Among the finalists: Ankit Agrawal's podcast, “I Hope You're Happy,” narrates his journey as he became more comfortable with his own sexuality during his time at the University of Virginia. Using the journals he began the day he moved onto campus in August 2018, Agrawal attempts to answer the ever-evasive question for many young adults: "How do you define yourself?"
The rally comes just weeks before the Michigan Republican Party’s nominating convention. “You certainly can interpret it as the former president trying to intervene and help his preferred candidates in this nomination process,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball from the UVA Center for Politics.
(Podcast) Eric Leeper is a professor of economics at the University of Virginia, an advisor to the Swedish and German central banks and a former Fed economist. He has written widely on the links between monetary policy and discusses these links and their implication for the price level.
Mildred W. Robinson, Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law Emeritus, answers the question: “What are the most effective ways for state and local governments to recover losses in tax revenues caused by the pandemic?”
Jim Wyckoff, a UVA professor of education and public policy, said there is evidence that shows increasing per-pupil spending leads to improvement in student outcomes.
"Ukraine did not really have a functional 'navy' to begin with, mostly coastal patrol craft and a few larger research, minesweeper-layer, and 'intelligence' ships. It could be described as a stronger coast guard than a true navy," Allan Stam, a University of Virginia professor and military affairs expert, said. Stam noted that "Ukraine's navy is functionally destroyed. It cannot threaten the Russian navy outside of continued mining of the Black Sea coastal ports. The Sea of Azov is entirely controlled by the Russians."
(Commentary) Average-income people in rich countries, note inequality researchers Joseph Stiglitz, Todd Tucker, and Gabriel Zucman, “now pay far higher taxes than major corporations.” These corporations and the rich who run them are basically enjoying a “free-ride on the rest of society,” and their tax avoidance “means less investment in infrastructure, education, and research.” What can we do? We can fight back, and, at the global level, some reformers — like the University of Virginia Law School’s Ruth Mason — are even feeling optimistic about the struggles ahead.
(Video) UVA Political Science Department Chair Jennifer Lawless discussed a wide range of international and domestic issues — including why it’s difficult for U.S. President Joe Biden to claim a “win” on the latest jobs numbers.
(Commentary by Tomas Sedlacek, visiting senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) Why is Russia at the negotiating table? Because Putin knows that even if he flattens Ukraine and subjugates or deports its entire population, he cannot win this war. That’s because Russia was already a dead economy walking and Putin knows it.
UVA Health reports it's hit a plateau for COVID cases. The hospital says it has 20 COVID hospitalizations as of April 1. Of those patients, 14 are in acute care, three are in ICU, and two are in pediatrics.
Friday’s report from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute stops short of calling the upcoming increase a full-blown surge. In fact, it’s currently projected to have less of an impact than the delta wave last year. New models from UVA show a slow, but steady, growth of COVID-19 cases in the near term.
Supreme Court justices, like most people, like to appear to be consistent. No one wants to be thought to be a flip-flopper, an opportunist or a hypocrite. That means justices try not to disavow earlier legal views, even ones that appeared in dissents, in opinions they wrote as appeals court judges, in academic work, at their confirmation hearings and elsewhere. This impulse, which a provocative new article by UVA law professor Richar M. Re, calls “personal precedent,” can be at odds with respect for precedent in the conventional sense.
UVA’s Engineering School has its first female dean and she’s already inspiring hundreds of students through her new role. She says engineering is typically thought of as a male-dominated field, but she’s trying to change that. To do this, she spearheaded UVA’s first Women in Engineering Symposium Saturday.
This year’s recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals have been announced. Each year, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello and the University of Virginia select people to be recognized in fields that Thomas Jefferson held in high regard. These fields are architecture, citizen leadership and law.
The University of Virginia Investment Management Company has announced a new framework for making responsible investments, but student and alumni sustainability groups want the University to do more – namely, fully divest from fossil fuels.
Back in December, a batch of positive COVID tests decimated the Los Angeles Lakers’ already ill-constructed roster, leaving the team with little choice but to turn to a handful of replacements, mostly drawn from the franchise’s G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers. Along for the ride through one of the more brutal stretches in recent franchise history, undrafted rookie [and former UVA standout] Jay Huff had but one self-imposed rule guiding his experience alongside the celebrated veterans he continues to regard as “legends”: “Don’t be that guy.”
The North Carolina Courage announced today that [UVA alumna] Diana Ordoñez has been called to represent the Mexican Women’s National Team for the W Concacaf qualifiers. Two matches will take place during this window, the first against Anguilla at 4 p.m. ET on April 9, and the second against Puerto Rico at 9 p.m. ET on April 12.
On Tuesday, Kate Bedingfield made her debut at the White House press briefing room lectern. As press secretary Jen Psaki was absent due to Covid, Bedingfield [a UVA alumna] stepped in for the day.
Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, President Zelenskyy has all but begged for NATO and the U.S. to establish a no-fly zone over his country’s airspace to prevent the Russian air force from establishing air dominance over the country. Thus far, both the U.S. and NATO have declined. We invited retired Air Force Lt Gen David Deptula [a UVA alumnus] to give us his views on whether such a no-fly zone could be established and what it would take in terms of air assets.
Professor Ming-Jer Chen, a specialist in business strategy and East-West competition at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, also says that many of these women entered the business world in response to the trying times of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Their entrepreneurial ambitions were fuelled by a desire to provide a better life for their children, but also by a Confucian view of work. “Those values, like working to exhaustion, are the unique characteristics of Chinese entrepreneurs both in mainland China and overseas,” Chen explained to the Darden Ideas to Action websi...