Professor of economics at the University of Virginia Ed Burton joined the show to discuss the latest news on the economy.
The idea of a blockbuster like “Mulan” opening in theaters overseas but not in the US was inconceivable only a few months ago. The move could be a “transformative” moment for Hollywood, according to Aynne Kokas, an associate professor at the University of Virginia and author of “Hollywood Made In China.” “The U.S. is the largest box-office market in the world. It likely will not maintain that title this year if the COVID restrictions continue,” Kokas said.
After a long summer and two weeks of virtual instruction, UVA students are finally stepping back on Grounds for that in-person experience that the university has worked to pull off. In-person instruction kicks off Tuesday.
“A Biden administration promises an ambitious family policy agenda,” said W. Bradford Wilcox, a UVA sociologist and director of The National Marriage Project, who is also an Institute for Family Studies scholar. “Their intentions seem good and they recognize that working families need help today. But many of their policies would push us in a direction that devalues the work of caring for young children in the home in favor of a vision that privileges the role of the state and the market when it comes to caring for kids.”
“The Trump administration was a disappointment when it came to family policy,” said W. Bradford Wilcox, a UVA sociologist and director of The National Marriage Project and an Institute for Family Studies scholar, who typically champions moderate and conservative policy. “We made limited progress on the child tax credit, but otherwise the Trump administration failed to deliver on key family policy objectives like paid parental leave.”
The American Heart Association has honored a doctor and professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine for his work on high blood pressure. Dr. Robert M. Carey has been named a Distinguished Scientist of the American Heart Association for his contributions to cardiovascular research.
Money can solve plenty of problems, but is cancel culture one of them? Meredith Clark, an assistant professor of the Black experience in U.S. media at the University of Virginia, thinks Barstool Sports founder Portnoy is right when he says that the megarich are still uncancelable. Rowling, after all, doubled down, releasing another essay in July about trans women and biological women being different. “J.K. Rowling is definitely insulated by virtue of her wealth. You’ve seen even folks like Daniel Radcliffe say he can’t be aligned with her, and she’s still holding on,” Clark says.
As lockdown orders took hold across the nation, Lalin Anik, an assistant professor of business administration at the University of Virginia, set out to learn more about the effect of quarantine on FOMO. What she found in her research, which she hopes to publish this winter, is that FOMO, like many things in 2020, hasn’t gone away. It has just moved online.
Three Black men and women. Three different experiences. Three different feelings. But much of the same pain. “There’s trauma in seeing a Black man who could have been my brother, my father, and my son having died with a knee on his neck,” Johari Harris, a research assistant professor at the University of Virginia, said.
“If Joe Biden wins by at least a few points, then the Senate is likely to go at least 50-50″ Democratic, and a bigger Biden win would usher in a bigger Democratic majority, Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist, said late last month. “It’s also possible that if Trump makes this a very close race or edges out Biden in the Electoral College, losing the popular vote by 2 or 3 points as he did in 2016, then I think the Senate has a good chance of staying Republican.”
“I think (Brennaman and Milbury) deserve to lose their jobs, and go back to school and get new friends. I don’t think they should be forgiven,” said Andrea Press, a University of Virginia media studies and sociology professor, who has authored a handful of books on feminism. “I can’t say I’m surprised about stereotypes of women uttered in the context of major league sports, but we should have moved way beyond those as well.”
“There’s less ticket-splitting than there used to be, and there are fewer instances of one party winning a district for the House that still votes for the other party” in the presidential election, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball of UVA’s Center for Politics.
The University of Virginia’s Racial Equity Task Force today released its report outlining 12 key initiatives to improve racial equity at the University. The authors stated that “our report is a call to action for the University of Virginia to commit seriously to racial equity and implement a dozen concrete initiatives that are important to the University’s future. We believe strongly that this work requires significant investment in financial resources, leadership, and accountability, without which meaningful change will not occur.”
The main campus of University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville, Virginia. The 16,175 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates, excluding those who are only taking distance classes, make up 34.0% of the population. Undergrads who aren’t taking any distance classes as a share of the population: 31.9%
Things are looking a little more normal at the University of Virginia as students return to Grounds this weekend. Move-in began Sept. 4 and will be continuing in designated time slots throughout Labor Day weekend. As parents move their children in, many on Grounds for the first time, they say they’re excited for the new academic year, even if it won’t be what they expected.
The University of Virginia announced several expanded COVID-19 testing methods to monitor and prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the UVA and Charlottesville communities.
UVA students are getting involved in the upcoming elections in November, and they’re making waves on social media to do it. Grammy-nominated singer Maggie Rogers, actor Jack Black and UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato are just three of the people who’ve shared videos from the Decency Project. It’s the work of a few UVA students trying to get their peers involved in politics.
(Commentary co-written by Aynne Kokas, media studies professor) Hollywood faces a fresh test in its bid to gain audiences in China without alienating film viewers elsewhere with the release on Friday of Disney’s much-hyped live-action remake of “Mulan.”
A.E. Dick Howard, a UVA professor of international law, says this statute must be read in light of the state constitution, which states the commonwealth’s executive power is vested in the governor, meaning it’s unlikely that the health commissioner would have the final word.
In-person classes at UVA begin Tuesday, more than six months after officials suspended classes and sent students home in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. “I don’t think there are any obviously right ways to go about this,” UVA President Jim Ryan said. “I totally respect what the K-12 schools are doing, but we’ve chosen a different path, and part of the reason we did, honestly, is we knew that students would be back.”