(Commentary by George Christ, professor of biomedical engineering and orthopedic surgery and director of UVA’s Center for Advanced Biomanufacturing) In America, 53,000 veterans have suffered significant physical injuries from explosions and gunshot wounds. We must confront the reality that we can be far more responsive to the health care needs of both our veterans and our service members in the line of duty.
If Jayakumar Vaidya hadn’t stood up to adversity, it would have trampled him. But he survived. From the slums of Kurla in east Mumbai, he made it to the University of Virginia. He is now a graduate research assistant there, an enviable role even for the privileged.
UVA quarterback Bryce Perkins won the Dudley Award on Sunday night after leading the Cavaliers to the ACC Coastal Division championship and a berth in the Orange Bowl. He won the award, given to the top NCAA Division I college football player in Virginia, for the second consecutive season.
Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Haas of Charlottesville, Virginia, passed away on December 10, 2019. She taught at Piedmont Virginia Community College and then at the University of Virginia where she taught introductory math courses and administered the Math Tutoring Center.
UNC-Chapel Hill's interim chancellor was tapped as its permanent head while the University of North Carolina Board of Governors convened remotely on Friday. Kevin Guskiewicz received a unanimous vote to serve in the permanent role. Guskiewicz earned a Ph.D. in sports medicine from the University of Virginia.
Were Warren to win the nomination, she might be better situated to call out Trump for sexism than Hillary Clinton was because she doesn’t have the baggage of being married to Bill Clinton. “I think she can hit a lot harder,” says Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia.
Democrats would need to find a way to get 20 Senate Republicans to support conviction. Given polls that show Republican voters are still firmly behind the president, experts see Trump’s removal as highly unlikely. “I do not see how in the world you could ever get 20 Republican senators to vote to oust Donald Trump,” University of Virginia analyst Larry Sabato said. “They might as well vote to oust and then announce their resignations, because they won’t be serving for very long once they cast that vote.”
An independent study of Arches in 2018 offered promising, if preliminary, evidence that the approach was working. The program’s participants were approximately half as likely to be convicted of a felony in the two years that followed as similar people on probation who did not participate in the program (though the groups had similar arrest rates). Patrick Tolan, a professor at the University of Virginia and an expert on youth development, wrote in an email that outperforming traditional probation programs “is not a high benchmark to meet,” but that the evaluation suggests that Arches is “a goo...
Margo Smith, director of the University of Virginia's Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, said: "This is a vibrant area of contemporary art that is exploding right now. "When Americans think of Aboriginal art they tend to think of historical artifacts. They are often amazed when they come to a gallery and see such spectacular and relevant contemporary works of art."
John Elder; Founder, Elder Research Inc. (@johnelder4). As the founder of data mining consultancy Elder Research, Elder is a frequent keynote speaker and co-author of three books: “The Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications,” “Ensemble Methods in Data Mining,” and “Practical Text Mining.” His company focuses on investment, commercial and security applications of advanced analytics, text mining, image recognition and biometrics. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia, where he teaches the optimization of data mining.
For NPR, Ashon Crawley, a religious studies professor at the University of Virginia, writes that West’s “gospel year” shouldn’t lead us to “misremember” his sinful past, including his characterization of the mental slavery of black America, in thrall, according to West, to its history of subjection.
(Editorial) The problem is that the gas tax is an increasingly unreliable way to fund roads, and has been for several decades now. Cars are getting better gas mileage — so drivers wind up paying less in taxes yet drive the same number of miles. “We actually are making a little less money on the gas tax than we were in 1977, even though the vehicle miles traveled have gone up about 70% since then,” an analyst with the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service said last fall.
Theories abound for why Christians and Jews tend to live in small or single-parent families. Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, said it may be that Christianity, in particular, lends itself to a more individualistic worldview. “Part of the story here is that Christianity and perhaps Judaism have a deeper emphasis on the individual conscience,” said Wilcox. “That may express itself in more nuclear families and single-parent households.”
Brad Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, says men tend to be the less committed member of heterosexual relationship, so it’s crucial for them to be in the driver’s seat when it comes to the proposal. “There may be couples where she’s asking and he’s acceding to her request, but he’s not all-in and that’s a recipe for a disaster,” he says.
(Commentary by James Loeffler, Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History) In the face of rising anti-Semitism, what should we ask of the law? The highly conflicting responses to President Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism highlight a fundamental, century-old tension within the American Jewish community about the role of civil rights law in protecting Jews: Do we want the government to treat American Jews as a vulnerable minority group requiring specific anti-discrimination protection? Or are Jews better off seeking equal citizenship as part of the white majority, with no special protect...
With his Virginia men’s soccer program about to make its sixth appearance in the College Cup national semifinals under his watch, George Gelnovatch doesn’t shy away from the comparison game. After watching his players win national championships in 2009 and 2014, Gelnovatch knows which of his teams represent the gold standards around Charlottesville. He has a hunch about where this season’s team, which faces fellow ACC power Wake Forest (16-4-2) at 8:30 Friday evening in Cary, North Carolina, may fit in. “We’ve still got a couple of games to play, I hope,” said Gelnovatch, who has been Virginia...
Dozens of volunteers are working to spread some holiday cheer to Central Virginia children who will spend their holiday season in the hospital. On Thursday, volunteers spent a couple of hours packing up holiday gifts for kids of all ages as part of Mason’s Toy Box. Mason’s Toy Box will be dropping off this year’s donations to several hospitals across the state, including UVA Children’s, on Dec. 17, just in time for the holidays.
The hedge fund industry is sticking closer to passive benchmarks, and alpha has declined as a result, according to research from the University of Virginia.
Benetech is participating in the creation of an online library called EMMA (Educational Materials Made Accessible) that will allow member institutions to find and use accessible educational materials created at other participating institutions. A pilot is being led by the University of Virginia, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Decolonization is defined in AAM’s TrendsWatch 2019 as “the long, slow, painful, and imperfect process of undoing some of the damage inflicted by colonial practices that remain deeply embedded in our culture, politics, and economies.” As more and more institutions begin this process, it helps to look at examples already taking place in the museum field, and to explore the questions they raise. In this post, we look at two examples of decolonization in the field, from the Minnesota Historical Society and the University of Virginia.