The Hoops2o program, founded by former UVA basketball player Malcolm Brogdon, has its first head coach. The program – part of the Chris Long Foundation's Waterboys initiative – announced Monday that UVA men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett is joining it.
With so much to go through, legal experts said it’s easy to understand why there ended up being a problem with getting all of the discovery to the defense attorneys. Those experts said they see both sides of the situation – it was difficult for an overworked Danville commonwealth’s attorney’s office to meet the demands of such an expansive case, but the office, headed by Michael Newman, still should have done better at performing such a basic task as keeping records. “If Newman performed like this in a private-sector corporate setting, he’d be fired or at least demoted,” Darryl Brown, of the U...
University of Virginia law professor Rich Schragger is an expert in property law and takings claims. As he told Register & Bee reporter Caleb Ayers, “The law doesn’t guarantee that you get to do the most valuable thing with your land; the law only prevents the government from seizing it.”
Alan Taylor’s “Thomas Jefferson’s Education.” A Pulitzer prize-winning historian, Taylor explores the links between slavery and the founding of the University of Virginia, where he’s on the faculty. He demonstrates how slavery shaped the University just as it did every institution of that time.
Trump’s win in Wisconsin in 2016 came as a surprise — the state hadn’t gone for a Republican nominee since Ronald Reagan in 1984 — but some handicappers say it’s likely to favor him again in 2020, said J. Miles Coleman, associated editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a political handicapping and analysis website at the UVA Center for Politics. He said some of its key suburban counties have been more resistant to Democratic efforts to turn them, and rural voters have remained energized on Trump’s behalf.
“Deepfakes give rise to concerns that increasingly advanced tools to manipulate video materials will also increase the capacity to manipulate people,” said Dr. Samuel Lengen, research associate in the master’s in data science online at the University of Virginia. “While we have had some time to get used to ‘Photoshopped’ images, deepfakes are a relatively recent phenomenon. One easy answer to the challenges it creates is that we need to raise media literacy and catch up with this new reality. However, the burden of responsibility cannot solely lie with the consumer.”
Some scientists, such as Dr Bruce Greyson, UVA professor emeritus of psychiatry and neurobehavioural sciences and co-author of “The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences,” believes that [near-death experiences] challenge a purely physical account of human experience. NDEs “…present us with data that are difficult to explain by current physiological or psychological models,” he wrote in 2013.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies) Zuckerberg’s politics favor two things: the interests of Facebook and people like him. So it’s no wonder Zuckerberg got close to the two American presidents who have served over his company’s history. Since the world abandoned its mindless worship of Facebook and Silicon Valley in recent years, Zuckerberg has been on a constant if unsuccessful campaign to save face and stem efforts to regulate or fracture his company.
UVA researchers project Prince William County’s population will reach a whopping 656,000 by 2040. That’s about 100,000 higher than county planners currently anticipate, but local officials dispute the university’s methodology used to calculate the projection.
Two of Virginia’s top colleges are going to work together to fight climate change.The University of Virginia and College of William & Mary announced Monday plans toward becoming carbon neutral by 2030, offsetting the schools’ greenhouse gas emissions with more renewable energy and other steps.
The University of Virginia and William & Mary are the latest schools to announce plans to become carbon neutral. The schools announced their goals Monday in a statement that said they hope to produce zero net greenhouse gas emissions. UVA and William & Mary said they will share information and collaborate.
The University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary have made commitments to become carbon neutral by 2030. The two state schools will share information and collaborate on initiatives aimed at achieving zero net greenhouse emissions, according to a joint news release.
What if researchers could go to a single hub for vast deposits of information on a range of issues from water quality to court rulings to the medicinal powers of marijuana? Armed with all that existing research, they might begin to draw conclusions that apply across the country. They might also avoid repeating the work of other researchers. Two professors at Kansas State University, Nathaniel Birkhead and Audrey Joslin, have begun construction on that online, open-source data hub. They’re teaming with colleagues at Rochester University, University of Notre Dame, University of Virginia, Univers...
In addition to the ideas of psychological safety and speaking up, Thinkers 50 highlighted the ideas of Professor Jim Detert from UVA’s Darden School of Business, who spoke about his groundbreaking Workplace Courage Acts Index. Jim's body of work reminds us that even in companies that promote psychologically safe teams, people still need help practicing courageous behaviors for better employee well-being and higher functioning organizations.
At the 2019 Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP’s Annual Freedom Fund Banquet, the University of Virginia honored its Hidden Nurses, the first African American women to help desegregate the UVA Hospital.
The stuff we own quickly ceases to be new, so the pleasure gained from a possession fades faster than the memories of a fun experience, according to one study on consumer psychology called, “If Money Doesn’t Make You Happy, Then You Probably Aren’t Spending It Right,” by researchers from the University of British Columbia, Harvard University and the University of Virginia.
Some furry guests invaded the medical school at the University of Virginia on Friday afternoon in the name of stress release. UVA Health’s Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and a student group brought in some canines, cookies, cocoa, and cider in an event they call the 5Cs Caring Break.
Zooming out, that cleaving was by design: It created a powerful us-versus-them mentality that mobilized the Christian base fiscally and politically. We were Christian soldiers, and the weapons we had were our votes and our tithes. “The persecution trope is a hell of a fundraising pitch,” says Charles Marsh, a UVA professor of religious studies. “For evangelical activists and leaders, many of whom run nonprofits or rely on charitable contributions, that is the most direct and successful way to captivate conservative Christians.”
"It's become a constant question of, 'Is this the best deal I can get, or should I wait another two weeks?'" said Tami Kim, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business. "Retailers are offering more deals, starting earlier. But consumers aren't excited."
(Commentary by Melvyn P. Leffler, history professor emeritus) In today’s circumstances, Cold War-era policies are not only unnecessary, but likely to catalyze a destructive spiral of heightening tensions that would make the world a more dangerous place.