(Commentary by Marlene L. Daut, professor in the Department of African American Studies and in the American studies program, where she also serves as associate director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute) For women of color to succeed in academe all the way through the pipeline, they need support, programs, and opportunities targeted at the particular research and teaching obstacles blocking their way. They also need institutions to actively combat racism by purposefully reprimanding students, faculty, staff, and administrators who engage in racist behavior.
UVA Medical Center CEO Pamela Sutton-Wallace is stepping down from her role in November. She will join New York-Presbyterian Hospital as senior vice president and regional chief operating officer, a UVA Health spokesman confirmed.
The University of Virginia announced Tuesday that the CEO of the UVA Medical Center, Pamela Sutton-Wallace, will leave in November to take a position at a hospital in New York City.
Virginia First Lady Pam Northam toured a pair of pre-kindergarten classrooms in Suffolk Monday in an effort to highlight a new early childhood initiative and partnership between the Obici Healthcare Foundation and the University of Virginia.
A growing number of schools have started to look into reparations and restitution for descendants of the enslaved. But most of these schools have stopped short of supporting actual funds to provide compensation, instead launching studies to better understand how they profited or otherwise benefitted from the use of enslaved labor. These efforts have led to initiatives like Universities Studying Slavery, a University of Virginia-led consortium of roughly 50 schools that examines the history and legacy of slavery and its continued impacts in the present.
The Virginia Institute of Autism, UVA and Children's Dentistry of Charlottesville are studying how to make trips to the dentist less stressful for people with autism and their families.
The UVA Medical Center is getting ready to open its expanded emergency room and construction crews are working around the clock to finish the project with about a month to go. On Monday, representatives of the Emergency Department gave the media a tour of the facility.
UVA recently paid $9,375 for a letter written by Thomas Jefferson about the school’s first law professor. The letter is on display at the UVA Law Library’s Special Collections and Archives through Friday.
The U.S. Postal Service honored a Muslim-American Army Officer Monday, naming a post office in his hometown – Charlottesville – after him. U.S. Senator Tim Kaine praised Captain Khan but criticized his commander in chief for failing to support and protect the military. Captain Humayun Khan was killed when he stopped a vehicle headed for a U.S. base in Iraq. It exploded, killing him and its passengers. His father, Khizr Khan, expressed pride in the decisions his son made during a short but noble life. “The first decision he made was to come to the University of Virginia," he recalled...
Jennifer Wagner Davis, UVA’s chief operating officer, said the school wasn’t necessarily planning on century bonds earlier in the summer when it started its recent debt sale. But when the yield curve inverted, “the market presented UVA with an unprecedented opportunity,” she said.
On what would have been his 43rd birthday, a Charlottesville post office was renamed after fallen Army Capt. Humayun Khan. The UVA graduate was killed in Iraq in 2004 when a vehicle packed with improvised explosives drove into the gate of his compound.
UVA researchers now have more money to help battle childhood cancer, thanks to a grant from Hyundai. Children's cancer researcher Dr. Brian Belyea received the $300,000 grant from the Hyundai Hope on Wheels program at an event Monday morning.
Virginia is turning to one of the most successful coaches in NCAA history to lead its track and field and cross country programs. Vin Lananna is the Cavaliers’ new director of track and field and cross country, the school announced Monday. Lananna also will serve as associate athletics director for administration at UVA.
A spin-a-thon in Charlottesville raised money for research at the UVA Stroke Center on Saturday. People worked out on their indoor cycling bikes at Purvelo to burn calories during the annual Spokes for Strokes event.
The top-ranked public institution among National Universities is the University of California--Los Angeles. Following UCLA, at No. 2, is the University of California--Berkeley. The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor rounds out the third spot among Top Public Schools, displacing the University of Virginia, the prior No. 3.
The University of Virginia ranks No. 4 on the U.S. News & World Report’s list of Top Public Schools National Universities for 2020.
(Commentary by Barbara A. Perry, presidential studies director at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) When news of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s most recent cancer treatment garnered headlines, both her legions of fans and equally staunch opponents speculated on her plans to step down.
“Mindar’s metal skeleton is exposed, and I think that’s an interesting choice; its creator, Hiroshi Ishiguro, is not trying to make something that looks totally human,” said Natasha Heller, a UVA associate professor of Chinese religions. She said the deity Kannon, upon whom Mindar is based, is an ideal candidate for cyborgization because the Lotus Sutra explicitly says Kannon can manifest in whatever forms will best resonate with the humans of a given time and place.
As Virginia fans flocked to Grounds ahead of a Friday night football game against the College of William & Mary, some made a detour to a smaller venue to cheer on a different cause: the University of Virginia’s proposed School of Data Science.