Nottingham Forest have announced the appointment and arrival of [former UVA soccer star] Dane Murphy as CEO at the City Ground. The 35-year-old, who was born in Connecticut, joins the Reds following a two-year spell at Barnsley. Under Murphy’s guidance at Oakwell, the Tykes became a promotion-chasing outfit which qualified for the playoffs last season before losing over two legs to Swansea City.
Kathleen Flake, a professor of Mormon Studies at the University of Virginia, said the denomination is trying to maintain ancient ideas about sacred objects, relationships, people, buildings, “taking them out of the ordinary in order to facilitate particular experiences.” Opening up the temple “is necessary because of modern sensitivities” about secretive groups, Flake said, “and is also useful for public relations purposes.” The opening will be extremely expensive, she said, and is a “sincere” effort at being more transparent.
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a senior fellow at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, called it “highly unusual” for the OMB job to remain unfilled this far into the administration. She noted the Senate has been slower than past administrations in confirming Biden’s nominees, but in the case of OMB the president has yet to put forward another pick since withdrawing Tanden. “Even if you have a deputy or even if they’re acting, there’s something that lacks kind of the power and the respect. Because right now, I’m guessing some of the OMB staff members are sort of wondering who’s going to be t...
(Podcast) It’s something that most people on this side of the world have likely only encountered on television, film or in books but for millions of people in places like India and across Southeast Asia and Africa, Dowry is a fundamental part of marriage. Gaurav Chiplunkar from the University of Virginia and co-author of “Marriage Markets and the Rise of Dowry in India,” explained how dowry works, the concerns around it and how it could change in the future.
Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, GoodStock Consulting LLC co-founder and medical director and University of Virginia associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, discusses the latest on the coronavirus and what to make of the recent news on the delta variant.
According to Heather Zelle, the associate director of mental health policy research for the University of Virginia’s Institute of Law, Psychiatry, & Public Policy, there’s no uniform reporting on the reasons for denials at private hospitals or how their psychiatric beds are being used. Most of the information that is available comes from patient pre-screening forms completed by local community service boards, which are responsible for finding an inpatient bed once a temporary detention order is issued.
Robert Fatton, a Haitian politics expert at the University of Virginia, said Mr Joseph’s departure was to be expected. “Joseph’s fate was sealed over the weekend,” he said. “Everything that happens in Haiti has a powerful foreign component.”
(Editorial) They say that politics makes strange bedfellows. It also makes strange fault-finders. The Republican Party once was the party of individual freedom. Now the Virginia version of the party has condemned University of Virginia professor and Center for Politics founder Larry Sabato for exercising that freedom.
(Co-written by Anita McGinty, Ann Partee, Allison Lynn Gray, Walter Herring and Jim Soland, all of the School of Education and Human Development) With the largest-ever federal investment in education, hundreds of billions of dollars are flowing to states and school districts under the American Rescue Act. The call is for states to use this money for innovation across a broad set of priorities. As schools and school districts consider students’ needs and how to allocate resources, data are critical to the decision-making process.
(By W. Bernard Carlson, professor of humanties and chair of the Department of Engineering and Society) Oil and gas pipelines have become flashpoints in discussions of climate change. From the Atlantic coast to the Dakotas, pipelines that would deliver fossil fuels to customers have sparked protests and legal challenges. The Keystone XL pipeline, which was designed to carry oil from Alberta tar sands to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast, roiled U.S.-Canadian relations for a decade before it was finally canceled in 2021. Amid these debates, it’s easy to forget how heavily the U.S. economy relies...
(By Naomi Chan, professor of law) Spears’ case is unusual: Conservatorships are typically not imposed on someone who doesn’t have severe cognitive impairments, and Spears has toured the world, released four albums and earned US$131 million, all while deemed legally unfit to manage her finances or her own body. But it does illustrate how easily conservatorships can be abused – which is one reason some members of Congress are considering ways to reform the state-run system.
VDH report: Latina women were the majority of pregnant people hospitalized with COVID this past year
A Friday update from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, which has tracked COVID trends statewide, reported how the delta variant – currently the most severe strain causing COVID surges across the country – will “cause COVID surges in areas with low vaccination.” The report added that even in highly vaccinated areas outbreaks among unvaccinated residents are likely to occur.
According to David Nemer, assistant professor of communication at the University of Virginia and author of the forthcoming book “Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil,” what we are seeing isn’t a new phenomenon: “People from the favelas have always been interested in culturally manifesting themselves by building digital content for individual and community promotion.” The difference now is that mainstream media and audiences are paying attention.
Road crews on Monday shut down the a lane of Emmet Street near the University of Virginia to repair a utility trench damaged during heavy rains over the weekend. The southbound lane of Emmet Street near Ivy Road was closed late Monday afternoon and will remain closed for at least 48 hours and as long as 72 hours.
An event that was supposed to take place last month is now going to happen this week. UVA’s Miller Center is hosting a webinar on Tuesday called “White Supremacy on Trial.” The webinar will be about the Sines v. Kessler lawsuit, which was filed against the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
A Norfolk man sentenced to 48 years in prison for a drive-by shooting in which no one was injured has received an absolute pardon, thanks in part to efforts from the University of Virginia’s Innocence Project.
Even in a city like Houston, which has a uniquely large network of air quality monitors, pollution hotspots can easily be missed due to constraints on how many monitors are present and where they’re allowed to be installed. And this disproportionately affects marginalized communities, who are far more likely to live near pollution sources. So, a team of researchers – led by Sally Pusede, a UVA assistant professor of environmental science – used satellite data to measure these disparities.
Dr. Christopher Holstege, director of UVA’s Blue Ridge Poison Center, encourages people to think twice before recreational marijuana use. “We know there’s a couple of things that occur ... increased exposure to the pediatric population, toddlers are getting into different items ... brownies with marijuana or gummies with marijuana,” he said.
Is the significant number of cases a sign of COVID in the world around us, or is there something different about sports competitions? “There’s not a lot of places we test as frequently as we do with professional sports and college sports,” said Dr. Costi Sifri, a UVA infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist. He said it’s not a bad thing that frequent testing of athletes is picking up what have often been notable numbers of asymptomatic cases.
June 24 was a bittersweet day for Virginia baseball coach Brian O’Connor. His team fell to Texas in Omaha, ending its College World Series run. That same day, however, O’Connor put pen to paper on a contract extension, keeping him in Charlottesville through at least the 2027 season. “He is the ultimate professional, an amazing leader and a great representative of the University of Virginia,” athletic director Carla Williams said in a statement.