Last year, Virginia, Nevada and Illinois sued the US archivist in an attempt to get him to "carry out his statutory duty of recognizing the complete and final adoption" of the ERA. This month, a federal district judge dismissed the case and ruled that the deadline to ratify the ERA "expired long ago" and that the three states' recent ratifications of the ERA arrived "too late to count." University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Prakash, who supports the ERA but believes the deadline has lapsed, called the ruling a "complete defeat for the States bringing the suit." He added that the ruli...
Social media sites operate in an environment shaped by years of jurisprudence. “Courts have stretched Section 230’s legal shield far beyond what its words, context, and purpose support,” Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, told lawmakers at a 2019 hearing. “It has led to the rise of social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. But it also has subsidized platforms that encourage online abuse,” Citron said. “It has left victims without leverage to insist that platforms take down destructive activity.”
Achieving educational milestones can take extra persistence during the pandemic, too. Four graduating student members of the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia will present their Distinguished Major Recitals with livestreams on UVa Music YouTube — cellist Brent Davis at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, violinist Amelia Bailey at 3:30 p.m. March 27, cellist Isabella Tucker at 8 p.m. April 3 and violinist Sophia Park at 1 p.m. April 10. Get details at music.virginia.edu/student-recitals.
Most dissertations are written. One doctoral student at Clemson University broke the norm during his doctoral studies. A.D Carson wrote a 34-track rap album instead and went viral on YouTube along with being called a doctor after his successful unconventional defense. In July 2017, it was announced that Carson will begin teaching at the University of Virginia as Assistant Professor of Hip-Hop and the Global South.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics published an article that looked at the research done in this area and drew some interesting conclusions. That article acknowledges that a candidate’s “platforms, personalities and party affiliations matter most, along with the circumstances of the election year” and that the “theory has always been that the most desirable position on the ballot for any candidate to be listed first.” A review of the research did indicate that “there is an advantage to being listed first on the ballot,”according to the article. “Voters who do not have well defined ...
UVA researchers are studying the long-term effects of soldiers' traumatic brain injuries. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has partnered with UVA to help develop new guidelines for preventing serious brain injuries in the armed forces. The goal is to reduce the risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a serious and often fatal brain disease caused by repeated traumatic brain injury or concussions.
UVA researchers are studying the long-term effects of soldiers' traumatic brain injuries. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has partnered with UVA to help develop new guidelines for preventing serious brain injuries in the armed forces. The goal is to reduce the risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a serious and often fatal brain disease caused by repeated traumatic brain injury or concussions.
A brief report by researchers at the University of Virginia proposes using an antibody-based treatment with a plug-and-play strategy to inhibit the ability of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to invade human cells.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise has announced in person Commencement ceremonies for the Class of 2021 and the Class of 2020 following Governor Ralph Northam’s new guidance on graduations issued Wednesday.
Exploring nature became a trend amid the coronavirus pandemic, but a local nonprofit is looking to make it a permanent experience for as many as possible. Wildrock is underway with a collaborative assignment with the University of Virginia called the "Green Space Mapping Project." The project will give a snap shot of where all the green spaces are in the Charlottesville area.
K-12 schools and colleges in Virginia can host outdoor graduation ceremonies this spring with as many as 5,000 attendees, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Wednesday, the latest decision to gradually loosen restrictions as COVID-19 cases decline.
Five universities that can trace their roots to before the Civil War may be required to make reparations to the communities affected by slavery, if Governor Northam signs a bill into law. HB 1980, introduced by Delegate David Reid (D-Loudoun County), would require UVA, Virginia Commonwealth University, The College of William and Mary, Virginia Military Institute, and Longwood University to identify the enslaved people that worked at the institutions, memorialize them, and establish a tangible benefit to their descendants.
The University of Virginia has won a $3.4 million grant to study pain. The goal is to predict when it will become a problem, and to treat it before this difficult part of illness takes a toll on quality of life for patients and caregivers.
(Commentary by Marlene L. Daut, professor of American and African diaspora studies) After a year in which statues of enslavers and colonizers were toppled, defaced or taken down across Europe and the United States, France has decided to move in the opposite direction. The year 2021 is being hailed by many museums and institutions in the country as the “Year of Napoleon” to commemorate France’s biggest tyrant, an icon of white supremacy, Napoleon Bonaparte.
A UVA employee performed an act of heroism that saved a life. Hannibal Reid and his co-worker were walking on Lane Road Thursday morning when a pickup truck lost control and spun out toward them. In an act of self-sacrifice, Reid pushed his co-worker out of the way and got hit by the truck instead.
Can you imagine a world where robots deliver packages straight to your apartment unit? It might seem like a futuristic innovation straight out of “The Jetsons,” but a Brighton-based company is looking to make it a reality today. Light Line Delivery Corp., co-founded in 2018 by UVA graduate Brett Wagner, is developing autonomous robots that deliver packages from an apartment building’s lobby straight to a tenant’s unit.
It was a monument to the power and glory of colonial France. When the Palais de la Porte Dorée opened in Paris in 1931, every corner of it was designed to extol the colonizing mission: from the bas-reliefs of laborers in faraway lands, to the frescoes of imperial magnificence, to the aquariums swarming with tropical fish. That institution is now led by a man whose family members were among the colonized peoples of sub-Saharan Africa. Pap Ndiaye, a historian and academic of Senegalese and French descent, was last month appointed to revitalize the Palais de la Porte Dorée — an institution ...
UVA alumnus Chris Taylor is now in spring training and working to repeat as a World Series champion. However, before the 2021 MLB season starts, a childhood friend is the focus of Taylor’s time and energy. Taylor says Kyle Profilet, a former classmate and teammate of his who battled cancer for two years, is a driving force behind the inaugural Home Run for Hope, a virtual, one-night-only music event to benefit the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters and Roc Solid Foundation.
Jess Jang, a senior at UVA, was looking forward to traveling to Puerto Rico for what she calls her “last hurrah before leaving college.” However, the pandemic crushed that opportunity. Instead, Jang will be staying safe with her housemates in Charlottesville, but seeing others partying has been hard. “College is supposed to be the best years of your life, and seeing people your age do all this fun stuff while you’re staying safe — I don’t know, it feels like I’m being punished for following the rules whereas other people are taking risks and going out. It’s frustrating.”
(By John Rodden, retired faculty member) Throughout my boyhood a half-century ago, St. Patrick’s Day was eagerly anticipated by the adult men in my family. You might imagine this had to do with their wanting to honor Ireland’s patron saint, who had driven away the snakes and turned the shamrock into a symbol of trinitarian theology. I would have thought so myself if my dear mother hadn’t started to complain about this celebration weeks before the day.