Area residents and visitors can help people facing food insecurity throughout the month of August. On Reserve – a student-run nonprofit at UVA that partners with local restaurants, grocery stores and other charitable organizations to help reduce food insecurity in the local area – and Giant Food have teamed up.
Preteens are exploring their place in the world, but they need open communication and support at home more than ever, even if they act like they don’t. “If you tell them you’re always there for them, the likelihood is they’ll roll their eyes, and that’s OK,” says Nancy Deutsch, a UVA professor of education. “That’s what they’re supposed to do.”
(Commentary co-written by Emma Fuentes, undergraduate English major) Roe is gone. Now, thinkers on the right and left are jockeying to interpret what this moment requires of our politics. There are often intractable differences between the two camps, but unfortunately both are attempting to determine the future of post-Roe America without reference to fathers and their role in forming strong families.
Fans can wear their favorite Cavalier student-athlete’s jersey, while student-athletes can now financially benefit from jersey sales. The UVA athletics department announced that fans can now order custom fan jerseys personalized with participating UVA student-athletes’ last names and numbers or with the fan’s own name and number combination.
As the United States’ Civil War ended in 1865 and many defeated Southern cities lay in ruins, a handful of ex-Confederates who ended up leaving their ill-fated secessionist nation opted for a perhaps unlikely destination: Mexico. The narrative of what happened to members of the Confederate army after the war’s end is addressed in a new book about this period of history: “Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox” by University of Virginia professor Caroline Janney.
The Blue Ridge Poison Center at UVA Health is seeing a sharp spike in calls related to Delta 8 products. Delta 8 THC is a compound that naturally occurs in very small amounts in cannabis flowers, but can be extracted and distilled. It can then be sprayed onto hemp flower for smoking, or made into edibles, like gummies. Dr. Christopher Holstege, who directs the Blue Ridge Poison Center, said the gummies in particular have become a problem.
According to new rankings from U.S. News & World Report, released Tuesday, the University of Virginia Medical Center was ranked second in the state, and rated particularly high in orthopedics, pulmonology and ophthalmology.
(By Sarah Turner, professor of education and economics) As the Biden administration debates loan forgiveness, some 3 million student borrowers – many of them teachers – are eligible for more than $100 billion in debt relief. But do they know?
(Subscription may be required) Art collecting began as an adventure in giving for two of Roanoke’s best-known philanthropists. But as years passed, Heywood and Cynthia Fralin’s own trove was growing. In 2012, the couple donated a collection of American art to the University of Virginia, his alma mater. The school’s rector and board of visitors re-named the museum after them, in honor of the gift.
(Subscription may be required) Justin Kirkland, a UVA associate professor of politics and public policy, said some legislators around the country argue legislating through the budget is sometimes necessary because it’s the only way to get important policies passed in a timely manner. But this argument doesn’t hold up, the professor said.
(Subscription may be required) UVA Health began weekly COVID-19 briefings to discuss one epidemic, but used Friday’s meeting to discuss the reality of tackling two epidemics at once. There are now 64 cases of monkeypox across the state – a number that has been steadily rising on a weekly basis – and one case in the Blue Ridge Health District, according to the Virginia Department of Health.
Registered Republicans now outnumber Democrats in Florida, Kentucky, and West Virginia after years of trailing, according to data from Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics
UVA Professor of Politics Carol Mershon analyzes the ramifications of the resignation of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, and the country’s complicated political system.
(Subscription may be required) Plenty has changed for the Hoos over the last 12 months, but the most significant constant is quarterback Brennan Armstrong, who new coach Tony Elliott has had the luxury of inheriting and leaning on to help spread and establish his ways of operating throughout the rest of the team.
“The Jan. 6 Committee hearings have already accomplished what the Watergate hearings did. A majority of Americans – the middle and the left – have concluded that the President under investigation did wrong. Neither set of hearings, however, convinced the Republican base,” says Ken Hughes, a Watergate expert at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
(Registration may be required) The Times presents an except from a poem by Brian Teare, associate professor of English.
(Commentary by Stefan Lund, postdoctoral fellow at the Nau Center for Civil War History; subscription may be required) Before the Civil War, Americans frequently confronted the specter of mob violence, which perpetrators justified as necessary to prevent or remove perceived threats to their communities. But then, as now, mob violence was about subverting democracy and the rule of law to violently enforce one group’s idea of justice.
(Commentary, subscription may be required) The phenomenon of the gender gap – the fact that women as a whole are more supportive of the Democratic Party than men are – masks significant divisions in the American electorate. UVA political scientist Nicholas Winter addresses this issue head-on in his research.
(Subscription may be required) Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist who became a lightning rod in debates around climate change, reviled by activists and revered among skeptics for using his academic pedigree to challenge the broad scientific consensus on the causes and consequences of global warming, died July 15 at his home in Washington. He was 72. Dr. Michaels, who spent decades as a professor of environmental sciences at UVA and as Virginia’s state climatologist, was one of the most prominent contrarian voices in political and policy discussions surrounding climate change.
The UVA Police Department is collecting school supplies to help children in Charlottesville’s schools.