Dozens of UVA students are continuing their discussion on how to prevent gun violence. On Monday, speakers at a gun sense forum delved into the topics of race and gender. Attendees also reflected on past events and focused on informing themselves on current legislation and policy.
There's a spotlight on slavery at UVA and Monticello during March 19-21. A first-of-its-kind international conference is taking place, where people have plenty of history to discuss. Museum and historic site officials are comparing the narratives and stories of slavery, and how the institution controlled the world for centuries.
The Rutherford Institute in Albemarle County is hosting a public conversation on free speech following last summer's Unite the Right Rally. On Wednesday, First Amendment lawyers John Whitehead and Nadine Strossen will debate the tensions surrounding the First Amendment. The event will be held in UVA’s Rotunda.
A few years ago, researchers in Germany set out to plumb the moral consciences of small children. Their actions, according to Amrisha Vaish, the UVA psychology researcher who led the study, demonstrate “the beginnings of real guilt and real conscience.”
Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA professor of media studies and author of the upcoming book on Facebook “Antisocial Media,” says Facebook's policies betrayed users. "This was not a data breach. This was Facebook being Facebook," he said.
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society honored outgoing UVA President Teresa Sullivan on Monday. Sullivan was presented with the Silver Hope Award, given to someone who has maintained an exceptional leadership role in the community.
High school students from Argentina and Chile had a warm welcome at UVA on Sunday with a mini-a capella concert on the Rotunda steps. They are in Charlottesville as part of the UVA Center for Politics’ Youth Ambassadors program, to learn about civic engagement and develop their leadership skills.
UVA’s Darden School of Business has received a $30 million endowment dedicated to providing international study opportunities to every full-time MBA student at the school, at no additional cost to the student.
Single-parent households have less money and less time for children. To be sure, many single parents are heroic, but it’s a struggle. Studies tell us “that children raised by single parents are significantly more likely to have children young, to drop out of high school, and to work less as young adults,” write UVA sociologist W. Bradford and Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution.
In January 2017, Dr. David Wilkes, dean of UVA’s School of Medicine, sat in the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center and watched a young black doctor speak about the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “I thought he needed to be at UVA,” Wilkes said.
With an undergraduate degree in history and a master’s degree from UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Malcolm Brogdon has known for some time he would expand his contributions to this world beyond the borders of a basketball court.
In his place, freshman guard Marco Anthony has been taken off the scout team and joined the starters in practice. And though he hasn’t been explicitly told if that will translate to playing time in Friday night’s NCAA Tournament opener against UMBC, Anthony thinks it’s a decent indicator that it will.
How will Virginia make up for the absence of De’Andre Hunter, the ACC’s sixth man of the year who suffered a season-ending broken wrist during the league tournament? The Cavaliers have options, and matchups in this NCAA tournament may determine how coach Tony Bennett answers that question.
Because people sometimes have hyperkalemia with a normal ECG, the KardiaBand won’t catch hyperkalemia for everyone, says William J. Brady, a professor of internal medicine at the UVA School of Medicine.
Experts said Sen. Jeff Flake’s trip to the first-in-the-nation primary state could mean he is testing the presidential waters, but that his chance of winning such a race would be “infinitesimal” in the words of one analyst. Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, agreed that if Flake is “visiting New Hampshire, obviously he’s at least considering the idea” of a presidential run.
Prevention over preparation was the focus of a community forum on school safety held Thursday at Charlottesville High School. A presentation led by Dewey Cornell, a UVA professor of education, laid out the higher likelihood children would face violence outside of schools. “School not being safe is a misperception,” Cornell said. “Our young people are 70 percent more likely to die outside a school than inside a school.”
(Commentary) UVA law professor Michael Gilbert argues correctly in his February essay, “Transparency and Corruption: A General Analysis”: “We should not abandon transparency, but we need alternative reasons to support it.” Without new justifications, disclosure laws may soon fall to the relentless attacks from campaign-finance deregulation zealots.
(Commentary by Patricia "Tish" Jennings, associate professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education) One month ago, America watched in horror as yet another school shooting unfolded, claiming 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Instead of the usual cycle of thoughts and prayers, followed by inaction, our nation's students made their voices heard with walkouts across the country on Wednesday. This powerful moment is just the beginning, paving the way for the March for our Lives later this month and other local movements that may finally compel action on this critical issue.
To get an outsider’s view of its coverage of race, National Geographic hired UVA history professor John Edwin Mason, who studies the history of photography and African history. Mason found that the magazine was often on the wrong side of racial history.
Environmental policy guided by science saves lives, money and ecosystems, write a team of 11 senior researchers in Environmental Science & Policy. Coauthor James Galloway, UVA’s Sidman P. Poole Professor of Environmental Sciences, notes, "We need to apply lessons from these air pollution success stories to rising greenhouse gases. This includes using evidence-based decision-making to track improvements, avoid reversals and identify emerging threats."