Several high-profile examples of students who have succeeded in pulling off alternate dissertations. Amanda Visconti, who earned a Ph.D. in literature at the University of Maryland in 2015, created an interactive digital project that enables readers to annotate James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” Visconti got a tenure-track gig as an assistant research professor at Purdue University. She eventually left that to become managing director of the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia. A.D. Carson, who earned a Ph.D. in rhetorics, communication and information design at Cle...
“There’s a big appetite out there among the public for the horse race. It’s like sports,” said Kyle Kondik, the Washington-based communications director for UVA’s Center for Politics and managing editor of its nonpartisan newsletter, “Sabato’s Crystal Ball.” Campaigns conduct polling differently, Kondik said. “They use it as a tool to inform how to run a campaign,” he said.
Sanders’ prospects are still threatened by the possibility of a single candidate winning a large share of the black vote, according to analysts at UVA’s Center for Politics. But that threat has greatly diminished with Biden’s struggles. “For Sanders,” wrote the center’s Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Colman., “the more viable candidates remain, the better his position.”
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the Miller Center, and Saikrishna Prakash, law professor, were among three guest commentators taking stock of the evolution of the office itself, what the presidency has become and where it is headed.
Gov. Ralph Northam has announced the following appointments: Christopher Goyne of Charlottesville, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, to the Aerospace Advisory Council. Appointed to the Maternal Mortality Review Team: Donald J. Dudley of Charlottesville, director of the division of maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and chairman of the Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative; and Elizabeth Newton of Charlottesville, registered dietitian nutritionist at UVA Health System.
Jonah Fogel, program manager for UVA’s Environmental Resilience Institute, has been following the changing policies around the solar industry in Virginia. The simultaneous push for renewable energy from companies like Facebook and Amazon — both of which have agreed to purchase energy from solar projects in Virginia — and the state have combined to create a rapidly expanding industry.
Some say Dominion and Appalachian should be moving faster to renewable energy, in light of the growing climate change crisis. But that’s often hard for large, investor-owned utilities, said Cale Jaffe, a UVA professor of law and director of the law school’s Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic. “I sort of analogize them to those huge container ships you might see out in the ocean,” Jaffe said. “They’re doing a lot, they’re carrying a lot, and as a result they’re very slow to turn.”
Cale Jaffe, director of the Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic at UVA and a former SELC attorney, said the National Environmental Policy Act was intended to create an environmental mandate, forcing developers and the government to consider the environmental impact of potential development and determine less harmful methods.
“I’ve watched Joe Biden since he was first elected [to the Senate] in 1972,” Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said. “He was full of energy and joking around and had a big personality, but I don’t think anyone has associated the word ‘vision’ with Joe Biden. Democrats are looking for a vision; Biden’s vision is to go back to Obama’s policies. I understand it, but it doesn’t get you standing up and cheering.”
While indulging in that sugary goodness may not be harmful for one day like Valentine's Day, a UVA Health clinical dietitian is warning consumers to be mindful of their daily consumption of added sugar. "If you have a little bit of sugar, it can make you feel good and perk you up and make you feel happy, but if you are consuming excessive amounts of added sugar, over time, it can lead to the total opposite," Katherine Basbaum said.
“A lot of it is a continuation of a trend that goes back decades,” said Hamilton Lombard, a demographer with UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center. “Chesapeake has lots of space for new homes," unlike Norfolk, where building something new means “knocking something down.”
A network of academic medical centers throughout the South and Midwest — including the University of Virginia — have filed a federal lawsuit, asking to prohibit the federal government from implementing the policy.
The grants will be used to develop and test the technologies in simulated environments over the next 10 months, demonstrating their readiness for a potential lunar mission as early as 2023. UVA is among six universities and colleges receiving grants.
On Presidents Day: Hear former President Bill Clinton’s closing keynote address at the Presidential Ideas Festival held last year at the University of Virginia.
The UBike docked bicycle program started in 2015 and has provided bicycles to UVA students, staff and faculty, as well as general community members, for a fee. Rebecca White, director of UVA’s Department of Parking & Transportation, said the decision to discontinue the UBike program was influenced by several simultaneous events, including that Social Bicycles, the provider of the brain/lock mechanism and software for the bikes, did not want to renew the procurement.
(Video) Someone is disrupting years of research at UVA. The question of who is responsible remains a mystery.
The school’s commitment to put unsurpassed teachers in every class starts with Darden’s recruitment and hiring of new faculty and ends with student evaluations that are taken as seriously as a professor’s academic research.
(Commentary by Gary Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor Emeritus in the History of the American Civil War) It has become common to say that the United States in 2020 is more divided politically and culturally than at any other point in our national past. As a historian who has written and taught about the Civil War era for several decades, I know that current divisions pale in comparison to those of the mid-19th century.
He taught and coached at Albemarle for 12 years. While there, he earned an administration and supervision endorsement from UVA and took on supervisory roles that helped prepare him for his current position as principal of Orange County High School. During his first stint at OCHS, from 2001 to 2004, he earned his teaching license and completed a master’s degree in education at the University of Virginia.
Multiple attorneys who have practiced federal criminal law for years in various parts of the justice system emphasized that the jury selection process for a federal trial is explicitly designed to eliminate the complaint at the heart of President Trump’s accusation: bias that would prevent a juror from fairly weighing the facts and law of a case. “The whole process is designed to flag potential bias,” said Timothy Heaphy, a former U.S. Attorney who is now general counsel for the University of Virginia.