A group of students from the UVA School of Architecture toured Alaska to develop design strategies for extreme climates in the Arctic.
We wish the University of Virginia could have celebrated just one evening of unmarred joy over its 200 years of accomplishments. But, alas, it was not to be.
It's dropped on the floor, stuffed between sofa cushions and probably been in the dog's mouth, so it's no wonder a UVA study of cold viruses on household surfaces showed the remote control was one of the most infested.
When UVA senior Steven Stetzler met former NASA astronauts Al Worden and Catherine "Cady" Coleman, the computer science and physics major said it was "a very surreal experience." Astronauts had always seemed to exist in a different reality from his own, yet here they were, in the flesh, he said. Stetzler met the NASA astronauts last month in Washington, D.C., after winning a scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
Even in the past few months, there has been growing momentum for intersex rights – on both the cultural and political fronts. These developments are in step with the larger disability rights movement, which argues for replacing assumptions of “bad-difference” with acceptance of “mere-difference,” in the terminology of UVA philosopher Elizabeth Barnes.
UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan said that while Facebook and other internet companies are used to tough pressure from regulators in Europe, the degree of pressure that the platform is feeling in the U.S. is unprecedented. "Any time that the Senate Intelligence Committee demands that you testify, demands data from you, you better take it seriously,” said Vaidhyanathan, who’s writing a book about Facebook.
As the distance to Election Day shortens, Virginia’s two major-party candidates for governor are using considerably more of their paid TV and digital ads directly attacking each other – and, in Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam’s case, defending himself. Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor, said he considers such ads to be a poor investment because he doesn’t think there are many voters who are undecided.
Facebook finds itself either unable or unwilling to cope with the increasingly apparent fact that its platform was/is being used as a vehicle for propaganda through the use of fake accounts, by a hostile foreign country seeking to destabilize the country. Warned of the problem by no less than President Obama, Zuckerberg reportedly shrugged it off. As published at Wired, Siva Vaidhyanathan of the University of Virginia “describes Zuckerberg as a bright man who would have done well to finish his education.” Quoting Viadhyanathan directly, “[Zuckerberg] lacks the historical sense of the horr...
When it comes to active campaigning, Northam is more often found in Northern Virginia, Richmond or Hampton Roads. That may just be smart politics, said UVA political analyst Geoffrey Skelley.
The two major party candidates in Virginia's closely watched race for governor are set for their third and final debate. Republican Ed Gillespie and Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam will debate Monday evening at the University of Virginia at Wise.
On Monday, Republican Ed Gillespie and Democrat Ralph Northam do something that no candidates for governor have ever done: They will hold a debate in far Southwest Virginia. When Gillespie and Northam meet on the campus of the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, they will be closer to seven other state capitals than they will be to their own in Richmond. The whole point of having a debate in the coalfields is to force the candidates to talk about the unique economic issues facing that part of the state.
Emily Hubbard had never encountered the theory of implicit bias before moving into Dillard Hall, a dormitory selected to pilot UVA’s implicit bias module. Participating in the module opened up good conversations about bias, stereotypes and discrimination, Hubbard said, and helped her to understand her new classmates better.
Though the exact location of its original capstone remains a mystery, the University of Virginia celebrated the early milestone with speeches, “The Good Ol’ Song” and a new marble time capsule Friday.
The University’s kickoff to a two-year bicentennial celebratio, reinterpreted history through music, dance and cutting-edge projection mapping.
Northam also has a fundraising advantage. “The favorable environment is keeping the Democrat slightly ahead, but given the tendency in Virginia to vote against the sitting presidential party in gubernatorial elections and Trump’s poor approval rating, Northam should probably be ahead by a little more,” said Geoffrey Skelley, who keeps tabs on the state’s politics at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Even though it seems intuitive to imagine economic downturns lead to poor health, Christopher Ruhm, a UVA economics and public policy professor, has found that is historically not the case. Typically during recessions, Ruhm found that people generally have healthier behavior during recessions, including drinking less and not using other substances that may put additional strain on tight budgets.
A new Washington Post/Schar School poll says Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam leads Republican challenger Ed Gillespie 53 to 40 percent in next month’s Virginia gubernatorial election among likely voters. “If that’s what actually held and Northam won by 13 points, it would be a pretty smashing victory for him,” Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA, said Thursday. “Most of the other polls in this race – and I think the opinions of the two campaigns probably – don’t see the lead in the race as that big of a lead for Northam.”
The outcome of Virginia’s race for governor, the country’s marquee statewide election this year, will have widespread significance for the state’s roughly 1.29 million schoolchildren, political observers and education experts say. “The governor’s race matters a whole lot for what public education will look like in Virginia in the days ahead,” said Sally Hudson, a UVA assistant professor of public policy, education and economics.