“This report, like those that preceded it, tells a sad story of the many different ways in which people of color in Virginia have disproportionately less access to economic opportunity, disproportionately worse life outcomes in rural communities and a disparate lack of conservation investment and access to outdoor space and fresh air,” said Andrew Block, the commission’s vice chair and a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
University of Virginia immunologist and COVID-19 researcher Dr. William Petri continues to answer reader questions about COVID-19, vaccines and, now, the omicron variant.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer in the Darden School of Business) Just days into the new year, financial markets have taken a noteworthy turn as investors assess what the Federal Reserve is contemplating for interest rates and its balance sheet this year. The minutes for the December Federal Open Market Committee meeting released on Wednesday showed that some officials believe the economy is close to full employment and are worried that the Fed is behind the curve in fighting inflation. They also suggest that the Fed could start raising interest rates as soon as March and th...
(Commentary by Mehr Afshan Farooqi is associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures) “Hungamah hai kyun barpa,” sung in Ghulam Ali’s deep, dulcet voice, is a very popular ghazal. Ali seductively croons “thodi si jo pi li hai (I have only drunk a little)” over and over, and the audience is ecstatic. Not many people know that Akbar Illahabadi composed this ghazal. Nor do the other verses of this nine-verse ghazal resonate with audiences as much as the opening one does.
(By J. Kim Penberthy, professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences) A friend of mine – we will call him “Jay” – was working for IBM in New York City in the early ‘90s. He was a computer programmer and made a good salary. Occasionally, competitors and startups approached Jay to join their companies. He had an offer from an interesting but small organization in Seattle, but the salary was paltry and most of the offer package was in company shares. After consulting with friends and his parents, Jay declined the offer and stayed with IBM. He has regretted it ever since. That small company ...
With the spike in recent cases and hospitalizations—particularly among the unvaccinated—Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital and UVA Health, which serve the Central Virginia region, are imploring people yet to be vaccinated to do so as soon as possible and to get vaccine booster shots as soon as they qualify.
The University of Virginia has partnered with Germanna on College Everywhere, as announced last month at their signing ceremony in Spotsylvania County. Each fall and spring, UVA will offer a $2,500 scholarship for a Germanna graduating from the program to attend UVA.
Only about 10% of the officially public University of Virginia’s academic budget comes from state appropriations, and that number is even less, 5.8%, when the calculations include all of UVA’s many organizational divisions. Public and private interests and money have long commingled in American higher education, rendering a nominal distinction between public and private institutions more deceptive than descriptive.
When President Joe Biden said, “I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy,” he wasn’t the first president to call upon the powerful imagery. “President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made his ‘dagger speech’ 72 years ago,” said historian and author Coy Barefoot. On June 10, 1940, FDR was aboard a train from D.C. to Charlottesville to give a speech to graduates at the University of Virginia. As the train headed south, FDR learned Italy had declared war on Britain and France, and entered World War II.
The UVA Center for Politics held a virtual conference talking about what the Capitol attack means for our democracy. Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics, spoke with some of our nation's top journalists and lawmakers. They all agree–the election being stolen, what they call the "big lie" is the biggest threat to American democracy.
(Commentary by Ken Hughes, research specializst at the Miller Center) Now that a full year has passed since the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, the 2020 election and the republic, it’s evident that the attack never really ended. Instead, it spread out to other, less visible, more vulnerable targets.
Sanjay Suchak, the senior photographer at the University of Virginia, was in Charlottesville during the Unite the Right rallies on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017. Four years later, he was capturing the moment Confederate statues came down, saying it felt like closure for the community.
A mathematics major at the University of Virginia recently won $1 million in the state lottery, and it had nothing to do with his skillful use of numbers and logic. Mom picked the six winning numbers. Brian Donohue of Fairfax County got the ticket from his mother as a gift in his Christmas stocking, according to a Jan. 6 news release from the Virginia Lottery.
Shortly before he was set to travel to Las Vegas for the G League showcase, [former UVA star] Kyle Guy tested positive for COVID-19. The next day, four teams contacted him about signing a 10-day contract but, of course, he had to turn them all down. By the time he was out of quarantine, everyone initially interested had already filled their slots, so the 24-year-old guard had no choice but to wait by his phone, while his season with the Cleveland Charge was on pause. Then Guy got a call from his agent at 11 p.m. asking whether he could catch a flight to Texas the following morning.
Fred Missel, the director of design and development for the University of Virginia Foundation, was appointed to the AlbemarleCounty Planning Commission for the Scottsville District seat. Missel has been serving on the county’s Architectural Review Board. Luis Carrazana, the associate architect at UVA, who has also served as the non-voting UVA representative on the commission, was appointed to the at-large seat.
If rebuilding is the mission, Brian Pinkston could be the man. The newly elected member of Charlottesville City Council studied at a seminary and has a Ph.D. in philosophy, but he also has an engineering degree from Georgia Tech and oversees major construction, repairs and renovations at the University of Virginia. “The work that I’ve done, the way that I’ve made my living over the last 30 years involves being decisive.”
When it comes to achieving decarbonization at the least cost to ratepayers, “flexibility is king,” said William Shobe, an economist and director of the Center for Economic and Policy at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, which was charged with carrying out the least-cost study mandated by the Virginia Clean Economy Act.
If these staged systems could be rolled up into one engine, the huge efficiency gains would dramatically lower the cost of getting to space. “The holy grail is a single-stage-to-orbit vehicle where you just take off from a runway, fly into space, and come back and reuse the system,” says Christopher Goyne, director of the University of Virginia’s Aerospace Research Laboratory and an expert in hypersonic flight.
Kim fils, however, wanted to go another way. Shortly after taking power, he proffered the byungjinpolicy, or dual economic and military development, to move away from his father’s “military-first” strategy. He promoted autonomy and flexibility for agriculture and industry – limited but meaningful changes. A “new middle class” began to taste more of the good life. In early 2018, explained UVA’s Ruediger Frank, Kim “went a step further and declared that the goals of byungjin were achieved, and the new strategic line of the Party would be to concentrate all efforts on socialist economic construct...
Who qualifies and what to take is summed up perfectly with this tweet by University of Virginia Professor of Medicine Dr. Taison Bell.