The way police and courts respond to people suffering a mental health crisis is changing in the commonwealth. The UVA School of Law on Wednesday hosted the Criminal Justice and Mental Illness symposium, whcih focused on ways law enforcement and the judicial system are dealing with people in mental health
The University of Virginia’s special committee on the nomination of a new president has listed new opportunities for feedback from faculty members. The committee has set up four listening sessions throughout the day next Monday.
Novelist and UVA English professor Bruce Holsinger started a Twitter hashtag to give a shout-out to the women who wrote their husbands' books, and giving it a scroll-through fascinates and angers. The #ThanksForTyping hashtag exposes the long, carpal tunnel-inducing hours that academics' wives put in at their keyboards to bring their husbands' ideas to market.
If all goes to plan, more than 300,000 infants in the United States will sleep in cardboard boxes before year’s end. But that idea doesn’t rest well with prominent doctors, researchers and organizations focused on SIDS, who characterize the boxes as untested and unregulated for infants. “I don’t think that we can be gung-ho, let’s do baby boxes,” said UVA pediatrician Dr. Rachel Moon, who chairs the task force. “Because the evidence just isn’t there.”
The opioid epidemic weighed heavily on the 400-plus attendees at a statewide conference on population health hosted by the UVA Health System, which kicked off Wednesday afternoon at the Omni Charlottesville Hotel.
Both Democratic candidates for governor – Lt. Gov. Ralph S. Northam and former U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello – denounced Stewart’s use of the Confederate flag when asked about it Tuesday. “The problem is elections are won in urban, suburban and exurban areas,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “Those are the people who would be most turned off by this approach to campaigning.”
Students who graduate from UVA in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 will have a special feature on their graduation gowns. As part of the celebration marking UVA's bicentennial, each gown will have a commemorative zipper pull down featuring the bicentennial mark.
UVA professor Larry Sabato is honoring a former executive vice president and chief operating officer of the University with a scholarship fund. It's recognition of Leonard W. Sandridge and his wife Jerry's more than four decades of dedication to the University. Sabato, the founder and director of the UVA Center for Politics, has donated $100,000 to launch the Leonard and Jerry Sandridge Bicentennial Scholars Fund.
The Leonard and Jerry Sandridge Bicentennial Scholars Fund will provide need-based scholarships to out-of-state students. Larry J. Sabato, a professor of politics and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, provided the founding $100,000 donation.
The impulse to consider a business leader for the University of Virginia presidency is not exactly wrong. But neither is it fully right. This cannot be an either/or decision. The university needs a leader who is both a talented business strategist and a knowledgeable champion of higher education.
Brian Boland, who led UVA to three NCAA tennis titles in the past four years, announced Wednesday that he is stepping down as head coach at the end of the season to become USTA Player Development’s head of men’s tennis.
UVA Facilities Management is offering apprenticeships for carpenters, electricians, plumbers and heating and air conditioning technicians. The apprenticeships are full-time, paid positions with UVA benefits.
A UVA law professor is representing a prison inmate in his fight to receive medical treatment for a life-threatening disease. George Rutherglen filed a federal lawsuit against the Virginia Department of Corrections and Buckingham Correctional Center on behalf of Elmo Reid.
(By UVA law student Erich Reimer) Colleges remain bound by the Constitution, despite often being nowadays oases away from the world at large. Even more so, colleges ought to be a place where all stakeholders on campus engage in dialogue and learn from one another. If colleges – and especially taxpayer-funded and publicly owned institutions – turn from forges of critical minds to mere assembly-line factories, then we have truly strayed far from the values of the Founders and of past generations of Americans. Colleges ought to be places where minds are opened, not closed.
UVA head football coach Bronco Mendenhall will be the keynote speaker at the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s annual luncheon April 18.
Dr. Rachel Moon, a SIDS researcher at UVA and chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics' SIDS Task Force, cautions that cardboard boxes are not bassinets, which have firm frames with legs or other supports. "The box companies want to do the right thing and want to make sure their products are safe," Moon says "But we're not quite there yet."
The Yamuna River runs through the heart of Delhi – India’s second-largest city, with a population of 11 million people. Sadly, pollution is so bad that nothing can live in the Yamuna, and the city has essentially turned its back on the waterway. Now, however, officials hope to change that. And University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan says UVA – with its strong urban planning program – will help. UVA architecture professor Inaki Alday is spearheading the Yamuna River Project.
It is not unusual for a president to suffer a defeat in Congress. But some experts said his presidency is off to a bad start since very few lose on their first major bill. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said, “It’s early in his presidency, and there are plenty of days and ways to recover from this. But Trump’s administration has started out worse than any in my lifetime.”
Douglas Laycock, a professor at UVA’s School of Law and a leading authority on religious liberty, said that, in general, the Presbyterian church makes clear that “individual people or whole congregations can leave, but they don’t get to take the whole property with them.”