Daniel Mendelsohn’s intellectual journey – from classics professor to Holocaust chronicler to “editor-at-large” at the New York Review of Books – took him back in 2019 to his alma mater, the University of Virginia, where he delivered the lectures that comprise this slim volume.
Actress and singer-songwriter Jen Lilley, a UVA graduate known for her work in “The Artist” and other films, has penned some pandemic-year lyrics for “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” and recorded a duet with singer Bryan Lanning. Proceeds will help purchase holiday gifts for homeless children in Roanoke.
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine is a New Hampshire native and a dual citizen of the United States and Uganda. But he can easily make you believe he’s from either Chicago (“The Chi”) or Uganda (“Queen of Katwe”). Because he can play a refugee from the Angolan civil war in writer-director Ekwa Msangi’s “Farewell Amor,” you’d think the transformation from the son of academics and the grandson of an archbishop might be easy for him. While the onscreen results are effortless, they weren’t achieved easily. For one thing, Angolans and Ugandans have little in common, culturally or even linguistically.
Colin Hunter is the co-founder and head of strategy and growth at BetterWorld. From his early career at Bain and Company, Colin brings with him a vast background in strategy consulting. Recognizing that a large portion of donations made to charitable causes do not make it to the end cause, he used his expertise in scaling and growing brands to found BetterWorld. He has a deep-rooted commitment to nonprofit work, having served in every role of the nonprofit ecosystem, from board member to advisor, consultant, event host and donor. Colin received a B.A. from UVA and also studied at Oxford.
Two UVA Darden School of Business alums have temporarily shifted their apparel company’s production from stylish activewear to face masks, in efforts to ebb the transmission of COVID-19.
(Video) Frontline workers at UVA Health began receiving vaccinations for COVID-19 on Dec. 15, according to the school. This footage, released Dec. 17, shows Frankie Allen, a patient care technician and nursing student, receive the first dose of the two-shot Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
A UVA student is raising money for the Make a Wish foundation by running 48 miles in 48 hours Jan. 8 through 10. “I was reading David Goggins’ biography where he talked about his 4x4/48 challenge, which is essentially run four miles every four hours for 48 hours and I thought that would be a perfect fit to raise money and test myself physically and mentally,” Connor Burns said.
They did it for Helen. They wanted to make a difference. Now a determined group of 2020 Colonial Forge High School graduates – including five current University of Virginia students – who lost their friend in a car accident have been recognized with a National Purpose Award for their work to improve Stafford’s rural roads.
(Commentary by Hannah Adams, dual degree master’s candidate in public policy and public health, and Katie Platz, Ph.D. nursing student) Ten months ago, many people might not have known what telehealth was, let alone visited with their health care provider through their phone or computer screen. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Virginians have now seen their doctor online. It is now hard to imagine health care in Virginia without this technology.
The UN advisory group includes Sophia Kianni, 18, an Iranian-American student at the University of Virginia who founded and directs Climate Cardinals, a youth association that translates documents in numerous languages to make climate information more accessible to non-English speakers. “There really is a discrepancy in the amount of information available,” she said, “which is a shame because the top 10 countries worst affected by climate change – none of them are majority English-speaking.”
Canajoharie High School graduate and Eagle Scout Jacob St. Martin, currently an undergraduate student studying Mechanical Engineering and Global Sustainability at the University of Virginia, will present the results of a nearly year-long study to NASA officials this Wednesday. Mounted as part of NASA’s Big Idea Challenge, St. Martin’s team developed a system for delivering energy to equipment in the permanently shadowed regions of the moon.
Jim Kavanaugh, 95, died on Wednesday, December 31, 2020, at the University of Virginia Medical Center. He attended the University of Virginia as an undergraduate, medical student, and resident before joining the University’s faculty as a child psychiatrist in the School of Medicine.
Architect Jaquelin “Jaque” Taylor Robertson, the Driehaus Prize winner who cofounded the New York firm Cooper Robertson in 1988, was an urbanist at his core. The former dean of the UVA School of Architecture, where he founded a certificate program in American Urbanism, he also served as the first director of the Mayor’s Office for Midtown Planning and Development in New York. Although he received acclaim for residences like the serene Rose House in East Hampton, he is synonymous with Celebration, Florida, the idyllic master-planned community developed by the Walt Disney Company that he designe...
Virginia Coal and Energy Commission: Cale Jaffe of Charlottesville, UVA associate professor of law and director, Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic.
Virginia Interagency Coordinating Council: Kristen Heinan of Charlottesville, assistant professor of pediatric neurology, University of Virginia.
Marrying in your mid-20s is best for marital happiness, whereas marrying in your late 20s or early 30s is best for stability, according to a study by American think tank the Urban Institute in 2014. “Waiting somewhat translates into stability,” explains Bradford Wilcox of UVA’s National Marriage Project. “But those who wait longer tend to be less happy, perhaps because they have more baggage from past relationships.”
William Barr’s allies say he simply followed his instincts, honed by his maximalist view of executive power, and was untroubled by perceptions he was serving Trump’s agenda. “Bill Barr will be inexorably tied to Donald Trump,” said political scientist Nancy Baker, who interviewed Barr for an oral history project at UVA’s Miller Center.
The Fox News “award” of Arizona to Biden marked a turning point, and things started to unravel for the incumbent president. “News organisations have no legal authority to do anything that determines the outcome of the election,” professor Herman Mark Schwartz, a UVA political scientist, said. Fox calling Arizona for Biden may have been a political statement. “Fox owner Rupert Murdoch was sending a message from the big-business, boat-owning part of the Republican Party – which doesn’t like Trump’s policy craziness and erratic behaviour – to the voters with lower education, evangelical Christian...
“I think the attitude is ‘I don’t like Trump, but just give me a Republican I can vote for,’” said J. Miles Coleman of the UVA Center for Politics, who has studied Republican defections in Georgia. “I think they’re still loyal to the party to some extent, but I think Trump has put those people more up for grabs.”
One thing helping line voters up is the decision of the candidates in both races to run as tickets, with joint appearances and advertisements. J. Miles Coleman of the UVA Center for Politics said the joint effort has helped Warnock wrap up Democratic voters. “He and Ossoff have done a better job of running as a ticket,” Coleman said. “I think overall that’s going to benefit Warnock and help him consolidate some of his support.”