Restarting the global economy in bits and pieces means we can expect shortages across various sectors, says Vidya Mani, a professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business. She uses the process of manufacturing a car as an example. Your car might contain parts that come from 10 different countries, she says, but that doesn’t mean that any of those 10 countries can produce all the components needed to build the car. Companies in each of those countries specialize in making just a few of those essential pieces, and if they can’t deliver on time, production slows to a crawl.
Brad Wilcox, a sociology professor at UVA and visiting scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said Republicans who do not see urgency around the issue fail to realize that “we are in a new moment here with record lows in fertility, record lows in marriage. And I think a lot of ordinary Americans have concerns about how they afford to have kids, raise kids and juggle work and family in the 21st century,” he said.
The City of Baton Rouge has quietly agreed to pay $35,000 to the Clarence Green family of Baton Rouge to settle a civil rights lawsuit against a team of Baton Rouge police officers, according to attorney Thomas Frampton, who represented the family in their legal action against the city. Frampton is a UVA associate professor of law.
Noting that largely unvaccinated workers may be expected to come together in large groups to serve vaccinated tourists, Mami Taniuchi, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Virginia, said, “The [infection] risks among vaccinated travelers are significantly reduced, but I worry about the risk of transmission among the people who are working around them.” She added, “In a situation where there’s a mixing of people who are vaccinated and unvaccinated, most of the transmission events are going to be among those who are not vaccinated.”
(Audio) Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, co-founder and medical director of Goodstock Consulting and a UVA associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, joins CBSN’s Elaine Quijano to discuss the day’s coronavirus headlines.
(Statement signed by eight UVA faculty members) We, the undersigned, believe this country stands at a crucial moment that will define the democratic expression and exchange of ideas for our own and future generations. State institutions across the country are attempting to ban frank and rigorous conversation about our history in the classroom. Few single works have been threatened with more restrictions than the 1619 Project, a landmark exploration of America’s deep roots in enslavement. And now, the 1619 Project’s founder, Nikole Hannah-Jones, has had her appointment as the Knight Chair in Ra...
Scientists at the UVA School of Medicine say they have developed new tools to help fight cancer. The new approach looks at chromosome folding in 3-D. Researchers believe this can help unravel the genetic cause of cancer and other diseases, which could have big implications for the future of drug development for precision medicine.
Further experiments in collaboration with professor David Parichy from the University of Virginia confirmed that duox is important for developing iridophore pigment cells. When the duox gene is inactivated in mutant zebrafish, development of the iridophore pigment cells is delayed, the study found.
“Inclusion,” “purpose,” “community,” “perspective,” “support”—these words appear prominently and often in the essay questions for UVA’s Darden School of Business this year. Although Darden has pretty much always focused on the strength of its community, the way students collaborate both inside and outside the classroom to learn and grow, and the value of bringing people from diverse backgrounds and with differing mind-sets together, the school’s updated prompts seem to emphasize these ideas even more than usual.
On Thursday, more than 100 UVA students and community members gathered at the George Rogers Clark statue, which has been a point of contention in recent years for its depiction of Clark’s slaughter of Indigenous people, and then marched to the Rotunda in protest of violence that has increased over the past month between Israel and Palestinians living in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
On Sunday, UVA held its last Final Exercises of the academic year. The celebration wrapped up the highs and lows students endured during the pandemic. Over the course of three days, UVA conferred 7,494 degrees to the class of 2021.
(Video and transcript) Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, UVA associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, joined Yahoo Finance to discuss the latest on COVID-19.
(Commentary by law professor Richard C. Schragger) On June 8, the Virginia Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases involving the Robert E. Lee statue still standing on Richmond’s Monument Avenue. Lee remains because two sets of litigants sued Gov. Ralph Northam when he originally ordered the removal of the statue, owned by the commonwealth since 1890. They argue that Virginia received the statue and the land on which it sits conditioned on a promise that the commonwealth would “faithfully guard it and affectionately protect it.”
(By A.D. Carson, assistant professor of hip-hop) A few years back, when I called Clemson, South Carolina home, I drafted a letter to my mother – “just in case” – leaving her instructions in the event of my death. As a Black man living in these United States of America, the general possibility of being found dead, unexpectedly, with no explanation or rationale, has never seemed outside the realm of possibility.
Michael Menaker, an internationally renowned researcher, generous mentor and retired biology professor at the University of Virginia, died recently at the age of 86. A giant in the field of circadian rhythms, Menaker was widely considered one of the pioneers in the physiological analysis and identification of circadian pacemakers in the vertebrate nervous and endocrine systems. He died on Februay 14, 2021.
UVA basketball big man Jay Huff walked the Lawn on Friday morning to receive his master’s degree in educational psychology and social foundations. After redshirting his first year in Charlottesville, Huff took up the mantle as the “old guy” on the team, following in the footsteps of former five-year players like Isaiah Wilkins, Malcolm Brogdon, and Jack Salt. The joke around the team with Huff and those guys that came before was always about how long they had been on Grounds. Well, fans of opposing teams took note over the years, lamenting every time that the “Hoonicorn” came back for another ...
The entire Completers’ Ceremony will be available for viewing on CATEC’s YouTube page beginning on June 2. It will include student speeches, a year-in-review slide show, and a keynote speech from Laura Duckworth, the director of Occupational Programs for UVA Facilities Management.
Brooks is betting that his loyalty to the former president, voting record, and Huntsville roots will propel him to the Senate. “Huntsville is about to pass Birmingham as Alabama’s most populous city, so even if he has more opponents in his primary, geographically, he has a pretty nice base up in Northern Alabama,” said J. Miles Coleman, an assistant editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
UVA political analyst Kyle Kondik says Kentucky will continue to be an uphill battle for Democrats. Republicans enjoy a super majority in the state legislature and hold both U.S. Senate seats and five of the six U.S. House seats. “I’d say it’s worth it for the DNC only in the sense that there is an incumbent Democratic governor in Kentucky and I think Democrats are going to be very focused on protecting him in 2023,” said Kondik.
Barbara Perry, the UVA Miller Center’s director of presidential studies, told Forbes it was ludicrous to take “two days of long gas lines” and compare the two presidents, adding it’s “unlikely” inflation will surpass the 10-13% level of the late 1970s. Biden is “anthesis of Jimmy Carter,” Perry added, noting Carter–a one term governor from Georgia–”didn’t understand Washington” while the current president has a firm grasp of the mechanizations of the federal government after working more than 40 years in D.C. as a senator and then vice president.