The first-person article mentions both the Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law and a prison entrepreneurship program offered by Gregory Fairchild, a professor at the Darden School of Business.
(Radio interview) UVA politics professor James Ceaser and other experts joined National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen to discuss the most contentious elections in American history.
Alan S. Boyd, a lawyer and chief executive who helped establish the Transportation Department and served as its first secretary under President Lyndon B. Johnson, building a sprawling executive department that brought together more than 30 federal agencies, died Oct. 18 at a retirement home in Seattle. Boyd received a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1948.
On Sept. 13, UVA Law alumna Antoinette Bacon was less than two weeks into her job as the region’s top federal prosecutor when 11-year-old Ayshawn Davis was shot to death in Troy. The acting U.S. attorney for the 32-county Northern District of New York, which includes Albany, parts of the Hudson Valley, Binghamton, Syracuse and up to the Canadian border, identified gun violence in the Capital Region as a top priority.
When Jason Clark played basketball for Bayside and Kellam high schools in Virginia Beach, he knew all about the girls program at Salem High. Now, he’ll get a chance to lead the SunDevils. He was announced as the new head coach Monday.
“Totally Under Control” delivers a damning – and essential – report card on the White House’s mismanagement of the pandemic. After an audio clip plays of the president declaring that the U.S. “wasn’t built to be shut down,” Taison Bell, the ICU director of the UVA Medical Center, describes feeling helpless in the face of the disease.
To get an answer, we spoke with Bill Petri, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Virginia.
The first question on a Virginia voter's ballot this election cycle is on the Redistricting Commission Amendment, which will ask whether an amendment establishing a bipartisan redistricting commission should be added to Virginia's Constitution. “Next year will be the first redistricting year since 1992 [that] the Democrats have had the governorship and both chambers of the legislature,” said J. Miles Coleman, the associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the University of Virginia Center for Politics nonpartisan newsletter.
Political experts said Republicans may bear more of the political backlash for the hold-up in stimulus because they are currently the party in power in the White House. “Voters are likelier to hold the incumbent presidential party more responsible for the state of the economy, and the country as a whole,” Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, said.
The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the winners of the 23rd Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards, which were held virtually this year. UVA English professor Christopher Tilghman won the 2020 Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award for Fiction for his book, “Thomas and Beal in the Midi.”
Research at the UVA School of Medicine is working to make it easier for scientists to track and understand what is happening inside individual cells.
The University of Virginia is taking big steps to achieve some hefty civic and environmental goals. There’s a new 10-year sustainability plan on the horizon.
In his last reelection bid, the Virginia Democratic senator survived a near-upset. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, predicted that while former Vice President Joe Biden will win the state by a larger margin than Clinton’s 5-point victory in 2016, Warner “shouldn’t take anything for granted.”
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, media studies professor) Facebook and Twitter are trying to avoid repeating the 2016 misinformation disaster, but haven’t totally figured out how.
Alan S. Boyd, the first United States secretary of transportation, who was named by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 to integrate the nation’s sprawling networks of planes, trains, ships and highways into a new superagency, died on Sunday in Seattle.
(Radio interview) Chris Lu, former deputy secretary of labor and senior fellow at the University of Virginia Miller Center, discusses the dueling Biden-Trump town halls, the election and lack of stimulus.
As he has vacillated between abandoning stimulus package talks and restarting them, Trump’s “vaunted ‘art-of-the-deal’ mystique” has evaporated, said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center.
The plaintiffs are arguing that Gov. Northam does not have the authority to remove the statue because it would violate restrictive covenants in deeds that transferred the statue, its pedestal and the land they sit on belong to the state. Expected witnesses for the commonwealth include Kevin Gaines, UVA’s inaugural Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice.
(Program preview) University of Virginia business professor Ed Freeman discusses the focus on responsibility and ethics that he says unites influential businesses.
(Commentary by Mehr Afshan Farooqi, professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian languages and cultures) I’ve been working on Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib for nearly a decade. My original idea was to work on the ghazals that Ghalib excluded from his ‘published’ Divan.