(Commentary by Katherine Churchill, Ph.D. candidate in English) What made me a medievalist? I don’t know–I was fifteen when I stepped into the thirteenth-century Parisian chapel Sainte-Chapelle, feeling my breath catch inside the kaleidoscope of stained glass. Later, something flickered when my teacher read a section of the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” out loud during my senior year of high school, and the Middle English made me go still with all its strange yet slightly familiar sounds. Surely, I was already hooked by the time I saw the vaulted ceiling of the Wells Cathedral in Engl...
Sara E. Rimm-Kaufman, a professor of education at the University of Virginia, said many teachers reached the end of their ropes this year when students returned to campus from two years of virtual learning. “Students have come to school with more needs than ever having experienced stress, trauma, and inconsistent conditions due to the pandemic,” Ms. Rimm-Kaufman said. “Plus, students have learning gaps. It’s hard to teach addition and subtraction of fractions if students didn’t learn about fractions last year.” She said trust between teachers and families has further broken down in recent batt...
(Video) 7 News has been following the controversy over admissions at Thomas Jefferson High School. A judge says the policy is discriminatory and has ruled that the school can no longer use it . University of Virginia law professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson broke it all down for us as part of our “Crisis In The Classroom” series.
Dr. Costi Sifri is the University of Virginia Medical Center’s epidemiologist. “In the United States, we’re seeing an increased amount of BA2, the sort of sister variant of the omicron strain,” Sifri said Thursday. Sifri says the latest COVID-19 variant, BA2, is not hitting Charlottesville hard right now. “It seems that it has a complex system. It’s very similar to omicron, which is largely, you know, what we saw in January, an upper respiratory tract infection for many people,” the doctor said.
(Blog) I was grateful to get some soulful answers to my question last week from a timely conversation on my leadership Podcast, “When It Mattered,” with Nobel Peace laureate Jerry White, who suffered a tragedy that would have felled most people to the ground and kept them there. … These days, White is teaching a popular class on religion, violence and strategy at the University of Virginia titled, “How to Stop Killing in the Name of God.”
In fact, “the current government in Poland, which came to power in 2015, did so by their exploitation of popular fears that Poland might become a massive waypoint for refugees coming from the Middle East,” former U.S. ambassador to Poland Stephen D. Mull told The Daily 202. Mull is now vice provost for global affairs at the University of Virginia.
“It’s not a coincidence that Blackburn took the lead on some of the toughest questioning … and on the questioning about gender dynamics,” Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia, told The 19th. “They were questions that were obviously going to garner a lot of media attention … and a way for [Republicans] to communicate that they are not just a party of men and have learned from their mistakes.”
“These hearings kind of turned into something of a staging ground on the issues the parties are hoping to run on,” says J. Miles Coleman, associate editor at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “On the Democratic side, they’re talking about the historic nature of the nomination, basically saying, ‘Stick with us. We’re going to build a government that looks like America,’” Coleman says. “On the Republican side, there’s been this kind of accusation of Brown Jackson being soft on crime,” Coleman says, noting that the issue worked well for George H.W. Bush when he was running for pre...
Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.) asked Risa Goluboff, dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, whether she believes Jackson “has overstepped the role of the court and has engaged in a jurisprudence that gets outside her lane as a judge,” as some GOP critics have claimed. “It is absolutely my view that she does not get outside her lane,” Goluboff responded. “She, I think, comes down in cases on both sides, depending on what she sees in the facts and how she applies precedents. I think she has been assiduous and conscientious.”
Risa Goluboff, a Democratic witness and dean of the University of Virginia law school who, like Jackson, clerked for the retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, told the panel Jackson based her legal conclusions on existing authorities. “It is absolutely my view that she does not get outside her lane,” Goluboff said. “She is, I think, quite consistent and very committed to the text and to precedent.”
(By Anastasia Brodovskaya, postdoctoral fellow in neurology, and Jaideep Kapur, professor of neuroscience and neurology) So why do seizures often cause memory loss? We are neurology researchers who study the mechanisms behind how seizures affect the brain. Our brain-mapping study found that seizures affect the same circuits of the brain responsible for memory formation.
(Commentary by Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Professor of Law and professor of education) For two surreal days this week, I sat next to the family of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during hearings on her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. One word captures my emotions, both as a Black woman professional myself, and a longtime friend of Jackson’s: hope.
(Editorial) Emma Weyant is an elite swimmer, a heralded 2020 Olympic silver medalist, an admirable representative of our country and – as a longtime Sarasota resident and Riverview High School graduate – a wonderful ambassador for our city. But what Weyant should not be – and does not deserve to be – is yet another pawn in the performative culture war being waged by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Legendary former Virginia women’s basketball head coach Debbie Ryan was in attendance on Thursday morning when Amaka Agugua-Hamilton was formally introduced as the next head coach of the UVA women’s basketball program at John Paul Jones Arena. After the ceremony, the seven-time ACC Coach of the Year gave a glowing review of Agugua-Hamilton and commended Virginia’s hiring of “Coach Mox.”
With the program’s Final Four banners hanging overhead, and the woman who coached the program in those tournaments seated a few rows from the stage, new Virginia coach Amaka Agugua-Hamilton made it clear Thursday – she’s embracing the goal of getting UVA back to where it once was.
(Commentary) A recent study, conducted by Alexandra Feldberg of Harvard Business School and Tami Kim of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, found evidence of bias in the hospitality industry when researchers emailed 6,000 hotels for restaurant recommendations from email accounts with seemingly “racial” or “ethnic” names.
“We tend to focus on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, but forests are not just carbon sponges,” says Deborah Lawrence, an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. “It’s time to think about what else forests are doing for us besides just absorbing carbon dioxide.”
Global loss in tropical forests is accelerating climate change, leading to an increase in hot, dry summers far beyond the tropics themselves, according to a recent study led by Deborah Lawrence, a UVA environmental scientist. Forest canopies keep the ground below from absorbing solar heat, while the clouds they release do the same for entire regions, the researchers found.
Deborah Lawrence, the lead author of the paper and a professor at the University of Virginia, says although climate models do incorporate the biophysical effects of deforestation, policymakers don’t always have this in mind when they are making their decisions about land use.
Performing a group bonding activity–regular rituals like doing the Walmart Cheer or firing a Nerf toy gun to conclude a project–led to a 16% increase in how meaningful employees judged their work to be, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Norton. Employees who engage in these rituals also tend to go the extra mile for the company, showing better “organizational citizenship” by doing things like staying late at work to help a colleague. The findings are detailed in the recent paper, “Work Group Rituals Enhance the Meaning of Work,” published in Organizational Beha...