When schooling in New Zealand, the Chinese native was exposed to a diverse learning environment: students came from various cultural backgrounds, and the curricula encourage students to explore their passion. “I also had ample opportunities to travel with friends abroad to participate in swimming and business competitions,” the University of Virginia medical student tells over e-mail.
“I think what we’re seeing is marriage is becoming more selective,” said W. Bradford Wilcox, a senior fellow at IFS and a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.
Biden will need to balance her responsibilities at the White House and in the classroom, something that will be time-consuming and difficult but that she has experience doing. “The particular challenge will be making sure to send a signal she can do two jobs,” said Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia Miller Center senior fellow Chris Lu, a former Deputy Labor Secretary who served as the executive director of the 2008-09 Obama-Biden transition effort, said he did not know if it was possible to quantify the damage to national security that could result from a delayed transition process.
On Wednesday’s edition of UVA’s Medical Center Hour, experts dove into the mental toll of being on the front lines.
This year’s theme will be “Finding Our Light.”
A local volunteer organization is holding a holiday sewing and gift initiative that will benefit UVA Children’s.
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Lexie Hodges and her mother, Sharon Love, founded the One Love Foundation 10 years after the murder of Yeardley Love, a University of Virginia lacrosse player, by her ex-boyfriend.
The University of Maryland will go all-virtual after Thanksgiving break. Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia will also finish this semester online. UVA says it will require every student to be tested for COVID before leaving campus.
Do all students in the United States have the same access to education? If they don’t, should the federal government be held complicit? UVA law professor Kimberly Robinson recently tackled that question, asking if education should be a constitutional right in her new book, “Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy Regarding a Federal Right to Education.”
Charles Snowden steeled himself for the walk he helped map out with a group of his UVA teammates, feeling its gravity the moment he looked up at the street sign that read, “Heather Heyer Way.”
Claudia W. Allen, a clinical psychologist and the director of the Family Stress Clinic at the UVA School of Medicine, recommended the following script to start things off: “This is a complicated year. I hope that we’ll be able to be together in some way, but I’m concerned about keeping us all safe. What are your thoughts about that?”
Sixteen years ago, a group of people in the Charlottesville area worked to solve a problem within nearby schools: the lack of diversity among teachers. They created a nonprofit, now headed by a University of Virginia alumna, that aims to put more Black teachers into the classroom.
The concept was born of co-founder Steve Rogge’s personal experience as a restaurateur. He said that to buy food and other supplies was a challenge as the search took him to multiple websites and sources. Rogge shared his challenge with Akbasli, a friend he made while at the University of Virginia. The pair then brought on their college friends Lancen Lachance and Willow Noonan to fill out its roster of founders.
Dr. Benjamin Moses, an anesthesiologist and critical care medicine physician at the University of Virginia, has announced his candidacy for the 59th district seat in the Virginia House of Delegates.
It will be “very hard” for Biden to have much sway over policy while not in power, said Barbara Perry, presidential studies director at UVA’s Miller Center, but the Democrat can send signals about important policy decisions, and could hold growing symbolic influence as the soon-to-be leader of the world’s most powerful country.
A University of Virginia professor says the 2020 election results show a lot about the urban-rural divide in America.
The team Biden tasked with transitioning the Labor Department will be headed by former Deputy Labor Secretary Chris Lu, who has deep ties to former President Barack Obama. Lu serves as an adviser to the technology firm FiscalNote and as a fellow at a think tank affiliated with the University of Virginia.