Josh Bowers, a professor at the UVA School of Law and author of the paper, suggests introducing a system he describes as “licensing” which would effectively allow a targeted group of repeat offenders to avoid punishment in the hope that other forms of rehabilitation or counselling will work better. “Just as drug prescriptions for dependent individuals keep them relatively healthy and socially integrated, crime licenses for “persistent misdemeanants” have potential to eliminate barriers to offender reentry,” he wrote.
Accomplishing a feat that had been a pipe dream for decades scientists including UVA associate professor Dr. Owen Pornillos have recreated in a test tube the first steps of infection by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Doing so has provided up-close access to the virus – which is otherwise obstructed from view deep within the cell – and enabled identification of essential components that HIV needs to replicate within its human host.
During the era of Jim Crow, a system of local and state laws that enforced racial segregation in the United States, the Colbrook Motel was the lone Chesterfield business highlighted in “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” a national reference guide that listed Black-friendly establishments. Presently, roughly 30 scholars in 20 states are working with the University of Virginia to build an online database documenting these sites and their historical importance.
(Editorial) When he was running for governor, Ralph Northam proposed turning the University of Virginia’s College at Wise into a research university, with the idea of creating a new economic engine in the coalfields. We haven’t heard anything about that since, but here’s an opportunity to make that happen.
Students at the UVA School of Law have a unique opportunity to help change the lives of others in the future. In June, UVA Law professor Andrew Block reached out to state government agencies to see if students could get involved. The Virginia Parole Board took him up on the offer.
Virginia State University announced Wednesday the establishment of Virginia's – and possibly the nation's – first program dedicated to the development of Black political and governmental leadership. The John Mercer Langston Institute for African-American Political Leadership is modeled after the Sorensen Institute at the University of Virginia and the Minority Political Leadership Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University.
The UVA Medical Center hosted a webinar on climate change in the commonwealth and the associated health implications and challenges on Wednesday. The panel of experts explored how climate change is impacting the state's weather, economy and living conditions.
There are numerous factors that begin to explain the discrepancy: the number of tests the schools have administered, the spread of the virus in the community before the students arrived and, of course, the behavior of its students. Data from the schools and the Virginia Department of Health suggest that the colleges with low numbers of cases may not be doing as well as you’d think. And at the same time, the schools with high numbers may not be doing as poorly as you’d think.
(Co-written by Luca Cian, marketing professor in the Darden School of Business) When do consumers trust the word of a machine, and when do they resist it? Our research suggests that the key factor is whether consumers are focused on the functional and practical aspects of a product (its utilitarian value) or focused on the experiential and sensory aspects of a product (its hedonic value).
(Commentary by Laurie Archbald-Pannone, associate professor of geriatric medicine) Deaths from dementia during the summer of 2020 are nearly 20% higher than the number of dementia-related deaths during that time in previous years, and experts don’t yet know why. An estimated 61,000 people have died from dementia, which is 11,000 more than usual within that period.
UVA School of Medicine researcher Zhen Yan has studied exercise’s role in curbing the effects of COVID-19 and said more effort needs to be made to increase activity during childhood. “If we want to protect our kids from deadly COVID-19, we must increase their physical activity and get them healthier,” Yan said. “Too many kids already have preexisting conditions such as obesity.”
(Commentary by William I. Hitchcock, William Corcoran Professor of History) The 1950s are often portrayed as a placid decade of peace, prosperity and “Happy Days.” You might even think that presidential elections were courtly affairs back then. Think again.
(Subscription required) The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers commemorates the roughly 5,000 slaves who built UVA and toiled on its campus here until their liberation at the end of the Civil War. Such a troubling theme could easily have been turned into political poster art. Instead it has given us something rare these days, a memorial worthy of the name, one that stands boldly on the campus to speak movingly of tragedy, suffering, and the dignity of the human spirit.
In 1960, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy brought presidential politics into the television era when they agreed to a series of joint appearances that were simulcast across the three major broadcast networks: ABC, CBS and NBC. “In 1960 over 20 states were considered real battlegrounds, as opposed to about half that today,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
With just three weeks until the presidential election, Joe Biden continues to hold the lead in many polls. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball from the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, joins CBSN to discuss their reporting showing President Trump is not making up ground.
Larry Sabato, professor of political science at the University of Virginia, joins Shepard Smith to talk about state and national politics and its impact on voting across the U.S.
For a closer look at the legal questions raised during Tuesday’s confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Judy Woodruff talks to UVA’s Saikrishna Prakash, a former law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, and Georgetown University’s Victoria Nourse, who was chief counsel to Vice President Joe Biden in 2015 and 2016.
Kristine Hall, a policy coordinator at the UVA Medical Center, received a 2020 Visionary Voice award from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center for her work leading Virginia’s policy efforts to respond to and prevent sexual and intimate partner violence.
The study is a blueprint for capitalizing on this habitat’s capacity to store carbon. “It surprised us how resilient these seagrass meadows were,” says Karen McGlathery, a coastal ecologist at the University of Virginia.
Monticello and the University of Virginia, Virginia. Monticello was the home of Thomas Jefferson, who also designed the early buildings that made up the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.