(By Elizabeth Varon, professor of history) Northerners imagined the Civil War as a war of deliverance, waged to deliver the South from the clutches of a conspiracy and to deliver to it the blessings of free society and of modern civilization. Northerners did not expect white Southerners to rise up en masse and overthrow secession. But they did fervently believe that as the Union army advanced across the South, Southerners, especially from the non-slaveholding majority, would increasingly welcome liberation from Confederate falsehood and despotism.
Back on Nov. 22, Valley of the Moon scored a coup by inviting Rita Dove, a poet laureate of the United States, to read the opening poem from her book, “Sonata Mulattica” (2008), as an introduction to a performance of the Violin Sonata in A Major by Zivian and violinist Rachell Ellen Wong.
Roanoker Heywood Fralin, a 1962 graduate of the University of Virginia who has supported UVA programs in various areas, has joined with his wife, Cynthia, in pledging $5 million for the endowment of UVA’s head football coaching position.
The University of Virginia athletics department announced Sunday that head coach Bronco Mendenhall’s football program will not participate in a bowl game even it’s offered an invitation, putting an end to its 2020 season. “Unless you live it each and every day, it is impossible to understand the mental, emotional and physical sacrifice these young men have made since their return in July,” UVA Athletic Director Carla Williams said in a statement. “I am proud of their commitment and their incredible maturity. Our students did everything we asked them to do and they were rewarded with the opport...
As of Monday morning, Augusta Health and University of Virginia Medical Center are still waiting to find out the distribution timeline for the arrival of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.
Most approaches to preventing heart attacks focus on ameliorating risk factors like high cholesterol or high blood pressure. But what if heart attacks could be prevented altogether by targeting genes that raise the risk of coronary artery disease? That’s the premise behind a new study from the University of Virginia.
Researchers from the University of Virginia, the University of Alberta, and Harvard University have now pinpointed a specific gene that is activated at birth in a cluster of neurons in the brain stem that control breathing. Their study was published in Nature.
Last spring, the University of Virginia’s medical center canceled elective surgeries and clinic visits to prepare for a flood of patients with COVID-19. That flood didn’t come according to Brent French, a professor of biomedical engineering at UVA. Now, French says, the city and county are testing wastewater at five different locations, hoping to spot an outbreak early and to plan better.
Shai Bernstein teamed up with Richard R. Townsend from the University of California San Diego and Ting Xu from the University of Virginia to study nearly 84,000 job applicants who were active on the AngelList platform between February 5 and June 18, 2020.
Scientists at the University of Virginia say they may have a new treatment for women with the most aggressive form of breast cancer – an approach developed through some serious pillow talk.
On the campus of the University of Virginia sits a not-so-hidden gem – a more than century-old telescope that is the centerpiece of the Leander McCormick Observatory. Charlottesville is a sizable enough city that light pollution often interferes with stargazing, but in non-pandemic times, the McCormick Observatory offers twice-monthly public nights that invite visitors to peek through its 26-inch telescope.
The school day started as a normal one for three young engineers at Charlottesville High School – all girls, and all Advancement Via Individual Determination students – but then they got a surprise: an award meant to help them change the world. They’re all the recipients of a brand new laptop and a scholarship to the ID Tech STEM camp at the University of Virginia this summer.
(Commentary) For the next generation of leaders to find common ground and advance solutions to pressing national issues, we must teach students how to engage in civil dialogue. The Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, part of the University of Virginia, promotes “effective leadership, working together, building trust, ethics, and a mastery of public policy issues” to “strengthen the quality of governance and community service at all levels and help restore public confidence in our political system.” One of Sorensen’s programs is the High School Leaders Program, which teaches about 32 s...
U.S., Chinese educational communities’ mutual support ‘silver lining’ amid pandemic: senior diplomat
It is indeed a silver lining that U.S. and Chinese educational communities have come out to support each other as unfavorable U.S. policies and the surging COVID-19 pandemic disrupted educational exchanges between the two countries, a senior Chinese diplomat said. “I have heard a bunch of touching stories” about the bilateral cooperation on education during the pandemic, Yang Xinyu, minister counselor for educational affairs at the Chinese Embassy in the United States, told Julia Chang Bloch, founder of the U.S.-China Education Trust and former U.S. ambassador to Nepal, on Thursday. For exampl...
(Commentary) D.C. Public Schools is deliberating new names for Woodrow Wilson High School. The criteria state that any individual under consideration must have made a significant contribution to society. The new name also should inspire the students, our city and the nation and reflect the school’s commitment to producing graduates who are committed to building an America as good as its ideals. In this regard, I can think of few individuals who better meet these criteria than [late UVA history professor] Julian Bond.
“The COVID-19 pandemic shifted the focus of job-seekers toward larger and more resilient companies,” according to researchers, including Ting Xu, a UVA assistant professor of finance.
“The COVID-19 pandemic shifted the focus of job-seekers toward larger and more resilient companies,” according to researchers, including Ting Xu, a UVA assistant professor of finance.
Back pain could have cost him the job. During the final stretch of a long search to find a new dean for UVA’s Darden School of Business, Scott Beardsley had to make his way to Charlottesville from his home in Belgium for still more interviews. But on this day, after nearly weekly trips across the Atlantic from his home in Belgium, the tall and lanky senior partner of McKinsey & Co. was feeling out of sorts.
Aware that he owes his presidential victory to Black voters, Joe Biden pledged to name the "most diverse" cabinet in US history. Behind the scenes African Americans have been seeking to ensure he honors such commitments by appointing minorities to key positions. Biden's picks for his inner circle "have largely been uncontroversial" to date, noted Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia.
Bryan Lewis, an epidemiology expert at the University of Virginia, said although he doesn’t closely follow the number of cases or distribution of protective equipment within prisons, that “clearly there have been sizable outbreaks in the prison system.”