Whether the University of Virginia’s Class of 2021 could graduate in person and in May this year was up in the air for most of this school year, but on Saturday, thousands of students in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences strolled down the Lawn and spilled into Scott Stadium to celebrate commencement.
While some UVA students got rid of their furniture during the move-out period, another group of students saw that as an opportunity to help others in need.
Margaret Riley, a professor at UVA’s schools of Law, Medicine and Public Policy, says businesses have a fair amount of leeway in how they can check if customers are vaccinated. “As long as they’re not engaging in discriminating behavior, they can actually determine who gets to come into their business,” she said. “They could require for example, proof of vaccination.”
UVA’s decision to hold in-person graduation ceremonies is giving local businesses a financial boost as students, friends and family come to town for the events.
Never throw out the first number. That’s the first rule for negotiating a good counteroffer, according to [UVA alumnus] Nick Singh, a career coach and author of the forthcoming book “Ace the Data Science Interview.” Singh has helped hundreds of people land jobs at large tech companies.
A federal judge seen as a possible future U.S. Supreme Court pick by President Joe Biden cleared a key hurdle on Thursday in her nomination to an influential appellate court, winning approval in a Senate committee despite Republican opposition. The Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Washington-based U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on a 13-9 vote. Among the other four nominees was UVA Law alumna Deborah Boardman, for the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
Hundreds of UVA students marched on Grounds on Thursday to protest the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The protest was organized by the Students for Justice for Palestine group. The protesters were mostly chanting “Free Palestine” and speakers said they wanted the U.S. government to stop funding Israel with American taxpayer money.
(Photo essay) Led by members of Justice 4 Palestine, about 100 people marched at the University of Virginia on Thursday in support of Palestine, which has been the target of attacks by Israel in recent days. Israel’s Security Cabinet on Thursday declared a unilateral cease-fire to halt the 11-day military operation in the Gaza Strip.
When Ryan MacDonald decides he wants to go back to college to bolster his career, he lets nothing stop him. MacDonald, 46, is graduating Friday with a clinical nurse leader certification and a master’s degree in nursing from UVA. MacDonald’s also the assistant nurse manager of the UVA Medical Center’s Special Pathogens Nursing Unit, the nursing corps that handled most of the University’s COVID-19 patients. Never one to shirk from a challenge, MacDonald went for his master’s degree at the same time he took on the assistant manager position.
Choosing to defend the endangerment finding, long a target of EPA’s conservative critics, seemed out of character for the Trump team. Jon Cannon, who served as EPA general counsel during the Clinton administration, said most actions by Trump were to undercut climate rules. “Here’s a decision that seems to defend the science and the validity of regulating greenhouse gas emissions,” said Cannon, now a University of Virginia law school professor.
(Editorial) Youngkin is easily the wealthiest person ever to run for statewide office in Virginia; his personal fortune has been estimated as high as $367 million. His campaign will not lack for funds. As longtime political analyst Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia has quipped on Twitter, Youngkin’s idea of a fund-raising event is lunch with his accountant.
Philip D. Zelikow, who served as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission and is now a professor at the University of Virginia, said the bill language on the appointment of staff members to the Jan. 6 commission was identical to the bill language Congress used in establishing the 9/11 Commission.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy also erected scores of monuments throughout the South. They were ostensibly about memorializing Confederate soldiers, but historians say their real aim was to immortalize a warped history of the war – and remind newly emancipated Blacks of their place in society. Jim Crow laws would limit their ability to vote, work and get an education; public monuments would remind them who was in charge, historians say. And a carving on Stone Mountain would send the loudest message yet. “It’s really part of that whole era,” said Grace Elizabeth Hale, a UVA American st...
The United Daughters of the Confederacy also erected scores of monuments throughout the South. They were ostensibly about memorializing Confederate soldiers, but historians say their real aim was to immortalize a warped history of the war – and remind newly emancipated Blacks of their place in society. Jim Crow laws would limit their ability to vote, work and get an education; public monuments would remind them who was in charge, historians say. And a carving on Stone Mountain would send the loudest message yet. “It’s really part of that whole era,” said Grace Elizabeth Hale, a UVA American st...
“Abortion is something that naturally divides the two parties and is a motivator for a lot of voters,” Kyle Kondik, an elections analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said. “A major question in the Biden presidency, and this is true for every party after they take office, is, can they keep up their motivation level? Usually the other party has the edge. Would an opinion on abortion that Democrats and liberals don’t like potentially help motivate the left in 2022? Quite possibly.”
Afton resident Kenneth R. White has been appointed dean of the School of Nursing at MGH Institute of Health Professions in Charlestown, Massachusetts. White, who recently completed service as the associate dean for strategic partnerships in the School of Nursing and Endowed Professor of Nursing at UVA and where he continues in that affiliation as an emeritus professor, will begin his new role July 1.
(Commentary by Robert F. Turner, retired professor of law) What if I told you that the Hemings story is likely false and, in reality, Jefferson has a strong claim among major public figures of his era to the title “America’s First Abolitionist?”
UVA Children’s is finding more ways to help children with autism and their families. UVA joined the National Autism Care Network, which will allow more local families to have better access to care.
History Lesson: The University of Virginia’s Miller Center and the LBJ Library have launched a new website, lbjtapes.org, that offers a newly accessible, free window into Lyndon B. Johnson’s White House tapes and more than 100 conversations he had in office. The launch follows more than two decades of efforts to transcribe and analyze Johnson’s tapes at the Miller Center.
Republicans have a good chance of bouncing back in the 2022 midterms after Democrats’ lurch to the left, a new report from UVA’s Center for Politics suggests.