A new UVA course analyzing the threats facing democracy around the world has seen increased interest from students. “Democracy in Danger” investigates issues like xenophobia, extremism, and disinformation inspired by the UVA-based podcast of the same name.
A local woman has gotten the names of five of her ancestors added to the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia.
UVA is sticking to its plan to resume in-person instruction on Feb. 1. “We feel better positioned to deal with the virus,” said Brian Coy, UVA spokesman. “That said, there’s a lot more virus in the world, in the nation, in Virginia, and in the Charlottesville area, so it’s going to require a lot more vigilance from the university and from individuals to make sure that we have a semester that’s as successful as we did last fall.”
University of Virginia students are coming back to Grounds soon for an in-person spring semester. We asked why the University feels comfortable bringing students back for in-person classes, starting on Feb. 1, when we are in the toughest days yet of the coronavirus pandemic. “The University is, without a doubt, more prepared to handle this virus than we’ve ever been,” said Brian Coy, the University’s spokesperson. “We have greater testing capacity, we know a lot more just about how to manage the virus, we’re starting to see a lot of members in our health system and other people in the region b...
University of Virginia officials on Friday said they will start the spring semester as planned on Feb. 1 with in-person classes but will limit gatherings to no more than six people for at least the first two weeks and possibly later.
GOBankingRates examined the U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 Best National University Rankings list and identified the 21 highest-ranking schools with tuition and fees for the 2020-21 school year below $20,000. This excludes fees associated with housing, dining, transportation and other costs. [UVA checks in at No. 4.]
UVA Health staff will join Blue Ridge Health District personnel to help give shots in the arm to residents who qualify as next-phase recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine.
UVA politics professor Jennifer Lawless said Harris’s pivotal role in the Senate will mean she “is going to be cast in a very different light than previous vice presidents” and will make her crucial in terms of putting forward a legislative agenda. “Now that doesn’t mean that she’s not going to weigh in on important policy decisions or try to be a broad adviser to Joe Biden, [but] at least for that first 100 days, she’s pivotal to ensuring that any piece of tied legislation gets passed.”
For a nation that has prided itself as a beacon for democracy around the world, the peaceful transition of power looks anything but, said Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics. “The world will see Biden sworn in, in the middle of a military camp that’s indistinguishable from the Green Zone,” Sabato said, referring to the fortress-like area of central Baghdad set up after the Iraq War.
Lisa Woolfork, an associate professor of English, cherishes her memories of going to fabric stores with her grandmother. Looking past all the colorful textiles, she got her first deeper insights into what she calls “this ancestral craft.”
Janine Jagger, a retired professor of internal medicine and infectious diseases, as well as former director of the International Health Care Worker Safety Center at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, dedicated her career to helping improve the safety of nurses and health care providers through injury prevention, especially related to needles. Today, the 2002 MacArthur Foundation grant recipient is focused on her NGO, Familial Mediterranean Fever Foundation, in addition to her advisory work for the Africa Action Network for Nurses & Nurse-Midwives, which has helped facilitate lo...
In one week, the United States will be in the post-Trump era, and there will be more room for people like Meijer, said Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "In fact, Republicans desperately need to elevate members of Congress who aren’t Trump drones, who can appeal to the vast middle in well-educated suburbia and among the young who have been deeply alienated by Trump," Sabato said.
"The House has voted to impeach Trump for a second time, which is unprecedented, he is the only president in history to be impeached twice, he is also lost the popular vote twice," said J. Miles Coleman, Associate Editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
University of Virginia law school professor Charles Barzun said he also believes that arguments against convicting a former president are incorrect. "It would enable the person impeached to avoid one of the two available sanctions for having committed a 'high crime or misdemeanor,' disqualification from future office-holding, by resigning once he or she has been impeached but before the Senate trial, thereby undermining one of the chief purposes of granting Congress the impeachment power in the first place," Barzun said.
I asked Cynthia Nicoletti, a historian at the University of Virginia who wrote a book about why the North failed to bring the leader of the Confederates to trial, to explain how Southerners who led the rebellion managed to escape punishment and to speculate as to whether that move might have made a difference.
For many Americans, that wound has grown more painful with the way it has historically been taught, says Derrick Aldridge, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Human Development. Aldridge recently chaired Virginia’s Commission on African American History Education, charged with auditing the state’s efforts to teach Black history. Released last August, its 80-page report identifies faults endemic to curricula across the country.
“When I think about Steve Farmer, I think about the verse in ‘Hark the Sound’ that refers to Carolina as a priceless gem. In my 10 years at Carolina, I have come to believe this University is indeed a priceless gem ― because of people like Steve.” These remarks were delivered by Carolina alumna Euna Victoria Chavis at a virtual farewell event honoring Vice Provost for Enrollment and Undergraduate Admissions Steve Farmer for his two-decade legacy of improving the accessibility and affordability at Carolina, making the University a more diverse and inclusive institution. Farmer is leaving to bec...
(Commentary by William R. Johnson, Georgia Bankard Professor of Economics) My 73-year-old cousin lives in Israel and received her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in late December. By way of contrast, my local health authority, the Blue Ridge Health District, recently announced that vaccination of people ages 65 to 74 likely will begin in late spring.