Congress invented reconciliation in 1974 to reduce budget deficits, but more recently lawmakers have used the process to get around the usual 60-vote requirement for major legislation. For example, Republicans used the process in 2001, 2003 and 2017 to pass tax cuts, all of which actually increased the deficit, explains Raymond Scheppach, a public policy professor at University of Virginia.
A University of Virginia Health physician is blasting the state COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Dr. Ebony Hilton says when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines, Black and brown communities are being denied access due to the phase’s rollout structure put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Virginia Department of Health.
For one health care system, the pandemic went so far as to prompt a major change of direction in the middle of a construction project. When the University of Virginia Medical Center began the design of its University Hospital Expansion, the plan called for expanding its emergency department and surgical suite and adding a six-story inpatient tower.
A new brain sensing tool developed by scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is allowing researchers to observe inter-brain communications in great detail for the first time ever. Consequently, this new technology is providing answers to Alzheimer’s questions that have puzzled scientists and doctors for decades.
A few new cases of COVID-19 were reported at the University of Virginia on Tuesday, but the number of active cases overall continues to decline. According to the UVA COVID Tracker, there were seven new cases reported on Tuesday and all but one were students. Among the students, faculty, staff and contract employees, there are currently 50 active cases of the virus.
On March 10, 2020, fans of the Virginia Festival of the Book learned that the COVID-19 pandemic had closed the book on that year’s gathering. A year of creative thinking and experimentation later, the 27th annual festival will be presented in an all-virtual format from Saturday through March 26 that promises to be one for the books.
Scientists have discovered why obesity causes high blood pressure, and the protein it affects to do this. Could this lead to a more effective anti-hypertensive drug that may bring down readings without having to lose weight? Based at the UVA School of Medicine, Dr. Swapnil K. Sonkusare and his colleagues proclaimed the importance of a TRPV4 protein.
Claudrena Harold, a UVA history professor whose academic expertise focuses on African American and U.S. labor history, the civil rights movement, and the Jim Crow South, has made something of a departure to pen her latest book, which chronicles gospel music over the last three decades of the 20th century.
While there are many Muslims active in Hollywood from Mahershala Ali to Riz Ahmed, who is drawing awards buzz for his role in “Sound of Metal,” UVA alumna Serena Rasoul thought they were among the few. Rasoul has launched Muslim American Casting and is building a database of Muslim and Southwest Asian/North African talent.
(Commentary) Neighborhoods, cities and nations are safer, healthier and more prosperous where nuclear families are the norm. But for the sake of social justice and modern progressivism, we are all just supposed to shake our heads politely and keep our alarm about the sexual slippery slope to ourselves. As University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox summarized in a 2020 article reviewing the benefits of two-parent married households for The Atlantic magazine, "sadly, adults who are unrelated to children are much more likely to abuse or neglect them than their own parents are."
New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for fully-vaccinated individuals allows them to gather with other vaccinated people and allows vaccinated people to visit unvaccinated people who have a low risk of developing serious symptoms. Dr. Bill Petri at the University of Virginia says these new guidelines are taking some of the shackles off that people have been working under for the past year.
(Podcast) A UVA professor of psychology, Daniel T. Willingham joins Education Next editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss how findings in education research can be better translated to help teachers in a live classroom setting.
According to C. James Taylor at UVA’s Miller Center, Talleyrand demanded $10 million for a loan and a $250,000 personal bribe. The U.S. ambassadors saw the event, rightfully so, as an insult. The Americans previously saw Talleyrand as a good choice for foreign minister, since he had lived in the United States from 1794 to. 1796. However, Talleyrand wanted either Aaron Burr or James Madison, leaders who had professed friendship to France.
(Commentary) According to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, Virginia has a long history of bipartisan and equal-opportunity gerrymandering, dating back to 1779 when Patrick Henry attempted to redraw Virginia’s 5th Congressional District to the advantage of his own party.
Although the experiment will use existing equipment with minor modifications, it was still challenging to build. “SpinQuest leverages the power of Fermilab’s Main Injector accelerator, but this has created some challenges for the custom-built, polarized target,” said SpinQuest co-spokesperson Dustin Keller and professor at the University of Virginia. “In overcoming these, we might very well set some records.”
Scientists at the University of Virginia have a new brain sensor tool that could have huge implications for people with neurological diseases. This new technology allows scientists to see how brain cells communicate in both healthy and diseased brains. Researchers say this could help us better understand diseases and disorders from Alzheimer’s to autism.
New contact lens technology to help diagnose and monitor medical conditions may soon be ready for clinical trials. A team of researchers from Purdue University – that also includes Baoxing Xu, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia – worked with biomedical, mechanical and chemical engineers, along with clinicians, to develop the novel technology.
Playwright Henrik Ibsen coined the phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” The University of Virginia, one of New America’s recent Public Interest Technology University Networks grantees, is a living example of this. Barbara Brown Wilson, associate professor of urban and environmental planning at the UVA School of Architecture and co-founder and faculty director at the UVA Democracy Initiative Center for the Redress of Inequity through Community-Engaged Scholarship – more commonly known as the UVA Equity Center – and Michele Claiborne, the center’s director of equitable analytics, along...
In partnership with the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, our team is designing a bespoke education module on Leading for Racial Equity. The course will provide our Young Global Leaders with the knowledge and tools to drive meaningful change within their organizations, with the potential to affect hundreds of thousands of employees and accelerate greater inclusion across sectors.
An anonymous gift is going to create new opportunities for Piedmont Virginia Community College students who want to transfer to the University of Virginia.