Meredith D. Clark, a UVA assistant professor of media studies, argues that the misuse of woke is a combination of an elite class taking the word and making it toxic to serve their own purposes; and in some cases, a not-so-subtle form of anti-Blackness.
(By Lisa Russ Spaar, professor of English and creative writing) For this entry in my Second Acts column, I take the liberty of pairing Judith Hall’s second and fifth poetry collections.
Children, of course, have personality for miles, and there’s no doubt that some kids are more playful than others. But there’s still no clear connection between playfulness and overall abilities, says UVA psychologist Angeline Lillard. Lillard and colleagues reviewed the state of the science on pretend play and cognitive development in a 2013 report in Psychological Bulletin. Whether studies looked at problem-solving, creativity, intelligence or social skills, there was no consistent sign that playful children had any advantages. “People will say, absolutely, pretend play helps development, bu...
A new UVA study is looking into what happens in the brain when children learn math.
Boffins in China and the U.S. have developed a technique to hide a backdoor in a machine-learning model so it only appears when the model is compressed for deployment on a mobile device. Yulong Tian and Fengyuan Xu, from Nanjing University, and Fnu Suya and David Evans, from University of Virginia, describe their approach to ML model manipulation in a paper distributed via ArXiv, titled “Stealthy Backdoors as Compression Artifacts.”
Northam also stopped by the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia on Wednesday. He signed bipartisan legislation establishing the Enslaved Ancestor College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program.
Gov. Ralph Northam made a stop in Charlottesville Wednesday morning to sign a bill that will honor descendants of enslaved laborers. Northam signed a bill that establishes the Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program. It will provide scholarships to descendants of enslaved people who helped build the University of Virginia and other colleges in the commonwealth. At a small ceremony in front of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, Northam called this bill – which will provide scholarships to descendants of enslaved laborers – a huge step in the right direction.
With institutions more focused than ever on diversity, equity and inclusion, so too has QS in a revamped list of top U.S. colleges and universities. The company that oversees the esteemed World University Rankings felt it was important again to highlight the category and showcase “which are doing most to reduce sectoral gender and racial inequities.” [UVA ranks in the top 50.]
Historians from UVA’s John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History officially launched their second digital history project during a webinar on Tuesday. “UVA Unionists” takes an in-depth look at the nearly 70 UVA alumni that fought against the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Melody C. Barnes is an American lawyer and political adviser. Formerly an aide and chief counsel to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, she has served as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Barack Obama and as executive vice president of the Center for American Progress. She currently co-directs the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia, tackling the most pressing issues facing democracies around the world.
Melody C. Barnes is an American lawyer and political adviser. Formerly an aide and chief counsel to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, she has served as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Barack Obama and as executive vice president of the Center for American Progress. She currently co-directs the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia, tackling the most pressing issues facing democracies around the world.
(By Rochanda Mitchell, Fellow in Maternal-Fetal Medicine) Mother’s Day is a happy day for millions, but for those who have experienced a miscarriage, the day can be devastating. As many as one in four recognized pregnancies result in miscarriage.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders have selected Canadian receiver Terrell Jana in the second round, 17th overall during the 2021 CFL Draft. Jana had a productive NCAA career making 122 receptions for 1,473 yards — 12.1 yards per catch — and five touchdowns in 33 games with the University of Virginia.
Melissa Gismondi experienced a touchstone moment that confirmed for her the potential of the humanities to buttress the dynamics of liberal democracy. It happened in 2017 when she was at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, when the far-right protest against the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue occurred. Inside the classrooms were lectures and group discussions about the origins and purpose behind the mounting of Confederate statues. Despite taking place under a pervasive atmosphere of violence, the sessions powerfully connected past to present. “I don’t know if it’s too sappy to...
Michaela Barnett founded KnoxFill, a zero-waste way for Knoxville consumers concerned with sustainability to get the home cleaning and hygiene products they need. She is pursuing a Ph.D. from UVA’s Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative, an interdisciplinary program between the schools of engineering and business. She’s examining the behavioral science of waste, examining how to keep things from entering the waste stream, how to reduce the amount of materials being mined for production and “how are we kind of opting out of this crazy consumption that’s really unsustainable for us and for the...
A doctor at UVA Health has been honored for his work to improve care for patients with mantle cell lymphoma. According to a release, the Lymphoma Research Foundation honored Dr. Michael E. Williams with the Mantle Cell Lymphoma Leadership Award.
Marlene Daut, a professor at the University of Virginia who describes herself as “a black woman of Haitian descent and a scholar of French colonialism”, denounced the French commemoration in the New York Times, calling Napoleon “France’s biggest tyrant, an icon of white supremacy ... an irredeemable racist, sexist and despot.” Defenders of Napoleon say he was a man of his time.
Redistricting helped U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist win his seat in 2016, but now the Republican-run Florida legislature will redraw the map. “It may be changed in such a way to make it less Democratic. I’d imagine redistricting factors in Crist’s decision to run for governor,” said Kyle Kondik, an election analyst at the University of Virginia.
UVA economist Leora Friedberg says people may have left for different sectors when restaurants shut down during the pandemic. “Restaurant work is hard work, and if there are better options out there, restaurants are going to have to make it better to work there, paying more, offering benefits, offering more reliable shifts,” Friedberg said.
Cale Jaffe, an environmental law professor at the University of Virginia, said discussions about repealing the Clean Economy Act are likely a dead end. The state’s electric utilities are preparing to meet its targets and likely don’t want to go back. “Given the significant infrastructure moves the utilities are already planning, I don’t think it’s realistic to look at repealing it, in any scenario,” said Jaffe, who was appointed by Northam to serve on the Virginia Coal and Energy Commission and has advised the campaign of state Sen. Jennifer McClellan, a Democrat in the gubernatorial race.