University of North Carolina: South Carolina and Virginia to join University Libraries’ On the Books project. “The University Libraries has selected the University of South Carolina and the University of Virginia to be partners for On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance, funded by the Mellon Foundation. On the Books uses text mining and machine learning to identify racist language in North Carolina legal documents during the Jim Crow era (1866-1967). Libraries at the partner institutions will work with the project team at UNC-Chapel Hill to compile machine-readable versions of their states’ laws and identify Jim Crow language in them. “
Tag Archives: University of Virginia
UVA Today: UVA Announces Covid-19 Policy Changes, Beginning Monday
UVA Today: UVA Announces Covid-19 Policy Changes, Beginning Monday. “The changes come following ‘encouraging trends with respect to the pandemic that we hope will allow students, faculty, and staff to enjoy the final weeks of this academic year,’ Provost Ian Baucom and Chief Operating Officer J.J. Davis wrote Friday in an e-mail message to the University community.”
WTKR: UVA mandates COVID booster shot for spring semester
WTKR: UVA mandates COVID booster shot for spring semester. “The University of Virginia has announced students, faculty, and staff will be required to get a COVID-19 booster shot for the spring semester.”
University of Virginia: Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Launches Book And Virtual Exhibition
University of Virginia: Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Launches Book And Virtual Exhibition. “A new book and website tell the story of a small group of Aboriginal artists from Australia who changed the face of global art history – and the resources were produced by the only museum dedicated to Aboriginal Australian art in the United States, the University of Virginia’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection.”
Gobbler Country: UVA’s Scott Stadium Name Changes on Google Maps
Gobbler Country: UVA’s Scott Stadium Name Changes on Google Maps. “I don’t know how the Google Maps information is maintained or updated. The Google Maps entry for Lane Stadium North has been changed back to the previous name of Scott Stadium and the latest photos reverted to something less VT-centric. I don’t know when it happened, but for a few short hours yesterday it read as what you see above, and I was able to collect the screen shots before the Google Maps information was changed back.” Lane Stadium is apparently the name of the Virginia Tech football stadium; this is a sports prank I’m not fully-equipped to appreciate.
Virginian-Pilot: University of Virginia disenrolls 238 students for not complying with vaccine requirement
Virginian-Pilot: University of Virginia disenrolls 238 students for not complying with vaccine requirement. ” The University of Virginia disenrolled 238 students ahead of its fall semester for noncompliance with the school’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement. Of that number, 49 were enrolled in fall courses — meaning that ‘a good number’ of the remaining students ‘may not have been planning to return to the University this fall at all,’ U.Va. spokesperson Brian Coy said in an email to The Virginian-Pilot.”
Culpeper Star-Exponent: UVa looks to provide digitized context to historic features on Grounds
Culpeper Star-Exponent: UVa looks to provide digitized context to historic features on Grounds. “People soon may hear all about Homer’s statue on The Lawn at the University of Virginia with a simple scan of a QR code on their smartphone. In fact, they may hear conflicting interpretations of the statue, The Lawn and UVa as the university seeks to provide context to its memorials, statues, plaques and buildings.”
WVIR: Online Center for Ethics now calls UVA home
WVIR: Online Center for Ethics now calls UVA home. “The University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science is now the new home of the nationally-renowned Online Ethics Center, a digital library of resources focusing on how to use technology for good. The center hosts free information for the public to use, hoping to provide ethical insight to hard topics like how algorithms impact our politics, or the impact of plastic use on our environment.”
Cavalier Daily: Law School launches new website exploring its connections to slavery
Cavalier Daily: Law School launches new website exploring its connections to slavery. “The University’s Law school launched Slavery and the U.Va. School of Law — a new website and digital archive that explores the law school’s historical connections to slavery — on Feb 1. At the core of this project are digitized versions of law students’ notebooks from the antebellum time period, when slavery was taught as a social good.”
University of Virginia: UVA Helps Educators Wrestle With How To Appropriately Teach Current Events
University of Virginia: UVA Helps Educators Wrestle With How To Appropriately Teach Current Events. “In the coming months and years, educators will grapple with how to most appropriately and effectively teach about recent events that illuminate the deep, troubling divisions in America and the history from which they emerged…. To address this need to support K-12 teachers throughout the U.S., a team of faculty and students from the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development, alongside practicing educators, have collaborated to launch a new online resource hub. Educating for Democracy offers a range of teaching tools, including developmentally appropriate lessons that interrogate issues of race, justice and human welfare in the U.S. by connecting the full story of the past with current events.”
Booker T. Washington Has A New Charlottesville Connection: A Digital Edition Of His Papers (University of Virginia)
University of Virginia: Booker T. Washington Has A New Charlottesville Connection: A Digital Edition Of His Papers. “Booker T. Washington, who emerged from slavery to become one of the leading African American intellectuals around the turn of the 20th century, had ties to Charlottesville that eventually led to a city park being named after him. A new connection between Washington and this area will be forged virtually via the University of Virginia Press’ electronic imprint, Rotunda, which has acquired ‘The Booker T. Washington Papers’ to create a digital edition.”
Cavalier Daily: U.Va. scientists create biomedical database analyzing the structure of COVID-19 proteins
Cavalier Daily: U.Va. scientists create biomedical database analyzing the structure of COVID-19 proteins. “University scientists at the Minor Lab have created a database to provide the most accurate and up-to-date information about the COVID-19 virus in hopes of giving the biomedical community trusted structural information about the virus’s components. The team hopes this website will help scientists, as well as the broader research community, find and use accurate information about the virus and is actively looking for collaborators.”
Washington Post: U-Va. calls students back for fall, with assigned sinks, social distancing and other precautions
Washington Post: U-Va. calls students back for fall, with assigned sinks, social distancing and other precautions. “Wear masks. Keep your distance. Now comes another edict: Use your assigned sink. Students heading to college in the fall know they will face unprecedented pandemic rules meant to safeguard the campus from the spread of the novel coronavirus. Among them is this one spelled out by the University of Virginia on Wednesday: Those who live in residence halls ‘will be assigned to specific sinks, stalls and showers.'”
UVA Today: UVA Art Museums Get Creative With Online Offerings Amid Covid-19 Restrictions
UVA Today: UVA Art Museums Get Creative With Online Offerings Amid Covid-19 Restrictions. “Instead of exhibition galleries filled with students and community members, live tours for classes and faculty and all sorts of workshops and events, staff at The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection were suddenly looking at museums full of amazing art, with no one to enjoy it. And so they got busy, doing what artists and art lovers do best: getting creative…. Now, with a few clicks on the museums’ websites and social media accounts, you can access a wide variety of art, from a video tour weaving through 112 intricately carved memorial poles created by Aboriginal Australian artists to talks and tutorials with museum staff, student docents and guest artists.”
The Washington Post: 4 million cards. 4,000 drawers. And a whole lot of paper cuts. A coalition of book lovers rushes to save U-Va.’s card catalogue.
The Washington Post: 4 million cards. 4,000 drawers. And a whole lot of paper cuts. A coalition of book lovers rushes to save U-Va.’s card catalogue.. “They’d just finished setting up projectors to create a replica of the planetarium Thomas Jefferson had envisioned spanning the University of Virginia’s Rotunda dome when Neal Curtis and Sam Lemley stopped. They looked at each other. And they decided they had to come up with a plan — immediately They walked into the school’s Alderman Library and promised they wouldn’t leave that night until they had found a way to save the old card catalogue.”