Cameron Wadley, a technology senior vice president, recently filed patent applications related to the valuation of non-fungible tokens, a type of digital ledger used to establish ownership of virtual assets. “What drew me to technology in the first place was the appeal of solving problems creatively,” said Wadley, who holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in business from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kung always loved movies. That love continued long after he graduated from Kempsville High School in 1995 and the University of Virginia in 1999. Then he started directing. A fellow U.Va graduate, MTV producer Matt Paco, encouraged him to work in film, something he’d never thought possible since he’s from Virginia. Paco set him up with internships.
Virginia Business’ annual list of the commonwealth’s 50 most influential people provides our take on the state’s top movers and shakers. And to better reflect our annual Virginia 500 issue, this year’s list has been enlarged to include representatives from business, nonprofits, media, state government and higher education. The list includes President Jim Ryan and notable alumni: Nancy Howell Agee, president and CEO, Carilion Clinic, Roanoke; Robert M. “Bob” Blue, chair, president and CEO, Dominion Energy Inc., a member of the UVA’s board of visitors; Jamelle Bouie, opinion columnist, who joine...
Kirk Gordon’s bedroom is ideal for growing plants: light pours in through a pair of windows that look out over his street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, keeping his money tree, jade plant and pencil cactus happy. … When Mr. Gordon moved to New York in 2019 after finishing a masters program in landscape architecture at the University of Virginia, he hoped to find an apartment where he could put his green thumb to use.
Jason Becton, co-owner of MarieBette, has also shifted some focus to recognizing Black Americans native to Charlottesville. “I have a friend who works at the McIntire School, and he had his class do a marketing project on what we’re doing for Black History Month. The class gave a presentation and said we should have some more local people,” he said. This year, MarieBette honored Gregory Swanson, the first African American to attend the University of Virginia.
Charles A. Laughlin was denied tenure at Yale University in 2005. A few years later, the University of Virginia offered him a tenured full professorship and endowed chair in East Asian studies. He’s been there ever since. Laughlin knows he’s luckier than most people who’ve lost their tenure bids. Still, lingering questions about what happened and why have remained with him.
Olga Burlyuk, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, tweeted on Thursday that she has received many messages with words of solidarity and the question: “What can I do?”
The University of Virginia scholar and psychoanalyst Vamik Volkan has – based originally in his work amidst the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s among Eastern Christians, Catholics, and Muslims – pioneered the three concepts of considerable explanatory power noted above: time collapse, chosen traumas, and chosen glories.
In this rebroadcast of the COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Network’s Cultural Awareness series and in honor of Black History Month, Associate Editor and St. Louis Medical Director Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo Davis speaks with Dr. Taison Bell of the University of Virginia and Dr. Stella Safo of Mount Sinai on the impact that historical medical mistrust among Black communities has had on vaccine uptake. The panelists share examples of trusted messengers effectively engaging in conversations about COVID-19 vaccines within their communities.
A study from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia shows 11 states will grow by more than 20% by 2040 while nine states will have lower populations. The state projected to grow the most over the next 20 years is Texas.
STAT Madness – which is modeled on college basketball’s March Madness tournaments – is a bracket-style competition to choose the prior year’s most exciting biomedical discovery, reflected the priorities of science and humanity at large. UVA School of Medicine is one of 64 contenders. The first round of popular voting begins March 1, when the first-round pairings will be revealed, along with descriptions of all the entrants’ research. Voting on www.statnews.com will continue through six single-elimination rounds before the winner of the popular vote is announced on April 4. Follow the act...
Newly proposed districts for Polk County Supervisors and a sour political environment for Democrats may be enough for the GOP to pick up a seat in November’s election and win majority control of the board. That’s according to J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, who conducted an analysis on district voters following an inquiry this week from Axios.
University of Virginia Law School Professor Kristen Eichensehr discusses the threat of Russian cyber attacks.
CBS 19 News (Charlottesville) / Feb. 28
Those with a deep understanding of Russia explain more. Student veteran Tomas De Oliveira wasn’t surprised when he heard the news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia expert and UVA Law professor Paul Stephan spoke about the country’s resiliency which brings a cause for concern.
As a one-way masker, epidemiology professor Charlotte Baker at the University of Virginia often finds herself one of the few people wearing a mask. She suggests giving yourself a little pep talk to strengthen your resolve: “I’m doing this so I can see my parents,” or “I’m doing this so I can keep my kids safe.” In her case, she is immunocompromised and reminds herself, “I don’t want to die” – but notes “that might be a bit too on the nose for many people.”
“The reliance on very little research on addiction was a mistake,” said Margaret Riley, a University of Virginia law professor who helped produce the 2017 report. “Opioids have been tremendously profitable and the incentives to develop drugs with fewer negative public health effects have been limited.” But Riley said some of the FDA committee report’s recommendations “connect directly” with Robert Califf’s plan for a comprehensive review, are “within the agency’s authority,” and are steps that Califf could act on right away.
“China-US relations began with the exchange of athletes, students and scholars between our two nations, and the shared future of our bilateral relationship will continue to grow stronger together through these types of people-to-people exchanges,” Justin O’Jack, chief representative of the China office of the University of Virginia told the Global Times.
from the New York-Historical Society. Taylor’s “American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850” has won the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, the society announced Friday.
(Commentary by Rami Toubia Stucky, doctoral candidate in critical & comparative studies) Apart from causing you to miss out on all the sounds that surround you, generally speaking, listening to music does not harm your body. It does not damage your liver, poison your lungs or fry your brain. It is not possible to listen to too much music. There are, however, exceptions. Watch the volume.
(Commentary) A new University of Virginia study by Nicholas Buttrick and Shigehiro Oishi is interesting. “Americans, it seems, are finding themselves increasingly locked into places that they wish to escape,” the psychologists write. “Throughout the 19th century, as many as 40 percent of Americans may have moved year over year.” But it seems that the sharp decline in mobility over the past five decades is at least in part attributable to economic policies. In other words, as we have written in the past, capitalism is not working for too many people in America.