“Hobby Lobby said some extreme things about what counts as a substantial burden on the exercise of religion, suggesting that pretty much anything a claimant says is a substantial burden has to be accepted as a substantial burden,” Douglas Laycock, a UVA professor of law and religious studies, wrote in an email. “I don’t think the Supreme Court will be able to live with it in the long run.”
(Subscription required) Bruce Holsinger’s novel, “The Gifted School,” explores just how far parents will go to get a prestigious education for their kids. As the news broke on the college-admissions scandal, Holsinger says he felt shocked, both as a parent and a UVA professor. As an author, however, he understood how parents could cross so many lines.
The list includes UVA President Jim Ryan; Jody Kielbasa, director of the Virginia Film Festival and UVA’s vice provost for the arts; alumnus and benefactor Jaffray Woodriff; and alumni Andrea Douglas, executive director of The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, and Coran Capshaw, media and real estate mogul.
The Final Four occurred April 6-8, but events started a day before the games between Texas Tech University and Michigan State University, and the University of Virginia and Auburn University. Virginia won the championship game, defeating Texas Tech. The wrap-up analysis of the economic impact of the NCAA’s Final Four at U.S. Bank Stadium came in Tuesday at $143 million, about what was predicted before the event.
When Paul Gaston came to the University of Virginia in 1957, it was overwhelmingly white and male, and segregation was the order of the day. And that’s why the young history professor and early civil rights activist chose it for his life’s work.
Growing up in Virginia, Julie Barron Morrill competed in track in high school and pounded the pavement and trails when studying at the University of Virginia. After graduating, she ran a marathon and became an avid trail runner while her degree in government and foreign affairs eventually landed her a gig in corporate crisis management with the Department of Defense.
Richard Bonnie, a professor of health and drug law at the University of Virginia who chaired the National Academies panel that recommended a special opioid FDA process, says the panel hasn’t had the chance to review the new proposal yet, so he couldn’t comment on it in detail.
“One way to appeal to voters who are wavering about the way Trump operates is to play the Jimmy Carter card and make this like Watergate,” said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. “It’s ‘if you’re really sick of the Richard Nixon’s lies, then vote for me, Jimmy Carter, and I will never lie to you.’ ”
Libra, by contrast, is permissioned, meaning only a few trusted entities can keep track of the ledger. That makes it more like a digital currency rather than a cryptocurrency, says Lana Swartz, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia who’s studied the bitcoin community extensively. “I actually agree with the folks who’ve been saying that this actually isn’t really a cryptocurrency at all,” Swartz says.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Biden’s front-runner status gave an incentive to the other politicians to focus their attacks on him during the debates.
“Let the battle of the sound bites begin!” Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics, said. “There are only three ways to stand out – be a front-runner and fulfill expectations; come up with a defining, clever sound bite that wounds another contender – or draw Trump’s ire,” he said.
A University of Virginia study released today asked, “What fraction of the students in Virginia who didn’t take the SAT would be revealed as candidates for four-year colleges and universities if they did take the test?”
Providing free college admissions tests to all students can significantly increase the number and diversity of students applying for college, according to a new Virginia study – but using other measures to focus support could allow states to help nearly as many students for a lot less money. In a study published Tuesday in AERA Open, a journal of the American Educational Research Association, Sarah Turner, an economics and education professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development, and her colleagues used Virginia's longitudinal student data system to model how...
The University of Virginia has earned the Sustainable Fleet Accreditation from the National Association of Fleet Administrators and Calstart. In doing so, the university’s Facilities Management fleet became the first university fleet in Virginia to receive this accreditation.
On Tuesday, as part of the city's Unity Days series, UVA gender studies professor Lisa Speidel led an interactive discussion on how and why gender norms are created and what can be done to erase negative stereotypes.
Charlottesville’s largest employer, UVA Facilities Management, actively recruits women for its four-year apprenticeship, which covers the cost of training for state certifications while providing a paycheck and full employee benefits.
Teacher Dana Ainsworth is spending the week learning about and discussing the civil rights movement and the role educators played during that time. She’s one of nearly 30 participants attending the second annual Summer Teachers Institute, hosted by the Center for Race and Public Education in the South at UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development.
Neal Hoffman, a Darden alumnus and former Hasbro employee, created the toy “Mensch on a Bench” in 2012.
Prior to creating Briogeo in her NYC studio apartment (initially) while she worked a day job in commodities sales at Goldman Sachs, the company’s founder and CEO, Nancy Twine grew up in West Virginia and started making beauty products with her grandmother in the kitchen. She later got a degree in finance at the University of Virginia, which took her to New York and Goldman Sachs at the age of 22.
“What’s required is a little bit of demystification of it,” says Waitman Wade Beorn, a Holocaust and genocide studies historian at the University of Virginia, in the same Esquire article. “Things can be concentration camps without being Dachau or Auschwitz. Concentration camps in general have always been designed — at the most basic level — to separate one group of people from another group. Usually, because the majority group, or the creators of the camp, deem the people they’re putting in it to be dangerous or undesirable in some way.”