Walt Heinecke, a professor at the University of Virginia, thinks Charlottesville can do more to fight discrimination. “We are at a crossroads right now,” says Heinecke. On Monday, April 9, Heinecke presented at the monthly NAACP meeting. He's renewing his call to rehire a civil rights attorney to the commission. He also thinks the office should have a federal employment practice agency, and that it should report directly to the mayor and council.
Among the student responses, while supportive of complex, robust debate, University of Virginia Student Council President Sarah Kenny believes hate speech is a “serious assault to [one’s] dignity” and “both impedes the truth-seeking charge of institutions of higher education and compromises the integrity of our democracy.”
UVA’s team InMedBio took home not only first place and $15,000 Friday night but also snagged the People’s Choice award and an extra $5,000. The student startup has designed a five-layer dressing for wounds at a cost-effective price called Phoenix-Aid.
Kevin McFadden at the University of Virginia is receiving a grant for his Classroom Connections project, which will produce 52 radio episodes and an educational outreach campaign. The grant for this project is $460,000.
Though they face a more violent workplace everyday, hospital workers aren’t quick to file charges for a variety of reasons, said Dr. Bruce Cohen, a psychiatrist with the University of Virginia Health System and director of the U.Va. Forensic Psychiatry Residency Training Program, who has studied the subject. Cohen pointed out that hospital workers sometimes feel compelled not to take the issue to the criminal justice system because medical ethics say they’re supposed to do no harm to the patient. But that doesn’t mean a hospital worker gives up the right to press charges simply because he or s...
This past February, just as Bitcoin was shedding more than half its value, Aaron Fernstrom watched a glistening red Mercedes E-class sedan pull into a parking space at the Albemarle rental complex where he was living temporarily. The vanity license plate hinted at the source of funds: “BITCOIN.” “I just shook my head and thought to myself, ‘There goes another one’ — another person who made a quick fortune trading tulips,” Fernstrom, a former venture capitalist, said from his office at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. “There are always those few people who, by pure l...
While money may not be able to buy happiness, a new study co-authored by a University of Utah researcher indicates money and happiness are definitely linked. One of the co-authors of the study was Ed Diener, who has joint appointments at the University of Utah and University of Virginia.
In January, Zuckerberg touted the company’s effort to promote “high quality news” in order to prevent “sensationalism, misinformation, and polarization.” But Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Media and Citizenship, believes Facebook’s problem with misleading news posts is essentially unsolvable in a society that protect people’s right to free speech. “There’s no way to regulate content discrimination in the United States of America,” he says. “That just won’t pass First Amendment muster. That’s just never going to happen.”
A recent study by researchers at the University of Virginia found that, in a sampling of 10,000 infant deaths, 1,375 occurred when the parent was not present and the child was put in an unsafe sleep position. The lesson from the research, said Dr. Rachel Moon of the UVA School of Medicine and UVA Children’s Hospital, is that everyone who watches an infant, like friends and family, should be educated about safe sleep practices.
Reports from the University of Virginia law school say a tool meant to divert “low risk” offenders from prison to ensure room for violent repeat offenders hasn’t diverted thousands of people. The findings will be presented Monday to the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The 35th annual University of Virginia law school softball invitational was held this weekend to help raise money for Ready Kids, which provides educational and counseling services for children.
Risa L. Goluboff, dean of Virginia’s law school and chair of the working group that recommended responses to the August violence, says the university continues to take "a hard inward look" at its history and whether additional changes are needed to make the campus more inclusive.
The lab, part of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, is a high-priority $4.8 million project to bring together researchers across the engineering school to collaborate on a variety of technologies and develop systems for the future.
"A lot of suburbs are urbanizing" as millennials move there and demand city-like benefits, says Hamilton Lombard, an analyst at the University of Virginia's Demographics Research Group. The influx of younger residents has made the suburbs themselves more ethnically, racially and economically diverse.
Jonathan Babcock and Keyawna Griffith appeared before a judge for the first time in their legal careers last month. The third-year UVA School of Law students represented an undocumented immigrant at Arlington Immigration Court as part of the school’s Immigration Law Clinic.
The Garden Club of Virginia funded and restored UVA’S Pavilion Gardens and their signature serpentine walls, an act that must make Thomas Jefferson, a renowned nature guy, very pleased. You can check out the rest of the campus’s Colonial Revival landscaping from the Rotunda looking out on the Lawn, and also learn about the role of African-Americans in the school’s gardens.
For professors who don’t like being told what to do, Dan Heath’s recommendations might not sit well. In response, he pointed listeners to someone who’s learned how to make the conversation perhaps more approachable: Michael Palmer, a UVA associate professor of chemistry who works to help faculty design deeply memorable moments in class through an activity called “the dream exercise.”
With access to naloxone reducing the risk of overdose death, more dangerous drug use – including higher doses – may become more appealing, researchers speculated. Such increased abuse may even lead to higher death rates, according to Jennifer Doleac, one of the study’s authors and a UVA assistant professor of public policy and economics.
No car? No problem. In the next few years, UVA and the UVA Foundation have a goal of making it easier for students, staff and tenants to walk and bike through Grounds and the North Research Park.
The most important question he may not be prepared to answer is far more philosophical. It has little to do with engineering fixes or the technicalities of Facebook's privacy policies in 2014. It's this: How can Facebook ward off tomorrow's crisis if its guiding principle is and always has been connection at all cost, maximizing the flow of data between people and their friends – as well as advertisers and apps? And if it radically alters that ethos – the one that allowed it to grow to 2.2 billion users and counting – can it sustain itself? "This could be a missed opportunity if it’s focused o...