In a recent update to the University of Virginia’s COVID-19 model for the state, researchers wrote of some promising lessons learned from the surge in Hampton Roads. These surges do not seem to last very long, they wrote, because communities change behaviors, businesses follow guidelines more closely and public health agencies and private health systems rally to meet the growing threat.
The George Rogers Clark Statue Disposition Committee of the Native American Indigenous Studies Group at the University of Virginia is calling on the University to remove the statue.
MBA grads from these programs earn base salaries that exceed $110,000, U.S. News statistics show. University of Virginia (Darden): U.S. News business school rank: 11; Full-time acceptance rate (2019): 36.5%; Average consulting salary (2019): $151,903; Average salary among all sectors (2019): $135,168
Many public monuments installed over the past century have racist origins. A new memorial at the University of Virginia instead explores racism itself – how the university has benefited from the labor of enslaved people, and how much further there is to go.
Wait, “injury to a monument” is a felony in Virginia? There haven’t been any appeals courts cases that involved this statute and monuments, says UVA law professor Darryl Brown, which leads him to “assume that this has rarely if ever been used to prosecute people who damage monuments.”
Getting “canceled” frequently plays out the same way: A person – whether famous or not – says or does something controversial and the backlash on social media follows swiftly. Over the last few years, the term became more mainstream as prominent figures and brands became targets. But Meredith Clark, a UVA media studies professor, said that getting – and remaining – canceled “depends on who you are.”
(Commentary by Dr. William Petri, professor of medicine) As fall approaches rapidly, many are wondering if the race for a vaccine will bear fruit as early as January 2021.
As the start of football season continues to inch closer, there’s still a lot of unknown. However, one thing is for sure: sacrifices will have to be made in order to play this fall. “We can only control ourselves and what we do,” University of Virginia safety Joey Blount said Tuesday, August 18. “Our commitment is to playing this year and, you know, there’s going to be other stuff. There’s going to have to be some sacrifices that have to be made to play.”
Keisha Smith-Jeremie had an affinity for applesauce as a child that stuck with her as an adult. When the Bahamian native attended the University of Virginia, she found herself searching for comfort and nostalgia after experiencing her first snow and feeling homesick. She decided to make some applesauce in her dorm room and added unique ingredients.
“I remember the moment Abby [Wambach] went down really clearly,” said Angela Hucles, who starred in college at the University of Virginia from 1996 to 1999 and debuted for the U.S. Women’s National Team in 2002. “I remember the feeling standing on the sideline, not wanting to start bawling, but the emotions were welling up and I was trying to stifle that. We all knew that Abby was badly injured. It was almost as if you could drop a pin on the grass and we would have heard it on the bench. I could see the panic and concerned look in Pia’s eyes, and then Jill waved to me to get warmed up. In tha...
A journalism lover in college, she joined the staff of the University of Virginia student newspaper, the Cavalier Daily, first as a reporter and later as an ad seller (since it was a paid position). “I loved writing, I loved editing, I loved reporting,” Levien told the Cavalier Daily in an interview in July.
With an influx of absentee ballots, concerns are raised that votes will not be counted on Election Day. “Voters need to get used to the idea of ‘Election Week,’” said J. Miles Coleman, the University of Virginia Center for Politics, in an email. “With such a huge volume of mail-in ballots this year, being able to count all, or at least most ballots, the night of just won’t be feasible for many localities.”
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Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia, says the Republican Party has routinely been seen as more hawkish than the Democratic Party, but said an argument can be made that Trump was less hawkish than his Democratic challenger in 2016, Hillary Clinton, who was criticized for her vote in favor of the Iraq war. Kondik said the same case could be made by Trump against Biden, who also voted in favor of the Iraq war when he was a senator.
Politics professor Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia gave the Democrats’ virtual convention a thumbs-up after opening day. “This show, this longest political TV ad ever, isn’t designed for the junkies but for people who dip in for 10 minutes before going back to Netflix,” Sabato said. “And that’s smart.”
“People gathering, the human connection, is such a universal (need) and fires up the team every four years,” says Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “There’s something about the enthusiasm of being in the same convention hall” that brings the party together, Perry adds. Instead, the Biden-Harris ticket is endeavoring to unify the party virtually.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, sees a pairing that reflects the country’s diversity. Doug Emhoff is White and Jewish. Kamala Harris is Black and Indian – she identifies as Baptist, like her father, but her mother also introduced her to Hindu customs. “They showcase America as it is, as it is becoming and as it will be,” she says.
According to Kevin Gaines, a professor of civil rights and social justice at the University of Virginia, Black men are already being profiled by the police on a regular basis, but wearing masks heightens such risks of profiling. The initial assumption is not made that Black men are wearing masks to protect themselves and those around them from the threat of the virus. However, in contrast, it is assumed that they are engaging in some type of ill will like stealing or other crimes.
A similar caseload decline has been recorded across much of the greater Washington region in recent days. D.C., Maryland and Virginia are reporting a seven-day average of 1,623 new infections, down from more than 2,000 earlier this month. Taison Bell, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia in the division of pulmonary and critical-care medicine, said recent declines are an indication of “smart policy” plans in place, and that when “people are generally adherent to those restrictions, you can have some measurable control over the virus.”
(By Muhammad Tayyab Safdar, a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Politics and East Asia Center, and Joshua Zabin, a research assistant at the Belt & Road Initiative Project, East Asia Center) The rapprochement between Beijing and Tehran is likely to have far-reaching effects in South Asia, especially for Pakistan.