(By Payton Turner, incoming first-year student) Imagine a business-class ticket to Europe, two round-trip tickets to Hawaii, numerous short domestic flights or a night of being pampered at a swanky resort. Now imagine those luxuries for free. Sounds great, doesn’t it? These things can be achieved on a budget, often with 100,000 points or less from various loyalty programs.
Marques Hagans’ love for the University of Virginia is unmistakable. It’s where he starred as a wide receiver and quarterback. It’s where he met his wife, former Cavaliers basketball player Lauren Swierczek, and it’s where he has stayed throughout the entirety of his coaching career.
UVA’s Darden School of Business is adding a course this fall on creating value in the metaverse. Students doing business in the metaverse will need to reconsider ideas about pricing and cost of production, says Anton Korinek, an economics professor who will co-teach the class.
The current Supreme Court is the most pro-business of all time. That's the clear message from an important new paper looking at court decisions between 1921 and 2020. The paper's authors – Lee Epstein, of Washington University in St. Louis, and Mitu Gulati, of the University of Virginia – collated their findings from the Washington University Supreme Court Database.
In a paper modestly titled “Noisy Retrospection,” Brigham Young’s Adam Dynes and UVA’s John Holbein took on an immense task: estimating how Democratic or Republican Party control affects objective outcomes on everything from the economy to education to crime.
(Subscription may be required) As he trotted from one drill to the next and greeted one player after another, Tony Elliott’s smile revealed his enthusiasm. The new UVA coach and the Cavaliers held their first preseason practice on Wednesday evening, marking the activation of training camp exactly a month from their Sept. 3 opener against Richmond.
Six months after their identities were revealed, the Bored Ape Yacht Club creators (including UVA alumni Greg Solano and Kerem Atalay) finally open up – and address the “evil” campaign against them.
“The baby boomers had to break down sexual barriers in the ’60s and ’70s, and they’re silently doing it now. There’s a notion that if you turn 55, 60, 70, sex goes away. But it doesn’t. People are living longer and they’re having sex longer,” said UVA religious studies professor John Portmann, author of the book “The Ethics of Sex and Alzheimer’s.”
UVA’s new dean of the School of Education and Human Development is making history. Stephanie Rowley is the first African-American and first woman to lead the school. She also earned her masters and doctorate at UVA. “I’ve just been so warmly welcomed and it feels great to be back,” the new dean said. “I feel like it’s a big deal in terms of representation, in terms of how people see the school and understand what we do.”
(Subscription may be required) UVA immunologist and COVID-19 researcher Dr. William Petri continues to answer reader questions about COVID-19 and, now, monkeypox.
When alumni rate the quality of a program’s faculty, the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce comes out on top.
Public universities perform well in a new analysis of the economic returns students receive from attending college, claiming over half of the top 25 spots (including UVA at No. 21).
Water drinking guidelines can be hugely variable and imprecise, said Dr. Mitchell Rosner, a nephrologist and UVA professor with a focus on fluid and electrolyte disorders. “Probably the best way that we know of [to stay hydrated] is to drink fluids based upon your thirst,” Rosner said. “Humans have an incredibly good ability to use their thirst sensation to basically give us a clue that we're getting behind on our fluids and we need to drink more.”
Matt King capped a big week for the Cavalier swimming and diving program by taking gold in the 50-meter freestyle on the final night of the Phillips 66 National Championships in Irvine, California. In total, UVA swimmers finished with four national championships during the five-day meet.
One of Virginia’s darkest stories is coming to the big screen. UVA’s Center for Politics is partnering with Charlottesville activist and executive producer Tanesha Hudson and the Martinsville 7 Initiative to tell the story of the Martinsville Seven and the hurt that still haunts the area more than seven decades later.
One of Virginia’s darkest stories is coming to the big screen. UVA’s Center for Politics is partnering with Charlottesville activist and executive producer Tanesha Hudson and the Martinsville 7 Initiative to tell the story of the Martinsville Seven and the hurt that still haunts the area more than seven decades later.
When the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the world in 2020, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove had not published a book of her own work for more than a decade. Yet, the former U.S. Poet Laureate never stopped writing the entire time. “The trigger for the collection coming together was indeed the pandemic, because all of a sudden, my calendar was clear,” she said. This collection of poems became “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” published last year.
The congressional hearings stemming from these separate political crises have some stark similarities. Ken Hughes, a historian and Watergate expert at UVA’s Miller Center, offers a nuanced analysis of two primetime presentations separated by five decades.
Although monkeypox is not a disease specifically connected to the LGBTQ+ community, men who have sex with other men and individuals who frequently engage in sex with multiple partners are most at risk. Dr. Patrick Jackson, a UVA infectious disease expert, said that “people who are in these risk groups should take monkeypox quite seriously. They should be aware of their health, their partner’s health [and] get tested, if there are any concerns.”
(Subscription may be required) When “No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone” opens Wednesday in Culbreth Theatre at the University of Virginia, performer Yolanda Rabun and poet and playwright Howard L. Craft will be offering audience members a chance to witness the relevancy of the singer, pianist and civil rights activist in an era that still sees facets of an extraordinary talent emerging.