Regional economist Dr. Terance J. Rephann of UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the says the rise in assessments has likely come from a combination of factors. “Federal Reserve policy has reduced mortgage interest rates to historical lows,” he said. “People who would ordinarily sell their houses are keeping them off the market because they are afraid of being exposed to COVID-19, and (there is) an increased preference for single-family homes in more suburban and rural locations with sufficient space for leisure, recreation and setting up home offices because of being cooped up lo...
Dr. Christopher Kramer at UVA Health will be honored this spring with the American College of Cardiology’s 2021 Distinguished Mentor of the Year award.
A UVA infectious disease doctor says there are still misconceptions surrounding how the COVID-19 vaccines work because the science is not yet settled, but recent data suggests these medicines can be the key to ending the pandemic.
J. Miles Coleman, an associate editor at UVA’s Center for Politics, says candidates with more extreme ideological views have historically favored conventions because they’re usually held by party insiders and loyalists.
J. Miles Coleman with UVA’s Center for Politics says the party’s decision to hold a convention matters. “These conventions you have to keep in mind that a lot of the time they are decided by the party’s insiders. Who has the most big-name endorsements? That would be Kirk Cox,” he said.
Telecoms have the power to throttle internet service in one state and not another, according to the state’s regulations. But just because it’s technically possible, doesn’t mean it’s not a big headache. “State law compliance is a cost of doing business and they do it all the time,” UVA law professor Thomas Nachbar wrote by email. “The problem, though, is that, in order to make these rules effective, many of them would reach beyond the state.”
Longtime congressional aide Shalanda Young’s track record as someone who can work with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle would not only further Biden’s pledge to pursue bipartisanship. It would also set her up for a much smoother confirmation hearing than Tanden’s, which has been controversial since its announcement. “I think [Biden] will try and pick somebody who’s not going to be a lightning rod,” UVA political science professor David Leblang said.
UVA law professor Ashley Deeks noted that China’s drive for total information awareness could hamper U.S. intelligence collection. “If the Chinese government can recognize every person on the street and easily track a person’s comings and goings, this will make it even harder for foreign intelligence agencies to operate inside the country,” she stated on the blog Lawfare.
(Commentary) UVA law professor Douglas Laycock spoke about this unbalanced impact of the Equality Act as well: “It protects the rights of one side, but attempts to destroy the rights of the other side,” he said. “We ought to protect the liberty of both sides to live their own lives by their own identities and their own values.”
(Commentary) Perhaps even more to the point, evangelicals are simply out of step with emerging American values on two key issues: race and sexuality. A recent study from UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture found that white evangelicals are now far outside the mainstream of American opinion on a cluster of issues that pertain to race, racism, and white supremacy.
(Editorial) preliminary results from a new study from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute suggest that vaccinating possible super-spreaders is the most efficient and effective way to control COVID. These super-spreaders are “those individuals with the greatest number social contacts and ‘social proximity time’ with others,” the University reports.
(Commentary) Wrote author Siva Vaidhyanathan, who supervises the Virginia Quarterly Review, a UVA literary journal: “Some white people just can’t stand the idea that they should be respectful and refrain from using one, single six-letter word in their adult lives.”
UVA law professor Douglas Laycock said the Equality Act “goes very far to stamp out religious exemptions.” Laycock, a longtime supporter of gay marriage and proponent of enacting a federal gay-rights law, said, “This is not a good-faith attempt to reconcile competing interests. It is an attempt by one side to grab all the disputed territory and to crush the other side.”
Some comedians like to make themselves the butt of every joke; others more regularly take society to task. For almost 25 years, comedy titan Tina Fey has done both; no one and nothing is safe from her dry, sardonic wit, least of all herself. After all, as the famously self-deprecating Fey noted in a 2013 visit to her alma mater, the University of Virginia, “Only the truth is funny.”
His was the voice that announced to the world that Hope Probe, the first Arab interplanetary mission, successfully entered Mars orbit on Feb. 9. He has worked on the mission since its inception in 2014 and his calm demeanour has been a constant presence inside the mission control center. His name is Omran Sharaf, project director of the Emirates Mars Mission and a 2005 graduate of UVA’s Engineering School.
Profile of alumnus and former Board of Visitors member Warren M. Thompson.
Called Cville Tax Aid, the program is designed for families and people earning below the Charlottesville area’s estimated median income of $89,900. The program partners with IRS-trained University of Virginia student volunteers through the Madison House Creating Assets, Savings and Hope program, otherwise known as CASH.
Kelly Orians and [UVA Law professor] Thomas Frampton had two weddings in two cities in one day. “It was all about keeping our family and friends safe and healthy during this pandemic,” Frampton said. Orians, 34, whose parents live in New Orleans, and Frampton, 37, whose family is in Washington, D.C., had a wedding in each of those cities on Nov. 7, so that family members would not have to risk traveling during the coronavirus pandemic.
After a year of managing pandemic operations, many college leaders and IT staffs are still barely keeping up – and they’re exhausted. Just staying current can be a challenge, said Robert Pianta, dean of UVA’s School of Education and Human Development. “As a higher-ed administrator, I’m getting bombarded” with pitches from companies, he told me. “Some I recognize, most I don’t.”
UVA professor Thomas S. Bateman laid out “working the problem” in eight steps.