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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill Wednesday aimed at holding universities in the commonwealth economically accountable for profiting off of slavery. The Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program requires Longwood University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, the Virginia Military University, and the College of William & Mary — all institutions that benefitted from and exploited enslaved labor — to provide scholarships and economic development programs to descendants of enslaved people.

(Commentary) In their December 2017 paper, “Artificial intelligence, worker-replacing technological progress and income distribution,” the economists Anton Korinek, of UVA, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, of Columbia – describe the potential of artificial intelligence to create a high-tech dystopian future. Korinek and Stiglitz argue that without radical reform of tax and redistribution politics, a “Malthusian destiny” of widespread technological unemployment and poverty may ensue.

Demand for electricity is likely to balloon in Virginia over the next three decades as data centers flock to the state and electric vehicles increasingly replace traditional ones, a forecast from �鶹�ƽ�� Energy Transition Initiative released last week found. 

Six independent research teams – including one from UVA – all came up with basically the same projection: Vaccines plus masking and physical distancing equal a much more manageable outbreak by summer.

(Commentary) “This is my ankle bracelet covered with SpongeBob stickers,” Christopher Ahn says as he lifts his foot onto the table to show an electronic monitoring device placed on him by U.S. marshals. How did Ahn wind up in this “situation”? The UVA Darden School of Business graduated is an unlikely person to be treated as a criminal by his own government.

(Video) John Lanier believes that we all have a part to play in the fight to stop climate change. Through his leadership of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation, the two-time UVA alumnus continues the legacy of his grandfather, the late corporate environmental pioneer Ray C. Anderson. With a plan developed for the state of Georgia as the example, John makes a powerful case for a new and exciting method to fight climate change that incorporates not only solutions that reduce carbon emissions, but also those that address social issues such as unemployment and hunger on a local level.

UVA political science chair Jennifer Lawless said it “makes no sense” that Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo are coming to Rhode Island on Wednesday on a visit centered around President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal.

After a dreary pandemic winter, more Virginians are venturing out in search of ramps – the leafy green allium that’s become a darling of the spring dining season. Sometimes, what they’re finding is poisoning them. Dr. Chris Holstege, medical director of the Blue Ridge Poison Center at UVA Health, said he and his colleagues have been alarmed by a sharp increase in Virginians consuming false hellebore, a highly toxic native species with leaves that – to the uninitiated – resemble the tops of wild leeks.

In 2020, the U.S. Department of State awarded the World Monuments Fund a nearly $100,000 grant from the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation, overseen by the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, to conduct a study on preservation and reuse of Providence Island. WMF selected University of Virginia professor Allison James to lead the study project and to consult with wide-ranging Liberian stakeholders. James is collaborating closely with Dr. William B. Allen, professor of history at the University of Liberia and scholar of Liberian history.

While the Macy’s labor ruling does not require Macy’s or any retailer to abandon mobile payments for goods or payroll, there’s pressure to maintain some form of the links between payments and sales commissions. The complication derives from the mistaken assumption that new technology automatically means reduced friction, said Lana Schwartz, a professor at the University of Virginia and author of “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media.” “But in the on-the-ground reality, that is rarely the case. Advanced only happens because of collaboration between digital technology and workers, who are ...

Restoring Trump’s account would send the message that “there is little a public official can do that would warrant their removal,” said Danielle Citron, a free speech expert at the UVA School of Law. Trump went too far, she said, and “it would be performative nonsense if they reinstated him.”

(Video) Should lactating women get the COVID-19 vaccine? Our experts all agree the answer is yes. “So I would absolutely recommend it, and actually, now that it’s now that we’ve been vaccinating people for awhile and some of the health care workers were the first to start receiving the vaccine, we are accumulating data,” said Dr. Ann Kellams, professor of pediatrics and vice-chair for clinical affairs at the UVA Department of Pediatrics and director of �鶹�ƽ�� breastfeeding medicine program.

A nasal shot is formally called the “intranasal” vaccine and is administered by squirting or spraying the solution into the nostrils. “The idea is that one gets infected through the nose. It’s very appealing, for that reason, to immunize directly in the nose, because then you will stimulate the immune system where you need it the most.” – Dr. Bill Petri, infectious disease professor at the University of Virginia.

(Subscription required) Marlene Daut, a UVA associate professor of African diaspora studies, says that to point to positive contributions by Bonaparte “is to suggest that the people whose lives he destroyed actually don’t matter.”

There were numerous calls from people asking that the statues not be given to another community once they come down. “It’s in your interest to choose, city council, not to allow these statues to be whisked away to the last capital of the Confederacy, Danville, down the road to be re-erected, but to dispense of the statues in a way that allows for restorative, reparative justice,” UVA lecturer Larycia Hawkins said.

UVA professor John Edwin Mason suggests that if the monuments are to be preserved, a historical society may be an example of how to keep the monuments out of sight– noting how the Albemarle-Charlottesville Historical Society possesses Ku Klux Klan memorabilia for researchers or historians to view.

The Blue Ridge Health District is teaming up with community partners like the Charlottesville Fire Department and UVA Health to bring vaccines right to people’s homes.

An updated book aims to help people identify and avoid poisonous plants that are found in Virginia. According to a release, “The Socrates Project: Poisonous Plants in Virginia” book is designed to be an easily read resource for parents, the general public and medical providers. This book is a collaboration between the Virginia Master Naturalists Program, the Blue Ridge Poison Center at UVA Health and the UVA School of Medicine’s Division of Medical Toxicology.

As an increasing number of Virginians foraging for wild plants are eating poisonous greenery, a book to help people to identify and avoid poisonous plants found in the state is now available as a free download. “Our experts become quickly concerned when they receive a Poison Center call about somebody who has intentionally eaten a plant they harvested from the wild,” UVA Dr. Christopher Holstege, medical director of the Blue Ridge Poison Center and the toxicology consultant for the book, said. “Children often eat just a few berries. But a forager is more likely to consume a large amount. This ...

UVA cybersecurity researchers published a paper in which they claimed that a variant of the Spectre vulnerability could potentially impact “billions” of devices, and require patches that severely hinder performance. Intel, however, refuted the claim in a statement.