Virghinia Gov. Glenn Youngkin recognized the University of Virginia as one of the winners of the 2022 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards. UVA’s waste minimalization efforts helped with developing a strategy transition to reusable and compostable materials.
The University of Virginia is considering a plan that would phase out the school’s usage of fossil fuels by the year 2050 and make the college carbon neutral by 2030.
With effort from a University of Virginia School of Law clinic and bipartisan support from the General Assembly, a bill improving prevention services for at-risk youth will soon become law.
On a brisk, sunny Saturday morning at the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia, descendants of people who were enslaved by the university celebrated their ancestors and themselves. It was the first Descendants Day in-person reunion for Descendants of Enslaved Communities at UVA, which last year held virtual with more than 300 participants. Being together on UVA’s Grounds was a powerful feeling.
For UVA basketball forward Kadin Shedrick and guard Reece Beekman, the off-season is the beginning of a different kind of work. “Not everything we do is just about basketball. We want to do stuff that’s outside the core of that,” said Shedrick. For these two players, it’s a time to give back to the community that supports them and to organizations like the Boys and Girls Club that helped shape them.
A near-death experience expert who has been studying the mysterious phenomena for the last 50 years has revealed what he believes happens to us when we die. Dr. Bruce Greyson, a UVA professor of psychiatry, began investigating near-death experiences in the mid-1970s after a “frightening” exchange he shared with one of his patients.
Some panelists expressed doubts that a new vaccine series could be created. “The challenges and unknowns outweigh our current ability to accurately predict a new cycle for a selection of new strains for a COVID-19 vaccine,” Dr. Michael Nelson, chief of the Division of Asthma, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology at the UVA School of Medicine said.
Many parents of young children continue to wonder when their child will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccines are currently recommended for everyone who is at least 5 years of age, but they are not available for younger age groups. Dr. Steven Zeichner, a pediatrician at UVA Health, says we could be expecting an announcement within the next few weeks regarding the approval of vaccines for children under the age of 5.
As part of the “Converations in Black Freedom Studies” series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, assistant history professor Justene Hill Edwards is interviewed alongside Daniel Immerwahr, professor of history at Northwestern University.
Jackson’s presence could make a difference in the perspective she brings and how she expresses herself in her opinions, said Payvand Ahdout, a University of Virginia law professor. Jackson, who was raised in Miami, may see the high court’s cases about race “from the lens of being a Black woman who grew up in the South. She has an opportunity early on to show how representation matters,” Ahdout said.
The no-holds-barred battle over her confirmation underscored the new reality that for now, filling a Supreme Court vacancy has become dependent on a party controlling both the White House and the Senate. That could mean even more strategic decisions about when a justice retires, said Barbara Perry, a presidential and Supreme Court historian at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
(Commetnary co-written by Anton Korinek, professor of economics and business) The large capital outflows from China since the onset of the war in Ukraine serve as a reminder of the volatility of capital flows. This column argues that the IMF’s recent acceptance of the occasional need for pre-emptive use of capital controls to increase resilience against volatile capital flows continues the welcome evolution of the international financial institution’s policies. The framework should continue to evolve to provide countries with policy space when capital flows impinge on domestic objectives (e.g....
(Commentary co-written by Allan C. Stam, professor of public policy and politics) From President Biden to the U.S. media, almost everyone frames the war in Ukraine as a battle between democracy and autocracy. Are democracies equipped to prevail, some wonder? With slow decision-making, volunteer armies and polarized public opinion, democracies might seem at a disadvantage. Our research suggests democracies are well-equipped to win in fights against autocracies.
(Video) If a product is to be improved, a feature is usually added. That’s how humans work. The fact that something can be given more value by taking something away, on the other hand, is unfamiliar to us at first. Darden professor Leidy Klotz, author of “Subtract,” explains in a video interview with the GDI why and how our mindset can be changed.
A new theory about how justices rule in cases before the Supreme Court is getting a lot of attention – and sparking some controversy. It’s an idea called “personal precedents,” and it was coined in a recent academic article by University of Virginia Law School professor Richard M. Re. According to Re, “personal precedent is a judge’s presumptive adherence to her own previously expressed views of the law.”
A new study from the UVA School of Law finds that men talk more than women in law classes. The study started nine years ago when a group of UVA law students told their professors they felt like men were speaking more than the women in class.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics will host the ambassador of Austria to the United States on Friday. According to a release, Martin Weiss will speak as part of the Ambassador Series. He will be the first current ambassador to speak on Grounds following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Derek Baxter says that Thomas Jefferson has long been his hero, and he has the proof: He began visiting the Founding Father’s home, Monticello, as a child; starred as Jefferson in a fourth-grade play; took his prom date to the Jefferson Memorial; and majored in history at the Jefferson-founded University of Virginia. So it makes sense that when Baxter was in the throes of a midlife crisis – dissatisfied with his predictable job as an attorney for a government agency, exhausted by the demands of parenting two young children – he looked to his idol for direction.
Dianne Marsh, director of content security for Netflix, and Phil Bourne, dean of UVA’s School of Data Science, delivered keynote addresses Tuesday during the second day of Michigan Technological University’s computing showcase. Bourne pointed to the way the mapping of the human genome had shaped biomedicine, spawning new fields and a $600 billion industry.
Thirty years ago, people were generally fine with whatever they ordered off of the television arriving in five to seven business days, because it was the status quo. Now, thanks to Amazon, even two days can feel like an eternity. David Mick, a UVA professor of commerce, describes the situation as the “er” phenomenon, where people are led to believe that there is always something better ahead. “If you think about packaging or advertising, products across the spectrum are constantly positioning themselves as softer, sweeter, easier, smoother, quieter, longer-lasting, or just the big word, better...