VisitAble was founded by Joe Jamison in 2019, as he was finishing his degree at the University of Virginia. One of his senior capstone objectives was to start a business – and he knew that he wanted to do something for the disability community.
(By Daniel Willingham, psychology professor) Like many parents, my wife and I limit time on the Internet for our children (ages 12 and 14). They usually respect that limit, so I try not to set the agenda for how they spend the time. And yet … Some content they favor drives me crazy.
With COVID-19 cases rising, UVA Health will begin restricting visitors and visiting hours at the Medical Center and clinics beginning Thursday.
Dawn Staley continues to have an amazing coaching career. Staley, a University of South Carolina head women’s basketball coach and North Philadelphia native, led the United States women’s Olympic basketball team to 90-75 victory over Japan to win the gold medal. The former UVA women’s basketball star has earned six gold medals in her Olympic career. She has won three as a player, two as an assistant coach and one as a head coach.
Wilson Craig, a 27-year-old University of Virginia graduate, left his New York City finance job to follow his dream and become an entrepreneur. Now, he’s projecting annual revenue to top $25 million by August 2022 from the launch of his canned cocktail company Waterbird. Sales recently jumped more than 2,800%, he said.
Joan Kuhl, author of “Dig Your Heels In,” chats with rising golf stars Megha Ganne, Bailey Davis and Riley Smyth about overcoming self-doubt, mental wellness, the push for diversity in their sport and more. Smyth, a senior at the University of Virginia, finished in the top-10 players for four of eight events she competed in this year while also setting the UVA record in 2021 for her 54-hole tourney score.
Also Monday, the House Courts and Senate Judiciary committees announced that they had agreed on eight nominees to fill two vacancies and six new seats on the Virginia Court of Appeals, the second-highest state court. The nominees are expected to be certified in committee votes Tuesday and then formally elected by a vote in the full chambers later that day. The nominees include Lisa M. Lorish of Charlottesville, an assistant federal public defender and appellate specialist for the Western District of Virginia and lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law.
“Just in terms of space, Republicans probably have an advantage at home,” said Jay Miles Coleman, of the University of Virginia’s Politics Center. “Well, in the Senate it will be the first mid-term since Franklin Roosevelt where every seat the Democrats hold, they hold in the state of Biden. In other words, one of the advantages Democrats have this year compared to 2010 and 2014 is that all the seats they defend are on the grass.”
In North Carolina, for instance, “in addition to the state’s deep red rural component there are several large suburban counties that are 60% Republican and that hasn’t budged much over the last decade,” said J. Miles Coleman, co-author of a recent University of Virginia Center for Politics analysis. The study predicts that redistricting could give Republicans at least six additional U.S. House seats in the South.
“We understand that stress injuries can impact many aspects of a person's life and there are many different strategies that may be helpful. We can use the five essential needs as a way of identifying and prioritizing what types of activities of resources would be most helpful to promote resilience and recovery,” said Richard Westphal, co-director of the Wisdom and Wellbeing Program at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. He is a co-creator of the stress first aid toolkit.
“Marriages are definitely up this year in 2021 as a reflection of pent-up demand for weddings,” University of Virginia sociologist and National Marriage Project director Brad Wilcox said.
University of Virginia Professor Jalane Schmidt will be among the keynote speakers. It's her hope that this event can help inform the public on how to stop these extremists groups altogether. "Some of those that were here at the Unite the Right rally in 2017 invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6 of this year," she said. "There is a straight line of that violence and of this fascist and some of them self-identified themselves as fascists and these brave students decided to stand up."
Between January 2020 and last Wednesday, COVID had killed 416 children in the U.S. That's a tiny percentage of overall deaths, but "anything that kills more than 350 children a year is going to automatically rank in the top 10 causes" of childhood death, says Debbie-Ann Shirley of UVA Health.
"We are seeing the largest increases in the percentage of children with COVID since the beginning of the pandemic," said Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley, a pediatric infectious disease specialist for UVA Health.
The former poet laureate [and UVA English professor] Rita Dove, whose new collection is “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” loves the Icelandic saga “Grettir the Strong”: “Bleak, modernist stuff! And yet revisiting that litany of betrayals and cruelties never fails to stir my spirits.”
(Commentary) Enter the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking, a project partnership between Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia, which shows that, going into this summer, AOC had introduced 21 bills defined by the group as “substantive." Of those 21 bills, none received floor votes and, therefore, not one became actual law.
The University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute, which has been tracking and predicting cases over the course of the pandemic, likened the rise in COVID-19 cases to a “storm” -- the epicenter of which began in Southern states of Florida and Louisiana, where vaccination rates are relatively low.
(Commentary) University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt wrote a 2012 book titled The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. He cites research implying that progressives focus strongly on three issues: social fairness, personal liberty, and caring for the weak. Conservatives partly share those urges, he says, but they also focus on three others: sanctity, respect for authority, and loyalty — qualities that breed political and religious conformity.
(Book review) “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” UVA English professor Rita Dove’s new book of poems, is among her best. The title makes it leap from the bookcase. It’s about life in what she calls this “shining, blistered republic.”
UVA is creating a space for student veterans on Grounds. The Veteran Student Center will open sometime this fall. There's no official date at this time, but it will be located on the bottom level of Newcomb Hall.