(Commentary) This fetishisation and judgement haven’t gone away. Adam Waytz and Kelly Marie Hoffman of Northwestern University and the University of Virginia report the result of several studies showing that when many white internet users were shown a series of faces, it was the black faces that were suspected to have superhuman speed, strength or height of jump. This unconscious bias is, I believe, what drives pundits like Piers Morgan to say that Biles “let down her country,” and Charlie Kirk to brand her a “national embarrassment.”
In this year’s redistricting cycle, Republicans will again control much of the process. GOP legislators are charged with drawing 187 House districts compared to Democratic legislators, who control the drawing of 75 districts, according to an analysis by Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Cancer Center may have found a new treatment option for myelofibrosis, a deadly type of blood cancer. The researchers were looking at a drug that is used to treat certain advanced breast cancers.
A new organization geared to help entrepreneurs is getting ready to launch. Venture Central consists of entrepreneurs, partners from Charlottesville, Albemarle County, the University of Virginia, and the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Elizabeth Sines, the first named plaintiff in suit, talked about witnessing the riots as a University of Virginia student. “Four years ago, I watched in horror as Nazis swarmed my campus spewing hatred and inflicting violence upon any UVA student or Charlottesville resident they found in their path. The next day, I watched as they continued this terror throughout downtown Charlottesville. The memories from those days will undeniably haunt me for the rest of my life. I will never forget what it was like to watch Nazis march on a campus that I called home,” Sines said. … Jalane Schmidt, an activ...
(Commentary by Matthew J. Meyer, intensivist and sustainable health care researcher at UVA Health and assistant professor of anesthesiology) The health sector, with its mission to help and heal, should be front and center in the fight against climate change, one of the greatest threats to global health in the 21st century. Inexplicably, it isn’t.
At nearly 14 inches long, a new tuna-inspired robot created by University of Virginia researchers can flap its tail as fast as real tuna and swim at speeds up to 1.5 mph, or two body-lengths per second. In a new paper out in Science Robotics, the team behind this creation breaks down how they made this tuna-like robot – a machine that can tense up or relax its tail joint to move at different speeds. This mechanism has allowed the tuna bot to reach high speeds while also conserving energy, a method that could one day help improve swimming robots and even underwater vehicles.
It was four years ago that some 200 tiki torch-toting, slogan-shouting white supremacists and neo-Nazis tore a page from the Nazi Nuremberg rallies of the 1930s and marched about the Grounds of the University of Virginia. The march occurred on the eve of the Aug. 12, 2017, Unite the Right rally, and the symbolism and violence of both events shattered the sense of security at UVA and forced the University community to look inward.
All three of those Olympic medalist teenagers, Emma Weyant, Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass, swim for the University of Virginia. Douglass is a rising junior, Walsh a rising sophomore and Weyant will begin her first year in Charlottesville after deferring in 2020-21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That trio represents the present and the bright future in the IM events for the United States.
There are plenty of reasons for the Vermont Lake Monsters’ success in recent weeks, but a contingent of commits to UVA certainly hasn’t hurt. Anhtony Stephan, Justin Rubin, and Futures League MVP finalist Ethan Anderson were three of the Monsters’ best position players this season, their first above the high school level. This weekend, UVA head coach Brian O’Connor, who has taken Virginia to Omaha five times in the dugout and once as a Creighton player, made his first ever trip up to see his guys play. O’Connor says it would be tough to be any more impressed by Burlington.
Lt. Margaret “Peg” Stirewalt had obtained her Ph.D. from University of Virginia before entering the Navy as a WAVES. Initially serving as an intelligence officer, she later transferred to the newly established Naval Medical Research Institute in the 1940s where she initiated the Navy’s first schistosomiasis research program.
Veteran federal prosecutors from Virginia’s two prosecutorial districts were nominated on Tuesday by President Joe Biden to become the regions’ U.S. attorneys. Biden named Jessica Aber as his choice for U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, while UVA Law alumnus Christopher Kavanaugh is the president’s pick for the Western District of Virginia, acccording to a White House news release. Both are subject to Senate confirmation.
It's taken years for 20-year-old Austin Houck to get comfortable with who he is. "I have autism and I have ADHD as well; and for a long time that was a really big struggle," Houck said. The Alexandria resident had challenges with learning and problems interacting with people.
A Charlottesville-based public defender and University of Virginia lecturer has been elected to serve on the Virginia Court of Appeals. Lisa Lorish, a UVA School of Law graduate, was one of eight new nominees to the court, which Virginia Democrats voted to expand from 11 to 17 judges.
Supporters, however, say threat assessments give school staff a structured system for the sensitive and serious process of gathering information to evaluate the probability of a student causing harm to others. Without it, there is greater potential for school staff to overreact and make rash decisions that would inappropriately – and perhaps disproportionately – push more students toward suspensions, expulsions or arrests. “It's a question of whether they do them intuitively, impulsively, out of fear and anxiety, or they do them systematically with a standard process,” said Dewey Cornell, a cl...
During the legislative process, additional language was added requiring school districts to follow any CDC guidance “to the maximum extent practicable.” According to Virginai Gov. Ralph Northam, that means all districts must follow the new recommendations put out by the CDC last Wednesday. They include universal masking for all students, staff, teachers and guests regardless of vaccination status. Margaret Riley, a professor of health law at the University of Virginia, says she “tends to side” with Northam’s interpretation. “I don’t think a single legislator, even if an original sponsor... get...
As the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus spreads, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is discussing the possibility of booster shots. A health expert from UVA Health says most people won’t need them. Dr. William Petri says that booster vaccine doses are not currently necessary for the vast majority of the population.
“At the end of the day, if you’re seeing women dying 20% more often in a driver seat belted than a male, that’s something we need to fix,” said Chris O’Conner, CEO of Humanetics, a company that manufactures crash test dummies, referencing a University of Virginia study that found women are 73% more likely to be injured and 18-20% more likely to be killed behind the wheel.
Sunflowers face the rising sun because increased morning warmth attracts more bees and also helps the plants reproduce more efficiently, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, Davis. The research team also included Evan Brown, an undergraduate student supervised by Ben Blackman at the University of Virginia.
A Friday report from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, which identifies COVID trends, found the delta variant, lower vaccination rates and more relaxed behaviors among residents are driving the surges in the state’s health districts. The potential aftermath: infections surpassing the record-high set in January within a month.