The version of the American Revolution narrated by Alan Taylor, who holds UVA’s Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair in American History and has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, is raucous, complicated, unheroic and based on extremely rigorous scholarship. It also asserts that among the motivations of the colonists who broke away from Britain was the protection of slavery.
Time is running out for a generation of World War II veterans to tell their stories. Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a professor at the UVA School of Medicine, along with UVA students and volunteers, has taken up a project to capture local veterans’ narratives on video.
The UVA Biocomplexity Institute’s COVID-19 model shows there’s a 30% chance that we could see a winter surge that will have case numbers surpassing what we experienced in the summer because of the Delta variant. If we do, that surge could come in the first quarter of 2022.
WVIR’s signal went live on March 11, 1973. Harold Wright made that possible. Harold came to Charlottesville as an engineering student at the University of Virginia. It was there he fell in love with broadcasting, first with radio. Harold decided Charlottesville deserved, and could support, its own television station. So, with about $500,000 in capital and secondhand equipment from a failed station in North Carolina, WVIR was born. Harold Wright passed away peacefully at his Lake Monticello home Saturday.
As far back as summer 2010, near the midpoint of his 12-year pro basketball career, Roger Mason Jr. left money on the table to sign a contract with the Knicks, knowing that playing and networking in New York could fuel his post-retirement business. After retiring, Mason heeded an invitation from NBPA executive director Michele Roberts to join her as the deputy director of the players’ union. He served in that role for two years, became commissioner of the Big3 basketball league and is now CEO of Vaunt, a sports and entertainment development company he co-founded with his business partner, Omar...
(Press release) The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the appointment of Erica Y. Williams as chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Williams earned both a J.D. and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.
Trevor Scott Floyd was one of three theater workers who shared a fourth-floor walk-up in San Francisco’s Richmond District for part of 2019 and 2020. Kate Robinson, Bethany Byrd-Hill and he had all worked a range of theater gigs, but they had all at one point managed the box office at Marin Theatre Company. By the end of their lease, all three had left the industry — and the Bay Area. “I was paying $1,100 a month to live in what the last people had used as a closet,” said Floyd, who is now in law school at the University of Virginia. He got a lot of advice not to become a lawyer unless he was ...
Serving your country is a calling. “Overall I felt called to serve, so that’s why I decided to join ROTC,” said University of Virginia third-year cadet Jessica Bachman. For her, it was a call that came in part from her family and led her to ROTC at UVA. “I decided that, really based on my familial ties, that I wanted to join the military and serve my country,” she said. Her story is not unusual. Many of those in ROTC were inspired by a family member who also served.
Cadets at the University of Virginia have started their 24-hour vigil for veterans. The cadets will be marching across McIntire stage, switching out every 30 minutes, until Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. The march is to honor veterans including those who are missing in action and prisoners of war.
Albemarle County contains clusters of highly engaged voters that routinely show out at polls at higher rates than other voters in the state, according to Paul Freedman, associate professor of political science at the University of Virginia. “Voters in the county may have been paying particular attention to this election, not only to the gubernatorial race at the top of the ticket, but to some of the local contests as well,” Freedman said.
Abe Sutherland has been one of the loudest voices urging lawmakers to remove 6050i from the infrastructure bill. Sutherland, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, wrote a report for the Proof of Stake Alliance, a trade association he advises, in which he warns against crypto regulation that would expand surveillance of everyday Americans.
“Miners, stakers, lenders, decentralized application and marketplace users, traders, businesses, and individuals are all at risk of being subject to this reporting requirement, even though in most situations the person or entity in receipt is not in the position to report the required information,” warned attorney Abraham Sutherland, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and adviser to the Proof of Stake Alliance, an industry group, in a September report.
“The most significant requirements of the Clean Economy Act are durable because they are in the legislation,” said Cale Jaffe, professor and director of the Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic at the UVA School of Law. “There are enough different actors that are either outside of any governor’s control or where a governor’s role is indirect that it seems the broad path is durable. That would be my prediction.”
(Audio) Among the guests is Kevin Pelphrey, Harrison-Wood Jefferson Scholars Foundation Professor of Neurology at UVA’s Brain Institute and School of Medicine.
“Eternals” director Chloé Zhao, who was born in China, faced criticism from Chinese nationalists over a 2013 interview in which she said “there are lies everywhere” in China. “I would be surprised if ‘Eternals’ got released in China,” Aynne Kokas, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia and the author of the book “Hollywood Made in China,” recently told Insider. “The controversy has gotten a lot of attention and has been a rallying cry for Chinese netizens.”
(Press release) The University of Chicago will present honorary degrees to four distinguished scholars – including Cora Diamond, a philosopher at the University of Virginia – at its Convocation ceremony in June 2022, in recognition of their significant contributions to their fields of study. Cora Diamond , a distinguished philosopher, will receive the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Diamond has produced groundbreaking work in three major areas: the philosophical foundations of logic; the interpretation of 20th-century Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein; and the ethic...
UVA Health is launching a new program to cut tobacco use among teens and adults, called FamHealth. Backed by a three-year community innovation grant from the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth, FamHealth will send UVA College at Wise students to middle schools once a month to mentor students on refraining from tobacco use.
Navigating name, image, and likeness deals for collegiate student-athletes can be difficult. Many student-athletes are now turning for help when it comes to creating their brand. Charlottesville’s Hook Sports Marketing was founded to help University of Virginia student-athletes make smart decision when it comes to NIL opportunities. The agency most recently brought on three members of the UVA men’s basketball team.
Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall said Monday he’s “planning” to have star quarterback Brennan Armstrong available Saturday night against No. 7 Notre Dame, though he declined to share much about the junior’s status as he recovers from an apparent rib injury suffered Oct. 30 in the loss at BYU. “It literally is day-to-day and we’re going to give him every minute, right until the ball is kicked off, to be our quarterback,” said Mendenhall.
The industry’s high energy demands have also caught policymakers’ attention as the state moves to decarbonize its electric grid. One recent study from University of Virginia researchers found that data centers will be one of the primary drivers of growing electricity demand in Virginia over the next few decades.