The fall semester at the University of Virginia will look a lot like 2019 with students and faculty in classrooms, libraries and recreation facilities open and a traditional class grading system in place. UVA officials announced the plan to return to something resembling normal in a Thursday email to students, staff and employees.
The Ridley restaurant officially opened Thursday in the Draftsman Hotel on West Main Street. Its name pays homage to Dr. Walter Nathanial Ridley, the first Black student to graduate from UVA and receive a graduate degree from any major historically white public university in the South.
UVA law professor Richard Schragger, who specializes in the intersection of constitutional law and local government law, said he took the position early in the litigation that the law didn’t apply to the Charlottesville statues. He expects Thursday’s decision to be the final word in the long-running case since he doesn’t see any grounds for a challenge under federal law.
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In need of some serenity from the stress of the pandemic and life in general? The Balance Box may have some tools to help you restore inner tranquility. The Balance Box consists of five decks of cards, each focusing on one topic: Anxiety, Depression, Mindfulness, Self-Esteem or Confidence. Created last year by [UVA alumna] Janine Canaday, a licensed clinical therapist and owner of Living Wellness in Chester, the cards were “inspired by the work I do with my clients to help them with coping skills outside of sessions,” Canaday says.
(Podcast) Dr. David Martin knows who he is. And he’s here to show others how to remember what it means to put humanity into the human experience. A speaker, author, business executive and futurist, Dr. Martin’s work has been engaged in every country on Earth. He works with his family in every endeavour of life. Together with his wife Kim, he directs the Breathing Enterprise workshops and facilitates implementation of Integral Accounting. Dr. Martin received his undergraduate from Goshen College, his Masters of Science from Ball State University, and his doctorate from the University of Virgini...
After 14 years leading Richmond-based Dominion Energy Inc., Thomas F. Farrell II is retiring as the utility's executive chairman, effective April 1, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings submitted by the Fortune 500 company last week. Farrell has served on the boards of visitors for Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia, for which he also served as rector. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics and a law degree from the University of Virginia.
(Podcast) Virginia head coach Todd DeSorbo chatted with Brett Hawke on his podcast, “Inside with Brett Hawke,” about the recent national championship he won at the women’s NCAAs in Greensboro and his assessment of the men’s meet, where his team finished in ninth place.
The uproar around the video gave spiritual leaders the opportunity to take a look at how the church has regressed into bigotry, leading many people out of the church altogether. Some, such as Ashon Crawley, associate professor in the religion and African studies departments at the University of Virginia, remembers the church upbringing that made him feel that his queerness meant his life was insufficient.
Dr. Lorna Breen was on the front lines of the pandemic early, and after contracting the disease herself, she tried to recover from COVID by herself at home while trying to run an emergency room remotely. “When she went back into that workforce, many 12-plus hour shifts in a row, the volume of just death and dying on an already depleted worker -- because she was not really recovered from COVID -- was just way too much for any one person to bear,” said Corey Feist, Breen’s brother-in-law and CEO of the University of Virginia Physicans Group.
(Co-written by David Leblang, Ambassador Henry Taylor Professor of Politics, director of the Batten School’s Global Policy Center and faculty fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs) Apprehensions of family units from Honduras arriving at the U.S. southern border grew exponentially between 2012 and 2019. Our work at Duke University and the University of Virginia points to an interaction of climate factors and violence as the drivers of this outcome.
A study at the University of Virginia shows that those who receive CAR T-cell therapy for leukemias and lymphomas suffer many fewer relapses and are much more likely to survive when the treatment is paired with a stem cell transplant.
A new study out of University of Virginia Health is giving hope to children with cancer, many of whom tend to relapse. Researchers at UVA Health found that children and young adults in remission who receive CAR T-cell therapy and a subsequent stem cell transplant are not as prone to relapsing.
University of Virginia researchers have been able to find a new treatment combo that has shown to significantly reduce relapse of the most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Graduate programs at the University of Virginia have been highly ranked among public institutions of higher education.
(Commentary co-written by Ryan T. Wright, C. Coleman McGehee Professor of IT in the McIntire School of Commerce) Although phishing tests can be helpful to protect users, using questionable tactics has the potential for harming relationships between a company and its employees. The authors suggest that managers avoid this damage by employing phishing tests with three criteria.
When the weather is good, [UVA alumnus] Bob Blue likes to kayak or canoe from his South Richmond home through the James River rapids to his office at Dominion Energy Inc.’s headquarters on the city’s riverfront. Blue, 53, is about to embark on a journey like no other through uncertain waters as the undisputed leader of one of Virginia’s most powerful companies and political institutions.
In the Amazon and other parts of Brazil, wildfires don’t generally occur naturally, at least not on a large scale. They often occur when humans light blazes to clear land but then cannot control them. “You don’t get the ignitions without the humans,” Deborah Lawrence, a UVA professor who studies the links between tropical deforestation and climate change, said.
Since its founding by Brad Zizmor and Dag Folger in 1996, New York City’s Architecture + Information has made a name for itself designing workplaces that respond to individual needs on major scales. Its first CEO, [UVA alumna] Kate Thatcher, wants to take that mission further, pushing A+I not just to envision blockbuster headquarters for Equinox and large-scale projects for Vornado in complex neighborhoods like Penn Plaza, but to rethink the profession itself.
(Commentary by Zak Gelfond, mathematics and economics major) The social-justice movement has taken a sudden interest in violence and discrimination against my community, Asian-Americans. But this interest was sparked only when anti-Asian hatred could be framed as an expression of “white supremacy” following the horrifying mass murder in Atlanta. The broader story of violence and discrimination against Asians is much more complex.