UVA Assistant Professor of Media Studies Lana Swartz noted that Facebook isn’t trusted by most consumers. “People don’t trust Facebook. They do trust Starbucks. Trust is a huge part of how money works,” Swartz said. Starbucks has a greater geographical reach in terms of branches than any bank in the world, she says.
Samantha Kenner, communications director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home in Abilene, Kansas, said that their reference archivist recently researched this question and did not find instances of him using those exact words. But Wiliam I. Hitchcock, a University of Virginia historian and author of "The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s," told PolitiFact that the views do mesh with Eisenhower’s.
While Harris’s support for mandated busing may play well with the ideological leftists who will vote in Democratic primaries, this could very well come up again in the general election, especially if Harris is the nominee. “If she’s the nominee, Trump will never let it go,” said Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics.
UVA political analyst Larry Sabato said in a Twitter post following the Democratic debate that busing was so unpopular in the 1970s that Democrats running for office often had a choice to “be a profile in courage and lose, or oppose busing in whole or in part & win to fight another day on stronger ground.”
Town-gown disputes “generally come down to issues of resources and land use,” said Josh Yates of the University of Virginia and co-author of the “Field Guide for Urban University-Community Partnerships,” a survey of relationships at 100 universities published this year.
“Unique concerns about safety surround the use of compounded bioidentical hormone therapy, including the lack of regulation and monitoring, the possibility of overdosing or under dosing, the lack of scientific efficacy and safety data, and the lack of a label outlining risks,” said Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UVA Health System and executive director emeritus of the North American Menopause Society.
It’s not simply that she got her role through nepotism, explains Jennifer Lawless, professor of politics at UVA. It’s the fact that she now seems to have so much power with zero accountability: “She’s not secretary of state, but she’s acting like she has the same clout as Mike Pompeo. She is not a formal diplomat, but she’s the one having formal conversations.”
Russell Riley, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center, said the president’s fascination with the show is reflective of a presidency more concerned with style than substance. “This is a president who came to the office primarily because he’s a showman, and he loves this stuff,” he said. “There’s almost a childlike joy at being able to move the tanks and the airplanes around on the board.”
Researchers have created formulas that allow computers to rapidly analyze biopsy images and shrink the time it takes to accurately diagnose celiac and other gut diseases in children. Faster, more accurate diagnosis likely means faster treatment. The researchers include Sana Syed, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Donald Brown, founding director of the UVA Data Science Institute, Aman Shrivastava, alumnus of the Master of Science Data Science program, and a team of colleagues.
Every year, 15 million Americans provide more than 17 billion hours of unpaid care for family and friends with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That work can take a toll, and new research at the University of Virginia aims to test new technology for effective caregiver support.
Boys & Girls Club is partnering with the University of Virginia this summer to analyze the test scores of its students and study the program’s effectiveness.
UVA’s Department of Astronomy is loaning Boy and Girl Scout Troops telescopes, hoping those children will put their phones down and pick up a telescope this summer.
In the University of Virginia Library collection of Rufus W Holsinger photographs are portraits of 611 (known) images that Holsinger took of Charlottesville-area African Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Now a new local initiative, the Holsinger Portrait Project, is bringing them out of the UVA Library archives and into public view. Currently, 32 of these portraits are on display on UVA Grounds, across the chain link construction fencing surrounding the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers.
The 1883 Gazette did not hesitate to publish gossip about Republicans on the national stage, and the rumor that President Chester A. Arthur kept a mistress was widespread. According to a profile of his presidency posted online by UVA’S Miller Center, Arthur's marriage had been on the verge of collapse before his wife died in 1880, because of his affinity for late hours and high living.
Hoos First Look is a student-launched program to give low-income, first-generation students a “first look” at UVa. This first look is a first step for them, as well as the first of its kind for UVA.
“When I saw that black veterans and white veterans marched from Downtown Charlottesville to UVA – separately and segregated, but still,” said John Edwin Mason, a UVA associate professor of history, “I said, ‘Wow, this is unusual and radically different from what happened elsewhere.’”
The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, a Charlottesville nonprofit long dedicated to promoting the First Amendment, announced that it will close after donating its assets to UVA’s School of Law. The gift of more than $1 million will relaunch the school’s First Amendment Clinic, which is one of the oldest in the country, but has been on a hiatus.
The group will go on to visit William Short’s Morven, James Monroe’s Highland, James Madison’s Montpelier and the University of Virginia. They will end their stay with the annual Africa Ideas Summit, this year held at UVA, where they have the opportunity to present the work they do in their home countries.
When Octavia Sandridge decided to become a plumber, the 36-year-old applied to and was accepted into the UVA Facilities Management’s four-year apprenticeship program. The program employs and trains participants with classroom and on-the-job experience in carpentry, masonry, plastering, heating and air conditioning, electrical training and plumbing.
Reduced tuition at UVA’s College at Wise (HB 1666): The Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia can now offer reduced tuition rates at UVA’s College at Wise for students who reside in the Appalachian region.