“There are a lot of people who get rolled up into hesitancy that absolutely would get the vaccine and that absolutely want to get the vaccine if there were barriers removed for them,” said Justin Vesser with UVA Health.
University of Virginia history professor Philip Zelikow, who is leading the planning group and was executive director of the 9/11 Commission, said dozens of experts have been enlisted with the support of charitable foundations and have identified more than 40 lines of inquiry. “All that preparatory work is being done to be put at the disposal of whatever commission gets created, if it’s created by the Congress, created by the president or created independently and privately sponsored,” he said.
University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock, a leading scholar on religious liberty, argues the unanimous decision is significant in at least a couple respects.
No same-sex couple has ever applied to CSS for foster parent status. Other agencies continue to work with LGBTQ couples in Philadelphia who want to take in children who need a home. “This case is of great symbolic importance to the gay rights movement. They really don’t like religious exemptions, but it’s not of much practical importance because no one’s being turned away,” says Douglas Laycock, a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Douglas Laycock, a UVA law professor and a leading scholar in the area of religious liberty, said that, as the ruling pointed out, there are more than 20 foster care agencies in Philadelphia, many catering to LGBTQ couples. “No one is going to have any difficulty adopting or offering foster care because of this decision,” he said. “If in some rural area the Catholic or Baptist agencies are the only ones in town and same-sex couples can’t get service, maybe the state does have a compelling state interest.”
This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. Thomas C. Berg is the James L. Oberstar professor of law and public policy at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota). Douglas Laycock is the Robert E. Scott distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary by Cale Jaffe, director of the Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic at the School of Law) The result of this month’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, with former governor Terry McAuliffe now poised to take on Republican Glenn Youngkin, makes it clear that climate change is on the ballot in Virginia this year. It has always been one step forward, two steps back when it comes to national climate policy. So forgive me if I look away from Washington in our planet’s hour of need. My eyes are firmly fixed on Richmond.
(Commentary by Christopher P. Goyne, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the Aerospace Research Laboratory) Many Americans might not realize it, but we are sprinting into a new space race — one involving hypersonic technology that enables flight at speeds of more than 3,000 miles per hour. Just like in the Sputnik era, the United States is in pursuit of international rivals who already have outpaced us in next-generation technology. This time we have fallen behind both Russia and China. Winning this race is critical to protecting U.S. national security, ...
(Commentary co-written by Brad Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project) Progressives are calling into question even the kids-benefit-from-fathers argument Obama made so powerfully and poignantly. This month, for instance, The Harvard Gazette ran an article entitled, “Why living in a two-parent home isn’t a cure-all for Black students.” Written by Harvard sociologist Christina Cross, it spotlights her research showing that poor Black kids with two parents do not do better on a few educational outcomes compared to their peers with single parents.
“The Delta variant, which has ravaged India, is gaining traction in the U.S. and Virginia,” says the latest weekly report from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. “Unvaccinated individuals, including those with a previous COVID infection, remain at risk from this variant.”
About 60% of the state’s ZIP codes reported no new cases of the coronavirus over the past week, University of Virginia pandemic researchers say. Under the worst-case scenario, with lax behavior and more contagious variants spreading, the state could expect a small peak of eight daily cases per 100,000 people during the week of July 25, according to a recent forecast by the UVA Biocomplexity Institute. For perspective, the peak in January was 68.
Most of the developed countries are averaging close to 100%, said Dr. Rajesh Balkrishnan, a social epidemiologist at the University of Virginia focused on medical care access. He was among the public health researchers who released an infant immunization report in April that found between 2009 and 2018, disparities widened by income, education level, and race.
No one deserves a cancer diagnosis, yet some patients feel stigmatized by their diagnosis, explained Lee Ann Johnson, an assistant professor of nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. Stigmas can be associated with a wide variety of cancer types including lung cancer and a possible association with smoking; human papilloma virus-related cancers such as oral, cervical and anal cancers; male breast cancers; and male-specific cancers such as testicular, prostate and penile cancer.
More recently, the migration has been mainly triggered by people escaping the high cost of living in Northern Virginia, according to Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. They are largely young professionals seeking to buy first homes and raise families. Many are heading South to growing regions in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Texas. Lombard also said that Virginia is losing retirees, mostly to Southern states.
Fewer people are attending religious services across the country. But new data from the University of Virginia shows a surprising amount of diversity in rural parts of the Commonwealth.
Zach Messinger never carried himself as if he towered above the crowd, never mind that he stands 6-feet-6. He was humble enough to carry the equipment bag to the bus for away games when he was pitching for Castle High School. As his velocity has crept up each year at the University of Virginia, now touching 97 mph – creating tons of interest among MLB scouts – Messinger first hopes to help carry the Cavaliers deep into the College World Series.
Pitching at the University of Virginia, 2020 was looking to be Griff McGarry’s breakout season. The Menlo School graduate had finally realized his potential on the NCAA Division I stage, earning the ace distinction as Virginia’s Friday night starter, delivering a 3-0 record with a 1.35 ERA through four starts. Then came the closure of the 2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic. And upon McGarry’s return, his redo junior season in 2021 quickly went south.
A Vanderbilt University baseball fan site assesses UVA’s College World Series prospects.
Logan Michaels, catcher for the University of Virginia, hit his first home run of the season in front of his dad for Father’s Day. The dinger kicked off a four-run seventh inning for the Cavaliers as they defeated Tennessee 6-0 in the College World Series. Michaels said that the person in the stands who caught the catcher’s second career home run in 343 at-bats was able to get the ball over to his dad, a three-year pancreatic cancer survivor, which made the moment even sweeter.
UVA Health is making some changes to its COVID-19 vaccination efforts. It will be ending its pop-up community vaccination events on July 31. This includes the weekly vaccination events that have been taking place on the Downtown Mall. The last of these is scheduled for June 25.