But what makes Aquia Creek sandstone easy to shape also makes its exterior susceptible to weathering and erosion. Thus, after the Capitol was burned during the War of 1812, reconstruction made use of marble — a harder, metamorphic rock found on the upper Potomac. I was learning that a rock is not just a rock. I wanted to know more, and reached out to retired University of Virginia geology professor Thomas H. Biggs.
(Podcast) On this episode of Building Local Power, host Jess Del Fiacco is joined by Christopher Mitchell, director of ILSR’s Community Broadband initiative, and Christopher Ali, associate professor in UVA’s Department of Media Studies. Their conversation focuses around the idea of what it means to be local during a time when more and more pieces of our lives are shifting online.
The FCC “has grossly overestimated the number of connected Americans because of faulty data gathering,” Christopher Ali, an associate professor in media studies at the University of Virginia, told lawmakers. “We don’t know the exact number of un- and under-connected rural Americans.”
The proposed changes to election laws could have unintended effects. “Those people who tend to vote less often who like Trump, you know, they may have a hard time voting,” said J. Miles Coleman from UVA’s Center for Politics. “So, in some states, it may even backfire on the Republicans.”
In a Q&A about his new film project on Ernest Hemingway, filmmaker Ken Burns cites UVA literary scholar Steven Cushman, professor of English. “The thing I go back to often is that this is a guy who’s emerging out of a modernist tradition in which everybody is complicated. Joyce and Faulkner, they’re really super complicated. And, as the literary scholar Steve Cushman says in the film, Hemingway dared to impersonate simplicity.”
Openly protesting such a high-profile outlet – which many told BuzzFeed News extends to peer-reviewing other scholars’ manuscripts if asked – could have career consequences beyond lost publications. It could also, some researchers fear, bring reputational harm. “In order for us to promote ourselves up the academic ladder, we have to get our papers into these journals,” said Ebony Hilton, an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Virginia who is researching how much access racial minorities with COVID-19 have had to scarce medical equipment, like ventilators. Hilton said her...
Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious disease expert at the University of Virginia said Pfizer’s announcement Thursday is promising, but expected. “I hope this will make people hesitate less,” said Jackson. “I don’t think this finding was very surprising. It was what we’d hoped to see, but certainly, it was on the stronger side of what we were hoping for.”
“I am hopeful that we will not see a fourth wave. What's going on is we have two things going in opposite directions,” said Dr. Bill Petri from the University of Virginia, referring to vaccinations rising and the British variant of the virus spreading.
There is a long legacy of anti-Asian racism in the U.S. that is often intertwined with misogyny, experts said. One of the earliest acts of anti-Asian sentiment was the 1871 Chinese massacre in Los Angeles that killed 19 Chinese immigrants, said Sylvia Chong, associate professor of American studies at the University of Virginia. The Page Act of 1875 denied Chinese women entry into the U.S. due to “lewd and immoral purposes” because “they were seen as a sort of a threat to immigration, but also, they were characterized as not being virtuous,” said Shilpa Davé, associate dean and assistant profes...
Local activist, historian and University of Virginia professor Jalane Schmidt sees vindication for various community members for “having been right all along” and reflects on the historical spaces she has worked to contextualize through tours in recent years.
Richard Schragger, a law professor at the University of Virginia who has followed the case, said Thursday’s ruling was “a symbolic victory in a way, and an important one,” following a year of protests against racism and police brutality in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Next week, BRHD is expecting 4,900 first doses and 1,100 second doses of the Moderna vaccine and 4,680 first doses and 1,170 second doses of the Pfizer vaccine, while the University of Virginia’s Seminole Square vaccine location is expecting 4,680 first doses and 1,170 second doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
(Commentary) Researchers at the University of Virginia, Duke University and the University of Chicago have found that preregistration has a significant effect on youth voting. And evidence showing the turnout gap among registered young and older voters is much smaller than the registration gap between these groups demonstrates that registering more young people to vote translates into more young people actually voting.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine and other facilities have been closely looking at the genetic makeup of thousands of people. According to a release, this analysis of the genes of more than 53,000 people offers insight into heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders, which could pave the way for better treatments and ways to prevent some of the most common causes of disability and death.
Here’s how participation in supervised virtual internship experiences through the University of Virginia Internship Placement Program, which reflect not just student willingness but also employer buy-in, has grown since the pandemic started: In summer 2020, the program had 60 remote interns. In fall 2020, that number increased to 83. In spring 2021, the number reached 148. Rebecca H. Coulter, associate director of the program at the UVA Career Center, says that “a network of support is vital for students in a virtual internship.”
Here’s how participation in supervised virtual internship experiences through the University of Virginia Internship Placement Program, which reflect not just student willingness but also employer buy-in, has grown since the pandemic started: In summer 2020, the program had 60 remote interns. In fall 2020, that number increased to 83. In spring 2021, the number reached 148. Rebecca H. Coulter, associate director of the program at the UVA Career Center, says that “a network of support is vital for students in a virtual internship.”
Francis Kéré, Hon. FAIA, founder and principal of Berlin-based Kéré Architecture, has been named the 2021 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. Since 1966, the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello have presented the award to an individual who has made exceptional contributions to the architecture profession.
A bill signed by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam this week will require public universities to face up to the legacy of slavery on their campuses. The “Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program” forces five public universities -- Longwood University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, the Virginia Military Institute and The College of William and Mary -- to take the following steps …
University of Virginia leaders say they plan to return to in-person classes and much more normal operations in the fall.
The University of Virginia announced Thursday that its fall semester will look much like those prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.