Paul Halliday is a law professor at the University of Virginia and an expert in British law of that era. Halliday said Norfolk’s anti-pauper language is likely rooted in a series of English laws passed in the late 1500s and 1600s. Those laws, trying to look out for those who can’t look out for themselves, said local church parishes — and later governments — had to care for poor people through things like group homes.
Darryl Brown, the O.M. Vicars Professor of Law at the UVA School of Law, said he doesn’t believe many appeals from the city’s already-completed circuit court cases are likely or possible in the wake of this. He said there are two main reasons he doubts there will be many appeals.
Within months of the initial release of the results — and thanks, in part, to some pretty scary headlines — hormone thereapy use had dropped dramatically all over the world; guidelines were revised, doctors appeared less inclined to prescribe them and many women suffered needlessly as a result. “After the [Women’s Health Institute report], there wasn’t a lot of research and a lot of attention paid to menopause,” says Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director emeritus of the North American Menopause Society and professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of Midlife Health at the UVA Healt...
Another problem is that Trump’s deregulatory agenda doesn’t make sense from an economic perspective because it’s focused exclusively on reducing regulatory costs while ignoring or downplaying the benefits of regulation, said Michael Livermore, law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. “There’s nothing accurate about it because it doesn’t look at the benefits that are foregone,” he said.
On Dec. 10, 2015, Larycia Hawkins, a political science professor at elite, evangelical Wheaton College, posted photos of herself on Facebook in a hijab, the headscarf worn by many Muslim women. Days after Islamic terrorists killed 22 and wounded 14 in San Bernardino, California, Hawkins’ Facebook photos included a statement of support for Muslims who felt threatened by the waves of anti-Muslin fervor that followed the attack. “I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book,” Hawkins wrote. “As Pope Francis said last week, we worship the ...
According to Ryan Wright of the University of Virginia, there is only a small possibility that the Internet can be down forever. First, internet providers have built redundant connections to make it nearly impossible to shut it down universally. Second, companies have rerouting equipment if a sudden unexpected thing happened that may affect their services.
The bill also faces stiff opposition on the right. The Heritage Foundation and the Alliance Defending Freedom, two conservative groups concerned about religious liberty, are also opposed. These groups reject the creation of special classes for sexual orientation and gender identity. Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia who was an early adviser on the draft, said he hoped people on the far right and left won't have the final say. "Introducing it in this Congress is about introducing the idea and attracting additional supporters," said Douglas Laycock, "Maybe in the nex...
(Commentary by Mehr Afshan Farooqi, associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures) If Muhammad Hasan Askari were alive, he would have completed 100 years in this world. His greatest contribution to Urdu letters was the formulation of an ‘Eastern’ response to the Western style of literary criticism that gripped literature in the Indian languages in the wake of colonialism. To commemorate his birth centenary, I humbly propose to revisit some of his path-breaking essays, notably, the essays in the collection Insaan Aur Aadmi [Humans and Men], with ...
(Letter from Deborah Lawrence, professor of environmental science) Thank you to University of Virginia President Jim Ryan and the Board of Visitors for committing to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. I have worked at UVa for 20 years. For the first time, I feel I truly belong.
Barr appreciates power, and he knows how to wield it. In fact, Barr could hardly have been more explicit in indicating what he believed and what he would do when the president sent him to the Justice Department. “I think it started picking up after Watergate,” Barr said in a 2001 interview for a University of Virginia oral-history project on the first Bush administration, “the idea that the Department of Justice has to be ‘independent.’”
The doctors and nurses of the institution now known as the Central Virginia Training Center had a philanthropic goal: to care for those who had no place else to go. But as more patients were admitted in the 1920s to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded, the institution found itself at the center of the now-discredited eugenics movement, defined as the science of improving the human race by controlling who can have children. … In 1912, one year after the colony began accepting patients, superintendent Dr. Albert Priddy lobbied the General Assembly for an expansion to se...
The job of chief executive officer pays well — and even better when an incumbent CEO is working with a newly hired CFO. Researchers at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and UVA studied more than 23 years of data from S&P 1500 firms. They found that CEOs took home an average of 10% more compensation when working with a finance chief who was hired after them (known as a “co-opted” CFO).
Author and cultural critic Roxane Gay will be the keynote speaker for the 2020 Community MLK Celebration in January. The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 23 at the Paramount Theater. A free pre-event reception will begin at 5:30 p.m. The event is presented by the University of Virginia Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
The leader of Ohio State University’s College of Medicine is leaving the Columbus university for the University of Virginia. K. Craig Kent, dean of the College of Medicine, will become executive vice president for health affairs at the University of Virginia, overseeing UVA Health. His first day at UVA will be Feb. 1. He joined Ohio State in 2016.
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has named Laura Minton curator of exhibitions. Minton joins the Fralin from Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Minton expands a curatorial department at the Fralin that includes Hannah Cattarin, who was also recently promoted to assistant curator. Cattarin served as curatorial assistant at the museum prior to her promotion.
Tuition rates are increasing 3.6% at the University of Virginia. The Board of Visitors on Friday set tuition and fee rates for the 2020-21 academic year.
(Editorial) Thumbs up to leaders of the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary who announced a partnership this week between the two institutions to reach a goal of carbon neutrality by 2030, a mere 10 years in the future.
Not only was the 93-yard touchdown play Olamide Zaccheaus’ first touchdown, it was also the first catch of the UVA grad’s career. Zaccheaus set an NFL record for longest first catch, according to Elias Sports.
(Commentary co-written by Dewey G. Cornell, Bunker Chair in UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development) Over the past 18 years, controlled studies at the University of Virginia found that well-trained multidisciplinary school teams have resolved thousands of student threats without any serious injuries, and at the same time have been able to help troubled students and keep them in school.
Physicists at UVA are building a key component to one of the largest and most complex physics experiments ever conducted in the United States. It could rewrite the physics books.