Albert H. Small, real estate developer and philanthropist, who helped shape the residential housing and commercial building landscape across the Washington, DC metropolitan region, peacefully passed away on October 3, 2021, at his home in Bethesda, Maryland. He was less than two weeks shy of his 96th birthday. … As a civic-minded philanthropist, who sought to share his appreciation of American history with future generations, Mr. Small endeavored to donate his extensive collection of presidential documents (including an original Declaration of Independence) to the University of Virginia, where...
Chris Albright has been hired as the general manager of FC Cincinnati, ending a seven-year stint with the Union as its technical director. … A Philly native and Penn Charter grad, Albright excelled at the University of Virginia.
She met Phil Murphy at the University of Virginia, where she was studying English and communications.
National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins plans to step down by the end of the year after nearly three decades at the agency, including 12 years at the helm, the agency announced Tuesday. Raised on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley, Collins became fascinated by the emerging field of genetics after undergraduate studies in chemistry at the University of Virginia and graduate work at Yale.
(Subscription may be required) Some teenagers said they were glad the research was out, even if they were not sure what it would change. “The fact that Facebook knows is important,” said Claire Turney, 18, a freshman at the University of Virginia. “That they know that it is destructive and they continue to market it to teenage girls is a little messy in my opinion, but that’s capitalism.”
The current political environment may not lend itself to a strong showing for a Democrat in a special election, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. Unlike 2018, there’s a Democrat in the White House and growing frustration among Republicans. “I don’t think Democrats really view this seat as one that’s worth going all in on,” Kondik said.
(Subscription may be required) While both campaigns encourage people to get vaccinated, the distinction lies in whether to mandate the shot, as advocated by McAuliffe, or let those who don’t want it opt out, as promoted by Youngkin. J. Miles Coleman of UVA’s Center for Politics said the issue shows the candidates’ approach to reaching their respective bases while also, for Youngkin, towing a steady line to reach moderate and conservative voters.
To unpack the full story that was being told by this provocative setup, we must first explore the symbolism behind each individual image, starting with David. According to University of Virginia history professor Paul Barolsky, there was a longstanding tradition in Italy of revering the Biblical figure as the patria, a father to and protector of both society and culture. Aiming to depict him as a guardian, Michelangelo rendered David taller, more handsome, and more muscular than Bible passages suggested.
It’s not clear how the current strain will evolve in the coming months. UVA modeling, widely relied on by state officials, suggests the state could see another peak through the week of Oct. 17. More pessimistic projections suggest cases could rise steadily through the holiday season even as vaccination rates continue to increase.
As University of Virginia professor Jeffrey Zvengrowski has recently demonstrated in his magisterial “Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815-1870,” popular impressions of the Old South stem not from historical fact but from post-Civil War glorification of the Lost Cause and from Leftist criticism.
(Subscription may be required) More than a third of U.S. consumers allow Facebook to provide a primary view into the world outside their town. It’s having its effects. A new UVA survey released late last week found that more than half of Trump supporters (52%) and more than four in 10 (41%) Biden supporters agree (strongly or somewhat) that it’s “time to split the country.” Eighty percent of Biden voters and 84% of Trump voters view the other side as a “clear and present threat to American democracy.”
The research was done before the pandemic, but it’s “hugely connected to current conditions and, I think, has huge implications for how we proceed,” lead researcher Daphna Bassok, associate professor of education and policy at the University of Virginia, said in a webinar last week hosted by Duke’s Center for Child and Family Policy.
(Commentary) Since I’ve been writing this column, I know I’ve harped a lot on the division we see in our nation, but there’s a reason — it’s the most important issue facing the United States. The reason I bring it up again is because of a piece which appeared on Sept. 30 on the UVA Center for Politics regarding a project the Center and Project Home Fire have undertaken to use polling and data analytics to “identify America’s political fissures, and explain ways to foster compromise.” I fully support the optimistic tone of the UVA Center’s author in that they want to “explain ways to foster com...
(Podcast; commentary) A new poll from the University of Virginia shows that huge swaths of Americans despise each other … but does that matter?
Washington Post reporter Craig Whitlock’s recent book, “The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War,”, draws evidence from interviews with some 1,000 people who participated in the war, including U.S. military officers, officials, aid workers, and Afghan leaders. The book also draws on interviews conducted by the U.S. Army and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Constantly dieting may not only cause you to gain more weight in the end, but also lead to a slew of health problems. “A lot of the diseases associated with yo-yo dieting are similar to the diseases that are linked to obesity,” says study co-author Siddhartha Angadi, an assistant professor of education in UVA’s Department of Kinesiology. “Yo-yo dieting has been shown to increase your risk of cardiovascular disease. Yo-yo dieting has been shown to increase your risk of certain cancers. It has been shown to increase levels of inflammation. This is very much a case of where the ‘cure’ – tel...
(Co-written by Adam Lieve, assistant professor in the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) Proponents of work requirements for social safety net programs argue that they promote self-sufficiency by encouraging work, while opponents contend that they reduce benefits for the most vulnerable recipients in times of need. This column looks at the impact of the reinstatement of work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in the U.S. following a hiatus during the Great Recession. The authors find that work requirements do not appear to improve economic self-sufficien...
Hamilton Lombard, a demographer for UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, said he found several instances of population counts that didn’t match with what’s going on in college towns.
Once a bustling Black community filled with Black-owned establishments, the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, allowed its residents to flourish shortly after reconstruction. But the community endured a series of racially motivated attacks that led to its tragic end in 1921. The timeline of events leading from Greenwood’s inception to the Tulsa massacre and its restoration are captured in the documentary, “The Legacy of Black Wall Street,” directed by Deborah Riley Draper. UVA’s Center for Politics invited Draper to Charlottesville to host a viewing of her two-part docu-series at the Ting ...
Masks will continue to be necessary for indoor spaces at the University of Virginia. A letter sent to the UVA community on Friday announced that all people, vaccinated or not, will be required to wear a mask while inside spaces owned by the university of spaces it leases through at least the end of October.