In March 2020, the University of Virginia said it wanted to support the development of between 1,000 and 1,500 affordable housing units in the Charlottesville area over the next 10 years. On Thursday, UVA President Jim Ryan and other UVA leaders invite members of the community to participate in a virtual kickoff event for the University’s Affordable Housing project.
(Commentary by Gerard Robinson, fellow of practice at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) Sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in 1903 that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.” A new survey about U.S. politics shows that race still complicates how Americans address civic and socioeconomic challenges 118 years later – and partisanship continues to influence the problem now, as it has for generations.
In some respects, measures of the pandemic have leveled out in Virginia. Ordinarily that would be a sign of encouragement. However, with ongoing vaccinations, these numbers should be dropping more rapidly, the latest University of Virginia report states.
Enamel is less conductive than cast iron (which itself is less conductive than some other metals). That will change the rate at which the exterior of the pan – in which the cast iron is sandwiched between two coats of enamel – heats, according to David Green, an associate professor of materials science, chemical and mechanical engineering at UVA’s School of Engineering & Applied Science. Compared to traditional cast iron, an enameled pan will heat up at a slightly slower pace, he says. That being said, enamel can help with a more even distribution of heat, says Liheng Cai, Green’s collabor...
University of Virginia professor Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, asserts that divorces actually declined during the pandemic, largely due to people being more cautious. He notes that the Institute for Family Studies surveys indicate people have reported struggling through lockdowns, financial stress and unemployment, which has been interpreted by the media as a surge in divorces. Wilcox notes similarities with the Great Depression, when divorce rates also fell. When times get tough, he says, people lean on each other. He acknowledges that access to services may play a r...
Social conservatives have become more open to government spending if it encourages more women to have children and enables them to stay home with them. They cite research that children benefit from strong attachment to their parents. “The right has dropped the ball on family policy,” said Brad Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia, in a recent panel at A.E.I. where the divisions on the right were on full display. “I’m not looking for more measures that will put parents into the labor force than spend time with their kids. We need less workism and more familyism.”
(Commentary) It seems obvious the plan would help millions, especially in agrarian states where the Democratic party’s support is weakest. Estimating the precise impact, however, is virtually impossible because no one really knows how many Americans lack access to a service that’s considered vital to modern living. "We have a better map of the Milky Way galaxy than we do of who is un- and under-connected in rural America," University of Virginia professor Christopher Ali told the Senate Commerce Committee during a March hearing.
(Video) University of Virginia Political Science Chair Jennifer Lawless said that President Joe Biden’s capital gains tax proposal – doubling the tax rate wealthy Americans pay on investment returns when they sell stocks and other assets – is a signal he is not going to “govern from the middle.”
(Commentary) Over the past two decades, successive Japanese governments have improved the terms of parental leave, invested in a day-care system with expanded hours, and directed employers to offer flexible and reduced hours to parents of young children. But Japan’s birth rate hasn’t changed much. Japan’s “programs do reduce the costs of raising children,” writes Leonard Schoppa, a politics professor at the University of Virginia, but “most career jobs in Japan ask employees to work until 08:00 or 09:00 pm every night and accept transfers at the risk of their continued employment.” Generous pa...
Rachel Harmon, a professor of law and director of the Center for Criminal Justice at the University of Virginia, said police associations and unions can, and should, be involved in reform efforts. But, she added, unions also have interfered in efforts to hold officers accountable. "I don’t think that that means that police officers are not going to play a role in moving us forward toward reform," said Harmon, who is a former federal prosecutor. "I think we should expect that they will and that they need to."
Many critics say the standard’s narrow focus on the moment an officer pulls the trigger obscures questions about the many choices that led up to the confrontation, noted Rachel Harmon, an authority on police law at the University of Virginia. For example, she said, did the officer rush recklessly into danger or take steps to defuse the situation?
Kevin Cope, an associate professor of law and public policy at the University of Virginia, claims states can constitutionally allow vaccine passports. “Because what a vaccine passport does is give people back some of their freedoms that have been temporarily taken away during the COVID pandemic,” said Cope.
Darryl Brown, a law professor at the University of Virginia and a former public defender, said the public defenders have always struggled to find consistent public support throughout the country, not just in Virginia. “There’s never been a good solution for how to sustain that public funding for an unpopular cause,” Brown said. “There are definitely places where the public defenders are just inexcusably overworked and overburdened and can’t possibly do a good job. On the other hand, there are pretty good studies comparing public defender representation to private attorney representation for po...
Two members of the University of Virginia faculty have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ian Baucom, the dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Eric Turkheimer, a psychology professor, are among 252 new members who are part of the 241st class of the academy.
Two members of the University of Virginia faculty have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ian Baucom, the dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Eric Turkheimer, a psychology professor, are among 252 new members who are part of the 241st class of the academy.
(Book review by Barbara A. Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center) In “The Triumph of Nancy Reagan,” her deeply researched and compellingly crafted biography of the 40th president’s second wife, Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty paints a striking portrait of how this unique partnership shaped Ronald Reagan’s political career, from the California governor’s mansion to the White House.
(Commentary by Jason Johnston, director of the Olin Program in Law and Economics) Since at least the George W. Bush administration, the environmental Left and the Democratic Party have continually screamed that conservatives and Republicans are anti-science. According to this group, conservatives ignore scientific evidence of risks to the environment and human health so as to avoid imposing costly pollution reduction requirements on business. This is nonsense.
(Commentary co-written by Isaac Barnes May, assistant professor of American studies) Joseph Smith designed an innovative and humanitarian system of church discipline that protected the rights of the accused. So what happened in the Natasha Helfer case and others?
At the UVA Medical Center, people were able to drive through and drop off unused medications and prescriptions, all with the goal of keeping these pills off the streets. “Across the country, across the state, across the county, there are multiple sites where people can go and drop off these medications,” resident physician Harrison Plunkett said.
(Editorial) What a relief to hear doctors at the University of Virginia diagnose the COVID pandemic as easing a bit. “We’re in a good place,” said Dr. Costi Sifri, director of hospital epidemiology at the UVA Medical Center. “We’re increasing the number of people who are protected and we’re going to continue to the see the results – meaning fewer cases of COVID, fewer hospitalizations due to COVID and fewer deaths from COVID.”