The Obama administration was portrayed as anti-Catholic by pro-life groups and, of course, Republicans. The Catholic bishops, meanwhile, were portrayed by pro-choice groups as a bunch of old men who wanted to take away women’s birth control. Many interest groups opposed any compromise because they profited from the fight through publicity and fundraising. For their part, the bishops and the nuns played their hand aggressively. “The Little Sisters escalated their demands every time the Obama people made a concession to satisfy them,” explained Douglas Laycock, a religious freedom expert at the ...
“The fact that the government doesn’t have an easily accessible, searchable, well-constructed interface where the public can access… the judicial decisions that constitute case law is just completely ridiculous,” said Michael Livermore, a UVA law professor and co-editor of “Law as Data: Computation, Text, and the Future of Legal Analysis.”
“I have my own therapist that I see. I think mental health is primary care,” said Dr. Cameron Webb during an episode of the series. The series suggests that even the most distinguished individuals need to see a therapist, like Webb, who is a UVA physician and White House Health adviser. He also ran for Congress last year.
(Subscription required) It’s a warm night in mid-October, and I’m winding my way up to UVA’s McCormick Observatory on a quest to solve an abiding mystery: Why are Earthlings so dang obsessed with Mars? Tonight UVA astronomer Ed Murphy has made a special trip up to the observatory, which is closed to the public because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The whirling dance of orbital dynamics has put Mars at its biggest and brightest in the sky right now, and Murphy calculated that this would be the best time to see it from Central Virginia, where the turbulent air can sometimes complicate nig...
(Video) “A decrease in access to to health care resources, including substance abuse resources and mental health resources, I think it’s put a lot of people at risk for overdose,” said Dr. Nathan Charlton, a medical toxicologist at UVA Health.
“The most unprecedented element of this second [Trump] impeachment is that it results from the one and only time a U.S. president has engaged in insurrection and an attempted coup against our own country,” said Barbara Perry, a professor and director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
More than 170 constitutional law scholars signed an open letter last month concluding the Constitution permits the impeachment, and potential conviction and disqualification of Trump from holding future office. “The impeachment is clearly constitutional,” said Douglas Laycock, a UVA professor of law and signatory to the letter. “Presidents do not have a free opening to … try to overthrow the newly elected government at the end of their term, or commit any other high crime or misdemeanour just because there is no longer time to complete a trial in the Senate.”
(Co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project) The chaos and controversy surrounding the 2020 presidential election – plus election takes that stress the role of race, gender and education in solidifying President Biden’s victory – obscure a deeper current running through American political reality. Namely, even today, American politics remains fundamentally divided by family life.
The UVA Medical Center in Charlottesville reported an average daily census for the Jan. 29-Feb. 4 period of 484.6, 78.9% of its 614-bed capacity. The average number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at UVA for the period was 44.1, down 9.4% from last week’s average of 48.7.
Grace Elizabeth Hale was right there after moving to Athens in 1982 to attend UGA, journeying from a concert attendee to co-owning a small bar/live music venue and eventually joining her own band, Cordy Lon. She later became an academic, historian, and author, currently UVA’s Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History. All of that made her unusually qualified to produce “Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture.”
A descendant of UVA’s enslaved laborers is calling on the school to offer scholarships to their relatives. “This university flourished based on their blood, sweat, tears, labor, so I see that offering scholarships is a way to create an educational atonement because there’s nothing that can be done to compensate for slavery,” Myra Anderson said.
Large increases were not unique to the Ivy League. The University of Virginia’s early decision pool was up 38%.
More than 6,000 people have been offered admission to the University of Virginia as part of early action.
Sunday marked the start of a weeklong #Fight4Literacy initiative. Local businesses and restaurants are joining UVA men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett and the Cavaliers in the fight for literacy.
Sometimes it seems like cities were designed to kill birds. It doesn’t have to be this way, according to a new book, “The Bird-Friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats,” by Timothy Beatley. Citing new policies, building materials and DIY designs, Beatley, a UVA architecture professor, shows how urban environments can be tweaked to allow birds to live and thrive in human-centric spaces.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, said it’s “prudent politically” for Biden to remain quiet on impeachment because the issue is already poised to “suck up all the oxygen” in Congress. She said Biden doesn’t need the same in the White House while he’s working on policy.
One hundred ninety-eight players were selected before legendary quarterback Tom Brady in the 2000 NFL Draft. Two of them, including linebacker Shannon Taylor, are from Roanoke. “Not a lot of people get to do what I’ve done, and I’m very appreciative,” Taylor said. Taylor starred at the University of Virginia before the San Diego Chargers selected him with the 184th pick that year. He said he learned about his selection from his friends before the Chargers gave him a call.
Herman Moore: Moore, who hails from Danville, Virginia, was drafted by the Lions in 1991 out of UVA. He stayed in the Motor City after his playing days, started the Tackle Life Foundation and has been growing his impressive business portfolio.
One of three children, Glover grew up in the segregated southeast. He graduated from Hampton University and attended medical school at UVA, making history there as well. “We started with three in my class. By the second year I was the only African American in my class,” he said. Glover was the only African American to graduate in his medical school class.
Walter Reed was born in Virginia in 1851. As the son of a Methodist minister, he was able to go to private school in Charlottesville, before matriculating at the University of Virginia. He finished his two-year medical course in one year and got his degree in 1869 when he was only 17. According to the National Museum of Medicine and Health, he is still the youngest student to ever graduate from the university’s medical school.