The acting chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission took part in a discussion on telehealth connectivity. Jessica Rosenworcel held the virtual visit with UVA’s Karen S. Rheuban Center for Telehealth on Tuesday.
The Senior Statesmen of Virginia will hold a meeting on the health care challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic next week. The meeting will feature Dr. K. Craig Kent, the executive vice president for health affairs at UVA Health.
UVA President Jim Ryan will lead a conversation on equitable distance learning on Thursday.
A UVA alumnus and professor were able to receive funding for a STEM education program, Coding for Kids. The Jefferson Trust, which is part of the UVA Alumni Association, gave a $2,400 flash grant to the program.
(Commentary) When it comes to national figures who embody servant leadership, a small photo of [UVA alumnus] Aaron Walker should appear when people Google the phrase. Aaron’s role as founder and CEO of Camelback Ventures, a social venture organization that provides funding for Black, Brown and Indigenous leaders in early-stage funding, is an amazing one, but it doesn’t fully capture his service or his leadership.
Some people have a wall to display their awards and accolades. UVA alumnus Dr. L.D Britt, a professor and chairman of surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School, needs a whole room.
When UVA’s Darden School of Business set a bold target in 2010 to become carbon neutral within a decade, it resolved to take an unusually hands-on approach to reduce emissions. “The easy way in trying to achieve neutrality is by buying offsets,” says Professor Michael Lenox, senior associate dean and author of an upcoming book on decarbonization. “We decided we wanted to do something a little more action-oriented.”
Former Department of Homeland Security cyber chief [and double Hoo] Suzanne Spaulding, a key official involved in the response to Russian interference efforts in 2016, is pushing hard for more to be done to combat disinformation and promote civics education as the nation reels from the fallout of the recent election.
If you’re a basketball fan of a certain era, then you’ll remember the name Olden Polynice. While the big Haitian never quite developed into a star player, he still spent 15 seasons in the NBA banging bodies in the paint and pulling down rebounds. If nothing else, [the former UVA star] proved to be a pretty tough customer. COVID-19, however, proved to be a different type of challenge.
Dr. Malik Spady knows she’s blessed to have had the advantages she did as a young girl. Her father (an attorney) and her mother (a registered nurse) provided well for the family, which allowed young Malik, who excelled at sports acrobatics, to travel the world competing in an activity she loved. Back home, she attended the prestigious Metairie Park Country Day School, eventually moving to UVA for an undergraduate degree and then earning her medical doctorate from the Medical College of Virginia.
The Virginia Law Review has named Tiffany Mickel, a second year student at the UVA School of Law, as its new editor-in-chief. Mickel will be the first African American to hold the position.
The new editor-in-chief of the Virginia Law Review, Tiffany Mickel, is the first Black person to hold the position, according to a news release from the University of Virginia.
UVA political scientist Larry Sabato told the New Yorker that Mr. Palladino oversaw “a very aggressive campaign to suppress information.”
UVA theologian Nichole Flores posted a wonderful thread about hearing a sermon at Mass that made her want to walk out, but she didn’t. She explains her decision, noting, “The disagreement made me pause, listen, and pray instead of needing to assert, fight, and win. Maybe it was because I am so acutely aware of my need for Jesus right now, and how much it exceeds my need to be right.”
“When you see a massive drop in the incarceration of juveniles from the day before to the day after the law passed, it’s just so much bigger in magnitude than most of the policy interventions that we study,” says Megan Stevenson, a UVA associate professor of law, who provided feedback on the paper. “It’s jaw dropping.”
Rich Schragger, a Perre Bowen Professor at the UVA School of Law, expressed doubt about a federal court intervening in the actions of the Virginia Senate. “The acts of legislators related to their own declarations or in establishing rules that govern their own internal deliberations are normally clothed with virtually absolute immunity,” he said in an email, noting Chase’s suit should fail on this first step.
Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician at UVA who is on UVA Health’s vaccine distribution committee, said that the Biden administration is “coming out of the gate handicapped” without complete and accurate data on who is getting vaccinated.
Juan Jones is now enjoying his freshman year of college, which is something he didn’t think would be possible a few years ago.
As promising as laser powder bed fusion has been in aerospace manufacturing, the technique has a downside. Bubbles of gas in molten material can leave voids, called “pores,” hidden inside the walls of metal parts. This kind of defect is annoying for noncritical parts such as air-conditioning brackets, but unacceptable for critical parts, such as components of engines, because they can lead to cracking. The mystery of how and why pores form is beginning to lift, largely because of a microscopic imaging technique applied by UVA professor Tao Sun and his team.
Donald Trump lost the presidency, but the social divide he amplified while in office remains, and scholars are trying to figure out how to bridge it. UVA’s School of Education and Human Development will soon launch Educating for Democracy, a program designed to help teachers talk with students about race and other divisive issues of our time.