Dessane Lopez Cassell talks with Kevin Jerome Everson, who has made more than 170 films, one of which, “Black Bus Stop,” codirected with Claudrena N. Harold, has just screened at the New York Film Festival. Everson is not only a filmmaker; he’s also a street photographer, a sculptor, a printmaker, and a professor at the University of Virginia.
With inclement weather too close to call, the University of Virginia has delayed Thursday’s “Trick or Treating on the Lawn” until Friday evening.
Lakshmi Fjord began to cry after an attorney for the State Air Pollution Control Board conceded in federal court Tuesday that Union Hill, a community established by freed slaves in Buckingham County after the Civil War, is indeed overwhelmingly populated by African Americans. “It was hugely vindicating for all of us,” said Fjord, a UVA anthropologist.
Daniel Willingham, a UVA professor of psychology, said it’s hard to find a coherent story across different state and local school districts, but that he hoped the results would “spur us to do something a little more vigorous. … We’ve just absolutely stalled.”
At UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development, “a virtual classroom interface” allows teacher candidates to practice in simulated classroom situations long before they’re in charge of a real-life classroom. “And they get to do this from the comfort of their own home,” assistant professor Julie Cohen said.
There is no widespread evidence of mass anti-conservative bias in tech algorithms — rather, the bias of the platforms is to promote and surface content that provokes people and encourages engagement. “All of these companies have algorithmic bias, but the bias is not partisan. The bias is toward extremism,” Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA media studies professor, said. “There’s a bias against boring.”
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies) Mark Zuckerberg never calls me for advice. But he should. I would tell him to fire his entire communications and lobbying staff. They are incompetent.
Following criticism of its debt collection methods, UVA Health has established an advisory council to help determine new billing and collections practices.
UVA Health has established a 16-member Advisory Council they want to help with improvements in billing and collections policies to help better serve patient needs.
Being lonely hurts – it can even negatively impact your health. But the mere act of being alone with oneself doesn’t have to be bad, and experts say it can even benefit your social relationships, improve your creativity and confidence, and help you regulate your emotions so that you can better deal with adverse situations. Our aversion to being alone can be quite drastic: A quarter of the women and two-thirds of the men in a University of Virginia study chose to subject themselves to an electric shock rather than do nothing and spend time alone with their thoughts.
The Galen surgical robot has been demonstrated, tested and honed over the past 3½ years, Saunders said, with help of partners and researchers at institutions including the University of Virginia.
Virginia's 65th governor, Gerald L. Baliles, died Tuesday surrounded by his family, according to Gov. Ralph Northam's office. He had battled cancer in recent years. He also served as the director of the University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs from 2006 to 2014.
Former Virginia governor, UVA law grad, and former Miller Center Director Gerald Baliles passed away Tuesday morning at age 79.
Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, said Joe Biden may appear stronger “on first glance,” but that “under the scrutiny of a long campaign Biden's seeming appeal to the white working-class voter in the Midwest may fade. … Trump could get to the left of him on certain foreign policy issues and on trade potentially.”
The commission charged with making recommendations to create a more accurate and complete representation of black history in state education guidelines started about 10 months of work Monday at the University of Virginia.
Apple is entering the market as a decidedly second-tier player. “It’s a little weird for Apple to be in this position given how dominant they are in other places,” said Raj Venkatesan, a professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business. “Just look at the price – how often do you see Apple coming in as the lower price option?”
Consumers are less likely to buy products from female-led organizations than they are from male-led organizations following an ethical failure, a new study finds. People tend to associate women with “communal” traits like likability, warmth and relatability, lead study author Nicole Votolato Montgomery, an associate professor of commerce at the University of Virginia, told MarketWatch.
The K.K.K. Act provided a narrow exception, extending civil rights protection into the private sphere. Two caveats limit its scope: the violence in question must be both racially motivated and plotted in advance. “This is exactly what this statute is intended to address, whether they are modern day K.K.K.-ers or neo-Nazis,” said Richard C. Schragger, a UVA law professor.
Filmmakers and religious scholars discussed shifts in social justice and politics in churches following a Sunday screening of the documentary “American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel.” The 2019 film, screened on the last day of 32nd annual Virginia Film Festival, largely focuses on leaders of two Oklahoma churches who are trying to effect positive change in their conservative areas.
UVA Health has established a 16-person Advisory Council that will inform and advise UVA Health leaders as they consider additional improvements to billing and collection policies and practices to better meet the needs of patients.