In a country that prides itself for being a meritocracy, Barbara Perry, of UVA’s Miller Center thinks it’s wrong for elected officials to hire family members when they should be looking for the best staffers. Perry sees an undemocratic element to political dynasties, established or in the making.
UVA’s Board of Visitors on Friday approved $30 million in initiatives aimed at responses to August’s white supremacist rallies, though some efforts will need to go through procedural funding hurdles.
One hundred fifty-three years have passed since slaves were officially liberated in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. A celebration of that milestone included a weekend march from the UVA Grounds to the city’s Starr Hill neighborhood. The speakers included UVA President Teresa Sullivan, and Dr. Marcus Martin, UVA’s vice president for diversity and equity.
(Commentary) From the first game of the regular season, when there were no expectations, to the last game of the season when there, seemingly, was nothing at stake, the Virginia Cavaliers played the same. And now, 30 games into the 2017-18 season, the Cavaliers have risen from a team almost completely off the radar of basketball’s experts to the No. 1 ranking in the country, the regular-season ACC championship, the No. 1 seed in the ACC tournament and the likely No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament.
UVA and the Charlottesville community are celebrating the day slavery ended in the city and Albemarle County. On Saturday, people commemorated Liberation and Freedom Day with a brief service at the UVA Rotunda, followed by a march.
A little over two years after UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science announced an initiative to build a lab that brought together researchers and faculty from across the school to work on projects involving both the cyber and physical realms, the University has opened its $4.8 million, 17,000-square-foot facility.
These teeth were quite possibly purchased at cut-rate prices from slaves or, in the very best case, from desperately poor people, said Kathryn Gehred, a UVA research specialist. "George Washington probably gave his inaugural speech with teeth that were from people who were enslaved," she said.
UVA has selected a new site for its softball program. Architect Alice Raucher says the preferred future home for softball would be near Klockner Stadium on the North Grounds.
No. 1 Virginia trailed Louisville by about seven with just over eight minutes to play when Michael Pittman fired off his Tweet. “If they find a way in this one I’m committing $5,000.00 to @UVA_VAF,” wrote Pittman, a Glen Allen native and UVA sports blogger who tweets from the handle @WahooBasketball. That was at 9:54 p.m. Eighteen minutes later, De’Andre Hunter banked in a long, buzzer-beating 3-pointer to give the Cavaliers a 67-66 win over the stunned Cardinals at the KFC Yum Center.
Professor Jalane Schmidt from UVA’s Department of Religious Studies talks about a big celebration going on Saturday: Freedom and Liberation Day of Charlottesville.
Charlottesville City Schools plans to host a community forum on school safety at 7 p.m. March 15 in Charlottesville High School’s B Commons. Speakers will include Dewey Cornell, a professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education and director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project. Cornell designed the Virginia Threat Assessment Guidelines to help school administrators, school psychologists, counselors and teachers address small threats emerging from bullying and teasing by students before they escalate into a more dangerous situation.
Gov. Ralph Northam recognized 12 Virginia educators as recipients of the 32nd annual Outstanding Faculty Award for excellence in teaching, research, and public service. The annual Outstanding Faculty Award program is administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and sponsored by Dominion Energy. Among the award recipients is Elizabeth C. Hirschman, the Hill Richmond Smiddy professor of business at UVA’s College at Wise.
An algorithm designed to help UK police make custody decisions has been altered amid concerns that it could discriminate against people from poorer areas. "People's lives are already being affected by the status quo," says Jennifer Doleac, a UVA professor of public policy and economics. "But is there a better way to do this that could lead to more just outcomes and get us closer to social goals than other practices?"
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was at UVA on Thursday to speak to law students about his tenure on the bench and how the U.S. justice system plays a huge role in the global community.
The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center is slated to host a public forum March 21 on interpreting the history of slavery and its legacies. The forum, sponsored by VA, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and the United States Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, will focus on the challenges and design outcomes for memorials to the enslaved and commemorations at sites of enslavement and abolition.
At a UVA School of Law event Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer spoke about a changing world and a need for the U.S. judiciary to think globally. Breyer, whom President Bill Clinton appointed to the Supreme Court in 1994, is fifth in seniority on the bench.
Also related to this trend is UVA’s Center for Applied Biomechanics, the nation’s largest, university-based injury biomechanics laboratory. It was started by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 1989 and now operates a 30,000-square-foot facility that analyzes how the human body responds to injury.
On Saturday, 'Liberation and Freedom Day,' organized by the University of Virginia and the City of Charlottesville, marks 153 years since Union troops liberated the area. The day will start at 9 a.m. with speeches and prayer at UVA’s Rotunda dome room, followed by a procession marching through the city. The celebration will continue at the African American Heritage Center at 11 a.m. with a panel discussion featuring faculty from UVA and the Nau Center for Civil War History.
(Co-written by Morela Hernandez, associate professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business) In the National Football League, the quarterback position is often the most valuable one on the field. As this offseason starts, what factors should NFL owners weigh when evaluating free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick?
(Co-written by Morela Hernandez, associate professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business) In the National Football League, the quarterback position is often the most valuable one on the field. As this offseason starts, what factors should NFL owners weigh when evaluating free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick?