(Commentary) The Equality Act merely substitutes one marginalized group for another. University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock says, “It protects the rights of one side, but attempts to destroy the rights of the other side. … We ought to protect the liberty of both sides to live their own lives by their own identities and their own values.”
Dr. Sameer Patel, a forensic psychiatrist with the Maryland Department of Health who evaluated Ramos for the court, and Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a psychiatrist at the University of Virginia and for the FBI who prosecutors retained, stepped up to the stand to say Ramos was sane. Their opinions cited overwhelming evidence of planning and lawful behavior ahead of the awful attack.
(Commentary) Robert Fatton Jr., a Haitian-born political scientist at the University of Virginia, told Time magazine in 2019, “If anything, the situation now is probably more catastrophic than it was in the mid-1990s.” The U.S. intervention, he concluded, “was a euphoric moment, which ended in disaster.” The democracy we tried to uphold has long since broken down.
In more recent years, Haiti’s economy has been victim to, among other things, a neoliberal economic program “on steroids” that pushed the country to open its economy to the world, allowing goods to flood in and devastate the agricultural sector, said Robert Fatton Jr., a professor of politics at the University of Virginia. “We have a long history of foreign involvement in Haiti,” said Fatton, who has written multiple books about the country. “You can’t understand Haitian politics without understanding foreign entanglements in Haiti’s affairs — not only in terms of the politics of the pla...
Teenagers who have close, secure relationships with their families are more likely to extend empathy to their peers, according to a new study. More specifically, when teens feel safe, supported by and connected to parents or other adult caregivers, they are better equipped to pass the empathy they receive on to others “I don’t think teens in particular like being told what to do, and I don’t think it’s going to work to tell teens they should empathize with other people,” said Jessica Stern, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow in the department of psychology at the University of ...
A collection of Mormon memorabilia and materials that spans the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints could make the University of Virginia the leading site for studying the religion outside of Utah, university officials say.
In their first three years of employment, a recent study found half of all nurses leaving their jobs – often because they’re burned out. It’s a difficult job, and hospitals are searching for ways to make the work less stressful. At the University of Virginia, three nurses came up with a way to help their colleagues relax, even for a few minutes during their busy days.
The vast majority of University of Virginia students have answered the call to get vaccinated and can now come back to Grounds. The numbers are in and the results are pretty strong: 85% of students have already submitted their full vaccination records to UVA. That will lead to a pre-pandemic-looking fall semester.
(Commentary by Dr. Tom Pisano, alumnus) A young clinician who uses a wheelchair has found that sharing his experience and showing vulnerability helps many kinds of patients.
The consequences of not having broadband can be staggering, according to Christopher Ali, an associate professor in UVA’s Department of Media Studies. “Broadband influences education, health, economic development … civic engagement, quality of life, and public safety. It’s a game-changer,” he said. “This is the electricity of the 21st century.”
1. University of Virginia. A public research institution, UVA meets 100% of demonstrated need-based aid for all students, both in and out of state. At least 35% of the University’s student population is awarded some level of need-based assistance. UVA’s aid packages can include grants, scholarships, work-study and loans. The University commits to limiting loans to an average of $4,500 to $7,000 per year, per student in an effort to minimize student debt.
Although no L.A. Sparks competed in the WNBA All-Star Game this year, there were two Los Angeles basketball icons on the sidelines. Lisa Leslie and [UVA women’s basketball coach] Tina Thompson co-coached the WNBA All-Stars to a 93-85 victory over the Tokyo-bound U.S. national team on Wednesday.
Award-winning international actor and playwright Priyanka Shetty [a UVA alumna] performs her solo play “#CHARLOTTESVILLE,” hand-picked as one of nine new works to be staged at the coveted 59E59 Theaters’ “East to Edinburgh” Festival in New York City this summer. This is the second of three plays in her Triptych of solos that reveals the harrowing and heart-wrenching experiences of the residents of Charlottesville, Virginia who were present as counter-protestors at the white-supremacist “Unite the Right” rally on August 11th and 12th, 2017.
(By Payton Stredler, rising fourth-year student) We probably all have memories of digging through attic boxes and discovering brittle pieces of paper, chronicling the existence of long-gone family members. Snippets of their stories are embedded in official records– where they were born, how they died. But have we ever thought about how important these forms are, not just to our own family histories but to the way we measure and address public health?
Niya Bates, a graduate student studying the history of enslavement, told the Post, “I’m excited to see our community finally dealing with symbols of white supremacy.” She is working to implement a new state law that requires UVA and four other public colleges in the state to identify and memorialize the individuals who were enslaved on their grounds and to provide scholarships and other reparations to their descendants. “Symbols have power,” Bates said. “This is a good way to start a conversation about meaningful systemic change.”
Among those presenting programs were architecture expert and holder of the Commonwealth Professor’s Chair in architectural history at the University of Virginia Richard Guy Wilson, whose father actually ran the company that made shovels used during construction of Hoover Dam.
“The principle is one person, one vote,” says Kyle Kondik, who analyzes U.S. House politics for the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “If you live in one district and I live in another district,” Kondik explains, “they should have relatively the same population so our votes have the same power.”
Christian McMillen is a historian and associate dean at the University of Virginia and the author of “Discovering Tuberculosis.” “It was a relatively common notion that air – whether it’s altitude, winter air, desert air, or what have you – was a good solution for tuberculosis,” he says. “Sometimes it did help. But there was a kind of mistake in correlation with causation. TB is contagious, so in this case, my guess is that you take five people with TB, and five people without TB, and put them together in a cave, and you’re going to wind up with 10 people who have TB.”
(Podcast) In this episode, Pulitzer Prize-winning UVA historian Alan Taylor discusses why it is important to acknowledge the violence and terror that scarred the revolutionary years as well as tales of heroism and courage and the triumph of freedom and liberty. “We’ve largely written [violence] out of telling the story of the American Revolution because, frankly, it is very uncomfortable,” said Taylor, the author of “American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804.”
An annual road trip-inspired reading program has announced this year’s selection for Virginia. The Virginia Center for the Book says “White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia,” by Kiki Petrosino, is the 2021 Route 1 Reads. Petrosino is a professor of poetry at the University of Virginia.