A unique Virginia law dating to 1938 that allows hunters to go on other landowners’ property without permission to retrieve hunting dogs continues to raise hackles throughout the eastern part of the state and could be put in jeopardy by a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling. But Julia Mahoney, a law professor at the University of Virginia and an expert on property and constitutional law, told the Mercury that she was “skeptical that Cedar Point is going to have a significant impact on right to retrieve and similar regulations. The right to retrieve is limited in time, limited in scope, a response...
(Commentary) Across the globe and throughout history, families have been the source of economic and social stability. Particularly in the United States, two-parent nuclear families are the leading preventers of poverty and abuse. In a February 2020 article in the Atlantic, University of Virginia professor Brad Wilcox and Brigham Young University associate professor Hal Boyd note: “One federal report found that children living in a household with an unrelated adult were about nine times more likely to be physically, sexually, or emotionally abused than children raised in an intact nuclear famil...
After the civil rights movement, many Southern states coded once explicitly racist policies into laws that drove mass incarceration, says Talitha LeFlouria, professor of African American studies and an expert on mass incarceration at the University of Virginia. Law and order politics and the war on drugs produced wide racial sentencing disparities, many of which persist today. For example, despite equal usage, Black Alabamians are four times more likely than white Alabamians to be arrested for marijuana possession.
(Podcast) Dr. Ebony J. Hilton is a critical care doctor, anesthesiologist, and associate professor of both at the University of Virginia. For weeks, she has warned about the danger posed by the Delta variant. She is deeply concerned it will cause outbreaks in unvaccinated populations across the country, what she calls a pandemic within a pandemic. In this week’s Petrie Dish, host Bonnie Petrie talks with Dr. Hilton about the Delta variant, what a pandemic within a pandemic might look like in the United States, and what we can do to prevent it.
In 1971, a small group of Aboriginal artists from Australia’s remote deserts changed the face of global contemporary art. The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia opened a new exhibition on June 24 titled Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past & Present Together): 50 Years of Papunya Tula Artists that shares and celebrates their story, a story of humble beginnings and great success that continues to this day.
Two scientists from the University of Virginia’s Department of Cell Biology contributed to a new finding that aims to help people further understand how mammals develop. They’re growing a mouse embryo in a dish. It now has a beating heart and is developing muscles, blood vessels, and a nervous system.
Researchers at the University of Virginia are crafting a real-life mouse from stem cells, and it’s starting to grow.
Science fiction’s promise of creating organs for study or transplant is another step closer to reality, thanks to a tiny, manmade embryonic mouse in a University of Virginia School of Medicine laboratory.
In a lab, developed at University of Virginia School of Medicine by Christine and Bernard Thisse, a mouse embryo has a heart that beats. The embryo? Made out of embryonic stem cells.
(Commentary by Matthew Crawford, senior fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) The convenience of the smart home may be worth the price; that’s for each of us to decide. But to do so with open eyes, one has to understand what the price is.
For the first time, a UVA team has treated a glioblastoma patient using focused ultrasound, part of a multicenter clinical trial that is evaluating the safety of using focused ultrasound to enhance the delivery of chemotherapy in patients with glioblastoma multiforme.
Coronavirus infections are rising in at least 12 states as the Delta variant spreads. Experts warn some areas could see “very dense outbreaks.” Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at UVA Health, discusses the latest.
Former Washington Football Team right tackle Morgan Moses [a UVA alumnus] will sign a one-year contract with a base salary of $3.6 million with the New York Jets, a person with knowledge of the situation said Friday. Moses figures to start at right tackle to protect quarterback Zach Wilson, the No. 2 pick in this year’s draft.
I was walking in Arlington, Virginia, when I came upon the small, private college Marymount University. I strolled through the campus and came upon four buildings that obviously predated the others. I was surprised to learn later that those four buildings, including the large mansion that Marymount calls “The Main House,” were once owned by [UVA School of Medicine alumnus] Dr. Presley Marion Rixey, the White House physician to President and Mrs. McKinley and later, Teddy Roosevelt. Dr. Rixey is one of those individuals who played an important role in the McKinley presidency, but little is know...
[UVA alumna] Coricka White’s promotion to refinery manager at Domino Sugar’s Baltimore facility came at a hectic time in the nearly century-old plant’s history.
Charlottesville could become a little more accessible. That’s all thanks to the efforts of one University of Virginia civil engineering student. Lena Nguyen is a rising fourth-year student at UVA. She is mapping sidewalks, crosswalks, and curb ramps in Charlottesville in order to make them wheelchair accessible. She notes features like slopes of sidewalks to create overall better transit routes. “Ultimately, we want to give people, especially those in wheelchairs, easier ways to get around town,” Nguyen said.
On June 22, during the first day of the AHIP Annual Institute, the annual conference of AHIP, the nation’s largest health plan association, being held virtually this year, a panel of five health care leaders discussed the important topic of “Health Equity in America: An Urgent Call to Action.” The panel included Dr. Cameron Webb, a leader on the White House COVID-19 Response Team, and director of health policy and equity at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
On June 22, during the first day of the AHIP Annual Institute, the annual conference of AHIP, the nation’s largest health plan association, being held virtually this year, a panel of five health care leaders discussed the important topic of “Health Equity in America: An Urgent Call to Action.” The panel included Dr. Cameron Webb, a leader on the White House COVID-19 Response Team, and director of health policy and equity at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
“Leading Republicans have been working to shift the blame to groups like antifa or the FBI — in conservative media, both those groups are frequently portrayed as anti-Trump,” said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Perhaps over the past several months, this message has sunk in with Republicans at large, which seems reflected in the polling here.”
Despite the unusually high-profile nature of her vice presidency so far, like most of her predecessors Harris so far has largely remained behind the scenes, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics. “I don’t really think anything about Harris’s performance really stands out as overly strong or overly weak so far when compared to her predecessors,” Kondik said. “Kamala Harris is no different than any other vice president in that she will naturally take a back seat to the president until she is needed to assume the presidential role herself — some...