A college student from San Anselmo in Marin County is making news for being the first transgender and Asian American to win election to lead the student body at an Eastern school. Abel Liu is gaining national attention for winning election for Student Council president at UVA, becoming the first transgender and Chinese American to do so.
Financial technology company SmartAsset looked at five factors to determine the best-value colleges and universities including tuition, student living costs, scholarship and grant offerings, student retention rate and starting salary for new graduates. UVA takes the top spot in Virginia and ranks 12th nationally.
Why a state would abolish their insanity defense seems initially puzzling. However colored by public myths, the insanity defense underpins our very ideas of justice and personal blame. Proponents of abolition claim that doing away with the defence “improves the criminal justice system’s public image”, and ensures trust by holding “the mentally ill accountable for their actions the same as everyone else.” But for Richard Bonnie, a Professor of Medicine and Law at the University of Virginia, such a claim marks a contradiction in terms. The defense prescribes precisely the limits of how we judge ...
One of the top research journals in the United States has placed its editor in chief on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation into a controversial podcast episode that critics labeled as racist. … Academic physicians of color have lost their jobs for less, said Dr.Ebony Jade Hilton, associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at University of Virginia. Hilton cited an incident involving Dr. Aysha Khoury, an internist, who said she was fired from Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine in Pasadena after a discussion with her students on racism.
“Elon Musk is a techno-optimist so it makes sense he’s going for carbon capture,” said Andres Clarens, an environmental engineer at the University of Virginia who has researched carbon capture options. “You could create a new widget but scaling it up is the real challenge; also, Musk also doesn’t touch on what to do with the CO2 once you get it. But if we can solve these things our toolkit to deal with climate will become far more powerful.”
(Commentary) Brad Wilcox, a University of Virginia professor, notes that “current federal and state funding for higher education totals about $150 billion. But only $1.9 billion in funding is devoted to vocational education in high schools and community colleges. … Too many of our schools discount the potential of less academically minded children. … Far too many high school students—especially young men—spend critical years of their development struggling in classes that bore or overwhelm them and fail to offer them a path to a stable career—much less a clear sense of vocation and direction.”
(Commentary by William Antholis, director and CEO of UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) How did Americans view the Greek Revolution of 1821? “No people sympathise more feelingly than ours with the sufferings of your countrymen, none offer more sincere and ardent prayers to heaven for their success: and nothing indeed but the fundamental principle of our government, never to entangle us with the broils of Europe, could restrain our generous youth from taking some part in this holy cause.” In one long sentence, Thomas Jefferson summarized pro-democracy hopes and non-interference constraints....
(Commentary by Christine Rosen, a fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) Last spring, as the COVID-19 virus was spreading across the globe and state and local officials in the U.S. scrambled to announce pandemic safety precautions, most K-12 schools across the country closed as a temporary emergency measure. By January of 2021, a clear divide had emerged in the nation between places where kids could go back to school in-person and those where they could not.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) So far this year, the Crystal Ball has released its initial ratings for the 2022 Senate races and the 2021-2022 gubernatorial races. We’re holding off on House ratings, though, because this is a national redistricting cycle. Without district lines in place, there’s no sense in issuing specific ratings.
Reporters, not surprisingly, weren’t keen on the proposition. When press secretary Pierre Salinger informed them that the president intended to hold live press events, “most of us print reporters, comprising the vast majority of the press corps then, objected vociferously to the idea of making a TV spectacle out of a news conference,” former Newsweek correspondent Charles Roberts told a Kennedy Presidency Forum at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Researchers at the University of Virginia, as well as other doctors, are trying to figure out how to prevent heart attacks and strokes from occurring.
Scientists at two Virginia universities are developing a coronavirus vaccine candidate that showed promising results during animal testing. The vaccine was developed by virus experts at the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech, and so far it has only been tested on pigs.
Researchers at the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech have teamed up to develop a new vaccine to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The vaccine is in its early stages, but both men behind it are very optimistic, based on what they’ve seen so far from their trials on pigs. “The results are promising, but there’s still a long way to go before we know for sure this vaccine can work in humans,” Dr. X.J. Meng said.
Researchers in Virginia are developing a vaccine that may protect people against all forms of coronaviruses. A team at the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech saw promising results with their candidate, which prevented pigs from being becoming ill with a pig coronavirus. The candidate would help the body fight off existing and future strains of coronavirus, including the pathogen that causes COVID-19 and even the common cold.
Dr. Steven Zeichner’s goal when he started work on a coronavirus vaccine in the early days of the pandemic was not necessarily to be the first to market. The federal government’s Operation Warp Speed was on top of that. One of his top priorities was that his vaccine be cheap and easily reproducible enough to be manufactured and used all over the world. He may now be well on his way.
Scientists at the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech say a promising COVID-19 vaccine they've tested on pigs could offer "broad protection" against current and future strains of the coronavirus – and it could cost as little as $1 a dose.
Demand is increasingly across the board regardless of geography, suggesting that local infection rates and public health policy are not a deterrent. At University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, MBA applications are up substantially this year after a 364% surge in applications in the third round of admissions last year. Dawna Clarke, executive director of admissions, expects an even better performance this time around: “We anticipate that we will see a record volume of applicants in the history of the school.”
Data from the Common App has shown institutions such as Harvard University experiencing a 42% increase in applications in 2020/21 and public universities like the University of Virginia seeing a 15% increase.
Stevens Point native Sam Hauser announced via Twitter that he is leaving the University of Virginia to pursue a professional basketball career.
John Edwin Mason, a UVA professor of African history and the history of photography, said the post shows how radically different the African American experience is from the white experience in Charlottesville. “Probably most white people think that Charlottesville works pretty well because Charlottesville is set up to be a delightful place to be a middle class or affluent white person,” Mason said. “Charlottesville has been a very uncomfortable place to be Black from the very beginning.”