A five-year, $500,000 grant from the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation is supporting the multi-pronged effort, called the Just Food for Charlottesville program, which includes increasing the number of students eating school meals, ensuring that their voices are heard when it comes to what is served and purchasing equipment for kitchens. Cultivate Charlottesville also will work with students to educate them about healthy options. UVA Health and Dorothy Batten are helping to fund the grant.
Lines were, once again, long at the final COVID-19 testing event in Charlottesville before the Thanksgiving holiday. Cars lined up for testing at Mount Zion First African Baptist Church for a testing event hosted by UVA Health.
(Commentary) I saw part of an interview a few weeks ago with Dr. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. His research suggests married couples have proven much more resilient in dealing with this virus – and all that comes with it – than their single peers.
In the University of Virginia’s Plant Ecology and Remote Sensing Lab, Elliott White Jr. deploys satellite imagery to compute ongoing losses of fragile coastal lands. From National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite data, he calculated that coastal regions from Maine to Texas had experienced a net loss of 5,387 square miles of coastal and river swamps in a 20-year period from 1996 to 2016.
Researchers say they’ve found no evidence to support GOP grievances that the nation’s leading social media companies squelch conservative voices. “I know of no academic research that concludes there is a systemic bias – liberal or conservative – in either the content moderation policies or in the prioritization of content by algorithms by major social media platforms," said Steven Johnson, an information technology professor at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce.
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine says that more Americans identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or other nonbinary identities than ever before, but significant gaps remain in data collection and understanding of their well-being. That reality has significant implications for not only the current state of HIV care and services for LGBTQ people, but also the future evolution of those interventions. “We’re simply missing some of the data that would allow us to fully understand the well-being of sexual and gender diverse po...
(Audio interview) There are many similarities between cryptocurrencies and social networks. And the rise of payment apps like Venmo make the link between payments and social media explicit. But this convergence between money and social media goes back a long time. On this episode, we speak with Lana Swartz, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia, about her book, “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media.”
It may seem more Harry Potter than Star Trek, but the universe is literally full of dark energy and dark matter, and a University of Virginia professor joined colleagues across the country to measure it. Professor Anatoly Klypin, an expert in numerical simulations and cosmology, helped to develop a mathematical formula utilizing a lot of letters and the Greek alphabet to determine that about 69% of the universe is composed of dark energy.
An associate professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering at the University of Virginia, Christopher Goyne is the director of the Aerospace Research Laboratory at the University of Virginia. Goyne spoke with Air & Space senior associate editor Diane Tedeschi in August.
The pantry also created new donation partnerships with Cavalier Produce, 4P Foods, Innisfree Village, Keswick Hall's organic garden, Pasture to Produce and the University of Virginia's Dining Services to increase the amount of fresh food it could provide.
The pantry also created new donation partnerships with Cavalier Produce, 4P Foods, Innisfree Village, Keswick Hall's organic garden, Pasture to Produce and the University of Virginia's Dining Services to increase the amount of fresh food it could provide.
Not everyone can be with their families on Thanksgiving, but at the University of Virginia they wanted to make sure no one felt alone.
Due to the coronavirus, many students at the University of Virginia did not travel home this Thanksgiving. This is one of the reasons why UVA Dining and the Food Insecurity Resource Group decided to host "Hoosgiving."
Positivity rates in the Thomas Jefferson Health District, as well as in Albemarle and Charlottesville specifically, have dropped significantly as the University of Virginia ramped up testing over the last two months. Public health officials have said UVA-affiliated testing has skewed the percent of positive tests reported over a seven-day timeframe. From Nov. 15 to Nov. 21, 71% of all testing encounters in the health district were either for UVA students, faculty, staff or contract workers, according to a Daily Progress analysis of area testing data.
The University of Virginia has opened an office in downtown Charlottesville to connect the school with community-focused initiatives. The Center for Community Partnerships at UVA recently opened in the old Albemarle Hotel Building at 617 W. Main St.
The good news is that, physiologically, science now understands the origin of the sadness and anger fueling our current mental-health challenges. Blame it on the prefrontal cortex, Jim Coan, a neuroscientist, clinical psychologist, and the director of UVA’s Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, told me.
(Transcript) UVA law professor Douglas Laycock, an expert on religious liberty, said, “This is the first case where Amy Coney Barrett really makes a difference as compared to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And it flipped the result. And they're not going to be deferential to governors anymore. They’re really going to examine closely for signs of discrimination.”
When students enroll at UVA, they sign a pledge not to cheat, but that doesn’t mean professors ignore that risk – especially with exams happening off campus. Some use technology to monitor test-taking with websites keeping an electronic eye on students.
The birding world lost a luminary on Sunday, November 22, when Edward S. (Ned) Brinkley died during a birding trip in southern Ecuador. He was the author of the National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Birds of North America, and he was formerly a professor of literature and film at the University of Virginia.
UVA alumna Kate Bedingfield has come from working for the Obama administration to working with the Biden-Harris presidential campaign, and is once again on the path to the White house. The daughter of a former CNN-er has been lending her political communications expertise to Joe Biden since he was the veep. And rumor has it that she could be a key White House staffer when Biden enters the Oval Office in 2021. Who is this senior Biden official?