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On Tuesday, Kate Bedingfield made her debut at the White House press briefing room lectern. As press secretary Jen Psaki was absent due to Covid, Bedingfield [a UVA alumna] stepped in for the day.

Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, President Zelenskyy has all but begged for NATO and the U.S. to establish a no-fly zone over his country’s airspace to prevent the Russian air force from establishing air dominance over the country.  Thus far, both the U.S. and NATO have declined. We invited retired Air Force Lt Gen David Deptula [a UVA alumnus] to give us his views on whether such a no-fly zone could be established and what it would take in terms of air assets.

Professor Ming-Jer Chen, a specialist in business strategy and East-West competition at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, also says that many of these women entered the business world in response to the trying times of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Their entrepreneurial ambitions were fuelled by a desire to provide a better life for their children, but also by a Confucian view of work. “Those values, like working to exhaustion, are the unique characteristics of Chinese entrepreneurs both in mainland China and overseas,” Chen explained to the Darden Ideas to Action websi...

(By Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported changes in population from 2020 to 2021. While the headline findings mainly dealt with population declines, a number of places (particularly in the Sun Belt) are still experiencing substantial growth. A little more than five dozen counties with at least 100,000 residents grew by 3% or more from April 2020 to July 2021. These counties are spread across 20 states.

(By Michael Williams, associate professor of surgery and public policy) No one gave a second thought to the safety of dining out before the pandemic. Fast-forward to today, and it’s normal to wonder whether there is a city, state or federal policy around whether you need a mask or proof of vaccination to eat in a restaurant. The public policies around dining and many other activities have changed multiple times over the course of the pandemic. These rules are also often different from place to place. For millions of parents like my wife and me, the guidelines regarding children can be especial...

Beth Lillie has never been past the gates at Augusta National Golf Club but, like many golf fans who have been to Augusta, Georgia, she’s quite familiar with the view of Magnolia Lane from Washington Road. When Lillie’s Virginia team played the Valspar Augusta Invitational, head coach Ria Scott detoured the team van past the entrance, as you do. “We laid down on the grass and did the whole tacky thing,” Lillie said. “It was probably pretty brutal to watch.” This is the week that Lillie gets inside, having earned an invitation to the Augusta National Women’s Amateur with the rest of the nation’...

On March 31st, 2009, Tony Bennett was formally introduced as the head coach of the Virginia men's basketball program. Thirteen years later, Bennett has established himself as one of the nation's best college basketball coaches, whose resume speaks for itself. On the 13-year anniversary of Bennett's hiring, let's take a look at what he has accomplished in his time in Charlottesville.

A new study at the University of Virginia Health System could change the way drugs and vaccines are delivered.

Others that have revealed their acceptance rate include MIT (3.96%), Northwestern University (7%), Barnard College (8%, a record), Davidson University (16.8%) and the University of Virginia (19%, a record).

On April 1, 1957, a handful of students gathered in a first-floor studio in UVA’s Old Cabell Hall for the first broadcast of WTJU. In just a few minutes, classical music filled the airwaves, radiating out to a small audience in Charlottesville that would grow into a dedicated following. Since its inception, WTJU has been a different sort of radio station: Dedicated to sharing unique and eclectic music, committed to serving the University and our broader community, staffed by volunteer UVA students and community volunteers.

The grind never stops for Kendall Street Company, formed at UVA in 2013. Since March 11, this squad has been driving up and down the East Coast on the first leg of its spring tour, with stops in Washington, D.C., Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina.

For Deep Root Records, one of the few 100% Black-owned labels in dance music, it’s about bringing various genres of house music to the scene. The imprint began in 2014, when EDM was exploding and hip hop was at the forefront of music, with the purpose of creating a space for the classic house and old school house music that New York is known for. Deep Root, co-founded by UVA McIntire School of Commerce alumnus Ajamu Kambon, focuses on deep house, tech house, progressive house, melodic house and Afro house.

Ben McKenzie was driving his father’s silver Subaru through Texas farmland, talking in breathless bursts about money: who has it, who needs it, what makes it real or fake. He detailed the perils of cryptocurrency exchanges, the online brokers that sell Bitcoin and Ether to speculators. Over the last six months, as A-list celebrities have shilled for digital currencies and NFTs, McKenzie, a TV actor best known for his starring role in “The O.C.,” has become an outspoken skeptic. McKenzie has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Virginia.

Dr. William M. Shobe, director of the Center for Economic & Policy Studies, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, and an adjunct professor of economics at the University of Virginia, said “Pennsylvania actually profits by joining RGGI. Being the low cost, low emission-intensity generator, it will gain by selling emission reductions to the rest of RGGI.”

Area school districts have also tapped into local universities in their search for replacement teachers. Student teachers at UVA’s School of Education are being hired out of their internships at rates higher than before, said Jeff Davis, director of curriculum, instruction and special education. In previous years, only a small handful of specialized student teachers would get hired toward the end of their internships. Davis said almost half of this year’s cohort of about 150 students have been hired, some a just weeks into their months-long internships, to serve as long-term substitutes.

In Lee County, Youngkin took home a whopping 87.6% of the vote — an example of how well the first-time politician performed all across Southwest Virginia. “Youngkin was at over 80% of the vote in a lot of those towns,” points out J. Miles Coleman, spokesman for UVA’s Center for Politics. … Lack of employment opportunities led to the region’s dramatic population drop. “What you see is a tremendous amount of out migration, particularly young adults, because they don’t see job prospects in the area,” says Hamilton Lombard, a demographer for UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.

Dana Walters, associate editor of The Practice, recently sat down with Roshni Raveendhran, assistant professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business, to talk about the psychology of behavior and decision making.

Over the past 25 years, “legislation has repeatedly raised the statutory limits on contributions and benefits for retirement plans and IRAs, delayed the start of required distributions, and weakened statutory non-discrimination rules — all to the benefit of affluent workers and the financial-services companies that collect asset-based fees from retirement savings,” Michael Doran, a law professor at the University of Virginia, wrote in an academic paper earlier this year. “The result has been spectacular growth in the retirement accounts of higher-income earners but modest or even negative grow...

Experts in American politics struggled to find another instance in which a former U.S. president had solicited damaging information about a sitting president’s family from the leader of one of the country’s most significant geostrategic rivals. “Don't bother to look for parallels because it's completely unparalleled,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said. “This is an example of complete self-absorption and elevation of personal interest over the country's interests.”

Civic education should supply “what students need to know to be participants in American public life,” says University of Virginia professor James W. Ceaser. But that goal is not being met at any educational level today.