UVA Today

Time 2020-06-30 07:04:13

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David Smith is a member of the Bankruptcy and COVID-19 Working Group recommending that Congress add more bankruptcy judges to brace for pandemic-related bankruptcy filings. Daily ReportDelivered right to your inboxSign up for the Daily Report, your free, comprehensive source for all UVA News. The series features stories written by faculty authors and by researchers who serve on the President’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation, or who conduct research as part of the commission’s responsibilities. One in an occasional series about the findings of the President’s Commissions on Slavery and on the University in the Age of Segregation. Today’s installment explores UVA’s role in promulgating a racist post-Civil War creed known as the “Lost Cause.” Marija Vucelja, who has a love for all things science, will use a prestigious NSF award to quench her curiosity – and that of children. As a child whose family was hurt by addiction, basketball was an outlet for UVA associate professor Joseph Williams. His life experiences are now a driving force behind his research. Rithvik Gundlapalli and a friend are working on an off-site triage system that may change the way emergency rooms across the country are run. See how Phi Sigma Pi at UVA raised nearly $50,000 for anti-racism organizations … in two short days. Second-year student Lucia Hoerr started a nonprofit organization when she was 9 years old to provide backpacks and school supplies to needy kindergarten through 12th-grade students in Charlottesville and throughout much of Virginia. Recent graduate Jeannie Taylor has been leading a team of students that has raised more than $24,000 for eight service projects in the Charlottesville community. After two months of waiting, graduate student Minghui Sun had given up all hope of receiving a special care package from China. Then he got an email and an incredible story was born. These reading suggestions from faculty and administrators offer readers an opportunity to better understand the roots of racism and move forward on equity issues and dismantling racist systems. Based on service they did in the Charlottesville community prior to leaving Grounds, students in a religious studies course created their own Passover Haggadahs – the text that Jewish people use to orchestrate the ritual of Passover. The University’s plan emphasizes safety elements such as virus testing, requirements for wearing masks, social distancing and thorough sanitizing of spaces. The announcement reaffirms the University’s mission to recruit and educate the best and brightest students from around the world, its leaders said.

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