This year, we’re taking a different tack, and focusing on the city’s next generation of leaders. Get to know these under-30 all-stars—people who are making a difference here in town, with their ideas, passion, dedication, and youthful energy. [The list includes 2015 alumnus Alex Bryant, the new associate director of IX Art Park, president of the Downtown Business Association, secretary for the African American Teaching Fellows, and a board member at Bennett’s Village and Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge; and incoming first-year student Sabrina Hendricks, who began her own pho...
UVA is deeply invested in the study of democracy. You can study democracy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, or the Miller Center of Public Affairs, or the Center for Politics, or the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, or the Democracy Initiative in the College of Arts & Sciences, or the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy at the law school. Now, the school is adding another institute to the collection.
That the good things in life may be savored even by the dying is one of the themes of “Documenting Death,” a new, short documentary that tells the story of Kim Acquaviva and her wife, Kathy Brandt, who died of cancer in 2019, at the age of 54. Brandt was a palliative-care nurse and an outspoken proponent of hospice and palliative care; when she received her diagnosis, she and Acquaviva, a professor of nursing at UVA and an expert in end-of-life issues for LGBTQ individuals and their families, decided to document Brandt’s decline, and their family’s last days together, through frank and frequen...
UVA athletic director Carla Williams said the financial hit her program took during the past year wasn’t as damaging as she feared it might be a year ago at this time. “We’re going to end up a lot better than the projections and we’re so thankful for that,” Williams said Monday via Zoom from Omaha, Nebraska, where she’s supporting UVA’s baseball team in the College World Series.
Bonnie Rosen was a two-time All-American lacrosse player at Harriton High School. She went on to have a four-year, two-sport career at the University of Virginia in field hockey and lacrosse. She led the Cavaliers to the 1993 NCAA lacrosse championship.
Reimagining a classic TV format is difficult under any circumstances. But the creative team behind NBC’s new primetime take on “College Bowl” had to do it in the middle of a pandemic. Premiering June 22 at 10 p.m. ET, the new “College Bowl” is hosted by Peyton Manning, along with brother Cooper serving as sidekick. The 10-episode series features college students competing for a share of $1 million in scholarship money, with participating schools including the University of Virginia.
The security staff at the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute uses an integrated cloud-based solution to monitor multiple sites and secure its research facilities. “I don’t have to hire a bunch of people to manage a complex on-premises system. We can monitor all of our facilities, track arrivals and departures, change permissions, and troubleshoot alerts remotely and in real time,” said Andy Phelps, IT director at the Biocomplexity Institute.
The security staff at the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute uses an integrated cloud-based solution to monitor multiple sites and secure its research facilities. “I don’t have to hire a bunch of people to manage a complex on-premises system. We can monitor all of our facilities, track arrivals and departures, change permissions, and troubleshoot alerts remotely and in real time,” said Andy Phelps, IT director at the Biocomplexity Institute.
(Audio) Today we’re joined by Madhur Behl, an assistant professor in the department of computer science at the University of Virginia. In our conversation with Madhur, we explore the super interesting work he’s doing at the intersection of autonomous driving, ML/AI, and Motorsports, where he’s teaching self-driving cars how to drive in an agile manner.
Alan Taylor, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation professor of history at the University of Virginia, supports the idea that Jefferson was likely working several angles at once. “It was an age when science, geopolitics and espionage intertwined, as they probably still do,” Taylor told me in an email. “Given Jefferson’s talent for intrigue and deception, I would not be surprised if he knew more about Michaux’s filibustering expedition than he let on.”
“We want to convene experts to advance health care workforce solutions now, keying to the urgency of the moment and the fact that as COVID volumes decrease, we will see an increase in depression and other trauma-related symptoms,” said J. Corey Feist, co-founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation and CEO of the University of Virginia Physicians Group. “We want to accelerate a culture shift here that prioritizes the well-being of the health care workforce and also create systems of accountability.”
(Commentary) All fields of science have lately had to grapple with the so-called “Replication Crisis,” in which many peer-reviewed, totemic results are shown to be impossible to reproduce, and hence should be considered unreliable. According to Brian Nosek, executive director of the Center for Open Science and a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, the refuted clownfish studies are “a perfect exemplar of the challenges for reproducibility and credibility across the sciences. It was an exciting and novel finding within a system that rewards exciting and novel findings.”
(Video) University of Virginia Political Science Chair Jennifer Lawless appeared on GoLocal LIVE, where she talked about the stalled infrastructure bill in Congress.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said that Biden’s handling of the bishop’s actions so far could be a good way to put the issue on the back burner. He also warned that the decision could backfire on the church with younger people. “You don’t have to take a stand on this to realize that the bishops’ position on abortion and President Biden is wrongheaded. It really is. It’s not just wrong-headed. It’s short-sighted, and they just seem unaware that a very large percentage of particularly younger Catholics do not identify with many of their positions and t...
Micah J. Schwartzman, a University of Virginia law professor who specializes in the intersection of law and religion, said the “court’s signal for social service providers is clear enough: It will grant them religious exemptions, even when doing so entails allowing them to violate anti-discrimination laws.”
As vaccine hesitancy persists, Ican’s legal blitz has fueled disinformation, using costly legal threats to deter schools and businesses from implementing vaccination requirements. “If you have a limited budget to deal with litigation, it doesn’t matter if you might win at the Supreme Court level,” said Margaret Foster Riley, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. “The costs of that litigation are so existentially threatening that you’re not going to take the risk.”
(Video) Dr. Ebony Hilton, UVA associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine discusses the dangers of reopening the country amid the spread of COVID-19 Delta variant.
(Commentary by Kimberly A. Whittier, Frank M. Sands Sr. Associate Professor of Business Administration) Many chief marketing officers track the annual CMO tenure report released by Spencer Stuart, a leading executive search company, with great interest. Since it was first released in 2004, I’ve followed the study’s updates and observed the host of media coverage the report receives each year on what the data means for marketers and companies.
(Commentary by Kimberly A. Whittier, Frank M. Sands Sr. Associate Professor of Business Administration) Many chief marketing officers track the annual CMO tenure report released by Spencer Stuart, a leading executive search company, with great interest. Since it was first released in 2004, I’ve followed the study’s updates and observed the host of media coverage the report receives each year on what the data means for marketers and companies.
A golf tournament in Albemarle County is raising money for families in need at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital. Fore The Kids is being held at Birdwood. The event has already raised more than $75,000.