The Karsh Institute, the Miller Center, the Center for Politics, and the Department of Politics are partnering on a pan-University blog offering timely insights on topics related to this year's elections.
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The Chautauqua Institution announced Karsh Institute Executive Director Melody Barnes and journalist David French as the inaugural recipients of the Chautauqua Perry Fellowship in Democracy.
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The Starr Hill Pathways summer camp—organized by the Karsh Institute's Equity Center—had its third annual program for underserved and underrepresented kids at the University of Virginia.
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UVA assistant professor Jess Reia of the Karsh Institute’s Digital Technology for Democracy Lab reviewed the responses to protests on U.S. campuses and found them to be threats not just to freedom of speech but also to the fundamental rights of people in public spaces.
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Remote work lets Americans continue to flee large cities for smaller towns even after the pandemic. “Maybe there isn’t going to be a rebound,” says Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. “Maybe the rebound is over.”
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'Inside Appalachia' talks with the creators of the Karsh Institute's new podcast, Crosswinds, about how residents of Norfolk and Newport News, Virginia, say airborne coal dust from export terminals is coating their cars and houses—and getting into their lungs.
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Cville Tulips—a program from the Karsh Institute's Sound Justice Lab that supports refugee woman and children—was named a "philanthropy champion" by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence.
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The Karsh Institute's Repair Lab launches a new podcast that covers the issue in Hampton Roads, home to the largest coal export operation in the United States.
www.withgoodreasonradio.org
The Karsh Institute is part of the Grounds-wide UVA Gun Violence Solutions Project, which brings together faculty, staff, students, and community members to tackle the problem from multiple angles.
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Brooks was joined onstage for a conversation with Melody Barnes, executive director of UVA’s Karsh Institute of Democracy.
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"Asthma rates downtown were double that of Newport News as a whole and also double the state of Virginia," said Adrian Wood of the Karsh Institute's Repair Lab. "We can't attribute that directly to coal dust but we do know that asthma rates were higher then. And since then, coal export has increased."
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