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.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics and managing editor of “Sabato's Crystal Ball”) Hours after rioters and terrorists sacked the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday, the House of Representatives and Senate voted to certify the Electoral College victory of President-elect Joe Biden. The outcome of this process was never in doubt, but more than half of the Republican House caucus voted to object to the results in Arizona, Pennsylvania, or both.
(Commentary) Tug companies in the Far East might be expected to recoil in horror at a recent report published by the US National Bureau of Economic Research. Written by academics at the University of Virginia, the study concludes that a military conflict in the South China Sea would force most shipping heading for Asia and the US west coast from the Middle East and Europe to divert around the south of Australia. The massive additional shipping costs would lead to a significant decrease in economic activity around the world, but with, “dire effects on countries at the epicentre.”
"The day Clinton was impeached by the House was an electric moment in US history," reports Aljazeera. The Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia, said: "Nothing like this had so captured the attention of the American public since Watergate and Nixon's resignation from office."
(Commentary) To help achieve this, the American Association of Medical Colleges should explicitly include the reduction of bias in medicine as a goal for all of their 172 accredited medical institutions. Some schools have implemented courses aimed at this objective, such as the University of Virginia's Social Issues in Medicine class for first-year students, which helps them "recognize and analyze the relationships between sociocultural environments and the occurrence, prevention and treatment of disease."
In a study of the way Americans spent their first round of pandemic-related stimulus checks in April — many of those around $1,200 each — scholars from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Virginia showed that people spent a great deal of their allotment on food, helping to stave off hunger.
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Haris have selected UVA Health’s Dr. Cameron Webb to serve on the White House COVID-19 Response Team as the senior policy advisor for COVID-19 equity.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System are performing a clinical trial to help people experiencing heart failure. The trial involves creating a vent in the heart with the goal of relieving pressure, which causes heart failure symptoms like shortness of breath, swelling, and an irregular heart beat.
Michelle Fishburne didn’t worry too much after losing her public relations job last spring in a pandemic-induced company downsizing. She had plenty of experience and a wide professional network. But after sending out 86 fruitless cover letters in search of a new job, the UVA Law alumna began to think her willingness to relocate for work was going to be her greatest asset. Inspired by the work of Brandon Stanton, author of “Humans of New York,” Fishburne let her Chapel Hill lease expire last July, moved into her 29-foot Jamboree motor home and set out to travel the country interviewing people a...
Virginia Beach native and professional basketball player Devon Hall wants to make sure all local kids can afford to play organized basketball and realize their dreams. Hall, a former UVA standout who now plays professionally in Europe, said he will donate $30,000 over the next three years to support economically disadvantaged players at the new Wave Basketball Club at the Virginia Beach Sports Center.
While spending the WNBA off-season in Israel, New York Liberty guard/forward Jocelyn Willoughby has launched a book club, Read What You Sow with Jocelyn Willoughby. Planned to start in February, the book club will explore social justice issues such as health care and education through the lens of women of color.
Researchers with the University of Virginia School of Medicine reported that medications used to treat HIV and hepatitis B slash the risk of developing diabetes by a third for these patients.
A University of Virginia neuroscience professor, Alban Gaultier, and a former graduate student, Dorian A Rosen, found that fluvoxamine may potentially help treat COVID-19.
People with Parkinson’s disease with symptoms affecting one side of the body, who were treated with focused ultrasound targeting the affected brain region, showed an improvement in motor features after four months, a small study reported. To clarify the procedure’s effectiveness and safety, researchers at the University of Virginia, in collaboration with Spain’s Centro Intregral de Neurociencias, conducted a randomized, sham-controlled trial of focused ultrasound in a group of patients with highly asymmetric motor signs not fully controlled by medication.
A new online information dashboard will help track Virginia's progress toward its clean energy goals. The University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service and the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy launched the dashboard on Wednesday.
While the U.S. House of Representatives was voting to impeach President Donald Trump, a panel was meeting virtually to discuss fascism and the far-right. The conversation, entitled ‘Using the F-Word: Fascist Drift in America,’ was hosted by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
More people at the University of Virginia can get COVID-19 saliva tests. UVA's expanding it to employees who work on Grounds as part of the university's effort to increase testing and prevent asymptomatic spread.
With his roommate in dire health from the coronavirus last spring, it did not take much for [UVA alumnus] John Hollis to believe he would also contract the highly infectious, deadly disease. It turned out that Hollis unknowingly already had Covid-19 and may have unwittingly infected his roommate. Hollis learned in July that he fell into a rare category of people whose blood could help scientists understand Covid-19 and potentially treat those who fall ill.