Early on, two issues are dominating the headlines – travel restrictions on people from seven countries considered high risk for terrorism and a policy, adopted during Barack Obama’s time in office, shielding people who arrived illegally in the United States as children from deportation. But both of these issues cover a small portion of the population. Trump’s presidency could have a wider impact in the long term, said Doug Ford, director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law.
The UVA Board of Visitors approved using $10 million for new research equipment. This comes out of its multibillion dollar Strategic Investment Fund.
Last month, the City Council declared that March 3 would commemorate the historic moment in 1865 when Union military forces arrived in the city and liberated approximately 14,000 African-American slaves.
Also adopted was legislation mandating free speech on campus, including for “invited guests.” UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan said no provision was made to cover the cost for security that schools would incur for controversial speakers. She also again questioned legislation allowing the sale of higher-proof grain alcohol in Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control stores. The bill increases from 101 to 151 the proof of neutral spirits and includes a 2022 sunset provision.
Kirt von Daacke, assistant dean and professor in UVA’s College of Arts and Sciences, co-chairs the President's Commission on Slavery and the University, tasked with uncovering and preserving the history of UVA's slaves. He led a tour of the buildings that have preserved the history of slaves.
In the early 1970s, a young UVA student, Russell Perry, had his musical world turned on its ear by a singular performance. In a roundabout way, that memorable event has led to a wildly ambitious radio program that’s celebrating 100 years of jazz in as many installments.
As a multiethnic person myself – the son of a Jewish dad of Eastern European descent and a Puerto Rican mom – I can attest that being mixed makes it harder to fall back on the tribal identities that have guided so much of human history, and that are now resurgent. It’s hard to know what to do about this except to acknowledge that diversity isn’t easy. It’s uncomfortable. It can make people feel threatened. “We promote diversity. We believe in diversity. But diversity is hard,” UVA psychologist Sophie Trawalter told me.
“I see echoes with the past,” Ken Hughes, a researcher at UVA’s Miller Center, said in an interview. “It is clear that Trump is very defensive and he is very worried,” said Hughes, who wrote a book on the Republican interference in the Vietnam peace talks. “It might mean the investigation into the Russian interference in our election will expose other things he wants to keep hidden.”
Virginia's London Perrantes and Isaiah Wilkins, along with Virginia Tech's Seth Allen and Zach LeDay, should all enter this week's Atlantic Coast Conference tournament with a little extra momentum after garnering all-conference honors.
Trump's credibility has taken a hit, according to Larry Sabato, a UVA political analyst who says that the Russian ties will have serious consequences for Trump's credibility. "It's never a good thing for people to know that the Russians want you elected," he said.
Donald Trump’s extraordinary and unsubstantiated accusation that Barack Obama ordered the tapping of his phones before the November election raises three possible scenarios, each of which has serious implications for his young presidency. Larry Sabato, a UVA politics expert, alluded to a third scenario: that Trump was once again making up facts. “Claiming Obama bugged him is an extremely serious charge. Trump needs to put up or shut up,” Sabato said.
"For the outsize personality, reality-show persona of Donald Trump, he toned all that down," said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Centre of Public Affairs. The importance of his look, gestures and delivery is "not to be minimised," she said, because throughout the campaign and the transition, the public wondered when – and if – he would ever become more presidential.
University of Virginia students will pay, on average, 3 percent more in housing fees and 1.3 percent more in dining fees next year. The university’s Board of Visitors approved the changes at a meeting Friday.
This May, 150 or so stakeholders will come together for the first EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium, organized by UVA’s Curry School of Education, Digital Promise and the Jefferson Education Accelerator. At the symposium, we will continue to develop a shared understanding of the concrete steps we can all take to ensure that real research drives the development, selection and deployment of education technology.
Scholars at Harvard, Princeton, William & Mary, Georgetown, the University of Virginia, Rutgers and numerous other schools have done research, sometimes seeing it embraced by administrators only in response to campus activism.
Scholars from several universities gathered at the Cambridge campus to present research detailing how Harvard and other early American schools benefited from slavery. Other colleges, including the University of Virginia, used slaves to build and operate their campuses, and some were founded by wealthy merchants involved in the slave trade.
“There are all kinds of things in the system that weren’t built to maximize compliance,” said David A. Martin, a UVA law professor and a former immigration official in the Obama and Clinton administrations. It led to a climate, he said, that has prompted many people to not consider a deportation order a serious matter.
UVA Cancer Center researchers are in hot pursuit of a new way to combat melanoma. The center has created an experimental drug that breaks down the proteins that skin cancer cells need to grow. If it passes FDA muster, the treatment could save the lives of thousands of Virginians battling skin cancer.
UVA head football coach Bronco Mendenhall was the guest speaker at a Boy Scouts of America event on Thursday. His message is that Boy Scouts are capable of doing really hard things.
Along with materials scientist Haydn N.G. Wadley from University of Virginia, and materials and mechanical materials and mechanical engineering professor Robert McMeeking, Berger has proven that this unique geometry is the first of its kind to achieve the extreme possible performance limited only by theoretical bounds. Their research is published in the journal Nature.