The University of Virginia is now giving students and staff the option to wear masks inside the classroom. Before Monday, masks were only optional in meeting rooms, office spaces and research labs.
We hope you’re ready, because it’s the most wonderful time of the year for law schools. That’s right, it’s U.S. News law school rankings release night! (UVA’s School of Law ranks No. 8, unchanged from last year.)
Kip Hawley, who after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, helped set up the Transportation Security Administration, and who became its fourth administrator after the much-maligned agency’s first three years of existence, died on March 21 at his home in Pacific Grove, California. He was 68. (He received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1980.)
(Podcast) Tanya Cauthen went to school at the University of Virginia to become a rocket scientist. When she left, her focus was on food. It was a path that would eventually lead Cauthen to open Belmont Butchery in Richmond, Virginia, a national television appearance on the Food Network's Chopped, and the East Coast's Meat Queen.
Aspart of our series about the lessons from influential ‘TasteMakers’, I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Kai Campbell. Campbell, born and raised in the city of Newark, Jersey, is what he self describes as an envisionary, working in distressed urban development, most interested in the “vertical” development and improvement of his hometown. Receiving his formal economic education at The University of Virginia, Kai first labored as a municipal economist and later running his own shop. Kai has worked in the arena of economic development his entire career, helping to change culture and sk...
What can we do? We can fight back, and, at the global level, some reformers — like the University of Virginia Law School’s Ruth Mason — are even feeling optimistic about the struggles ahead. For much of the last century, Mason notes, a small club of rich nations working through the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, set international tax policy. The system they created rested on bilateral tax treaties designed to make sure that corporations doing business outside their home nation wouldn’t be taxed twice on the same income, once by their home country and onc...
The McKinley-Mooney matchup is one of five House races involving two incumbents in the same district. State governments approved new legislative and congressional maps following the 2020 census and population changes. “After redistricting, we always see an increase in the amount of member-on-member primaries. States gain seats, they lose seats. This is just kind of a natural product of that,” said J. Miles Coleman, the associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center demographer Hamilton Lombard says the more important Census-related number to look at is the population under 18, which Cropper actually over-estimated. The 2020 Census counted 38,000 residents under age 18, while Cropper expected 42,000. He says that while that illustrates how Richmond has changed since the Cropper study was produced, it neither “necessarily confirms or undermines his projection.”
AD Carson is an assistant professor of hip hop and the global south at the University of Virginia. He is also a hip hop artist who has recently recorded an album, “Talking to Ghosts,” which deals with, among other things, mental health. Carson compares West to Jay Gatsby from the F Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby.” But Carson cautioned people against treating West as if he was just a character in a story.
Whether or not there’s a “next” surge, we’re still in one, says Dr. Ebony Hilton-Buchholz, an associate professor anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Virginia. Baseline levels of COVID-19 remain high, with hundreds of people dying each day. “We’ve never left the first wave,” she says. “We need a peak and a trough, and we haven’t reached the trough. We keep creating new peaks.”
Zelenskyy, who rose to fame first as an actor and comedian, became president in 2019 after advocating for similar values. "Servant of the People," which ran for three seasons and inspired the name of Zelenskyy's political party, stopped the same year to allow him to focus on his campaign. Since then, Ukraine has become increasingly democratic, likely playing a role in Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade. "[The show] in the end rocketed Zelenskyy to the presidency," Bruce Williams, political scientist and media studies professor at University of Virginia, said. "It's such a su...
(Video) President Biden's visit to Poland Friday spotlights that country's importance to the military and humanitarian effort in Ukraine. Since the start of the invasion of Ukraine no nation has become more important to western efforts to repel Russia. Stephen Mull, former U.S. ambassador to Poland and now the vice provost for global affairs at the University of Virginia, joins Nick Schifrin to discuss.
Rita Dove is one of the most well-known American poets of our time, and her reputation is well-deserved. Throughout her 2021 book “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” we get an insider’s view into the perspective of a Black woman on many aspects of history and current events. Dove is a creative writing professor at the University of Virginia, and her expertise shines through in her ability to switch between formats to find the best fit for each subject.
UVA Health nurses traveled to the Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro to see the animals that helped them destress while serving on the frontlines of the pandemic. At the Wildlife Center of Virginia, there are a live feed of the animals. The center calls it "Critter Cams" and the nurses at UVA Health love to look at the live feed for stress relief.
Nichols was forced to call for assistance from the University of Virginia Medical Center and her colleague Dr. Preston Reynolds to get the jail’s first possible COVID case tested, a time-consuming and complicated process. Throughout the pandemic Nichols said Reynolds and other medical colleagues have been an indispensable resource, helping each other pick up a perceived slack from larger institutions.
Helping patients who continue to have symptoms following a bout of COVID-19 is complex and a new bill from Sen. Tim Kaine could help equip doctors on the frontline with more information and resources. A host of UVA Medical Center leaders and physicians were on hand Friday morning to share their insights with Kaine, who recently introduced a bill to improve research on the syndrome known as “long COVID” and provide more resources for people experiencing its impacts.
Nearly all areas of Virginia continue to see a lowering of daily infections. The exceptions are Central Virginia, Roanoke city and West Piedmont districts. Those localities are currently in what’s known as slow growth trajectory from a very low case rate, according to Friday’s interim report from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute.
“Your learning curve in your twenties predicts your earning curve in your thirties and beyond,” says Meg Jay, associate professor at the University of Virginia and author of The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How To Make The Most of Them Now. But there is a difference between seeking out diverse experiences in your career and avoiding your career, Jay adds. “Learning . . . about work and love and yourself, is going to pay off down the line in all sorts of ways.”