Shireen Lewis, 55, is founder of SisterMentors, which aims to mentor girls from their early academic years through college graduation and help women of color to earn doctorates. The program has helped 26 women to go to college and 56 to earn doctorates. A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Lewis immigrated to the States after high school. She earned her doctorate in French literature from Duke University and her law degree from the University of Virginia.
Hillary Lewis awoke on a clear September morning in 2013 in Charlottesville, Va. with an awful feeling. She’d overslept to 7:30 a.m. (she usually rises at 6:00 a.m.), and she was expecting the biggest delivery of her life – quite literally. Lewis, a 2013 UVA Darden MBA, was in the process of launching Lumi Organics, a startup that produces all-natural juices and pasteurizes them with high-pressure processing, instead of the standard heat or chemical processes that often destroy key nutrients.
Student-athletes at the University of Virginia got some life advice from a former Ohio State University running-back, who says there's a lot to learn from his life. Thursday, Maurice Edward Clarett spoke with students about the real-life consequences that come with making poor decisions in life while in or after leaving college sports.
With the help of some collegiate athletes, students in Albemarle County got a taste of the healthy lifestyle Thursday. Players from the University of Virginia and Louisville women's lacrosse teams visited students at Burley Middle School. They talked about the importance of a health diet, exercise and the role being healthy plays in being an athlete.
Katherine Henry of Great Falls, a student at the University of Virginia, has been named a recipient of a research scholarship from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. She is among 260 students nationwide, including two at U.Va., to have received the scholarships, which are designed to support students pursuing careers in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering.
A student group at the University of Virginia wants to renovate a memorial garden that was first founded back in 2007. Members of the Arboretum Landscape Committee are partnering with the university and private architecture firm Rhodeside & Harwell to develop the new designs for the garden.
“Business lobbyists, any lobbyist, they like the devil they know,” said Geoff Skelley, political analyst with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, adding that lawmakers want to keep the people in power who are sensitive to their interests.
Pataki is not well known outside of his home state, hasn’t held elected office in eight years, and will turn seventy this summer. And yet he seems to be genuinely considering a run. The question, as when Pataki flirted with a bid four years ago, is why. “Pataki – I’m puzzled about this,” Larry J. Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told me. “I don’t even know what he’s been doing. Has he been on corporate boards?”
When Brandon Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia, reviewed 303 cases against corporations from 2001 to 2014, he found that only 34 percent involved charges against specific individuals, and that of those, just 42 percent resulted in jail time.
Married men work “smarter, harder and more successfully,” according to Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and a sociology professor at the University of Virginia.
Louisiana's bill, however, goes further, Doug Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia and a leading religious freedom expert, told MSNBC last week. “This Louisiana bill really does what people accused the Indiana law of doing,” Laycock said. “The sponsor and the governor says it doesn't authorize discrimination. I have no idea what that means, it pretty clearly does.”
“What’s crucial about him is that no one work tells a story. Each one represents a part of a system [showing] tiny ordinary signs of wear and tear,” says Nana Last, 54, a professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture who began studying Mr. Struth’s work in 2002 and is currently writing a book with the artist. “His works don’t want awe. They want contemplation.”
“This community has the resources, though I can’t help but notice a sense of paralysis,” said Kathy Glazer, president of the Virginia Early Childhood Education Foundation. Bob Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, agreed. “I’ve been part of conversations about pre-K in this community for about 30 years, and we’re kind of still having the same conversation,” Pianta said.
(Podcast) Shonel Sen is a researcher and analyst at the Weldon Cooper Center at U.Va. She talks with Les Sinclair about their research showing that cancer will be on the rise in the future, here in Virginia.
(Podcast) Barry Horowitz, Virginia Cyber Security Commission and chair of U.Va. Dept. of Systems & Information Engineering, talks with Les Sinclair about the town hall meeting on Grounds April 30th.
There have been notable attempts to convey what the experience of autism is like in the arts lately. In the play “Max Understood” (at San Francisco’s Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center until April 26) the 7-year-old autistic boy of the title has constructed a world of objects and found sounds that the play’s authors, Nancy Carlin and U.Va. drama professor Michael Rasbury represent with noises, music, filmed projections (blowing leaves, rushing water) and a literally moving landscape (a sort of giant wooden turntable that rotates during the performance). How much any of...
A University of Virginia professor who has dedicated 25 years to studying muscular dystrophy says the funds have increased knowledge of the disease. "Over the course of that quarter century, we actually have found out how that gene causes the disease," said professor Mani Manhadevan. "And we've been able to model it in mice models and show that the disease could be reversed."
A team of researchers associated with the New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt wondered if the distinction between holistic and analytic thinking might be relevant to America's notorious "culture war." The team including University of Virginia social psychologists Thomas Talhelm and Shigehiro Oishi, and Chinese psychologists Xuemin Zhang, Felicity Miao, and Shimen Chen report the results of five different studies in a recent for the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, "Liberals Think More Analytically (More 'WEIRD') than Conservatives."...
Economists from Moody's Analytics prepared a report for the National Commission on Financing 21st Century Higher Education, created by the Miller Center at University of Virginia. The study, to evaluate pressure on public funding for higher education, also measured Medicaid expenditures as a percentage of state spending.
State tax revenues are up. But the next decade is looking rough, thanks largely to rising Medicaid costs. And public higher education will bear the brunt of tighter state budgets. That's the central finding of a new study from the National Commission on Financing 21st Century Higher Education. The University of Virginia's Miller Center created the nonpartisan commission last year with funding from Lumina Foundation.