Next to testify will be Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, University of Virginia School of Law Dean Risa Goluboff and Wade Henderson, the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
(Video) Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson faced a second day of questioning Wednesday by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Saikrishna Prakash, a University of Virginia law professor and former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, and Melody Barnes, executive director of the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia, join Judy Woodruff to discuss.
(By Andrew Sheaff, assistant swimming coach) Basically, the more effective you can feel the water, the faster you can swim. And luckily, our hands are extremely skilled in perceiving sensory information and producing very nuanced movements. However, there are two issues that triathletes will run into that prevent them from taking advantage of the genius of their hands.
(Co-written by Leidy Klotz, professor in engineering systems and environment) We all know the symptoms. Too many committees, emails, software tools and long-winded syllabi. Too many new administrators adding rules and enforcing each exactly to the letter. Too many needless burdens weighing on the souls of those who signed up for teaching, research and learning.
“All forests are precious. Increasingly, we are discovering they also keep the air near and far cool and moist,” said Deborah Lawrence, a professor at the University of Virginia and the lead author of the study, “The Unseen Effects of Deforestation: Biophysical Effects on Climate.” “The heart of the tropics is at the heart of the planet and these forests are critical for our survival.”
The report, “The Unseen Effects of Deforestation: Biophysical Effects on Climate,” explains why forests are so precious for the earth's future and warns that their value is greatly underestimated by decision makers. "The heart of the tropics is at the heart of the planet and these forests are critical for our survival," said lead author Deborah Lawrence, a professor at the University of Virginia.
“Forests are not just carbon sponges. They—their physical structure—interact with the atmosphere to cool the surface of the Earth,” said Deborah Lawrence, an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia and the lead author of the paper.
The world’s forests play a far greater and more complex role in tackling climate crisis than previously thought, due to their physical effects on global and local temperatures, according to new research. “The biophysical factors don’t cool the planet, but they do change the way we experience heat, and that matters,” said Deborah Lawrence, professor at the University of Virginia and the lead author. “The heart of the tropics is at the heart of the planet and these forests are critical for our survival.”
Tropical forests cool the world by more than 1 degree Celsius, increase rainfall, and shield people and crops from deadly heat, researchers said, showing the climate benefits of trees go beyond sucking planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the air. In a new study (led by UVA environmental scientist Deborah Lawrence) released on Thursday, they outlined different ways the Earth, its climate and its inhabitants rely on forests.
The University of Virginia hosted a virtual Medical Center Hour on Wednesday. Speakers said racism within health care is an ongoing public crisis, leading to higher mortality rates. Dr. Brian Wispelwey, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, was one speaker on the call. “People of color, our black and brown patients, are ending up much more on general medicine. So part of the decision was to start looking to that,” he said.
With 554 applicants from Arlington Publci Schools, UVA ranks second, behind Virginia Tech (594).
In a fact that may surprise anyone who knows even a few of his films or has a sense of his filmmaking ups and downs, Robert Aldrich was born into tremendous wealth and power, in Rhode Island in 1918. His grandfather was a Republican senator and a self-made millionaire. His aunt even married John D. Rockefeller Jr. As a young man, Aldrich attempted to fit the family mold, majoring in economics at the University of Virginia, but eventually he had had enough–of that life but also of the right-wing politics surrounding that life.
Many, if not most of us, have googled a symptom or doctor’s diagnosis at one time. A Virginia Beach woman, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, is taking that curiosity to another level. At age 11, Delaney Liskey had a terrifying experience, a sudden loss of sight in one eye. … Delaney’s inquisitive nature eventually led her to the University of Virginia and now the prestigious Mayo Clinic, where she’s on track to receive her PhD in biomedical sciences.
The National Minority Quality Forum is listing Dr. Taison Bell with UVA Health on it’s 40 Under 40 Leaders in Health list.
Troubling trends in education, physical health and mental well-being among young people predate COVID-19. But the pandemic’s disruptions of daily routines, emotional support networks and vaccination rates have raised those concerns to crisis levels. “This is really not just a story of an initial shock, then recovery. What we’ve seen are patterns of lost learning persistent, and in some cases being even stronger, in 2020-21,” said Jim Soland of the University of Virginia, an affiliated research fellow at the assessment nonprofit Northwest Evaluation Association.
Miles Coleman, the associate editor of the election forecaster ‘Sabato’s Crystal Ball’ at UVA’s Center for Politics, says he thinks both parties used Tuesday’s session to reinforce their overall political message. “For Democrats, that seems to be, ‘if you stick with us, we’ll continue to build an inclusive government that looks like the country,’” Coleman says in an email. “For Republicans, casting Jackson as weak on crime could be another way to show that Biden – and his appointees – are simply ‘in over their heads.’”
(Podcast) Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson spent hours on defending her representation of Guantanamo Bay detainees and denying she’d been too lenient in child pornography cases. Saikrishna Prakash, a University of Virginia law professor and former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, and Margaret Russell, a law professor at Santa Clara University, join Judy Woodruff to discuss the hearing.
Kim Forde-Mazrui, director of UVA’s Center for the Study of Race and Law, takes a different view. He said that the Supreme Court’s use of strict scrutiny, based on its reading of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, leads to a kind of “color-blindness” that ignores historic and systemic racism. “The Supreme Court’s rule that race should generally be ignored has actually prevented policies that could help to reduce the racial gap,” he said. He added that the ERA, as currently written, could cause the Supreme Court to treat sex the same way, with a kind of “sex-blindness,” he said,...
(Commentary) Finally, selective colleges can ask for far less to determine an applicant’s chances. Stephen Farmer, the vice provost for enrollment at the University of Virginia, wonders if there is a “more iterative way” of asking for materials. Instead of making the application process an enormous burden students must finish all at once, information from applicants could be gathered in chunks at different stages of the process.