About 400 UVA students and faculty crowded around the Rotunda on Wednesday, many wearing orange shirts that said #Enough. The UVA walkout was meant to show solidarity with thousands of high school students, including Charlottesville-area students, who left class across the country to protest gun violence, according to Sarah Kenny, president of Student Council.
On Wednesday, dozens of UVA students participated in a march to bring attention to the issue of gun violence. The event wasn't only planned to remember the victims in the Parkland, Florida, shooting, but also to push for a more overarching approach to gun control.
"Enough is enough" echoed around the Rotunda Wednesday morning as UVA students participated in National Walkout Day. "If students can't feel secure in their learning environment, then they can't do what they need to do at a university," said Sarah Kenny, UVA Student Council president. "So it was really a no-brainer."
Dozens of people gathered at the UVA’s amphitheater for the Community Solidarity March Wednesday night to stand up against gun violence.
As a bell tolled 17 times Wednesday morning, one month after 17 people were killed in a school shooting in Parkland, Fla., more than 1,000 people at UVA stopped to listen. Many wiped away tears. For a generation of students who have heard about school shootings, the latest carnage was all too familiar.
While the researchers do not draw any conclusions about why more misconduct cases are being uncovered, they believe that it has something to do with the growth of specialized teams of investigators within prosecutors’ offices, known as conviction integrity units. These units also have access to files that defense lawyers and civil rights organizations are often prevented from seeing, said Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor who sits on the registry's advisory board.
Women are less likely than men to have careers aligned to their field of study, and the jobs many women take typically have lower career earning potential. It’s a chicken-and-egg problem, says Michelle Ball, a UVA career counselor. “Do teachers get paid less because the workforce is largely female, or is it that education is just underfunded and women are willing to go into it anyway?” she asked.
Chris Long is coming back to his alma mater to be the featured speaker at UVA’s Valedictory Exercises in May. Long studied sociology at UVA and played for the football team before heading into the NFL, a career he has used to advance charitable causes such as wider access to education and safe water sources in Africa.
Some previous research has suggested that EKGs may not be a good way to diagnose hyperkalemia, but, to be fair, that research was very limited and tested two human physicians. Another study suggested that EKG readings may not be sensitive enough to catch everyone with hyperkalemia and that the condition doesn’t always cause a different EKG reading. “We don’t know the number, but I can tell you that people do have hyperkalemia with a normal EKG,” says William J. Brady, a professor of internal medicine at UVA’s School of Medicine.
As National Geographic editors prepared an issue dedicated to race, they realized the 130-year-old magazine might face questions about its troubled history on the subject. So they asked John Edwin Mason, a UVA professor who studies the history of Africa and photography, to dig through the magazine’s archives to examine its shortcomings in covering people of color in the United States and abroad. He was unsparing.
Design thinking can help companies swell profit margins, but it can have even more powerful results when deployed in the service of social good, Jeanne Liedtka, professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, said at a panel on design’s social impact at the Fortune, Time, and Wallpaper Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore on March 7.
Naloxone, a drug that rapidly reverses opioid overdose, has become more widely available as the United States struggles with an epidemic of drug abuse. But state laws that provide wider access to naloxone may unintentionally increase opioid abuse, according to a new study. "While naloxone can be a good harm-reduction strategy, it's clear that naloxone access alone is not a solution to the opioid epidemic," said Jennifer Doleac, a study author and a UVA assistant professor of public policy and economics.
With the opioid epidemic claiming more than 100 lives a day in the United States, every state now has some sort of law expanding access to naloxone, an opioid antagonist that makes someone who has overdosed start breathing again. Sometimes, its powers are said to bring an overdose victim “back to life.” That led two economists to wonder, does the prospect of not dying from opioids make people more likely to use opioids? The two researchers – Jennifer Doleac, of the University of Virginia, and Anita Mukherjee, of the University of Wisconsin – looked at the time period before and after different...
UVA students, faculty and staff are planning to take part in a nationwide show of support for the victims of the Parkland school shooting. A 17-minute demonstration is scheduled to take place at 10 a.m. Wednesday on the UVA Lawn. The event will honor the 17 lives lost during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as well as protest gun-related violence.
UVA’s Darden School of Business has unveiled a $30 million project to help every full-time MBA student gain international experience. The project, funded by a $15 million gift from the Batten Foundation and a matching gift from UVA’s Bicentennial Scholars Fund, will make Darden the only top MBA program to give each student a fully funded international class, according to the University.
Dozens of UVA students and members of the community attended a forum on gun rights and responsibilities at Minor Hall on UVA’s Grounds Tuesday evening.
In the wake of the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, UVA is discussing how to ensure events like it don’t happen there and how the country can move forward. On Tuesday, a panel discussed gun rights and responsibilities with students and some people from the community.
Tuesday evening, six panelists gathered to discuss King’s legacy and his influence on Charlottesville and UVA. The event was hosted by the Virginia Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Commission as part of the King in Virginia Project, which aims to remember his legacy in the places he visited across Virginia.
On Tuesday night, a panel of speakers commemorated Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 visit to UVA. Now, 55 years later, they asked "Where are we and where do we go from here?"
At the University of Virginia, still recovering from a violent white supremacist rally last summer, student leaders are expecting the biggest student protest in decades.