Owners of Russian debt could recover something, but maybe not for decades, said University of Virginia law professor Mitu Gulati. Investors who bought defaulted bonds of the Russian imperial government that fell in 1917 were partially repaid in the 1980s when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sought to access capital markets.
(Editorial) For a decade [UVA Health nurse] Valerie Goodman decorated Easter eggs for fun. Now, she's doing it for money to help Ukraine fight flor freedom against Vladimir Putin's Russian invaders. Goodman is organizing Psanky parties. Psanky is a traditional Ukrainian egg-painting method. Goodman learned how to do it from a friend. She hopes to teach it to dozens of small groups until Easter. She charges $25 for each egg a student paints. All proceeds go to Ukrainian relief funds vetted by CNN.
(Book review by Christine Riosen, fellow at UVA’s Inbstitute for Advanced Studies in Culture) Most people assume they know what the internet is. But if asked to describe its power, its reach or its history, most of us will lapse into easy metaphor: We call it a “web,” a “virtual public square” or “the cloud,” to name a few common terms. In “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” Justin E.H. Smith, a professor of history and the philosophy of science at the University of Paris, asks how our use of such metaphors informs our understanding—and misunderstanding—of the internet.
(Commentary by Wendy Cohn, associate director for community outreach and engagement at the UVA Cancer Center; and Dr. Thomas Loughran, director of the UVA Cancer Center, F. Palmer Weber-Smithfield Foods Professor of Oncology Research and professor of medicine and co-director of the Paul Mellon Urologic Cancer Institute at UVA) Last month, the University of Virginia Cancer Center became the commonwealth’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and one of just 52 in the United States — and it wouldn’t have been possible without our neighbors and partners throughout...
A new study from nine medical institutions — including the UVA School of Medicine’s Center for Research in Reproduction — finds weight reduction among obese women does not increase the chance of conception of delivering a healthy baby.
A new UVA Health study says women who are obese and struggling to become pregnant may have been following the wrong advice. Research suggests that there are no fertility benefits to losing weight.
A new study at UVA Health finds that weight loss won't help pregnancy chances.
A new study conducted by researchers from UVA Health explored the role that weight loss plays in women’s fertility. Although losing weight is beneficial for women’s long-term health outcomes, the study findings suggest that it isn’t likely to increase the odds of getting pregnant.
Sitting in the small Baptist church he grew up attending, [UVA alumnus] Dean Nelson recalls stories of his family’s history, including those of his great-great-grandmother, Easter Nelson. She “was a slave, but lived during the time the Emancipation Proclamation took place,” he tells The Daily Signal.
Students from Auburn University, University of Virginia, University of Connecticut, and St. Thomas Aquinas (at Purdue), are taking part in Pensacola Habitat’s Collegiate Challenge over their Spring Break. The program provides alternative school break volunteer opportunities to college students across the U.S.
(Video) University of Virginia Political Science Chair Jennifer Lawless appeared on GoLocal LIVE where she discussed the latest historic inflation numbers – and how they are negating any jobs “wins” by the Biden Administration.
Despite the turmoil facing the Black family in the U.S., they have still managed to prosper. “They are trending now more rapidly than other families in the direction of family stability, which I think is both striking and encouraging,” Brad Wilcox, a sociologist at University of Virginia, said.
(Commentary) According to Jeanne Liedtke, Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, design thinking is able to deliver these kinds of results because not only does it offer a structured way to reframe problems, ideate solutions and iterate towards better answers, but it also provides a route around the many obstacles that can get in the way of creative thinking and problem solving including human biases, fear of failure and lack of employee buy-in.
When the NCAA swimming and diving championships begin next week in Atlanta, the University of Virginia hopes to win races with the help of a mathematician. Ken Ono heads the math department at UVA, and he combines science and math to guide training for the Cavalier’s top-ranked swim team.
To reset your clocks or to not reset? That is the question some professors at the University of Virginia are asking.
The Mannings are part of an emerging pattern of Black migration from larger cities to smaller ones, primarily in the South, according to Sabrina Pendergrass, an assistant professor for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. After a decadeslong migration by Black people to Atlanta, “there’s this feeling that ... it might be tougher to get an economic foothold if you wanted to open a business,” Pendergrass said. “In cities like Charlotte, there’s not as much competition.”
Both Albemarle and Charlottesville are now considered at the medium level because the new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in the past 7 days is now fewer than 200. “I think what we’re seeing, and I think probably many of us are feeling, is that COVID is reducing its footprint in our community,” Dr. Costi Sifri, University of Virginia Health’s director of hospital epidemiology, said on a Friday call with local media. “It’s also reducing its impact here on patients in the hospital and given that we can be thoughtful about how we use masks and other mitigation strategies.”
UNICEF uses a global data system to ensure aid is going to the right people. That’s a long way from one of the earliest examples of cash assistance. “Clara Barton used it. She was the founder of the American Red Cross. She used cash relief as part of the Franco-Prussian War response in 1870,” said Kirsten Gelsdorf, professor of practice and director of global humanitarian policy at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia Law School professor Thomas Nachbar explains why excluding Russia from the internet is not possible because of the structure of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. He contrasts ICANN with SWIFT, the international payments network, and its ability to ban Russian banks from the system, and suggests the world’s approach to internet regulation needs to change.
(Commentary) Mitu Gulati is professor of law at the University of Virginia. Here he and co-author Lee Buchheit, a former senior partner at Cleary Gottlieb and professor (Hon), at the University of Edinburgh, explore what might happen to Ukraine’s debts if it succumbs to Russia.