when our politicians had a sense of humor and – occasionally – could be bipartisan. That’s gone.”
A national nonprofit with local roots is trying something new. One Love works to stop relationship abuse and it wants Baltimoreans to move for healthy love this Valentine’s Day. “All of us know the story of Yeardley Love, and it was a tragic story, but we’re making something happen,” One Love Foundation Mid-Atlantic Region Executive Director Ojeda Hall said. The 22-year-old University of Virginia lacrosse player lost her life in 2010. She was killed by her ex-boyfriend.
Mike Shebat is a co-founder of Traba, an app created to help people looking for work find employers. He leads the company with Akshay Buddiga, another cofounder. “We help workers to get connected to warehouses, event venues, and distribution centers,” Shebat said. University of Virginia alumnus Nazer Hasanian, a founding software engineer at Traba, says more than 3,000 workers and 25 business are connected with the platform. The two UVA alumni started the business post-graduation in south Florida, and have big dreams to expand, potentially all the way back to Charlottesville.
(Commentary) Kathleen Flake, a UVA professor of Mormon studies, said Mormons were “remarkably oppressed by both state and federal governments.” But she says by only focusing on oppression experienced by Mormons and other Protestants we can easily neglect the ongoing oppression other religious groups face.