After the Senate condemned McCarthy in December 1954, he “was ruined – and within three years he was dead from alcohol abuse,” according to an online exhibition at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
The University of Maryland, College Park tops the national list of Best Colleges’ “Best Colleges for LGBTQ+ Students,” while the University of Virginia comes in at No. 6 on the list.
Many U.S. universities have ties to slavery. Harvard and Princeton had presidents who owned enslaved people. At public universities like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia, enslaved people worked on campus or helped build campuses. Some schools, like Georgetown University, sold enslaved people to pay off debts and keep the school running.
James City County is in the process of updating its comprehensive plan, and county staff are arranging another virtual event in August for citizens to share their ideas of what they want their county to look like in the coming decades. The University of Virginia’s Center for Survey Research was selected to conduct the survey in January 2019.
(Commentary) “The executive order might have been pretty brilliant,” said Lois Shepherd, who teaches biomedical ethics at UVA. “I think this was mostly intended to change behaviors without a strong legal hammer, so I think the enforcement is not spelled out, and maybe deliberately.”
(Commentary) Working parents are increasingly being asked to return to work with no clear options for child care. “Are you going to be drawing straws?” said Andrew Pennock, a UVA assistant professor of public policy. Another problem: the state’s guidelines are forcing some facilities to reduce class sizes even if they do remain open.
(Commentary) “That whole experience and his role with the Freedom Riders really consolidated his reputation as this fearless civil rights activist who really had a strategic sense of the power of nonviolence,” said Kevin Gaines, UVA’s Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice. “Lewis really emerged among a group of impressive and very effective civil rights leaders.”
Jefferson Homebuilders President Joe Daniel has offered the county up to $50,000 to remove the monument erected in 1911 by the A.P. Hill Camp No. 2 of the Confederate Veterans group in the Richmond area. A UVA graduate, Daniel described as “unbelievable” the response by Culpeper’s supervisors to residents’ recent calls for removal of the Confederate battle flag from the county’s Lenn Park near Stevensburg.
Our class of summer interns here at the Richmond Times-Dispatch has been an integral part in covering this historic season. Keeping with our annual summer tradition, it's time for our readers to meet this year's intern class: Ali Sullivan, breaking news intern Hometown: Colorado Springs, Colorado School, academic status: University of Virginia, rising senior, majoring in Media Studies and Government.
(Commentary) Nwigwe, a Houston-based artist whose fans include former first lady Michelle Obama, said the idea to create the song came to him in a vision from God. “The powerful thing about internet memes is that people can take them and add to them or transform them in ways that they make sense for the online communities that they’re a part of,” Meredith D. Clark, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, told NBC News last month.
(Commentary) “The virus is this huge stress test on our education system” and “has exposed a great deal of inequity,” says Robert Pianta, dean of the school of education at the University of Virginia.
A while back I covered an excellent webinar hosted by Aegis Therapies (a Senior Living Foresight partner). It featured Dr. James Avery, pulmonologist and visiting assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia. His expertise is senior care. The webinar aired towards the beginning of the pandemic and it contained some great, no-nonsense tips and best practices that impressed me enough to have my whole family sit down and view it.
Behind Biden in public opinion polls, Trump is in a 'precarious' political position as 2020 re-election campaign begins. “The president has a governing problem that has become a political problem,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Commentary by Richard Handler, professor and director of UVA’s global development studies program) At the University of Virginia, where I teach, it makes little sense to have statues of Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner, at central sites in our landscape, as we try mightily to make our institution more welcoming and rewarding for the descendants of enslaved African Americans. Our mission to study and teach such topics as Jefferson and his legacy would be better achieved by removing such statues, forcing no one to ignore or worship them.
There is a new tool in the commonwealth to collect coronavirus-related information, and it has a University of Virginia tie.
The University of Virginia has released protocol for students returning to campus this fall after being away for summer and because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Parham Jaberi, chief deputy commissioner of the Virginia Department of Health, said earlier this month, state workers retrieved samples from backlogged private labs contracted with the state and rerouted specimens to labs at the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University.
The chancellor of the University of Virginia’s College at Wise has been named the 2020 Outstanding Woman Leader in Virginia higher education.
As students return to Grounds in a few weeks, one shop is helping shield the UVA community from the coronavirus.
Educators and school administrators are finding themselves caught between balancing the White House’s desire to reopen schools and the risks to public safety. Teaching through this pandemic is “really, really tough,” said Tish Jennings, a UVA associate professor who studies how stress affects teachers.