Kimberly Whitler, an assistant professor of marketing at UVA’s Darden School of Business, said she is not surprised that some brands are choosing not to run Super Bowl commercials this year. Whitler believes the events of 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic and presidential election, have created an abnormal degree of uncertainty this year – not just in terms of finances, but also in terms of messaging.
From celebrities who invest in bitcoin, to a highly-engaged bitcoin community on Twitter, TikTok and Reddit, social media feeds into bitcoin’s popularity. “Suddenly, there’s like a new way to see, finance and to have an identity of yourself as an actor in like the financial space,” said Lana Swartz, UVA assistant professor of media studies and author of “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media.”
In addition to the biannual Thinkers50 list of the world's top 50 thought leaders in the world of management, the Radar list, published annually in January, provides an eclectic selection of 30 people working on groundbreaking ideas that reflect the current world in which we live and guide solutions we will benefit from in 2021 and beyond. … Laura Morgan Roberts is a professor at the UVA’s Darden School of Business, whose work focuses on maximizing human potential in diverse organizations and communities. Her work also emphasizes the importance of providing more meaningful opportunities ...
(Commentary by Philip Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History) Time has come for Congress to contemplate how to hold Donald Trump accountable for his efforts to overthrow the election and incite an insurrection.
(Commentary by Elizabeth R. Varon, Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History) In his illuminating and accessible new book, James Oakes, an acclaimed historian of emancipation, offers us a “third Lincoln”: neither the mythic Great Emancipator nor a flawed reluctant emancipator, but instead a committed proponent of antislavery constitutionalism.
“A stranger arrives in an unknown city after a long voyage.” So begins Three Rings, a slender, dense book that was originally constructed as a series of three public lectures titled “A Digression: Narrative Afterlives of The Odyssey,” which Daniel Mendelsohn delivered at the University of Virginia in 2019.
A UVA Health briefing was held Friday morning to provide updates on COVID-19 vaccine efforts. Wendy Horton, UVA Medical Center’s chief executive officer; Dr. Reid Adams, UVA Health’s chief medical officer; and Dr. Costi Sifri, UVA Health’s director of hospital epidemiology, spoke at the briefing. The current plan is to vaccinate or schedule to vaccinate 8,000 people who are not UVA Health employees but are affiliated.
On Friday, Dr. Costi Sifri, director of hospital epidemiology for UVA, said the medical center had received 25,075 and given out 17,321 doses, which includes the second shot. About 22,693 first doses have been scheduled or administered.
"Although not a landslide shift comparable to election swings in the twentieth century, McKinley's victory ended the pattern of close popular margins that had characterized elections since the Civil War," notes a recap of the 1896 election posted by UVA’s Miller Center. "McKinley received 7,218,491 votes (51.7%) to Bryan's 6,356,734 votes (45.5%) – a gain for the Republicans of 114,000 votes over their total in 1896."
Criminal cases against companies declined from 1,690 during the administration of George W Bush to 1,418 under Barack Obama to about 383 during the four years of the Trump administration, according to a white-collar crime database from the law schools at Duke University and UVA. This figure will grow, however, as the final cases are added to the database, which is up to date only until autumn of last year.
(Commentary) Author Rodney Smolla introduces us to Leslie Kendrick, who is Jewish and a distinguished First Amendment scholar. She is the vice dean and a professor of law at the UVA School of Law. According to Smolla, in the aftermath of the Unite the Right rallies in her hometown, Kendrick took a hard look at her traditional defense of free speech. Skeptical of the marketplace rationale, she questioned whether suppressing or protecting extremist speech strengthens or weakens such speech. Ultimately, Kendrick “comes down in favor of the modern protection of hate speech, as better than any plau...
With the coronavirus pandemic creating unique challenges for Virginia’s families, educational leaders across the commonwealth want to learn about the impact on young children’s care and education. The Virginia Department of Education, the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, and the University of Virginia have created a survey for Virginia families with newborns through kindergarten students in their household.
Virginia's post-holiday surge of COVID-19 cases has not been as bad as feared, according to new data from UVA, and the number of Virginians being treated for the virus in hospitals and nursing homes has fallen significantly in the past 10 days.
Many of us have questions about the COVID-19 vaccine, regarding how well it works, and if we should get it. UVA health experts spoke at virtual conversation Sunday afternoon, hosted by the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, to answer pressing questions sent in by Charlottesville community members.
The University of Virginia is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was founded in 1819 by United States Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson.
When Tiki Barber played football for Cave Spring High School, [UVA alumnus] Doug Doughty was sometimes there to cover it. When Barber moved on to become a running back at UVA, Doughty was always there to cover it. When Barber played his final game before retiring from the NFL, Doughty made sure to be there to cover that, too. Now it's Doughty's turn to retire.
Sometimes, having a little hole in your heart can relieve a lot of pressure. UVA Health researchers are participating in a clinical trial of a device that creates a pressure pop-off valve in the heart to ease the severe shortness of breath associated with congestive heart failure.
In August 2019, UVA Health Dr. Cameron Webb announced his candidacy for Congress. A Democrat running in a deeply conservative district, Webb would go on to lose by a five-point margin in November. But just weeks later, he returns to Washington with a decidedly elevated stature.
(Video) We were thrilled to learn about SharpRank.com, a platform that rates gambling analysts based on their picks. The founder of Sharp Rank, [UVA alumnus] Chris Adams, joined Bull Market Fantasy to talk about sports betting and why his service is filling a major need for the gambling industry.
Creators need a place to gather, to bounce ideas off each other and to find support as they build new things. Lumastic can be that place, said [UVA alumnus] Drew Lytle, company co-founder and CEO. Together with co-founder and CTO Keith Stolte, Lytle has created a virtual workplace for freelancers, side hustlers and entrepreneurs. On Lumastic, creatives can find the human interaction and feedback that has long been a part of office life but is often missing for people who work solo.