(Book review by Michael L. Krieger, Ph.D. student in sociology) Ask around and many will tell you, there is something amiss about our contemporary dating and sexual culture, even if they can’t quite articulate what it is. Though we’re more sexually liberated, less constrained by biology or taboo than ever before – free to pursue our desires no matter how devious or unnatural they might have once appeared – very few of us seem to be getting what we want. But that’s because, according to Christine Emba, we don’t actually want what we think we want when it comes to sex.
We met up with Linda Greenhouse in Charlottesville, where she’s been spending time while teaching a course at UVA. (She’s also a professor at Yale Law School.) It was just a day before President Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Stephen Breyer, and, over poke bowls, we spoke about the court’s current momentous term.
(Co-written by David Leblang, Ambassador Henry Taylor Professor of Politics; director of the Batten School’s Global Policy Center; and faculty fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs) Annual apprehensions of people from Guatemala arriving in family units at the U.S. southern border grew exponentially between 2012 and 2019 – from just 340 to a whopping 185,134. This increase happened before the pandemic, before the 2020 hurricanes that devastated parts of Central America, and before President Biden was elected. The underlying conditions driving migration predate these events and still exi...
(By Kimberly Whitler, professor of business administration) As a professor, a common question I get from students is: “What will an internship project look like and how can I best prepare?” To answer this question, I partnered with Nicole Croft, a second-year MBA student at UVA’s Darden School of Business, to understand: 1) the types of projects assigned to marketing-interested MBA students, and 2) the approaches interns used to tackle their assignments. Below is insight that Croft gained through her research.
Breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer are relatively common – yet within each of those are thousands of subtypes. Christoper Moskaluk, professor and chair of the UVA School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology, underscored the importance of collecting, processing, biobanking, and organizing tumor specimens from patients to help advance cancer research.
UVA environmental science professor Deborah Lawrence and her colleagues took data on trees from hundreds of studies, then used computer modeling to conclude that up to a third of the good forests do in slowing climate change comes – not from absorbing CO2 – but from doing other things.
Two fellows at UVA’s Miller Center and others will talk about free speech at institutions of higher education this week. This is one of several events that are planned at the Miller Center, including one that will be exploring social media and how it hurts or helps democracy.
The Detroit Pistons announced today that the club has signed forward Braxton Key to a two-way contract. The UVA alumnus signed a 10-day contract with Detroit on March 24. In five games with the Pistons this season, he’s averaging 6.8 points and 5.2 rebounds in 20.4 minutes per game.
Tahiliani’s path to genetic counseling was direct, beginning in high school when a relative who was considering the profession piqued her interest in the field. She then pursued the pre-med track at the University of Virginia, where she took a human genetics course taught by a particularly phenomenal professor and discovered both a fascination for genetics and an uncanny propensity to grasp it.
Nakita Reed, an associate with Quinn Evans, has been selected by the American Institute of Architects to receive a 2022 Young Architects Award. The national award is presented to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the profession in the early stages of their architectural careers. Reed holds a Master of Architecture (2010) and a Master of Science in Historic Preservation (2010) from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture (2006) from the University of Virginia.
Philips, who received a bachelor’s and MBA from UVA, is CEO of the Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, an advocate for issues of free and charitable clinics; their volunteer workforce of doctors, dentists, nurses, therapists, pharmacists, technicians and other health care professionals; and the patients they serve.
The White House announced Saturday that career diplomat Robert F. Godec is to be the next ambassador to Thailand. Godec has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia.
In May 2008, [UVA alumna] Dawn Staley inherited a South Carolina women's basketball program that had never been to the Final Four. 14 seasons later, Staley has built the Gamecocks into a national powerhouse in women's basketball.
Between her undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia and a graduate degree from the University of Maryland, Joy Omenyi, 27, has amassed $72,000 in student debt. Her education has helped her land a job as a product manager at Comcast, she said, but at a hefty cost.
(Commentary) A race and equity officer at the University of California, Los Angeles, who wished death upon Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was the subject of a racial-profiling hate hoax on a prominent law school campus [UVA] more than a decade ago. In response to last week's news that Thomas was hospitalized for an infection, UCLA's race and equity director Johnathan Perkins was part of the liberal mob hoping that the ill black conservative-leaning SCOTUS judge, age 73, died.
The Building Goodness Foundation and UVA’s Darden School of Business are teaming up, to get their hands dirty while helping others. Seven families received a home makeover on Saturday in and around Charlottesville. One hundred Darden students and construction experts donated their time to make necessary repairs.
On Saturday, UVA’s Army ROTC program will host an annual run commemorating a former cadet. This is the ninth year for the R.J. Hess Memorial 5K Race.
Among the finalists: Ankit Agrawal's podcast, “I Hope You're Happy,” narrates his journey as he became more comfortable with his own sexuality during his time at the University of Virginia. Using the journals he began the day he moved onto campus in August 2018, Agrawal attempts to answer the ever-evasive question for many young adults: "How do you define yourself?"
The rally comes just weeks before the Michigan Republican Party’s nominating convention. “You certainly can interpret it as the former president trying to intervene and help his preferred candidates in this nomination process,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball from the UVA Center for Politics.
(Podcast) Eric Leeper is a professor of economics at the University of Virginia, an advisor to the Swedish and German central banks and a former Fed economist. He has written widely on the links between monetary policy and discusses these links and their implication for the price level.