According to Dr. Matthew Crawford, a senior fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, a mismatch has been created “between science as an activity of the solitary mind, and the institutional reality of it. Big science is fundamentally social in its practice, and with this comes certain entailments.”
Dairy Market in Charlottesville is honoring its merchants and farmers behind the businesses throughout the week of June 14 to 18. Coinciding with Virginia’s Agriculture Week, Gov. Ralph Northam stopped by the market Wednesday morning to get in on the celebration. “They’re really the backbone of our economy, to see all of these businesses,” Northam said. “It’s just a beautiful venue.” Northam, Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Bettina Ring, and University of Virginia President Jim Ryan toured the market, stopping to speak with vendors like Ken Smith, owner of Moo Thru.
We the undersigned are deeply concerned about the changing role of the Federal Reserve. The Fed is among the nation’s most important institutions. Its monetary and regulatory mandates are essential for economic stability. However, based on recent activity, the Fed is in danger of exceeding these mandates. Unless it changes course, the Fed will impede its own effectiveness. (Among the signatories is Edwin T. Burton, professor of economics.)
Virginia’s colleges and universities [including UVA and UVA’s College at Wise] are urging Gov. Ralph Northam to allow student athletes to profit off of their name, image and likeness, something the NCAA currently bans. More than a dozen institutions signed a letter asking Northam to make the change through an executive order as a temporary fix.
Virginia’s colleges and universities [including UVA and UVA’s College at Wise] are urging Gov. Ralph Northam to allow student athletes to profit off of their name, image and likeness, something the NCAA currently bans. More than a dozen institutions signed a letter asking Northam to make the change through an executive order as a temporary fix.
The reality is that our nation is still racially segregated. And it’s segregated in ways that limit our opportunities to learn about each other’s life experiences, even if our laws do not formally segregate our nation as they once did. This means that some live in a world in which they rarely encounter the conditions that bring harm to others everyday; others can’t escape those very conditions. You can see this segregation in great detail by exploring the University of Virginia’s Racial Dot Map, which takes data from the 2010 U.S. Census and plots where people are living across the country.
Scientists from the National University of Science and Technology “MISiS,” as part of an international group of researchers, have created nanomaterials for the treatment of groundwater for use as a supply of drinking water. Specialists from the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry (Belarus), the University of Virginia (USA), Istanbul University (Turkey), the University of Limerick (Ireland), and the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) also took part in the research.
In research to be published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, UCLA Anderson’s Sanford DeVoe and University of Virginia’s Jieun Pai provide evidence that, for higher-wage workers paid by the hour, giving up time to volunteer might be less enjoyable than for similarly paid workers on a salary or for hourly workers with low pay.
Having courage in the workplace may not seem like the most needed skill, but it is an asset and should be cultivated, according to UVA professor Jim Detert. “The benefits at the organizational level: [Staff are] just flat-out solving problems more quickly,” said Detert, the John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration. “They’re pursuing opportunities before they’re lost or a competitor takes them. There is also high employee engagement and commitment. That ranges from people making fewer mistakes, people working harder, people being more creative, to people engaging in organizational ci...
A new tracker will provide information on staff members of the Biden administration. UVA’s Miller Center has launched a database to track leadership positions in the administration.
UVA’s Darden School of Business plans to expand its presence in the Washington, D.C., area with its first part-time MBA offering. The new program, which will enroll 65 students in August of 2022, will be based in the school’s Rosslyn campus. Candidates can begin to apply for that first class as early as this coming August.
Prospective students and their families can once again get a look at the University of Virginia in person. This is the first time in 15 months that in-person college tours have been allowed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The University of Virginia has updated its COVID-19 vaccination guidance for faculty and staff members in the Academic Division. According to a release, they will need to either provide proof of vaccination or agree to weekly prevalence testing requirements for the fall semester.
John Galloway remembers his time in a Virginia baseball uniform well. He is one of many alumni who are enjoying the program’s latest run to the College World Series. “Just saying that I used to play baseball at the University of Virginia, it gives you a sense of pride,” the Midlothian resident and Midlothian High School graduate said.
University of Virginia’s Dr. Mark Cohee is combining his love for cycling and medicine to reach a bigger goal. On Friday he will begin a 600-mile bike ride to raise awareness for the opioid epidemic.
Alex Walsh rode the tide of teenagers qualifying for their first Olympic Games. The 19-year-old Tennessean, who just finished her freshman year at UVA, won the 200-meter individual medley in 2:09.30, two-hundredths of a second ahead of UVA teammate Kate Douglass, also 19. … Paige Madden added another event to her Olympic program. Finishing third in the 200 free, the 22-year-old, who recently graduated from UVA, will swim in the 4x200 freestyle relay (in addition to the 400 freestyle).
[UVA alumna] Kathryn Budig isn't a fan of labels. She's one of the most renowned Vinyasa yoga teachers in the world, but she's been known to pepper burpees and jumping jacks into otherwise traditional flows. She preaches the beauty of sweat, grit, and strength, but will regularly wrap herself in the fluffiest fabrics and glammed-up fashions, as evidenced by her Instagram. So when you ask Budig - who married sports journalist and author Kate Fagan after divorcing her husband - to define her sexuality, she's not super stoked to do so.
The long wait finally ended Tuesday night for [UVA alumnus] Ernie Clement. After making his Major League Baseball debut Sunday when he served as a pinch-hitter for the Cleveland Indians in their 6-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners, Clement was in the starting lineup for the first time in the big leagues Tuesday, and he made it a memorable night. During the Indians 7-2 victory over the Orioles at Progressive Field, Clement recorded his first major league hit, a lined single up the middle in the fourth inning off Baltimore starter Matt Harvey.
For [UVA Law alumnus] David Leitch, the job of general counsel at Bank of America was a busy enough job before the Covid-19 pandemic. But, almost overnight, Leitch and his team had to grapple with the legal practicalities of most of the bank’s 200,000-plus workforce working remotely.
Deepfakes are becoming a big deal on the internet, and now a team of University of Virginia students are finding ways to detect them. Deepfakes are computer-generated edits of people that are made to look real. They can be misleading. UVA third-year Zach Yahn says his team’s technology can make a real difference in stopping potential misleading information from being spread.