The Jefferson Madison Regional Library has teamed up with UVA to make more books available to the public. UVA Library’s entire circulation collection will be available to check out through JMRL at no extra charge.
On Friday, UVA officially announced that it will have reduced seating capacity for home sporting events due to regulations brought on by COVID-19. The decision follows guidelines provided by state officials.
would pay his dues at a software company and only later try to find a job that combined computer science and theater, his twin passions. But by the end of the month, the pandemic forced performing arts venues across the country to shutter. “I saw the writing on the wall that this was my chance to jump in and do it now,” he said.
Republicans pulled out all the stops at their convention to convince female voters that President Donald Trump cares about their interests, even pledging to put a woman on the moon with polls showing he has lost ground with women as their concerns about him intensify. But the argument that Trump will keep women and their families safer than Biden may fail to resonate because women recognize that Trump is the nation’s leader now, said Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia.
P&G, one of the top advertising spenders in the United States, is racing against Clorox and Lysol maker Reckitt to plug home cleaning brands at restaurants and other businesses. “The reason why P&G wants to do this is because … it can produce free publicity,” said Kimberly Whitler, an associate professor of business at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and a former P&G marketing executive. “It’s a new outlet where consumers are not necessarily thinking about P&G products, and suddenly they’re seeing them there.”
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball Thursday shifted Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden’s re-election bid to its “leans Democratic” category, indicating that Republicans are less likely to win it. Sabato, a professor at the University of Virginia, is among a handful of experts widely recognized as an expert in predicting the outcome of political races nationally.
New Jersey remain unchanged in new ratings for House races published this morning by Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. The Sabato/UVA group is one of the top non-partisan handicappers of elections in the U.S. – think of them as the Standard & Poor’s of political campaign ratings.
When UVA students return to campus this week, they’ll find something new – a circular stone monument, 8 feet tall and 80 feet in diameter – designed and built to honor the enslaved people who built the university.
The 38th annual Charlottesville Women's Four Miler will be held Friday through Monday. It will be held as a four-day race with four different causes and the first time a running race for people has been held at Foxfield since 1987. The race will raise money for the UVA Breast Care Center, the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank and Foxfield.
The University of Virginia will provide COVID-19 testing for its asymptomatic employees, officials said this week. According to a news release, voluntary asymptomatic testing will be offered on a limited, first-come, first-served basis and is not mandatory.
Across Virginia, the extent of coronavirus outbreaks has varied at college campuses. Some schools have seen numbers climb quickly, though none as high as at James Madison: The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and Virginia Commonwealth University have between 100 and 200 cases.
During the Great Recession of 2008-9, the job situation was just as miserable and prospects for many MBAs appeared so dim that some openly questioned their decision to borrow money to get the degree. Robert Bruner, then dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business, found himself having to defend the value of the MBA. He rose to the challenge, and his points then made much sense now.
On a Northern Virginia street corner, a white professor and his Black son offer a lesson about humanity. “It’s a modest act, being on the corner there, holding up a sign,” said Robert Trent Vinson, who teaches African American and African studies at UVA and is friends with both men. But what they are doing, in their low-key way, is expanding who gets to shape history, Vinson said.
“It’s good to have a plan out for hospitals and health care systems to prepare” for a potential rollout, said Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA pulmonary and critical care physician. But Bell said that he was concerned that the timeline outlined in the documents “is incredibly ambitious and makes me worry that the administration will prioritize this arbitrary deadline rather than maintaining diligence with following the science.”
Malcolm Brogdon was the Pacers’ signature acquisition in their busy offseason last summer, acquired from Milwaukee in a sign-and-trade deal in exchange for a first-round pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. Off the court, Brogdon has made his impact felt in Indiana and across the globe. In a little over a year since joining the Pacers, the University of Virginia graduate has traveled to Africa for Basketball Without Borders, hosted monthly candid conversations with at-risk middle schoolers in Indianapolis, and helped lead the charge as NBA and WNBA players have stood at th...
University of Virginia politics professor and author of “Making Young Voters” John Holbein pointed to the issue of climate change as an example of this phenomenon. The youth-led climate change movement has built up momentum – particularly over the past decade – but youth voter turnout, even in elections featuring candidates who focus on the issue, has remained low.
Whether technology platforms complement or complicate emergency messaging is a point of debate. In his book, “Mobile Technology and the Transformation of Public Alert and Warning,” Bean “repeatedly demonstrates the ways in which the current WEA system fails to meet the public’s expectations of mobile technology,” Elizabeth Ellcessor, an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, wrote in a recent book review. “Because of the multimedia and interactive capacities of consumer devices and apps, ‘People presume that mobile emergency notification processes are mor...
By censoring American blockbusters, Beijing believes it can prevent American and global audiences from imagining the Chinese Communist Party as a major threat, and from viewing the targets of China’s repression as victims worthy of sympathy. The result is an “epidemic of self-censorship” in Hollywood, said Aynne Kokas, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, and author of the book “Hollywood Made in China.”
Grace Elizabeth Hale – “Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture” (University of North Carolina Press): This University of Virginia historian’s study of the college town that gave the world the B-52s and R.E.M. is part memoir, part ethnography, and part celebration of a cultural ideal. Hale looks at how Athens redefined the idea of a regional music scene, allowed for looser definitions of gender and sexuality, negotiated art and commerce, and ducked the question of race.
The pandemic is showing many of us just how wide the racial and financial education gaps are, especially when it comes to technology and internet access. UVA’s Miller Center hosted a Zoom discussion where three education experts from the Curry School of Education and Human Development weighed in on this issue and how learning from home has revealed new concerns.