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.
(Co-written by Laura Morgan Roberts, a professor of practice at Darden School of Business) We see you. As Black Women scholars ourselves, we are with you and our sisters in our communities – responding to the differential physical, mental, and socioeconomic impacts of this “double pandemic” on our community. Society, however, doesn’t always see the pain of Black women.
Disinfecting touch points is one of the ways to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. That’s why a University of Virginia aerospace and mechanical engineering professor is working to keep people safe with a robot. Tomonari Furukawa has been working for some time with a team to develop a semi-autonomous robot for virus disinfection in hospitals and other health care environments.
Nearly nine in 10 educators believe that the need for technology in schools will increase in the next three years, according to a new survey released this week by the University of Virginia and the EdTech Evidence Exchange.
A team of experts at the University of Virginia Medical Center created a three-tier plan that will help physicians distinguish the difference between underlying reasons to determine if a patient will wake up from their coma or not.
Ryan Wright and Matthew Jensen have phished thousands of people over the past decade, and they’re not planning to let up anytime soon. The two aren’t hackers angling for valuable data or funds; they’re researchers working with companies, governments, and universities around the world to understand why we so often fall for phishing attacks and what organizations can do to mitigate the threat. Wright (the C. Coleman McGehee Professor of Commerce at the University of Virginia) and Jensen (the Presidential Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Oklahoma) have id...
Researchers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute looked at three scenarios for the commonwealth. In the best-case scenario for Virginia, about 2,000 daily confirmed cases by October are expected. In the worst case, closer to 3,000 people are expected to be diagnosed every day.
Halder said the team is working with Stanford administrators to use Club Cardinal as an official tool for student engagement during the fall semester to support official university events. The team is now also working with several other universities, including Harvard, University of California, Los Angeles and University of Virginia, to create an intercollegiate network, through which students from one school can visit other campuses and meet new people across the country.
When Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia in 1819, he wanted to create what he called “an academical village.” Jefferson envisioned students living in close quarters, sharing ideas face-to-face. “Exchange a diversity of viewpoints and experiences and work, you know, person-to-person with some of the most talented and experienced faculty anywhere on the globe,” said UVA Assistant Vice President Brian Coy. With the pandemic, that philosophy is now dangerous.
An estimated 4,000 enslaved people – including construction workers, craftsmen, domestic servants, gardeners, cooks – labored at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville between its founding in 1819 and the South’s defeat in the Civil War in 1865. Only 578 of their names are known (at least so far). Another 311 were known by their jobs or their relation to others: e.g., bricklayer, mother, son, niece. Now a new Memorial to Enslaved Laborers recalls the university’s slave past, as well as honoring the contributions of these 4,000 people.
The University of Virginia may launch a new scholarship to benefit descendants of slave laborers who built the campus over 200 years ago.
Lana Swartz, a UVA assistant professor of media studies, talks about her book, “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media,” the history and future of money, Silicon Valley’s fixation with payments, and the underlying systems that move our money around that we may not realize.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies) We might loook back at 2020 as the year of maximum screen time. Severed by the pandemic from face-to-face interactions, we have been chained to our devices, making more video and watching more video than ever before. This ubiquity of moving images has become the chief way many of us view the world. And it’s dangerous.
Q&A with UVA President Jim Ryan on the eve of the 2020-21 academic year.
Joseph Edwin Gibson, B.A., J.D., C.P.A., University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Professor Emeritus of Professional Accounting, died Aug. 17 at age 96 in Charlottesville.
President Donald Trump on Monday touted a new CNN poll released Sunday that showed he had surged to within 4 percentage points of Joe Biden, but two other recent polls showed the former vice president maintaining a much larger lead, which experts said underscores the importance of not depending on any one survey in trying to gauge the state of the race. Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics, said the polls that had Biden with a double-digit lead were "probably too high and CNN's was almost certainly too low."
ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN use the firm Edison Research to collect voting data for their election night calls. An election night that extends into days or weeks involving Trump, who has already assailed the process, means viewers could still be in for a rocky ride. “I am concerned about that because we are much more polarized than we were in 2000,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “It doesn’t take much to inflame people anymore, and the TV coverage is going to be reflecting social media, which is going to be reflecting the TV coverage, so they’re going to be feeding into on...
(Commentary) A civil action was filed Aug. 14. And in an intriguing move by the United States, the named defendants are not people or companies. The defendants are 155 bitcoin accounts. There are two key reasons a prosecutor might file an in rem civil action against cryptocurrency accounts, according to George Rutherglen, a law professor at the University of Virginia.