(By Thomas S. Bateman, professor emeritus of organizational behavior) Humans do not capitalize nearly enough on our most significant evolutionary advantage: a unique ability to take forward-looking actions that influence the future for the better. Exhibit A: Climate change is here, and things are changing quickly for the worse. However, even as dangerous and costly weather events grow more frequent and severe, we still don’t do what we need to do.
The Fall Dance Concert of the Dance Program of the Department of Drama at the University of Virginia will be presented at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Ruth Caplin Theatre. This semester’s guest artists are Maggie Small and Emily Wright.
“MADRIGALIA: New & Selected Poems,” by [UVA creative writing professor] Lisa Russ Spaar. The poems that make up the first third of Spaar’s career overview are cast as madrigals: brief odes to everything from spring onions to 1970s New Jersey, with surprising notes of eros.
This is the first week of UVA Health’s rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11. On Wednesday, UVA’s Northridge Pediatrics was a busy spot for kids ready to get their shot, with children and families coming in every few minutes.
A new study by the scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine revealed how UTX gene mutation boosts cancer risk. The discovery could pave the way towards better ways to battle and prevent cancer.
The director of The Memory Project at the University of Virginia is sharing why it is important to create democratic public programming. The Memory Project was created after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. The project documents people’s experiences and weaves them into a larger initiative. On Wednesday, Director Jalane Schmidt talked about her personal experiences in activism in and around Charlottesville and her research in Cuba.
Technology that was used to scan U-Hall before it was demolished is now being used on a Rosenwald school to help preserve it. The Pine Grove School, located in Cumberland, was built in 1917 during the spread of such schools across the South based on a vision of Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute and Julius Rosenwald, a philanthropist. Students from the University of Virginia School of Architecture are conducting laser scans of the inside and outside of the historic building.
(Video) UVA Center for Civil War History director Caroline Janney examined military and political uncertainty in the weeks following the end of the Civil War.
The University of Virginia Licensing and Ventures Group has recognized a doctor at the University as its Innovator of the Year, a prestigious award given to researchers who developed a breakthrough idea. Dr. Amy Mathers developed a type of COVID-19 test and prevented outbreaks on Grounds by using a smelly solution.
The UVA Police Department is finding new ways to protect the community. The upcoming Community Cares Event is one of the first steps. “We talked about community and it’s not just in the realm of public safety or law enforcement, but trying to fulfill what other needs are that are out there to be to serve the community,” Sgt. Ben Rexrode said. The department already holds tutoring sessions with Greer Elementary School, but some officers wanted to take another step to continue to reach out. This time, they chose to focus on personal care items.
People working at the University of Virginia now have more time to get their COVID-19 shot. The University moved the deadline from Dec. 8 to Jan. 4. This new deadline aligns with one set by President Joe Biden’s administration.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics) The election results from last week reconfirmed a basic reality about American politics: For either party, holding the White House comes with significant power, but in off-year elections, it is often a burden. Unfortunately for Democrats, political gravity is also likely to act against them in 2022 – and they face real limits on what they can do about it.
Tangier is mostly white and working class, and its economy since the 1880s has centered on fishing, crabbing and oystering, said Jonna Yarrington, a UVA anthropologist who lived on the island for about a year, wrote a dissertation about Tangier and is working on a book about it. In recent decades, job opportunities have declined and the population has dwindled, Yarrington said.
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 University of Virginia Alumni in Technology of 2021. UVA remains an example for other universities with its commitments to equality and diversity and vision of “discovery, innovation, and development of the full potential of talented students from all walks of life.”
University of Virginia basketball fans waited for 612 days between chances to catch their Hoos live and in-person at John Paul Jones Arena. The COVID-19 pandemic left the stands virtually empty for almost two years. But Tuesday, Cav fans were back. More than two hours before the opening tipoff of UVA’s season opener against Navy, a father and daughter were busy setting up a tailgate in the parking lot with a UVA table ready to hold the food and beverages of the special occasion.
David Hondula [who received a Ph.D. from UVA in environmental sciences] recently got a job he never dreamed of – maybe because it never existed before. He’s the director of Phoenix’s Office of Heat Response & Mitigation, which is touted as the first publicly funded municipal office of its kind.
Pumoli Malapati has always been interested in the sustainability of health care. Malapati, a University of Virginia graduate, is especially focused on the importance of implementing green operating rooms, which is why she helped create Charlottesville-based startup PeriOp Green. PeriOp Green, co-founded earlier this year by Malapati, Nafisa Alamgir, Tyler Chafitz and Dr. Matthew Meyer, is a software-as-a-service product that helps minimize perioperative waste using advanced analytics.
(Co-written by Abdullah “Arby” Abood, Ph.D. candidate, bioinformatician, and data scientist in the School of Medicine) Last year, after a casual conversation with Spanish-speaking early career scientists about the struggle of communicating their work in Spanish, Jessica Vélez was inspired to create the Multilingual Seminar Series. This series offers an opportunity for multilingual and non-English speaking scientists and science enthusiasts to talk about science in languages other than English, while also providing a space to discuss strategies for expanding science communication efforts to inc...
(Commentary by Caroline Osborn, a third-year student studying economics and anthropology with a minor in Latin American studies) In a large lecture hall last spring, my professor began talking about their work with Mayan communities in Central America. A student in the front row hesitantly raised their hand, asking, “Aren’t the Mayans dead?” My professor did not laugh at — or even look surprised by — the comment. Instead, they responded: “I get this question every year.” When we think of countries south of the U.S. border, it is easy to imagine Spanish-speaking communities and people. And maki...
Founding Student Name: Marc-Anthony Larco. Brief Description of Solution: Technology for Underprivileged Students foundation was created with the goal of providing educational resources for impoverished students in Haiti. We thought the best way to accomplish this goal would be to build computer labs in already existing Haitian schools.