On Friday, UVA announced the hiring of Tony Elliott, the former Clemson offensive coordinator who helped the Tigers win a pair of national championships and reach the College Football Playoff on six consecutive occasions. “Coach Elliott is a winner, in every sense of the word,” Cavaliers athletic director Carla Williams said in a release announcing Elliott’s hire. “He is known for his character, humility, work ethic, skill set and passion for education.”
The public is invited to test projects being worked on by University of Virginia students of electrical and computer engineering. The capstone fair will be taking place Dec. 16 at the Thornton Hall National Instruments Engineering Discovery Lab. Examples of projects include a hat that helps the visually impaired sense their surrounding and a device to teach young children how to spell.
(Press release) Emory University’s Goizueta Business School has announced the 20 semifinalist teams of the 2022 John R. Lewis Racial Justice Case Competition. As the focus of the competition this year, entrants were invited to complete industry-specific applications for the categories of consulting and professional services, food and beverage, health care, technology, and transportation and logistics. This year’s competition drew 76 applicant teams from more than 40 universities who will compete for monetary prizes ranging from $5,000 to $20,000. All prizes are a one-to-one split, with 50% giv...
UVA School of Medicine students thanked families on Friday night for their vital sacrifices. At a private event, students paid respect to anatomical donors – families who donated the bodies of their loved ones for educational purposes. They shared stories and artwork with the families and said the work is helping to provide hands-on training for future physicians – as well as a confidence boost.
The University of Virginia has released early decision notifications for the Class of 2026. In all, 1,098 students earned admission through the binding Early Decision program out of a pool of 3,500 applicants.
University of Virginia undergraduates will see tuition, room and board and other fees rise over the next two years after the school’s Board of Visitors approved proposed tuition and cost hikes on Friday. The board unanimously agreed to increase tuition by 4.7% for the upcoming 2022-23 school year and by 3.7% for the 2023-24 school year.
I went to see [UVA alumna] Rangina Hamidi, Afghanistan’s acting minister of education, at her home in Kabul. We were in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic’s third wave, which had filled the hospitals with gasping patients, and the government had closed schools in response; Rangina herself was still recovering from an earlier bout with the virus. She coughed a little as she greeted me on the lawn, where her daughter’s pet goat, Vinegar, stood watching us.
Although this spiritedness sometimes looks unsavory, child psychologists say the shift is a good thing. It is a reflection of how safe and loved children feel and how much trust they have in their parents. “It can manifest as kids being a bit more assertive and opinionated, and maybe even more argumentative, and I think that the challenge is to not interpret that as a bad thing, but as an important and necessary process,” said Emily Loeb, a psychologist at the University of Virginia who studies how parenting shapes child development.
(Podcast transcript with Dr. Taison Bell, critical care and infectious disease physician at UVA Health) I wanted to tell the story about Nellie, or as we called her, "Maw Maw." She was a woman who was admitted to our ICU in the earlier sort of days of COVID before we had access to vaccinations or really even effective therapies that we had confidence in.
Dr. Linda K. Bunker, 74, of Bloomington, died Dec. 6 in Bloomington, Illinois. In 1973, she became a professor at the University of Virginia. She served as department chair from 1976 to 1984. She became UVA’s associate dean for academic and student affairs in 1984. While there she was instrumental in the coeducation of the institution and was an advocate for gender equity and scholarships for female athletes. In 1997, a professional chair, The Linda K. Bunker Professorship in Education, was established in her honor. In 1998, the Women in Sports Foundation in Charlottesville established the Lin...
(Commentary) For his next act of defiance, Louisiana Repoublican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy [a UVA Law alumnus] should topple the exhausted chairman of the Senate Cave-in Caucus, Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell
For Green Bay Packers quarterback Kurt Benkert, Sunday night will be a long time coming. A very long time. The third-string signal caller has spent all year as a member of the Packers’ practice squad. In fact, his entire professional career has been defined by practice. But all that is going to change Sunday at Lambeau Field — probably.
One UVA Health doctor has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors. UVA professor of engineering and radiology Dr. Craig Meyer is being recognized for his MRI invention. Meyer invented the spiral MRI. He says it makes MRI scans quicker and more clear.
The poster further asserts that herpes is not contracted via sex, but rather through food consumption and vaccination. But experts say the post’s claims are totally bunk. For starters, the sexually transmitted herpes is caused by two viruses, not a parasitic worm. “That post is so, so wrong in many different ways,” said Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Virginia.
“You might find yourself in one district today, and then a couple years from now you might find yourself in a different district,” Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the UVA Center for Politics, said. “The district lines also matters a great deal for political power, because the way the lines are drawn can determine who ends up winning and losing.”
The proposed redistricting maps, released late Wednesday, create six Democratic-leaning districts and four that lean Republican. The 2nd District, represented by Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria, would lean slightly Democratic, but by a smaller margin. “The clearest, most competitive district is indeed Virginia Two,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Historian Jalane Schmidt, director of UVA’s Memory Project, worked with the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center to develop the proposal. Her organization develops public engagement around issues of public memory as they relate to the Charlottesville rally. In the center’s video, Schmidt notes that “Swords Into Plowshares” will offer locals the opportunity to heal from or reckon with the events of 2017 and beyond. “Our community will confront white supremacy with creativity,” the scholar adds. “Beauty will heal the ugliness of the past.”
Yet assumptions about who college and classic books are meant for – the young, the elite – may leave adults who don’t have advanced credentials bearing their years of experience as a burden, not a gift. That’s what Chad Wellmon, a professor of German studies and co-author of new book “Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age,” found out when he taught through UVA’s Edge program, which offers liberal-arts courses to working adults. Several of his students lamented that they’d tried college before, but “life got in the way.” The first week of class was an “unmitigated disaster,” We...
Others, such as Melvyn Leffler from the University of Virginia, counter that to think in ‘new cold war’ terms is a serious misjudgment. Beijing and Washington are in a great power competition, not a New Cold War. Think 19th century balance of power politics and not the second-half of the 20th century. In this view, China is not an enemy of the U.S. It is a rival which has the U.S. as its top trade partner. Accordingly, common interests must not be overlooked in an unnecessary and misguided return to ideological war-fighting.
(Commentary) At issue are two provisions of the Build Back Better bill. First, it makes money available to improve facilities at child care centers, but not if they are in a building whose primary purpose is religious. As Patrick Brown of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the University of Virginia’s W. Bradford Wilcox explained in an op-ed in the Deseret News, the bill “would provide funding for child care providers to improve, expand or retrofit their facility to serve more kids. Unless, of course, that facility is, in the words of President Joe Biden’s plan, ‘used primarily for sectar...