One of the first people Director of Tennis Andres Pedroso met at UVA was a legendary figure on Grounds. Gordon Burris was, and still is, a good person for anyone associated with the University to know. Burris’ contributions to UVA tennis were recognized Saturday when the newest court at the Virginia Tennis Facility was given Burris’ name.
(Book review; subscription required) The title of [UVA history professor emeritus] Olivier Zunz’s biography of Alexis de Tocqueville – ”The Man Who Understood Democracy” – would appear to be a direct appeal to readers who believe democracy is, to use one popular formulation, “under assault.”
Attorney General Miyares announced Friday that he has appointed Cliff Iler as senior assistant attorney general and university counsel to the University of Virginia.
The family of the UVA student who was captured in North Korea and left in a coma returned to the place he called home before his death nearly five years ago. Thursday marked the first time Otto Warmbier’s parents, Cindy and Fred, came back to UVA Grounds since their son’s death.
Among the guest speakers, Suffolk ACCESS alumnus and UVA fourth-year student Brandon Eley offered advice about the college experience. “The goal is not simply for you to arrive at your respective college, but to truly thrive,” he said.
Researchers say Black women are more likely to suffer from insomnia than other groups, but there may be something to help. At the UVA School of Medicine, they created an online sleep intervention program called SHUTi and tested it on more than 300 Black women, finding it was much more effective than a traditional sleep education program.
If you think back on why 2021 was an important year, you might find little to celebrate, but for Bill Shobe, who studies energy economics at UVA, it was historic. “Virginia was No. 4 in the country among the states in installation of solar facilities, and in 2021 we actually generated more electricity using solar energy than we did using coal!” he says.
Chris Paolucci, a UVA assistant professor of chemical engineering, recently received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to help figure out what happens to catalytic materials during reaction, down to their nanoparticles, atoms and ions.
(Commentary by Paul Stephan, School of Law) Pundits have reveled in the prospect of using the Russian central bank funds currently frozen by the U.S. Department of Treasury to make reparations to Ukraine for war crimes and other injuries inflicted by Russia’s devastating and outlaw invasion. How delicious it would be to enforce international law against such an obviously culpable perpetrator, all done by the United States without any outside help!
The University of Virginia has been ranked as the best public college for financial aid. The Princeton Review, which is not affiliated with Princeton University, released its 2022 Best Value Colleges list on Tuesday.
Kate Daniels has long been captivated by the connection between writing and the healing process. After earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, Daniels worked as a nurse’s aide at UVA Medical Center while she was in the process of applying to graduate school. The job was grueling, physically and emotionally, and she found herself writing poetry in the staff break room to decompress from the intense hours spent helping care for terminally ill patients. She did not realize its therapeutic benefit until years later.
“Everyone in the imaging community should really see this as a call to arms to work with our imaging vendor exchange communities to solve this problem for the benefit of patients,” emphasized Dr. Krishnaraj, Chief of the Division of Body Imaging with the Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Two international law experts backed vitamin C importers Monday in their bid for another U.S. Supreme Court review of a price-fixing case against a pair of Chinese exporters that was nixed by the Second Circuit, warning that the lower court is in no position to make case-by-case judgments that could impact foreign relations. University of California, Davis, law professor William S. Dodge and University of Virginia School of Law professor Paul B. Stephan, both of whom are former international law advisers to the U.S. Department of State, argued that the Second Circuit ruling made it much more l...
Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said an urban vs. rural divide among voters has gotten sharper in recent decades. Divides on cultural issues have also become starker to voters. “I think that as the Democratic Party has become more sort of clearly associated with cultural liberalism and the Republican Party more associated with cultural conservatism on issues like guns and abortion and energy production,” Kondik said.
Biden received a small boost in popularity in the immediate aftermath of the invasion as he helped lead the NATO response to deter Russia. But his average approval rating remains low at 42.2 percent, according to analytics website FiveThirtyEight. “Even though it’s a momentous world event, I don’t think it’s really changed how people view the president in any sort of meaningful way,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “People’s concerns are generally domestic.”
University of Virginia professor of art history, Douglas Fordham, also talked to the Georgetowner about how the rise of NFT art might fit into the long-term trends of art history. “For more than a century now, artists have been working in what we call ‘new media’ which has ranged from film to video to digital art, and much of that work took the form of a critical interrogation of the medium itself, pushing beyond entertainment or absorption to analyze the way in which a medium functions in society or as an untapped vehicle of expression,” Fordham said. “NFT art seems to capitulate entirely to ...
Austin Keeler, a postdoctoral student at the University of Virginia, uses CRISPR in the lab to alter the genetic makeup of mouse embryos to create transgenic animals for research. Though he finds CRISPR’s potential exciting, he thinks a lot about its ethical implications on issues that currently resemble science fiction more than reality. These thoughts inspired the subject of a course he teaches to undergraduate students entitled “Homo CRISPR — Future Humans?”
(Analysis) WhatsApp is the leading social network in Brazil; it also “became a public service in the country,” said David Nemer, a professor of media studies and Latin American studies at the University of Virginia. “Phone companies offer access to WhatsApp at no cost.” In other words, there is less incentive to read the news on an actual news site when, on WhatsApp, consumers can read headlines for free. “Although many see this as digital inclusion,” Nemer said, “it’s actually digital colonialism.”
A cache of experimental pavilions and organic shelters show what is possible if we embrace biodegradable alternatives to concrete and steel. The Biomaterial Building Exposition is being hosted at the University of Virginia, with designs contributed by students from its architecture school as well as visiting professors and researchers.
The first home event for the University of Virginia men’s golf team in more than a decade bears the name of the late Lewis Chitengwa, and that’s a fitting honor. Chitengwa, who died tragically of meningococcal meningitis in June 2001 at the age of 26, was a pioneer in the Cavaliers’ program.