The Northside Library will be hosting a special event focused on a major Native American tribe from Virginia. The Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, JMRL and the creators of Cvillepedia will host the two-part event on Tuesday beginning at 5 p.m. The first part will be a presentation by Jeffrey Hantman, a University of Virginia professor of Anthropology and author of “Monacan Millennium: A Collaborative Archaeology and History of a Virginia Indian People.” He will be talking about his book and work on the Monacan Indian Nation.
Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we focus on Sankaran Venkataraman from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
(Commentary) Some commentators, such as professor Megan Stevenson at the UVA School of Law, have opined that the law professors here misused their credentials to “advocate for change.” Stevenson said that academics should not be advocates, except when it comes to areas where there is “certainty and unity.”
(Podcast and transcript) The guests include Erin Putalik, an architectural historian at the University of Virginia whose work revolves around ideas of what wood is or should be, and the history of how forests are used and considered in architectural frameworks.
(Podcast) Also: does knowing your family history affect your identity? Among the guests is Daniel Willingham, professor of psychology.
The diagnosis piqued the curiosity of Dr. Matthew Meyer, a critical care physician at the University of Virginia and a sustainable health care expert. “I am fascinated by the diagnosis of climate change -- it is a powerful statement...” Meyer wrote in an email to MedPage Today. “We do need to ensure that a diagnosis of climate change is always accompanied by other appropriate and more immediately actionable diagnoses. We need to make sure our patients are aware of any individual actions they can take to help their own health. A patient cannot individually manage climate change, and we want to ...
The enormity of that challenge will be apparent on Nov. 17, when the administration will hold a court-ordered offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, said Cale Jaffe, director of the Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic at the University of Virginia. The book-ending of the U.S. methane pledge and the lease sale on either end of COP26 “provides a perfect example of the challenge of converting the COP26 agreements into meaningful domestic law and policy,” Jaffe said.
“The problem with natural immunity is that A) it’s not as good as vaccination and B) it does wane over time and people get re-infected if you don’t follow that up with a vaccination,” University of Virginia assistant professor of medicine Dr. Taison Bell said.
(Video) University of Virginia Political Science Department Chair Jennifer Lawless appeared on GoLocal LIVE, where she spoke about the potential political implications of U.S. inflation.
Biden’s poll numbers have declined in recent weeks, adding urgency to a pivot for the White House. “Clearly, what they’re doing isn’t working in terms of messaging,” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
More than two-dozen states have filed legal challenges in at least six federal appeals courts. All the states have a Republican governor or attorney general. Judges on the New Orleans-based federal court have paused the rules from taking effect in January, saying it raises constitutional concerns. Raymond Scheppach, professor of public policy at the University of Virginia, said it’s a close call whether Youngkin and the state’s soon-to-be attorney general, Jason Miyares, will join the legal battle. “It’s not New York,” Scheppach said. “So I would suspect he’s going to be kind of a moderate Rep...
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturuer at the Darden School of Business) In formulating public policy, political leaders need to forge a consensus about the urgency of a problem and then deliver a solution that does not create a new set of problems. In the case of climate change, public support has increased, and the Biden administration is taking steps to speed the transition from fossil fuels to alternative forms of energy. The big unknown is whether this can happen without creating an energy shortage and higher inflation.
(Co-written by Jasmine Wang, accounting professor) The well-developed theory of the winner’s curse can potentially explain the poor performance of mergers and acquisitions. A key reason for the curse is the uncertainty concerning a deal’s value. The greater the disagreement over the target’s value, the more likely that a winning bid will fail to account for the uncertainty and lead to overpayment. The empirical relevance of the winner’s curse is central to takeover efficiency, because it teaches that the bidder who overpays the most, instead of the bidder who can create the highest synergy, wi...
(By Mehr Afshan Farooqi, associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures) Obviously, translation is not substitution; practical experience tells us that, even if a word-for-word list between two languages existed, it would be redundant because of syntactic arrangements. Idiom, tone, style, flavour, spirit and shade of the original produce obstinacy that makes it difficult to render words from one language to another. It is said that no translation can ever be correct or exact.
(Book review by Gerard Alexander, professor of politics) Olaf Gersemann, a German journalist, 15 years ago set out to correct Europeans who believed that economic life in America was a race to the bottom. He showed that America’s flexible labor markets, dynamic growth, and job creation worked at least as well as Europe’s economies and welfare states. Now American writer David Harsanyi bookends that earlier project with a new text that punctures not European myths about America, but the myths that some Americans hold about Europe.
(Book review by Elizabeth R. Varon, Langbourne M. Williams professor of American history) In this bold, perceptive offering, the Harvard law professor Noah Feldman contends that as president, Abraham Lincoln unilaterally tore apart and remade the Constitution, ensuring the demise of slavery but also “effectively transforming himself into a constitutional dictator.” While Feldman’s book, “The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America,” has many valuable insights, its argument downplays some crucial context.
(Commentary by Christopher Ali, associate professor of media studies) President Joe Biden’s trillion-dollar infrastructure bill promises the largest public investment in telecommunications in the country’s history. Of the $65 billion allocated for high-speed internet—broadband—$42.45 billion is earmarked specifically for deployment projects through state grants. Now that the legislation has passed the House, and Biden will sign it into law Monday, all hopes for broadband connectivity now turn to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which has 180 days to write the rul...
(Podcast) Why do weak autocrats create strong autocracies? Using game-theoretic logic and an analysis of the post-colonial experience of sub-Saharan Africa, Anne Meng shows that by creating institutions that incorporate other elites into the inner circles of power, dictators create regimes that can outlast their founders. By creating clear lines of succession, they avoid disruptive power struggles that could bring down the regime. Anne Meng is a professor of political science at the University of Virginia who studies authoritarian institutions.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute are seeing cases continue to decline or plateau across the state. But COVID-19 case rates remain high in some regions, particularly Southwest Virginia. “So far, Virginia has not seen a repeat of increased transmission rates seen last fall. This reduces the expected impact of a potential holiday surge,” the UVA researchers said. “Nevertheless, the model shows a large surge is possible under current vaccination rates.”
In what could be very good news for the immunocompromised, an antibody cocktail tested at the University of Virginia School of Medicine appears to offer long-lasting protection from COVID-19.