An art installation in downtown Fayetteville aims to help people look beyond themselves. Between the Headquarters Library and Segra Stadium at Festival Park Plaza, “Fayetteville to the Moon,” is an interactive art sculpture by Virginia artist William Bennett, who recently retired from teaching sculpture at the University of Virginia after 42 years.
Moy, a retired Air Force colonel with 27 years of active duty service, moved to Charlottesville after retirement where he and his wife Kellie settled and are raising their sons Caleb and Titus. He has been a lecturer at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and brings extensive military experience to his candidacy.
“I really don’t think anyone would contest that Good is one of the most conservative members of Congress,” said J. Miles Coleman of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Coleman says Dan Moy could give [U.S. Rep. Bob] Good a run for his money. “He’s no stranger to Virginia Republican politics,” said Coleman. “He was active in the Youngkin campaign. Youngkin did quite well in the Fifth District.”
While the legislation’s proponents say the Equality Act would simply build upon existing tenets of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, opponents of the bill say it would jeopardize religious objections, by which business owners can deny service to LGBTQ+ individuals in the name of religion. “It protects the rights of one side, but attempts to destroy the rights of the other side,” Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia, told NPR after the bill was passed by the House last year. “We ought to protect the liberty of both sides to live their own lives by their own identities and the...
(Commentary) Larry Sabato, the highly-respected director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics: “Newt Gingrich offers a compelling reason why the GOP crazies should not be put in control of their asylum next November.”
Barbara A. Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and a Kennedy family scholar, said she suspected Robert Kennedy Jr.’s opposition to vaccine mandates came from his work as an environmentalist. He has campaigned against pollutants, such as mercury, that contaminate food sources, Perry said in an interview. “Clearly he doesn’t want people poisoned in the environment by pollutants,” she said. “In his mind, I guess, it’s a pretty easy step to [think] not poisoning the body through vaccination.”
Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order lifting mask mandates in Virginia schools is now in effect, but some schools in the commonwealth are continuing to require masks indoors. Albemarle County Public Schools and Charlottesville City Schools are still requiring students, faculty, and staff to wear a mask at all times. It’s a decision, a legal expert we spoke with says the districts have the right to make. “It’s no accident that this was one of the first executive orders,” University of Virginia School of Law professor Margaret Riley said.
(Co-written by Kelli Bird, research faculty, and Ben Castleman, Newton and Rita Meyers Associate Professor in the Economics of Education) Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country have grappled with substantial enrollment declines. Even with the resumption of in-person learning at many institutions this fall, community college enrollment is 6% lower than fall 2020 and 14.8% lower than fall 2019. College enrollments had been slowly declining through much of the 2010s, in part stemming from demographic trends toward a smaller population of traditional colleg...
Virginia is moving toward approving a law that would allow college athletes to profit off their own name, image and likeness, codifying a practice that has been in place since July thanks to an interim ruling by the NCAA. A bill in the state Senate is designed to ensure that college athletic departments in Virginia don’t fall behind states that have guaranteed their athletes the opportunity to make money. The law also would put guardrails on an unregulated process that, so far, has been like the Wild West. “We don’t want the state of Virginia to be silent on this issue,” said Jason Baum, direc...
Some critics of the law warn it could backfire when it comes to helping minority communities. Jennifer Doleac, assistant professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia, called for the policy to be repealed and replaced—not expanded—at an Urban Institute panel in 2016. Doleac says her 2016 research found ban-the-box policies led to a 5% reduction in employment for young Black men without a college degree. The problem seemed to be implicit bias. “The fundamental problem with BTB is that when employers can’t ask job applicants about their criminal histories, many assume th...
The findings of Light and her colleagues run slightly counter to the findings of similar inquiries, and a 2015 study by researchers at the University of Virginia found that explicit “science-is-male” stereotypes were weaker among people in STEM fields with higher proportions of women, like biomedical sciences, suggesting gender biases are heavily influenced by an individual’s exposure to women in their field.
Before the invention of the automobile, streets were seen as public spaces with a variety of uses and users, pedestrians and children at play among them. In “Fighting Traffic,” associate professor of history at the University of Virginia, Peter Norton, takes us back to the period from 1910 to 1930, when all this changed.
While cervical cancer is very treatable in the United States, it can be quite deadly in low- and middle-income countries due to a lack of resources and screening. So Dr. Rebecca Dillingham and associate professor of nursing Emma Mitchell created a smartphone app called Azulado that helps women in developing countries have better access to screening and other resources needed to fight cervical cancer.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine is teaming up with a Charlottesville company to create a new burn treatment. Typically when skin is burned, the area surrounding it is impacted and dead, too. This new treatment is a cream that is put directly on severe wounds. “Our hope is that by doing this, we can actually limit the amount of skin grafts people have to get and be able to treat especially like warfighters,” Dr. Mark Roeser said.
“Confirmed case growth is slowing or declining in some states and in some regions of Virginia,” researchers at the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute said in their latest COVID-19 update released Friday. “This fits the pattern of rapid rise and decline seen in South Africa and other countries hit early by the Omicron variant.”
For some in academia, “the administration” is defined as a shadowy, amorphous group of suit-wearing, exorbitantly paid employees. Understanding who and what is “the administration” can provide avenues to question decisions effectively, challenge assumptions and influence change. … The University of Virginia has both a leadership team and an executive cabinet. The president’s council, often a much larger group, can include senior administrators and some (but not all) of the next level of administrators, as with the University of Virginia’s leadership team.
If you want to work at any of the FAANG companies (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google), focus on the six MBA programs that placed the most grads in order: Northwestern University (Kellogg), the University of Michigan (Ross), the University of Chicago (Booth), Harvard Business School and the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), which tied for fourth place, and Duke University (Fuqua) in fifth place. The next five positions are held by Columbia Business School, MIT Sloan, New York University Stern, Stanford and UC Berkeley Haas (tied), and the University of Virginia Darden.
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The CEOs of Augusta Health and University of Virginia Medical Center have joined together to urge unvaccinated individuals throughout the Shenandoah Valley to get vaccinated, according to a joint statement. Citing a surge in COVID-19 cases among mostly unvaccinated patients due to the omicron variant, the two organizations are banding together to urge more people to get the vaccine to “show respect and appreciation for health care workers.”
His trips across the commonwealth’s interstates from one high school to the next and onto another over the last week have been deliberate. Tony Elliott’s aim, at least from the viewpoint of those prep coaches who have received visits from the new Virginia head coach and his staff, is to change where the Cavaliers have recently fallen in the pecking order on the recruiting trail within the border of their home state.
(Audio and transcript) Most people who get omicron don’t end up in the hospital, and the risk of hospitalization is lower than it was with the delta variant. But when Dr. Taison Bell looks around his hospital at the University of Virginia, things don’t look any better.