The University of Virginia is weighing options on how to hold graduation events in May amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The school is consulting with the 2021 graduating class about two possible choices: holding commencement events in the spring with only the students, no guests; or postponing a ceremony and other events with family and friends at a future date.
Cornell’s J. Meejin Yoon, B.Arch. ’95, and composer Roberto Sierra have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, considered the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States in their respective fields, the academy announced March 5. Yoon is co-founding principal of Boston-based Höweler+Yoon Architecture. Her most recent project was the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia.
Keswick Hall first caught Molly Hardie’s eye in 1995, when she attended an event at the sprawling Charlottesville hotel thrown by the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, where her now-husband, Robert, was a student.
When local author Julia Claiborne Johnson wanted to start her second novel, she decided she needed an impetus. “What am I going to do to get myself in the mood to write?” she wondered, deciding that “I’m not gonna cut my hair till I’m done!” When she put pen to paper she sported a short bob; when she finished writing three years later, she could practically sit on her mane. The resulting book, “Better Luck Next Time,” is a fictional account of the real Reno divorce camps which flourished in the 1930s and ‘40s. Women of means from across the country would vacation on a western-style ranch while...
India Pinkney is the first Black woman to be general counsel at the National Endowment for the Arts, making her part of a small cohort of women of color in the role at other federal agencies. Though Pinkney pursued Middle East and Foreign Affairs in undergrad, followed by earning a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, as she told us during a Zoom interview, she has also been a creative writer since childhood, using poetry and short stories as a way to help make sense of the world around her.
(Commentary by Jacqueline Skalski-Fouts, undergraduate student) North African pastoralism, an agricultural method used for centuries by nomadic people in the steppe highlands, is on the decline. Facing limited grazing land due to overuse and drought, pastoral nomads are favoring more sedentary farming methods like growing fruit or nut trees and crops.
(Commentary by Eli Jones and Stephanie Metherall, third-year law students) On Feb. 27, the Virginia General Assembly approved House Joint Resolution 555, the bill of House Majority Leader Charniele Herring, D-Alexandria, to amend the Virginia Constitution to make the restoration of voting rights for people with felony convictions automatic, and not contingent on the will or views of the sitting governor. Gov. Ralph Northam supports this proposed constitutional amendment, as does his Commission to Examine Racial Inequity in Virginia Law. Virginia made the right choice for its citizens, since it...
As a teenager, Nicole Lee Schroeder worked part time at McDonald’s — eight-hour shifts at $7 an hour — just to afford a car to get to and from her unpaid internship. Ten years later, she’s a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia. She’s held a range of positions within academia, from research assistant to editor. Yet, according to Schroeder’s viral Twitter thread, she still considers the McDonald’s gig the hardest job of them all.
UVA student volunteers are on a mission to collect as many pounds of food as they can and deliver it to those who need it the most. “We bridge the gap between food waste and food insecurity,” FoodAssist President Damir Hrnjez said. “There is all of this waste and there’s a lot of food insecurity, as well, so you can solve two things with one.” Since 2018, students at UVA have been collecting leftover food from sorority houses and dining halls through the FoodAssist program and donating it to places like the Salvation Army and Computers4Kids.
A community outreach group formed by the University of Virginia football team has been honored. The UVA IDEA Fund says the Groundskeepers group is the winner of a 2020 Marcus L. Martin Endorsed Award. According to a release, this award honors an existing UVA project or program that works to facilitate long-term, institutional change in inclusion, diversity, equity or access.
(Podcast) In this episode of “The Sound of Economics,” Giuseppe Porcaro and Alicia García-Herrero are joined by Syaru Shirley Lin, Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. They discuss the middle/high-income trap in East Asia, and especially in China. Is the high-income trap different between East Asia and Western Europe, especially in terms of their economic relationship with China? How has COVID-19 changed the economic landscape?
With no physical contact because of the COVID-19 pandemic, hugging and shaking hands have become taboo. "One of the things we’ve learned about the pandemic is things like hugging and touching is a little bit like small talk. You start feeling sad and lonely. We don’t really think about it until it’s not there," said James Coan, a University of Virginia psychology professor.
Despite the controversy, Kwame Edwin Otu, assistant professor of African studies at the University of Virginia, and specialist in LGBT issues, is optimistic: “If the reaction of homophobes is so violent, it is because Ghana is changing. Before considering a decriminalization of same-sex relationships, it is necessary to provoke debate, and this is what LGBT Rights Ghana has done. “
(Video) The 2020 presidential election saw historic voter turnout. Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, discusses how absentee ballots played a role in the outcome.
As the dosing is being figured out doctors are encouraging individuals to take advantage of what is out there. "Any one of them is just so amazingly effective, and nobody anticipated we’d have vaccines that worked so well against this," said Dr. William Petri, an immunologist at the University of Virginia.
“There is evidence that content from highly conservative news sites is favored by Facebook algorithms,” Steven Johnson, an information technology professor at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce told USA TODAY in November.
“Positive Waves for COVID Days” by Matalie Deane, presented by the University of Virginia Health Arts Program, can be seen Thursday through April 29 in the Main Hospital Lobby.
The intersection of life, art and storytelling will take a variety of directions this month at Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. “The Art in Life: Comic Books,” a webinar presented by Kluge-Ruhe and The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, will start the explorations at 7 p.m. Thursday.
The old and the young could benefit from nearly $80,000 in study grants recently approved by a National Institutes of Health organization of medical providers and universities, officials say.
Superintendent of Public Instruction James Lane announced Wednesday that the Virginia Department of Education has secured a three-year, $999,912 federal grant that will go toward support researchers from VDOE and the University of Virginia as they examine pre- and post-pandemic trends through the 2022-2023 school year.