Rogue officers like Derek Chauvin probably won’t be deterred by good law, but excessively vague law encourages bad behavior. As Sgt. Jody Stiger, a member of the Los Angeles Police Department called by prosecutors in the Chauvin trial, testified, most police departments derive their policies governing the use of force from Graham v. Connor. As Rachel Harmon, a UVA law professor and author of “The Law of the Police,” told me in an email, “Graham offers a standard focused on judging the use of force after it has happened,” and it “offers very little guidance to officers and d...
(Commentary by Bart Epstein, research associate professor at the School of Education & Human Development) The ongoing progress of COVID-19 vaccinations suggests we may finally have a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, and that soon all of our 56 million K-12 students, as well as teachers and administrators, can return to school.
On April 5, the Human Rights Commission, along with a number of other local aid and advocacy groups, implored the City Council to fully fund a $460,000 right to counsel program that would provide attorneys to tenants – specifically low-income tenants – in eviction proceedings to reduce the overall number of evictions in the city and the resulting trauma caused to individuals and the community. The April 5 letter presented to the council is cosigned by several local entities, including the University of Virginia Equity Center.
In each episode of this reboot of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning College Bowl quizzer that for decades has been part of campus life at colleges and universities around the world, teams of three representing some of the nation’s top schools will battle it out in a bracketed tournament over four rounds. The top two schools advance to the final where they compete head-to-head for the Capital One College Bowl trophy and a scholarship to put toward their education. (UVA is among the participating schools.)
University of Virginia: “The constructed environment is a continuously evolving realm that: 1. Encompasses the material, socio-economic, and political systems of the human mediated physical world. 2. Spans a wide range of temporal-spatial scales, from plants and species to building elements, assemblages, sites, neighborhoods, cities, and global infrastructures, across historical narratives, present conditions, and future projections. 3. Is the product of competing agents drawn from across the socio-physical environment including microorganisms, climatic conditions, interfaces with virtual real...
A memorial to enslaved workers who built the University of Virginia was officially dedicated Saturday, a year after the Covid-19 pandemic canceled its official unveiling.
The University of Virginia is honoring the thousands of enslaved people who built the institution in stone.
After a national search, UVA Health announced Dr. Tracy M. Downs will be the one for the job. He comes from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine where he's currently the Associate Dean for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs.
The survey indicated about three-quarters of professors would welcome more training. “Faculty, generally, care about the real successes of their students,” said Michael Gerard Mason, a UVA dean of African-American Affairs. He is also a psychotherapist who runs a peer-counseling center for Black students at the school.
Hotels in Charlottesville say UVA’s decision to hold an in-person graduation ceremony will be huge for business – and they’re already starting to see an impact.
Biden has insisted he is open to talks on infrastructure and will meet Democrats and Republicans. But if Republicans attempt to play the national debt card, they are likely to be given short shrift. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said: “Nobody even takes it seriously. When I see it, and I think there are millions of people like me, I just laugh. Do they really think our memories are that short?”
Notably the Supreme Court of Virginia sided with the city thanks to specifics in the law’s construction and Virginia’s Constitution not often allowing laws to be applied retroactively. The original law, which in part one grants local governments the ability to erect statues and in part two allows for their removal, only applied to counties but in 1997 they expanded it to all “localities.” “What does that mean for the authorization to build a monument that was built in the 1920s since cities were authorized to build in part one and authorized to remove in part two,” said Richard Schragger, the ...
Amy J. Mathers, an associate professor of medicine and pathology at the UVA School of Medicine, said her lab began genome sequencing in February after learning the value of the process from scientists in the United Kingdom. Her work began with a pilot program focused on UVA students, and she is now negotiating with the state to sample 250 sequences a week.
(By Kimberly A. Whittier, assistant professor at the Darden School of Business) To generate insight from the people who observe career mistakes and successes, I am writing a series with advice from executive recruiters. In this article, I sought insight on the mistakes execs make that can cause them to get fired.
The UVA Department of Music presents a Showcase Recital by the outstanding musicians of its Performance Concentration. This livestreamed performance takes place on Saturday at 8 p.m. will be free to all to attend virtually.
Attempts by prosecutors like Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner to revamp their city’s approach to crime and incarceration strike Acevedo as a threat to public safety. But as The Appeal reported in 2019, a University of Pennsylvania and University of Virginia study on Krasner’s efforts to limit the use of cash bonds for misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies in Philadelphia did not affect recidivism. The study’s findings indicate that hyping up the “chaos” threat from bond leniency is inaccurate.
A new UVA study explains how brains miss out on opportunities because humans are inclined to adding instead of removing something when solving a problem. Humans almost always add some elements solution whether it helps or not.
Leidy Klotz and his 3-year-old son, Ezra, were building a bridge out of Legos when they ran into a little engineering trouble: One support tower was taller than the other, making it difficult to build a span in between. Klotz turned around to grab a block to add to the shorter tower, but his son took a different approach: He pulled a block out of the taller tower. He subtracted. A clever solution, and a pretty simple one, too. So why hadn’t Klotz — Klotz, of all people — thought of it? A University of Virginia professor with appointments in the schools of engineering, architecture, and busines...
Quantum computing uses its “spooky” principles to tackle problems that are too complex for traditional computing. While traditional computers represent every operation in binary digits, or bits (zeros and ones), qubits (quantum bits) offer an infinitely faster method since they have no fixed state. Tech giants like Microsoft and Alphabet have been racing to build useful quantum computers, but IBM just signed a partnership that could vault it to the top of the pack in the health care space. To understand why it is such a leap forward, it’s helpful to find a clear-cut comparison. University of V...
Overall, virus cases continue to plateau around Virginia, UVA’s COVID-19 Model reported in its Friday update. The Lord Fairfax district is still one of 13 health districts reflecting a slow growth of cases while most of Virginia reports a plateau or a decline in the growth trajectory of new cases. Only the Mount Rogers Health District in southwestern Virginia is showing a new surge in cases.