U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine sat down with the UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato and recounted his experience during last week’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Jalane Schmidt, a Charlottesville-based anti-racist organizer who teaches religious studies at the University of Virginia, also remembers her warnings often going unacknowledged. “We got dismissed. You get dismissed if you use the ‘F word,’” Schmidt told HuffPost of using the term “fascism” to describe the president and the MAGA movement he created.
(Commentary co-written by Carolyn M. Callahan, Commonwealth Professor of Education Emeritus) Students come from diverse backgrounds, speak different languages, have different strengths and personal challenges, and have had very different preschool and family experiences. Far too many are denied access to opportunity based on where they live or the color of their skin. It was within this complex context that the authors of the December/January special issue explored ways to improve the education of advanced learners. Nearly every article was critical of the current state of affairs, but more im...
Visiting rules are changing at the UVA Health. This comes in response to an increase in COVID-19 cases around Charlottesville and across Virginia. The health system is prohibiting visitors to its inpatient units, emergency department, outpatient clinics, and outpatient procedural areas starting Wednesday.
(Book review) Saikrishna Prakash, the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, has written a terrific book. In “The Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers,” Prakash provides a wide-ranging and deeply researched account of the expansive understanding of presidential power today and how it compares to the Constitution’s original meaning.
Five pilot research projects have received funding from the integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia. According to a release, iTHRIV awarded $200,000 to the multi-institutional research projects at the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Inova Health System and Carilion Clinic.
The University of Virginia School of Nursing saw a rise in its early action and decision applications for the fall. According to the school, it had 1,930 applications come in for the BSN program. This is 653 more applications than what it had compared to last year. Austin Stajduhar, assistant dean of admission for UVA School of Nursing, says a factor in this rise is that many applicants are finding their calling during a crisis.
The UVA School of Nursing says the program saw a significant increase in applicants this year. That, while a student group is seeking to increase the amount of diversity in years to come.
The University of Virginia took another big step in its COVID-19 testing efforts. Full-time employees actively working on Grounds are now eligible for its voluntary asymptomatic virus testing program using saliva.
It was Phinney Sachs’ first day on the job as an intern in the office of Rep. James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the third-ranking Democrat in the House. Little did Sachs realize it would turn out to be the most momentous day of his life. The 19-year-old Pembroke Hill graduate, a first-year student at UVA, and his father, Kansas City lawyer Adam Sachs [a UVA alumnus], were in Clyburn’s office last Wednesday when a crowd of supporters of President Trump approached the Capitol.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan has announced a $16 million investment to support the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies.
The pandemic caused some financial problems for Virginia’s higher education system. The good news is that Gov. Ralph Northam has a plan to solve them. On Tuesday, members of the Virginia Higher Education Subcommittee learned how exactly he proposes doing that.
From helping his neurobiology labmates with coding for their experiments to going on spontaneous adventures with his friends, Michael Mutersbaugh brought light and joy to all he did. “In his short 23 years he absolutely lived life to its fullest extent, and shared with others how to do the same,” wrote his parents, Ann and James Mutersbaugh. Mutersbaugh, a 2019 UVA alumnus who died in a car accident Dec. 12, was a first-year doctoral student in Duke’s neurobiology program.
When the soon-to-be-ex-wife of one of his clients threw her husband’s entire collection of tropical fish out on their front lawn, Mark B. Sandground Sr. told his client to collect and freeze them immediately for use as evidence at trial. He once advised another well-heeled client seeking a divorce to serve her husband nothing but frozen food for dinner for three months, to encourage the speedy end to the soured marriage. Sandground, a Washington-area divorce lawyer (and UVA Law graduate) who drew media attention for his Machiavellian embrace of winning at all costs, died Dec. 30.
Just when Charlottesville School Board member Juandiego Wade thought he would soon be finished with local politics, the COVID-19 pandemic inspired him to remain in public service – and now he is seeking to serve from a different seat. On Monday, his birthday, Wade [a UVA alumnus] formally announced his candidacy for the Charlottesville City Council.
When Alexander Singh’s younger brother underwent spinal fusion surgery to correct his scoliosis, it was a painful case of history repeating itself. Years earlier, his mother received the same invasive surgery. A UVA student at the time, Alexander Singh felt called to action. Minimally Invasive Spinal Technology LLC – MIST for short – was born.
As a part of a series about business leaders who are shaking things up in their industry, a Q&A with UVA alumnus Spence Green, co-founder and CEO of Lilt, a company that uses machine learning for language translation.
UVA Cavalier Daily: The campus newspaper of the University of Virginia also called out Virginia Reps. Cline, Good, Griffith, and Wittman on Thursday and urged their removal.
A data analyst hailing from the human health world – where prospective, randomized, double-blind studies are the standard for research – has seen the data and thinks it needs to be disseminated. Wendy Novicoff, a professor of orthopedic surgery and public health sciences at the UVA School of Medicine, said at first she thought it was the sort of study she might not accept as a peer reviewer for a human medical journal. "There are all kinds of problems with the data. It's going to be biased, etc.," she said. "But when you go from 100% fatal to not fatal, I can live with some bias in the data."
A UVA Health family physician is being appointed to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The Task Force is an independent, volunteer panel of 16 national experts. Dr. Li Li will be the only physician from UVA during this four-year term.