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Temi Akinola Akinola of Charlottesville, a 2020 global security and justice and French language and literature graduate, is an English teaching assistant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. “I am particularly interested in education and its formation on peace-building and human rights,” she said. “I will be teaching English at an all-girls high school, completing tutoring college prep programs through the U.S Embassy and working with the National Council for Human Rights in [Ivory Coast].” She was...

Temi Akinola Akinola of Charlottesville, a 2020 global security and justice and French language and literature graduate, is an English teaching assistant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. “I am particularly interested in education and its formation on peace-building and human rights,” she said. “I will be teaching English at an all-girls high school, completing tutoring college prep programs through the U.S Embassy and working with the National Council for Human Rights in [Ivory Coast].” She was...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL April 14, 2021 On Tuesday, the University of Virginia announced that its Miller Center for Public Affairs will serve as a base for a COVID Commission Planning Group, led by UVA professor Philip Zelikow, the former executive director of the 9/11 Commission. The planning group hopes to prepare the way for a potential National COVID Commission set up to help America and the world learn from this pandemic and safeguard against future threats. “Th...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL April 08, 2021 Nearly all educational leaders begin their career as classroom teachers. With years of training and practice under their belts, teachers making the leap to education leader – think principals, division-level administrators, and even superintendents – are faced with an ever-expanding array of challenges that span across classrooms and school divisions. But they also find themselves working within a larger policy context, at bot...

7 Apr 2021 An international team of researchers led by Wladek Minor, a University of Virginia School of Medicine professor, is warning that scientists must better prepare for the next pandemic - and has developed a plan to do just that. The proposed advanced information system (AIS) would aim to ensure conformity of data across disciplines. Image: An international team of researchers led by Wladek Minor, PhD, is warning that scientists must prepare now for the next pandemic - and has develo...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL March 08, 2021 Last year, Alex Pinckney found herself struggling to pick a graduate school. The pandemic wasn’t helping matters. “I felt very overwhelmed, trying to make this decision without the ability to visit the schools I was considering,” Pinckney said. Then she got an email from Dan Player, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy – one of the schools that had offered her ad...

“To the general public, it might seem like a buried history, but the Caribbean is so much more than tourism,” said Marlene Daut, professor of African American and African Studies and an expert on Haiti who helped create the new program on Caribbean literatures, arts and cultures. When Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World, he hit these islands first. Over the years and the subsequent trips that  Columbus and other Europeans made, the indigenous populations were almost entirely ext...

Date Time Researchers Explore Laser-Beaming Energy for Lunar and Terrestrial Needs Artemis will join Pink Floyd on the dark side of the moon – and the University of Virginia has contributed to getting it there. Artemis is a NASA program to return humans (including the first woman) to the moon, seeking to further explore its polar regions and the regions that remain in perpetual darkness. (Pink Floyd, on the other hand, is a rock band that made the haunting single “The Dark Side of the Moon�...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL February 01, 2021 Just over one month into 2021, political polarization and tensions in America have reached a new high. In this environment, is it possible to have constructive conversations with family, friends and neighbors on the “other side”? What is the point of even trying to have these conversations? Rachel Wahl, an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development, studies dialogue betwe...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL December 09, 2020 A top exercise researcher and colleagues at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have launched an ambitious effort to understand the whole-body benefits of exercise, so that doctors can use that information to prevent and treat disease. Zhen Yan and his collaborators aim to identify the sources, functions and targets of the molecules that provide exercise’s well-documented health benefits. By understanding this, do...