University of Virginia politics professor and author of “Making Young Voters” John Holbein pointed to the issue of climate change as an example of this phenomenon. The youth-led climate change movement has built up momentum – particularly over the past decade – but youth voter turnout, even in elections featuring candidates who focus on the issue, has remained low.
Whether technology platforms complement or complicate emergency messaging is a point of debate. In his book, “Mobile Technology and the Transformation of Public Alert and Warning,” Bean “repeatedly demonstrates the ways in which the current WEA system fails to meet the public’s expectations of mobile technology,” Elizabeth Ellcessor, an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, wrote in a recent book review. “Because of the multimedia and interactive capacities of consumer devices and apps, ‘People presume that mobile emergency notification processes are mor...
By censoring American blockbusters, Beijing believes it can prevent American and global audiences from imagining the Chinese Communist Party as a major threat, and from viewing the targets of China’s repression as victims worthy of sympathy. The result is an “epidemic of self-censorship” in Hollywood, said Aynne Kokas, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, and author of the book “Hollywood Made in China.”
Grace Elizabeth Hale – “Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture” (University of North Carolina Press): This University of Virginia historian’s study of the college town that gave the world the B-52s and R.E.M. is part memoir, part ethnography, and part celebration of a cultural ideal. Hale looks at how Athens redefined the idea of a regional music scene, allowed for looser definitions of gender and sexuality, negotiated art and commerce, and ducked the question of race.
The pandemic is showing many of us just how wide the racial and financial education gaps are, especially when it comes to technology and internet access. UVA’s Miller Center hosted a Zoom discussion where three education experts from the Curry School of Education and Human Development weighed in on this issue and how learning from home has revealed new concerns.
Tami Kim, a UVA assistant professor of business administration, said marketers need to have a backup plan for reaching consumers elsewhere in case the platform is banned. “As a marketer, if you rely on TikTok and TikTok is gone, that’s not the only place you can reach out to users,” Kim said. “That’s the job of a marketer – to be where your customers spend time.”
UVA sociologist Allison Pugh said, “American couples have long been papering over gender-based conflicts about who does what in the home and how they have been using other women’s paid labor – mostly women of color – to hide those conflicts from themselves. Now we can’t hide anymore.”
With its compelling symbolism and innovative design, the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers urges its visitors to confront the cruel realities of slavery and honor the countless contributions enslaved people made to UVA, left unacknowledged for nearly two centuries. It is a site for learning, mourning and remembering, as the University works to heal from its violent past.
Danielle Collins’ US Open campaign begins on Monday afternoon against No. 14-seeded Anett Kontaveit, but like many others, she’s already been in New York for a few weeks. She has also spent the time between New York events applying for master’s programs. The University of Virginia grad is looking to get a master’s degree in sports management.
For the first time in 15 years, Ryan Zimmerman is not part of the September landscape for the Washington Nationals. Drafted out of the University of Virginia in June 2005, Zimmerman made his Major League debut just a few months later - on Sept. 1, 2005. Zimmerman turns 36 on Sept. 26. He has not ruled out playing in 2021, as he recently told Mid-Atlantic Sports Network.
Virginia doesn’t currently require public school to use a certified registered nurse, but a UVA nursing professor is working to change that. Assistant nursing professor Vickie Southall has been working with the president of the Virginia Association of School Nurses to raise awareness about how RNs can potentially save money for schools in the long run, as well as ensure the health of students.
What the fall and winter will look like – with influenza activity at its peak and Americans still contending with COVID-19 – “remains unknown,” says Dr. Costi Sifri, professor of medicine and director of hospital epidemiology at the University of Virginia. When the coronavirus outbreak started in the U.S., last year’s flu season was wrapping up. “So we didn’t see how these two viruses or multiple viruses could interact with each other,” he says.
At the same time, the prayer will be experienced in dramatically new ways: on the same computer that usually is home to work or school for most American Jews, and in solo or socially distanced prayer services for Orthodox Jews who do not use technology on holidays. “How do you do Rosh Hashanah on your own?” said Rabbi Vanessa Ochs, a professor of Jewish studies at the University of Virginia. “Our community hasn’t invented that yet.”
UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs will host numerous virtual events, including ones looking at the coronavirus pandemic and the return to school. On Sept. 10, there will be a discussion about a new book critiquing the modern presidency with author Saikrishna Prakash, a law professor at UVA.
Even though Utah 4th Congressional District candidate Burgess Owens spoke during last week’s mostly virtual Republican National Convention, it’s not clear how much of an impact his brief appearance is having on his bid to unseat the state’s only Democrat in Congress, Rep. Ben McAdams. For now, McAdams still has the edge in the race, according to J. Miles Coleman, a political analyst for the University of Virginia’s “Sabato’s Crystal Ball.”
One of the commission’s biggest recommendations would make African American history a graduation requirement for Virginia students. Derrick Aldridge, chair of the commission’s professional development subcommittee and professor of education at the University of Virginia, said a newly established elective course could fulfill this requirement.
(Commentary by Ashley Deeks, professor of law and a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center) “Indeed, the executive branch should welcome secret reason-giving opportunities, because reason-giving can both enhance accuracy and foster executive branch legitimacy.”
Sixteen Virginia hospitals earned a top score of 100 on the 2020 Healthcare Equality Index survey, a national LGBTQ benchmarking tool from the Human Rights Campaign released Monday. Four University of Virginia health care facilities earned a score of 100.
(Commentary) Researchers from the University of Virginia and Brown University found an alarming projection: Students are likely to return this fall with only two-thirds of the gains in reading and less than half the gains in math we would normally expect. And projections from a leading consulting firm show that will only worsen – months and months of learning lost – without access to high-quality, full-time instruction. That translates to a lifetime of negative impacts.
As the state surpasses 120,000 total cases, the University of Virginia’s COVID-19 model suggests Virginia could see over 187,000 total cases by Thanksgiving. Researchers are now basing their model on “adaptive fitting” methodology, tracking past and current trends to predict future cases.