The UVA Police Department is receiving a $2,500 grant from the Life Enrichment Center. The grant will be given to the Ebenezer Baptist Church on behalf of the police department to fund community outreach events and work to improve the relationship between law enforcement and the community. “Community service and community-oriented policing are at the heart of what we believe in,” UVPD Capt. Bryant Hall said.
(Commentary by Cristina Lopez-Gottardi Chao, assistant professor and research director for public and policy programs at UVA’s Miller Center; subscription may be required) President Joe Biden has a unique opportunity to pressure the Cuban government on human rights reform, as his administration continues its review of Cuba policy and prepares for the possible resumption of consular services at the U.S. Embassy in Havana.
After an 18-month absence due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court returned this fall to an “explosive” term that experts say will likely influence voter turnout in the 2022 midterm elections. “The chances of this term being a blockbuster term is very high,” UVA law professor A.E. Dick Howard said. “This may well be the most explosive term since 2000, since the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore.”
The University of Virginia is No. 25 in the Associated Press Top 25 men’s basketball preseason poll, which was released Monday. UVA returns just two starters from an NCAA Tournament team but has added transfers Jayden Gardner and Armaan Franklin.
Muriel-Theresa Pitney has been appointed the clerk of the Supreme Court of Virginia effective immediately. Pitney began serving as chief deputy court of the Supreme Court of Virginia in January 2019. She began serving as acting clerk in April. Pitney earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and her law degree from the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law.
The Lakers have now filled that remaining two-way contract, as they announced Monday that they had signed Jay Huff (Dave McMenamin of ESPN first confirmed the team’s release). Jay Huff comes to the Lakers after spending a small amount of time with the Washington Wizards. He played in two preseason games for the team, but only at the end of a couple of games with little-to-no statistics coming from the 7’1” center. Huff played all four years of his collegiate career at the University of Virginia, entering the 2021 NBA Draft as a senior. He will more than likely play nearly all of his time on th...
The Indiana Pacers have secured guard [and UVA alumnus] Malcolm Brogdon to a two-year contract extension worth $45 million that will pay him a total of $89.3 million over the next four years, Brogdon’s agent tells ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Brogdon’s original deal would’ve ended after the 2023 season, but this new extension won’t make him an unrestricted free agent until 2025.
Nine teams comprising students from 21 universities – including UVA’s Cavalier Autonomous Racing – are headed to Indianapolis Motor Speedway this week to compete as finalists in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. The teams’ autonomous open-wheel cars will compete for $1 million in prize money care of a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
A pair of professors from the University of Virginia School of Law have become members of the American Law Institute. The ALI announced on Oct. 15 that professors John Duffy and Ruth Mason have been elected members of the institute. Their election means 28 members of the UVA law school faculty are now affiliated with the ALI.
“Biden’s dip in popularity has made this trickier for McAuliffe, and McAuliffe likely believes that Democrats getting something done before the election helps Biden, which by extension helps him,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Subscription may be required) Despite McAuliffe’s effort to tie Youngkin to Trump — especially on opposition to vaccine and mask mandates and on the former president’s false allegations of election fraud — an analysis by Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics last week concluded that “Youngkin has done at least a passable job of straddling the various wings of the Republican Party, giving clear nods to the Trumpier wing by talking about so-called ‘election integrity’ while emphasizing less hot-button issues in his advertising, like repealing a sta...
In every Virginia governor’s race since 1969, the candidate from the president’s party won a smaller share of the vote -- usually a much smaller share -- than the president did in the race for the White House just the year before, according to calculations by Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, published by UVA’s Center for Politics.
Aynne Kokas, faculty senior fellow at the Miller Center and associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia: “U.S. foreign policy with regard to China needs greater nuance in areas of potential engagement. China is a strategic competitor, and that presents risks to the United States. At the same time, the United States still benefits from cooperation in important aspects of climate, education, and health. By painting ‘China policy’ with a broad brush, valuable opportunities for collaboration get lost.”
Any sitting president has an incentive to protect the power of the office and defend a Commander-in-Chief’s ability to have privileged communications with close aides. “Maybe an aide will choose not to give candid advice to the President because they saw that Biden released Trump’s records,” says Saikrishna Prakash, a UVA law professor who studies presidential powers. “Politically, maybe some President in the future gets injured more quickly because something embarrassing comes out of a record release.”
(Commentary; subscription may be required) The Build Back Better bill does not envision a public option. Instead, it builds on our sprawling market system, infusing existing child care programs with what Daphna Bassok, professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia, calls “baseline funding” that would allow them to “function and be more stable.” Right now, said Bassok, the child care sector is experiencing such a debilitating worker shortage, brought on by low pay coupled with the pandemic, that “the idea that centers could be responsive to demands” from the market is a...
Doctors at UVA Health are closely watching the data on the possibility of vaccine mixing. The National Institute of Health did a study on mixing Johnson & Johnson with either Pfizer or Moderna. The hope is it would create a higher antibody response. Dr. Taison Bell with the UVA Health Center says right now the data shows that mixing could be the best strategy, but we need to wait for CDC approval.
Experts say the more people are vaccinated the less spread there will be. “People who are more vulnerable, so for example people who are older and people with immune compromising conditions, really are replying a lot on the people around them to protect them,” said Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious disease professor at UVA.
“If you look at the [US invasion] now with hindsight, you can say that it was a major failure, it didn’t change Haiti, it didn’t democratize Haiti. If anything, the situation now is probably more catastrophic than it was in the mid-1990s. … It was a euphoric moment, which ended in disaster,” says Robert Fatton, a Haitian-born historian who is now a professor in political science at the University of Virginia.
“It is true that foreign interventions have left a trail of sorrow and have at best been a short-lived palliative that never addressed the deep inequalities of Haiti’s political economy that are in fact the cause of the nation’s current predicament,” said Robert Fatton, a Haiti-born political scientist at the University of Virginia who closely monitors the country. “That said, it is clear that the country’s climate of impunity nurtured by a total void of legitimate authority cannot last long.”
(By Kimberly A. Whitler, Frank M. Sands Sr. Associate Professor of Business Administration) Why are brands risking market share and brand image erosion to weigh in on important but hot-button topics on which consumers, shareholders, and employees do not agree? Marketers have been told, “You must take a stand,” in reports, articles, and surveys. But what is driving this belief?