If you’re a basketball fan of a certain era, then you’ll remember the name Olden Polynice. While the big Haitian never quite developed into a star player, he still spent 15 seasons in the NBA banging bodies in the paint and pulling down rebounds. If nothing else, [the former UVA star] proved to be a pretty tough customer. COVID-19, however, proved to be a different type of challenge.
Dr. Malik Spady knows she’s blessed to have had the advantages she did as a young girl. Her father (an attorney) and her mother (a registered nurse) provided well for the family, which allowed young Malik, who excelled at sports acrobatics, to travel the world competing in an activity she loved. Back home, she attended the prestigious Metairie Park Country Day School, eventually moving to UVA for an undergraduate degree and then earning her medical doctorate from the Medical College of Virginia.
The Virginia Law Review has named Tiffany Mickel, a second year student at the UVA School of Law, as its new editor-in-chief. Mickel will be the first African American to hold the position.
The new editor-in-chief of the Virginia Law Review, Tiffany Mickel, is the first Black person to hold the position, according to a news release from the University of Virginia.
UVA political scientist Larry Sabato told the New Yorker that Mr. Palladino oversaw “a very aggressive campaign to suppress information.”
UVA theologian Nichole Flores posted a wonderful thread about hearing a sermon at Mass that made her want to walk out, but she didn’t. She explains her decision, noting, “The disagreement made me pause, listen, and pray instead of needing to assert, fight, and win. Maybe it was because I am so acutely aware of my need for Jesus right now, and how much it exceeds my need to be right.”
“When you see a massive drop in the incarceration of juveniles from the day before to the day after the law passed, it’s just so much bigger in magnitude than most of the policy interventions that we study,” says Megan Stevenson, a UVA associate professor of law, who provided feedback on the paper. “It’s jaw dropping.”
Rich Schragger, a Perre Bowen Professor at the UVA School of Law, expressed doubt about a federal court intervening in the actions of the Virginia Senate. “The acts of legislators related to their own declarations or in establishing rules that govern their own internal deliberations are normally clothed with virtually absolute immunity,” he said in an email, noting Chase’s suit should fail on this first step.
Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician at UVA who is on UVA Health’s vaccine distribution committee, said that the Biden administration is “coming out of the gate handicapped” without complete and accurate data on who is getting vaccinated.
Juan Jones is now enjoying his freshman year of college, which is something he didn’t think would be possible a few years ago.
As promising as laser powder bed fusion has been in aerospace manufacturing, the technique has a downside. Bubbles of gas in molten material can leave voids, called “pores,” hidden inside the walls of metal parts. This kind of defect is annoying for noncritical parts such as air-conditioning brackets, but unacceptable for critical parts, such as components of engines, because they can lead to cracking. The mystery of how and why pores form is beginning to lift, largely because of a microscopic imaging technique applied by UVA professor Tao Sun and his team.
Donald Trump lost the presidency, but the social divide he amplified while in office remains, and scholars are trying to figure out how to bridge it. Â鶹ĆĆ˝â°ć School of Education and Human Development will soon launch Educating for Democracy, a program designed to help teachers talk with students about race and other divisive issues of our time.
Some highly selective colleges went test optional for a year, citing the pandemic. Now many of them [including UVA] are extending those bans.
The majority of the 106 active student cases of COVID-19 at UVA were discovered through pre-arrival testing, according to Dr. Mitchell Rosner, who chairs the University’s Department of Medicine.
UVA students returned to class Monday to begin the spring semester. Due to Sunday’s snowfall, the University suspended all in-person classes prior to 10 a.m. Monday. After that, classes resumed as normal.
UVA students came back in full force Sunday, the day before their first day of class for spring 2021. During what may be the height of the pandemic, UVA is welcoming back thousands of students to Grounds, but some students felt safe last semester with the University’s COVID regulations, and are hopeful for the spring.
The 27th annual Virginia Festival of the Book will present more than 40 virtual events during this year’s event, which will take place from March 13 to 26, mostly over Zoom and Facebook Live.
One valuable yet often overlooked leader in the fight for Black equality is finally getting his due in [the late UVA history professor] Julian Bond’s “Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.” The late author’s lectures from his prolific teaching career, assembled here for the first time, are full of firsthand lessons from his direct involvement in the civil rights movement.
About 22,000 students returned for classes at the University of Virginia Monday, and the school’s president says UVA is ready. A look at how things have changed since the fall, and what new limits students will face.
Six players joined the Virginia Baseball Hall of Fame on Friday night, the program announced. The group of 2021 inductees includes Steve Bryant, Nathan Kirby, Branden Kline, Mike Papi, Josh Sborz and Brandon Waddell. The Virginia Baseball Hall of Fame was created in 2017 and 28 members now belong in the exclusive club after this year’s selections.