“Awards shows have a certain kind of organization and protocol. You’re supposed to act in a certain kind of way,” says Shilpa Davé, a media studies scholar at the University of Virginia. “We’re not used to seeing this in real time on these kinds of shows. We always see them in movies — we see them performing this, but not really doing it.”
The Yale Law Journal is thrilled to announce its inaugural Emerging Scholar of the Year: Payvand Ahdout. The Journal’s inaugural Emerging Scholar of the Year, Professor Ahdout, is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she teaches Federal Courts and a seminar on the Separation of Powers.
(Commentary co-written by Brad Wilcox, sociology professor and director of the national Marriage Project) This month is Women’s History Month — and it’s great to see coverage spotlighting the achievements of women in history and up to the present day. But in a month focused on women, the character and function of femininity in women’s lives has gone largely unexamined.
(By Gail Williams Wertz, professor emerita of pathology) I’d moved my laboratory to the University of Virginia in early 2005, and my husband and I bought a farm along the Rappahannock, one of Virginia’s most undeveloped rivers. We converted the farm from row crops to sustainable pasture and were surprised by how often we found projectile points or fragments of worked stone when putting a shovel in the ground. I learned that our neighboring farmers had large collections of Native American artifacts found while tilling their fields.
(Free registration required) If you are still hungering for more culture after visiting such esteemed destinations as the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia has you covered. There is a caveat though: They require going back to school (sort of). From the museum at Hampton University to The Fralin at the University of Virginia, these art museums are all located on college campuses with each boasting collections as impressive as big-name museums.
Head coach Brian O’Connor says even with the recent success, the season won’t be completely smooth sailing. “We’re not going to go 50-5 in the regular season, nobody does that in baseball. So at some point we’re going to get punched in the mouth and we’re going to have to figure out how we respond to that,” O’Connor said Monday.
Lars Tiffany restored Virginia lacrosse to its place as an elite program, winning back-to-back national titles. UVA hopes he keeps it there for years to come. Tiffany and the school agree to a contract extension that will keep him as the head of the Cavaliers through the 2026 season, the school announced Monday.
On Saturday, nurses from UVA's COVID Clinic got a behind-the-scenes look at the Wildlife Center of Virginia, which they say helped them get through the darkest days of the pandemic.
(Commentary) In a 2016 study titled “Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?” researchers from the University of Virginia used nationwide data to show that kindergarten had changed dramatically following the 2001 passage of No Child Left Behind, which enshrined standardized testing in public schools. With Bush decrying the “soft bigotry of low expectations,” testing mandates were framed as a tool to combat socioeconomic and racial inequality by forcibly raising schools’ requirements for so-called college and career readiness.
Lipid rafts, a component of the plasma membranes that surround all cells in the human body, are essential in regulating the membranes’ structure, among other functions. But they are hard to study because traditional biochemical methods tend to destroy them. Chuck Sanders, associate dean for research, professor of biochemistry and medicine and Aileen M. Lange & Annie Mary Lyle Chair for Cardiovascular Research, and his lab collaborated with corresponding author Anne Kenworthy at the University of Virginia School of Medicine to develop new techniques for discovering the small molecules that ...
A new study recently showed a cluster of cells in the brainstem that regulates the body's response to severe blood loss. The scientists' findings at the UVA School of Medicine could benefit initiatives to develop new treatments for traumatic injuries. The latest find pinpoints a collection of neurons driving a response that retains blood pressure during blood loss.
The University of Virginia is now giving students and staff the option to wear masks inside the classroom. Before Monday, masks were only optional in meeting rooms, office spaces and research labs.
We hope you’re ready, because it’s the most wonderful time of the year for law schools. That’s right, it’s U.S. News law school rankings release night! (UVA’s School of Law ranks No. 8, unchanged from last year.)
Kip Hawley, who after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, helped set up the Transportation Security Administration, and who became its fourth administrator after the much-maligned agency’s first three years of existence, died on March 21 at his home in Pacific Grove, California. He was 68. (He received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1980.)
(Podcast) Tanya Cauthen went to school at the University of Virginia to become a rocket scientist. When she left, her focus was on food. It was a path that would eventually lead Cauthen to open Belmont Butchery in Richmond, Virginia, a national television appearance on the Food Network's Chopped, and the East Coast's Meat Queen.
Aspart of our series about the lessons from influential ‘TasteMakers’, I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Kai Campbell. Campbell, born and raised in the city of Newark, Jersey, is what he self describes as an envisionary, working in distressed urban development, most interested in the “vertical” development and improvement of his hometown. Receiving his formal economic education at The University of Virginia, Kai first labored as a municipal economist and later running his own shop. Kai has worked in the arena of economic development his entire career, helping to change culture and sk...
What can we do? We can fight back, and, at the global level, some reformers — like the University of Virginia Law School’s Ruth Mason — are even feeling optimistic about the struggles ahead. For much of the last century, Mason notes, a small club of rich nations working through the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, set international tax policy. The system they created rested on bilateral tax treaties designed to make sure that corporations doing business outside their home nation wouldn’t be taxed twice on the same income, once by their home country and onc...
The McKinley-Mooney matchup is one of five House races involving two incumbents in the same district. State governments approved new legislative and congressional maps following the 2020 census and population changes. “After redistricting, we always see an increase in the amount of member-on-member primaries. States gain seats, they lose seats. This is just kind of a natural product of that,” said J. Miles Coleman, the associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.