Vint, founded by University of Virginia graduates Nick King and Patrick Sanders, has seen success in its first year as an investment platform that enables anyone to buy ownership shares in high-value wine collections, along with some spirits.
(Commentary by Meghan Herwig, Ph.D. candidate in history and the Brian Layton Blades Jefferson Fellow) The Winter Olympics begin Friday in Beijing, and the event has brought China’s human rights practices back into the public spotlight.
New Virginia coach Tony Elliott and his staff have made the most of their time on the recruiting trail since he took the job and was introduced in December. On Wednesday, Elliott added 10 signees — eight offensive linemen and two defensive lineman — to the 10-player group the Cavaliers signed in December when Elliott and former coach Bronco Mendenhall tag-teamed the handling of the early date through the coaching transition. Here’s a closer look at the 10 commits to ink with UVA on Wednesday.
Tony Elliott’s priority in advance of his first February signing date as coach at Virginia was clear. He and his staff needed to rebuild and bolster the Cavaliers’ offensive front. From December, in his first month on the job, through Wednesday, Elliott and Hoos offensive line coach Garett Tujague recruited with urgency and their effort culminated with UVa inking eight offensive linemen as part of the 10-man group of players to sign during the traditional signing date.
Back in 1999, when Chase Heard and Andy Stepanian started a bluegrass band called the Wrinkle Neck Mules, they combed racks at vintage shops looking for classic Western shirts to wear at gigs. The two musicians, who met at the University of Virginia and bonded over their love of surfing and the outdoors, wore those shirts when they went fishing too, preferring the look over more technical garb. “The uniform was pastel, over-vented, dorky-looking stuff,” Heard said. The way they saw it, Western yokes and pearl snaps, with a splash of surf punk thrown in, just looked better. When the two founded...
Alex Rudenshiold, guitarist for metal band Infant Island and a graduate student studying internet culture at the University of Virginia, tells Rolling Stone in an email that, despite all the uproar over HitPiece, “this particular grift doesn’t really affect artists in that HitPiece wasn’t even selling files of the songs — just the receipt of purchase to the general idea of them.”
Staking results in a creation of “new property”. New property is taxed only at the time of sale, not when you discover it. As Abraham Sutherland, a lecturer at the University of Virginia, describes on Cryptocurrency Economics and The Taxation of Block Rewards, crops do not generate income until they are sold or exchanged, according to reg. section 1.61-4. According to Reg. section 1.61-3(a) gross income from mined minerals such as gold is only recognized at the time of sale, not at the time of extraction. Applying these fact patterns to staking, it could be argued that staking rewards should o...
(Commentary) “Ted Lasso” is fictional, but Carla Williams, the athletic director at the University of Virginia, is quite real. When she hired Olympic gold medalist and former WNBA star Tina Thompson, Williams was applauded for her patience in the hiring process and finding the best candidate possible for the job. I’m sure other women saw this and realized for the first time that they could have a career in sports.
Five primary factors will shape this November’s midterm elections. Each has varying degrees of importance, but all solidly affect President Joe Biden’s approval ratings, which influences how people will vote, said Larry Sabato, Ph.D., political prognosticator, professor of politics at the University of Virginia, and founder and director of the UVA Center for Politics, during an exclusive NAIOP members-only webinar this week.
Saikrishna Prakash, a law professor at the University of Virginia, said Trump had the ability to make blanket pardons for rioters before leaving office. “Maybe there are 700 people in the criminal law pipeline. There might be 500 other people that could eventually be in it. And if [Trump] pardons, he’s probably going to write a pardon that covers everybody involved, whether or not they’re being prosecuted,” Prakash said.
Laura Morgan Roberts, professor of practice at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and an expert in human potential, diversity, and leadership development, notes that compassionate, responsive leadership is critical to every organization, whether in person or remotely. Successful companies will emphasize a culture that prizes inclusivity and diversity. “In the past year,” she noted, “we’ve seen more of a push to hire minorities, and we understand the value that diverse identities bring to the quality of work that organizations engage in on a daily basis.” Even after a crisis...
(Commentary) Experts say what influences young people the most about core beliefs are family, church and social media. “On nearly every single outcome that we can assess,” according to Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, “public schools have a marginal impact that is really small relative to the impact of families. The things that we worry about in terms of the state of the country are far more a function of the families the kids are growing up in than the school they go to,” said Pianta, founding director of the Center for Advanced Study of Teac...
(Commentary co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project) More than 1 in 10 unmarried Americans whose income falls below the median reported they were not married for fear of losing “access to government benefits,” according to a recent Institute for Family Studies/Wheatley Institution survey. These marriage penalties tend to hit hardest the working-class couples with children and household incomes between about $28,000 and $55,000. The research indicates that the penalties can amount to between about 10% and 30% of household income for ma...
A group out of the University of Virginia is working on a project that could change the way students are taught. The first study took place at the Community Lab School in Albemarle County, where students are already learning in a non-traditional way.
Many medical centers have too few nurses, and Jane Muir – a researcher at UVA’s School of Nursing, says some are offering big bucks to those who are willing to come as contract or traveling staff. “What brought me to this research was just seeing how many nurses, quite frankly, felt undervalued in their workplace, when they were working alongside travel nurses who made three times more than their salary,” she explains.
The University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce dropped to second from first last year, with a class GPA of 4.32 — which was actually an improvement from the top 2020 mark of 4.25.
The Jefferson Trust has hit a new record for awarding grant funding. According to a release, the trust’s Board of Trustees awarded nearly $1.35 million to 14 new projects and programs at the University of Virginia. This set of grants also included the most grants of at least $100,000 ever awarded.
The UVA School of Law is receiving funds to help low-income students. A total of $200,000 from the Jefferson Trust will soon fund a Roadmap Scholars Initiative. These students will live in Charlottesville for four weeks in the summer. During that time they will see first-hand what being a law student is like and live off of a $3,000 stipend.
(Podcast) University of South Carolina women’s basketball coach (and UVA alumna) Dawn Staley kicks off the first week of Black History Month with history-maker Carla Williams, athletic director at the University of Virginia. Williams and Staley discuss the magnitude of being the first Black female athletic director to lead a Power Five athletic department, the importance of maintaining one’s integrity in the face of opposition and how they each define success.
The UVA School of Law is taking what it says is the most comprehensive approach yet to promoting a diverse pipeline of law students, launching a program to guide first-generation college students and those from low-income backgrounds through the law school admissions process.