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The White House announced Saturday that career diplomat Robert F. Godec is to be the next ambassador to Thailand. Godec has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia.

In May 2008, [UVA alumna] Dawn Staley inherited a South Carolina women's basketball program that had never been to the Final Four. 14 seasons later, Staley has built the Gamecocks into a national powerhouse in women's basketball.

Between her undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia and a graduate degree from the University of Maryland, Joy Omenyi, 27, has amassed $72,000 in student debt. Her education has helped her land a job as a product manager at Comcast, she said, but at a hefty cost.

(Commentary) A race and equity officer at the University of California, Los Angeles, who wished death upon Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was the subject of a racial-profiling hate hoax on a prominent law school campus [UVA] more than a decade ago. In response to last week's news that Thomas was hospitalized for an infection, UCLA's race and equity director Johnathan Perkins was part of the liberal mob hoping that the ill black conservative-leaning SCOTUS judge, age 73, died.

The Building Goodness Foundation and �鶹�ƽ�� Darden School of Business are teaming up, to get their hands dirty while helping others. Seven families received a home makeover on Saturday in and around Charlottesville. One hundred Darden students and construction experts donated their time to make necessary repairs.

On Saturday, �鶹�ƽ�� Army ROTC program will host an annual run commemorating a former cadet. This is the ninth year for the R.J. Hess Memorial 5K Race.

Among the finalists: Ankit Agrawal's podcast, “I Hope You're Happy,” narrates his journey as he became more comfortable with his own sexuality during his time at the University of Virginia. Using the journals he began the day he moved onto campus in August 2018, Agrawal attempts to answer the ever-evasive question for many young adults: "How do you define yourself?"

The rally comes just weeks before the Michigan Republican Party’s nominating convention. “You certainly can interpret it as the former president trying to intervene and help his preferred candidates in this nomination process,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball from the UVA Center for Politics.

(Podcast) Eric Leeper is a professor of economics at the University of Virginia, an advisor to the Swedish and German central banks and a former Fed economist. He has written widely on the links between monetary policy and discusses these links and their implication for the price level.

Mildred W. Robinson, Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law Emeritus, answers the question: “What are the most effective ways for state and local governments to recover losses in tax revenues caused by the pandemic?”

Jim Wyckoff, a UVA professor of education and public policy, said there is evidence that shows increasing per-pupil spending leads to improvement in student outcomes.

"Ukraine did not really have a functional 'navy' to begin with, mostly coastal patrol craft and a few larger research, minesweeper-layer, and 'intelligence' ships. It could be described as a stronger coast guard than a true navy," Allan Stam, a University of Virginia professor and military affairs expert, said. Stam noted that "Ukraine's navy is functionally destroyed. It cannot threaten the Russian navy outside of continued mining of the Black Sea coastal ports. The Sea of Azov is entirely controlled by the Russians."

(Commentary) Average-income people in rich countries, note inequality researchers Joseph Stiglitz, Todd Tucker, and Gabriel Zucman, “now pay far higher taxes than major corporations.” These corporations and the rich who run them are basically enjoying a “free-ride on the rest of society,” and their tax avoidance “means less investment in infrastructure, education, and research.” What can we do? We can fight back, and, at the global level, some reformers — like the University of Virginia Law School’s Ruth Mason — are even feeling optimistic about the struggles ahead.

(Video) UVA Political Science Department Chair Jennifer Lawless discussed a wide range of international and domestic issues — including why it’s difficult for U.S. President Joe Biden to claim a “win” on the latest jobs numbers.

(Commentary by Tomas Sedlacek, visiting senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) Why is Russia at the negotiating table? Because Putin knows that even if he flattens Ukraine and subjugates or deports its entire population, he cannot win this war. That’s because Russia was already a dead economy walking and Putin knows it.

UVA Health reports it's hit a plateau for COVID cases. The hospital says it has 20 COVID hospitalizations as of April 1. Of those patients, 14 are in acute care, three are in ICU, and two are in pediatrics.

Friday’s report from �鶹�ƽ�� Biocomplexity Institute stops short of calling the upcoming increase a full-blown surge. In fact, it’s currently projected to have less of an impact than the delta wave last year. New models from UVA show a slow, but steady, growth of COVID-19 cases in the near term.

Supreme Court justices, like most people, like to appear to be consistent. No one wants to be thought to be a flip-flopper, an opportunist or a hypocrite. That means justices try not to disavow earlier legal views, even ones that appeared in dissents, in opinions they wrote as appeals court judges, in academic work, at their confirmation hearings and elsewhere. This impulse, which a provocative new article by UVA law professor Richar M. Re, calls “personal precedent,” can be at odds with respect for precedent in the conventional sense.

�鶹�ƽ�� Engineering School has its first female dean and she’s already inspiring hundreds of students through her new role. She says engineering is typically thought of as a male-dominated field, but she’s trying to change that. To do this, she spearheaded �鶹�ƽ�� first Women in Engineering Symposium Saturday.

This year’s recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals have been announced. Each year, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello and the University of Virginia select people to be recognized in fields that Thomas Jefferson held in high regard. These fields are architecture, citizen leadership and law.