Wade is also working with the Central Virginia Small Business Development Center and the University of Virginia on a project to give Louisa businesses a platform where they can sell products on the internet. Project Propel began as an effort by UVA to create new internships for undergraduate and graduate students during the pandemic.
According to the latest weekly update on UVA’s COVID-19 model, community mitigation strategies in Virginia have prevented an estimated 951,087 cases.
Modelers with UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute provide weekly projections for the Virginia Department of Health. Friday’s report factored in compliance with infection control. If everyone in the Roanoke metro area gave each other space, wore masks and washed their hands, the number of new cases each week would be just a handful until zeroing out in July and August.
Right now, more than half the country lives in the nine most populous states. By 2040, according to a University of Virginia analysis, half the country is expected to live in just eight states. About 70% of the country will live in 16 states – meaning that 30% of the population will control 68% of the Senate.
(By Grace Elizabeth Hale, professor of history and American studies ) The long history of images of racial violence in the United States suggests that we need to question this too-easy consensus and the idea that more cameras – not just bystanders with phones but police body cameras and other forms of surveillance – will fix the problem of law enforcement violence.
(Commentary) How do we create a reality that reflects the highest values of equity and empathy? To be happy with where our nation is today is to be complicit with its oppressive past. How do we move forward? Only by having honest conversations that are based on truths and facts, and by making certain justice for all is truly that, can we advance.
Dr. Jennifer A. Ross at UVA’s Department of Emergency Medicine and colleagues have reported cases of sudden, severe fall of blood sugar encountered by a number of men after consumption of a so-called male sexual enhancement supplement. The outbreak began in August 2019.
(Commentary by Greg Fairchild, associate professor at the Darden School of Business) As the sepia-toned footage spooled across the TV screen, the words “Tulsa 1921” were superimposed over the mayhem. My throat tightened. I knew that place and year well. The terror of the Tulsa race riot is something that has been with me for almost as long as I can remember.
(Audio) “Strange Fruit.” “Fortunate Son.” “What’s Going On.” Protest songs are part of the American story. Guests including Claudrena N. Harold, African American and African studies and history professor, discuss the context of protest songs.
(Subscription required) While a UVA undergraduate, Joshua Anton created an app to prevent users from drunk dialing, which he called Drunk Mode. He later began harvesting huge amounts of user data from smartphones to resell to advertisers. Now his company, called X-Mode Social Inc., is one of a number of little-known location-tracking companies that are being deployed in the effort to reopen the country.
(Subscription required) While a UVA undergraduate, Joshua Anton created an app to prevent users from drunk dialing, which he called Drunk Mode. He later began harvesting huge amounts of user data from smartphones to resell to advertisers. Now his company, called X-Mode Social Inc., is one of a number of little-known location-tracking companies that are being deployed in the effort to reopen the country.
(Subscription required) While a UVA undergraduate, Joshua Anton created an app to prevent users from drunk dialing, which he called Drunk Mode. He later began harvesting huge amounts of user data from smartphones to resell to advertisers. Now his company, called X-Mode Social Inc., is one of a number of little-known location-tracking companies that are being deployed in the effort to reopen the country.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, many states are urging residents to vote by mail, and election officials are bracing for a more time-consuming ballot-counting process. However, “If it’s not that close, we may be able to discern the presidential winner even if large shares of the vote are still outstanding in key states,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Employment discrimination and religious liberty questions have come up in recent legislative efforts. The Fairness for All Act, introduced last year in Congress, tried to reconcile nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people with protections for people of faith. Monday’s decision could kill those legislative efforts, UVA law professor Douglas Laycock said.
Gov. Ralph Northam on Wednesday announced $2.48 million to support 26 small technology-based businesses and four universities in commercializing their research. Locally, Dr. Leon Farhi at the University of Virginia is getting more than $137,000, and Dr. Xi Yang at UVA is getting $150,000.
Students returning to Grounds in the fall is good news for businesses in the area. Most have been struggling and are happy sales will increase.
The University of Virginia will change recently updated logos used in athletic competition to remove design aspects that refer to objects on campus associated with the school’s history of using slave labor, the school announced in a statement.
In this clip from Bill Moyers’ 2012 interview with former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, they talk about Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen. Dove reads Cullen’s poem “Incident,” which is, as Dove says, “a heart-wrenching poem about how prejudice and racial hatred can impact someone at a young age.”
(Commentary by Qian Cai, research director of the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service) I am a demographer working with local governments, businesses and nonprofits, and a combination of factors makes me deeply concerned about how accurate census data will be when it’s released in 2021.
The University of Virginia announced Monday it was altering logos introduced in April to remove references to the school’s history of slavery. The new logos included tweaks to the Cavaliers’ well-known image of crossed sabres, with the school saying in April that the handles of the swords were redesigned to “mimic the serpentine walls” on its grounds in Charlottesville. As some then pointed out, those walls were designed by University founder Thomas Jefferson to hide the sight of and mute the sounds of slaves made to carry out a variety of tasks at the school.