Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia, has been a longtime supporter of same-sex marriage. What’s made him unusual is that in recent years he’s been trying to make the case to liberals that “same-sex marriage and religious liberty can co-exist.” In 2017, he co-authored an article at Vox with another law professor to argue that Jack Phillips, the Evangelical Christian baker in Colorado at the center of the Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court case, should be allowed to follow his conscience to not bake a cake for a same-sex wedding.
Mr. Northam’s political survival reflects both a changed U.S. political landscape in the Trump era and the specifics of Virginia’s leadership crisis, said Larry Sabato, who directs UVA’s Center for Politics. Mr. Sabato said politicians in both parties took note of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s defiance after the emergence in October 2016 of an “Access Hollywood” video of him talking about groping women.
U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, who represents the Grand Rapids area, on Saturday became the first Republican in Congress to break with Trump on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. "Amash has always marched to the beat of his own drum, and he’s been one of the more persistent Trump critics in the party," said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Commentary co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology) It turns out that feminism and faith both have high expectations of husbands and fathers, if for very different ideological reasons, and that both result in higher-quality marriages for women. This is a key conclusion of our new report, “The Ties That Bind: Is Faith a Global Force for Good or Ill in the Family?” from the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institution.
“Pennsylvania, along with Michigan and Wisconsin, denied Hillary Clinton the presidency in 2016,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “The Democrats’ most obvious path to winning back the White House in 2020 involves holding Clinton’s states and recapturing these three states, all of which were decided by less than a percentage point.”
(Video) A dean at the University of Virginia said her final goodbye to the Class of 2019, as she too, prepares to leave the University. Dean Dorrie Fontaine is retiring from her position as dean of the School of Nursing.
This treatment can help people who suffer from substance abuse disorders that are related to opioid use for pain relief.
An estimated 1.7 million Americans suffer from substance abuse disorders related to opioid use for pain relief, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Ken Hsu, a chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, and his graduate student, Myungsun Shin, has identified an enzyme that "chews up fat" molecules to produce chemical signals that control inflammation.
Scientists have identified an enzyme that can help control inflammation and may pave the way for non-addictive painkillers which produce few side effects. Ken Hsu, a professor at the University of Virginia , and his graduate student, Myungsun Shin, identified an enzyme that "chews up fat" molecules to produce chemical signals that control inflammation.
Dr Peter Belmi of the University of Virginia and lead author of the study, said: 'Advantages beget advantages. Those who are born in upper-class echelons are likely to remain in the upper class, and high-earning entrepreneurs disproportionately originate from highly educated, well-to-do families.'
“Individuals with relatively high social class were more overconfident, which in turn was associated with being perceived as more competent and ultimately more hirable, even though, on average, they were no better at the trivia test than their lower-class counterparts,” said lead researcher Peter Belmi, of the University of Virginia.
There must be something in the water in Virginia, Pharrell Williams said at the University of Virginia on Friday — and UVA graduates, whether born and bred or transplants, have an obligation to use their talents to help others. “Virginia has continued to produce icons, and I know that there are a bunch of future icons in this room waiting to reveal yourself,” he said in a fiery Valedictory Exercises address at John Paul Jones Arena.
Fourteen years after his own graduation, Dr. B. Cameron Webb held up a nickel in front of thousands of newly minted University of Virginia graduates. “You can get a lot out of this moment and a lot out of this day if you think of it like that nickel you got at opening convocation,” Webb told graduates of the Graduate and College of Arts & Sciences at UVA’s Final Exercises on Saturday. “Today, in this moment, I want you guys to realize you are standing on the edge of a nickel, and there’s a lot of power and potential in that space.”
UVA graduates received money, presents, and even balloons to celebrate their hard work. Some of those balloons are being used again to bring smiles to the UVA Children's Hospital.
UVA has formally closed the book on its 190th academic year. Retiring Nursing School Dean Dorrie Fontaine spoke to thousands of new Wahoos after they walked the Lawn. Fontaine’s audience included new alumni of 10 schools at UVA.
A partnership for a pilot autonomous shuttle program has led local entities to pursue a larger, self-driving vehicle project. Perrone Robotics, JAUNT and the county, along with UVA and other partners, have applied for a U.S. Department of Transportation Automated Driving System Demonstration Grant for the larger-scale project.
Pluto is no place to party down. This cold, dark neighborhood of our solar system might be the last place you’d expect to find liquid water. Now, a group of scientists might have an explanation for how this supposed subterranean sea keeps from freezing over. “This study could be paradigm-shifting,” says Anne Verbiscer, a UVA planetary scientist who was not involved in the study. “This isn’t just about Pluto ... this could be the case on many other ocean worlds, and that’s the No. 1 significance of this work.”
Technology historian Peter Norton is an associate professor in UVA’s Department of Engineering and Society. “The automobiles were killing people at an incredible rate,” Norton said. “In the large cities, that would have been three out of four people killed by cars were pedestrians. Many of them are children.”
Peter Belmi, a UVA assistant professor of business administration and lead author of the study, commented: “Advantages beget advantages. Those who are born in upper-class echelons are likely to remain in the upper class, and high-earning entrepreneurs disproportionately originate from highly educated, well-to-do families. Our research suggests that social class shapes the attitudes that people hold about their abilities, and that in turn has important implications for how class hierarchies perpetuate from one generation to the next."