Due to the Corona crisis this year, courses at the US Rare Book School, based at the University of Virginia, were cancelled. However, the faculty has curated a series of online lectures which are free to attend and are highly recommended.
The pandemic is remodeling the way the admissions process will work at the University of Virginia. Given the circumstances of the school year, UVA is making standardized testing, including the SAT and ACT, optional for those applying for Fall 2021 entry.
The University of Virginia, with 24,000 students, will distribute “Welcome Back Kits” in drawstring bags to those who return to Charlottesville. Each bag will contain two cloth face coverings, two bottles of hand sanitizer and an L-shaped “touch tool” for students to open doors and push elevator buttons without direct contact.
In the U.S., black people account for 12% of the overall workforce, but only 8% of management jobs, said University of Virginia professor Laura Morgan Roberts. The number of black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies peaked in 2002 with 12. Today there are just four. Roberts’ research looking at the careers of Harvard business school graduates found black alums got fewer prime opportunities, such as global assignments, than white graduates with the same degree.
Dr. Carlene Muto, from the University of Virginia’s Infectious Disease Division, says one of the most important uses of contact tracing is identifying asymptomatic people. “They’re not going to be symptomatic right after they see the patient,” Dr. Muto said. “They’re going to be perhaps incubating if they actually have had acquisition of the organism. And so while that time period clicks off, we need them to be into quarantine.”
When University of Virginia professor Andrew Stauffer sent his class to the library in the fall of 2009, he expected them to focus on the printed text of the books they brought back. But Stauffer and his students soon realized that was just one story being told in these volumes. While looking at nineteenth-century copies of work by Felicia Hemans, a poet wildly beloved at the time for her sentimental verse, the students were immediately drawn to everything else happening in these books: not just the expected underlining and dog-ears, but bookplates, diary entries, letters, quotes, pressed...
Betty Keen Haigh Lawson, of Charlottesville, died June 2. Lawson worked at the University of Virginia for 31 years. She held positions as a emergency room nurse, worked in the Department of Physiology and was a highly respected editor at the McIntire School of Commerce.
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Also Tuesday, Northam named three new members to the Virginia Crime Commission, a body that studies policy related to law enforcement to inform state policy. The new members include Larry Terry, the director of the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
In 2007, two professors – Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia and Anthony Greenwald of the University of Washington – developed an Implicit Association Test designed to expose subconscious racial prejudice that might be lurking beneath otherwise anti-racist surfaces.
As recently as yesterday morning, crews were inspecting the 130-year old monument to figure out how to safely take it down. But later that same day a Richmond judge issued an injunction while a lawsuit makes its way through court. University of Virginia legal expert Richard Schragger says the first question courts will ask is whether that language is binding. “The language just might be a kind of instruction that doesn’t have legal effect,” Schragger said. “A kind of rhetorical flourish.”
Gov. Ralph Northam said Tuesday he is confident he will prevail over a legal challenge that is temporarily blocking crews from removing a massive statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond. But a UVA legal scholar says the outcome of the lawsuit, filed by a descendant of the family that gifted the property to the state in 1890, is far from certain. “I wouldn’t be confident on either side if I were the plaintiff or the defendant,” said Alex M. Johnson Jr., a professor at the UVA School of Law who specializes in contract and property law.
UVA legal expert Richard Schragger says the first question courts will ask is whether that language is binding. Speaking to reporters today, Gov. Ralph Northam says the monument needs to come down. The administration’s legal counsel Rita Davis says they expected a lawsuit and are prepared to fight it.
Blue chip political analysts Larry Sabato from the University of Virginia, Nathan Gonzales from Inside Elections and Charlie Cook with the Cook Political Report all rate West Virginia’s governor’s race this November as “safe” or “solid” Republican. But West Virginia has not elected a Republican to the governor’s office since 1996, when Cecil Underwood won.
The executive director of UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service will now serve a two-year term on the Virginia State Crime Commission. According to a release, Gov. Ralph Northam announced on Tuesday that Larry Terry would hold one of seats on the commission.
College of Charleston alumna Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton says that kids need to know that being sad is OK. Stressful times like these can trigger a wide range of emotions from sad to mad to confused, and emotional health is just as important as physical health. Hilton is an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the UVA School of Medicine and a nationally recognized expert on how institutional racism has led to more severe impacts for communities of color from diseases such as COVID-19.
The U.S. government will try to stop a company’s planned salvage mission to retrieve the Titanic’s wireless telegraph machine, arguing the expedition would break federal law and a pact with Britain to leave the iconic shipwreck undisturbed. George Rutherglen, a UVA professor who teaches admiralty law, said the case is likely far from over. Depending on how Judge Smith rules on NOAA’s status as a party to the case, Rutherglen said the U.S. government could still try bringing its case to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
According to a recent study, diet can affect the outcome of chemotherapy due to microbes in the gut that can trigger changes in a patient’s response to drugs. The results of the study showed that components of our daily diets, such as amino acids, can increase or decrease the efficacy and toxicity of drugs used for cancer treatment. “The first time we observed that changing the microbe or adding a single amino acid to the diet could transform an innocuous dose of the drug into a highly toxic one, we couldn’t believe our eyes,” said Eyleen O’Rourke, assistant professor of biology and cell biolo...
A UVA mechanical engineer has built a semi-autonomous robot to help combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Sometimes a straight line isn’t best. Take a brick wall, for instance. Did you know that wavy walls are actually a more effective, and cheaper, way to build a strong barrier? Known as crinkle crankle walls, or serpentine walls, this type of construction is quite popular in England. Typically used as garden walls, their curved appearance is about more than just aesthetics. The most famous example is at the University of Virginia, where Thomas Jefferson incorporated them into the architecture.