(Commentary) To quote the lone dissenting opinion University of Virginia professor Elizabeth Meyer offered to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in her opposition to the Desert Shield and Desert Storm Memorial, “We’re more than wars.” Meyer’s professionally courageous objection forced me to consider something: Would the ghosts of Revolutionary War veterans take umbrage at the absence of a memorial to their war on the National Mall, or would they instead view the existence of the Mall itself as a memorial to their sacrifice?
(Commentary by Christopher Holstege, professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics) Everything is a toxin, or has the potential to be, in the field of toxicology. In the 1500s, Swiss physician Paracelsus, the father of toxicology, coined his famous dictum: “What is there that is not poison? All things are poison and nothing is without poison. Solely the dose determines that a thing is not a poison.” Lead, however, is toxic at any dose. It serves no purpose in our body. Unlike most other toxins that our body can eliminate through metabolism and excretion, our body has no ability to purge lead....
The UVA School of Medicine says sugar could be the secret to making clothes and other things more durable. Researchers found the strong abilities of sugar in certain acidic hot springs where single-celled organisms exist under extreme conditions. Using an extremely powerful microscope, they discovered huge amounts of sugar covering the organisms. “Some of the clothing we wear, like wool, is a protein and therefore people may be able to engineer new proteins that are covered with sugars to make them similarly indestructible,” said Edward Egelman, with UVA’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecu...
Research scientists at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering & Applied Science have been studying butterflies and other flying insects as they examine the possibilities of developing small robotic air vehicles. These micro air vehicles would be so minuscule that they could fly through cracks in rubble to search for earthquake victims.
The 2019 Palladio Award for Restoration and Renovation goes to John G. Waite Associates, Architects for the Rotunda at the University of Virginia.
Ten graduates are celebrating on Thursday night for completing the University of Virginia’s renowned apprenticeship program. They're heading into good jobs, and hopefully some good money. To give some perspective, UVA’s facilities management apprenticeship program is harder to get into than its undergraduate program.
The mission of the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science is to prepare students to solve global challenges. That makes it a good fit for the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems, a coalition aimed at addressing logistical problems faced by companies and government agencies.
(Co-written by Kieran O’Connor, assistant professor, and David W. Lehman, associate professor, of the McIntire School of Commerce) We seem to care about authenticity a lot these days. When it comes to our work, our leaders, our experiences, even our products, we increasingly value what’s real, genuine, or true. But how do people respond to authenticity when they see it? Do they pay more for it? Do they review it positively? New research shows that how people react depends on what kind of authenticity is being evoked.
There was coach Lars Tiffany and the UVA men’s lacrosse team arriving back in Charlottesville in late May after the most glorious bus ride imaginable from Philadelphia, with the 2019 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship trophy in tow. So were they greeted by cheering masses? “Nice idea, but the students had all gone home. There was nobody left in Charlottesville,” Tiffany said. “The school will honor our team in September during football season.”
A little over 30 years ago, a Northern Neck fisherman named Emerson Stevens went to prison for the brutal slaying of a homecoming queen and mother of two. Now, a reexamination of the case by a hard-charging UVA lawyer has turned up troubling questions.
While Malcolm Brogdon is an efficient player on the offensive end, he is better known for his ability as a perimeter defender. He ranked 10th in the league for defensive win shares, which should come as no surprise since defense has been an instrumental part of his game since his days at the University of Virginia.
A former Dragon is heading to Peru next spring. Joshua King, who graduated from William Monroe High School in 2015 and the University of Virginia in 2019, is a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in South America.
“I’m attending the University of Virginia in the fall, so I’ll have to take some of my focus away from the businesses,” Erica Szymanski said, “but summer is when most of our business come in, so it works out pretty well.”
In the past week, Pulitzer Prize–winner and former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove has seen her lifetime of work honored twice. Last week the City College of New York named Dove the recipient of its 2019 Langston Hughes Medal, to be presented on Nov. 14. This week the Hurston/right Foundation announced Dove as the winner of the organization’s highest honor, the North Star Award for career accomplishment and inspiration to the writing community.
There’s no evidence that there is some sort of anti-conservative censorship embedded in the ways social media companies moderate content. “All of these companies have algorithmic bias, but the bias is not partisan, the bias is toward extremism,” UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan said.
Michael O’Donnell was the first of more than 30 longtime state employees honored Wednesday for their years of service. Currently a French professor at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, O’Donnell, 76, has been bringing bits of the world to his students in the mountains for 52 years. A world traveler, he has no intention of retiring.
Politico asked 27 political insiders, experts, activists and seasoned observers what really changed in the Democratic race in its first big night. “No new substance, but some tactics worth imitating,” wrote Jennifer Lawless, a UVA professor of politics whose research focuses on political ambition, campaigns and elections, and media and politics. “Trump and Biden were untouched,” said Larry J. Sabato, the founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics and a contributing editor at Politico Magazine.
Brad Wilcox, a professor at the University of Virginia who directs the National Marriage Project, a conservative research group that explores the health of marriage in America, echoed those fears. He warned that marriage has long been a “communal undertaking” for a reason.
At eight months before the first votes of the Democratic primary, it is still too early to sketch a real prognosis, UVA political scientist Kyle Kondik said. And "the first night may be forgotten as the big names arrive" Thursday.