According to the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, in 2020 lawmakers on both sides of the aisle made potentially unethical decisions buying and selling stocks with information gained from their positions. “This is about doing the right thing. This isn’t even a close call. This is obvious, and by the way it has bipartisan support,” University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato said.
Before they attacked the Capitol, Mr Hawley could be seen raising his fist to the crowd in apparent support. Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, tweeted Jan. 9 that “many senators now despise” Mr Hawley.
The Democrats have a slim majority in the Senate, which bodes well for Biden’s confirmation progress. However, Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said “it is difficult to forecast the impact” of the upcoming impeachment trial for former President Trump in the Senate, but “it is safe to say that it will likely slow down the confirmation process.”
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, tweeted: “45 GOP Senators just voted that Trump’s trial is unconstitutional since he isn’t in office now. Those who thought 17 R Senators would somehow vote to convict Trump have presumably awakened from their dream. As guilty as Trump is, Rs still cower before him.”
(Commentary) Dick Durbin of Illinois, the majority whip, told reporters that he was skeptical of invoking the 14th Amendment because it doesn’t specify how to determine whether someone “engaged in insurrection” and whether that determination requires a court conviction. As for the first issue, Philip Zelikow, a professor of history at the University of Virginia, argues in Lawfare that regardless of whether Mr. Trump can be said to have “engaged in insurrection” against the Constitution, he clearly gave “aid or comfort” to one by encouraging his supporters to “fight like hell” at the Capitol to...
Following through with the trial is also a way to enforce that elected or civil officers cannot avoid punishment by resigning or because their actions took place at the end of their term, said University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Prakash, who is among those constitutional scholars who say the Senate can convict Trump. “An officer cannot terminate the process by just quitting and say, ‘Ha ha. You can’t get me,’“ Prakash said.
Dr. Ebony Hilton, the medical director and co-founder of GoodStock Consulting, LLC, and an anesthesiologist and critical care physician at the University of Virginia, has started a change.org petition for the Biden administration to create and appoint a “Secretary of Equity.” Comparable to a Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer of an organization, the Secretary of Equity would serve as a catalyst to initiate equity, diversity, and inclusion assessments and policies while leveraging best practices and resources across various federal agencies, Dr. Hilton wrote in a letter on behalf of...
(Editorial) Congratulations to Dr. Cameron Webb on his appointment to the Biden administration’s COVID Response Team. Webb will be President Joe Biden’s senior policy advisor for COVID-19 equity. He will tackle issues of racial disparity in both the spread of the coronavirus and, especially now, the resulting fight against it.
In a 2020 study by the University of Virginia, researchers compared walking in nature, walking on a treadmill in a gym environment, and watching a nature video. They found that there was no significant difference in the average heart rate between the walking groups, suggesting equal cardiovascular benefits. Essentially, a walk is a walk, and your body doesn’t know the difference between concrete, grass and a conveyer belt.
(Commentary) People with Medicaid coverage often have worse health outcomes than those with no insurance at all. One study from the University of Virginia found that, for all patients, Medicaid coverage was associated with the longest hospital stays and highest in-hospital mortality — even compared to the uninsured.
The University of Virginia Foundation has renamed UVa Research Park near 29 and Airport Road –merging an old name with a new. It’s now called “North Fork – A UVA Discovery Park”. It’s all part of a rebranding of the entire development.
The University of Virginia Research Park is taking a step back in time to go into the future with the name North Fork, the name it bore when first it opened to development.
A virtual town hall is coming up on Thursday that will focus on UVA’s upcoming spring semester and answer questions before classes begin next week. The town hall will begin at 4 p.m.
U.S. News and World Report has released its rankings of online education programs offered by higher education institutions. UVA is ranked for some of its graduate programs, but not for any bachelor’s programs.
You’d be hard-pressed to find someone more poised for success than 18-year-old Breanna Roach. Life is good for her these days. She is attending the University of Virginia on scholarship and declared nursing as an early major. And she’s learned that it’s going to take struggle, strength, courage and hope for those good days to continue.
This is the story of how the University of Virginia got to this moment, told through the eyes of the vice president who rapidly designed an on-campus saliva testing protocol, the student who spent a month of his first college semester stuck in quarantine and the anthropology professor who transformed his lectures into podcasts in hopes of adapting to a new world of online education.
[Former UVA basketball star] De’Andre Hunter has never failed to surprise — fans, coaches and perhaps even himself. He isn’t the flashiest player. He isn’t the most animated competitor on the court. But he has quietly gotten the job done since high school, and despite adversity, he has exceeded expectations at every stop in his career.
In that 2015 Atlantic article, Jurczyk said that he was inspired by the 1969 moonwalk — not to become an astronaut and go to space, but rather to build the hardware that could take them there. To pull that off, he got a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia.
A student in the Appellate Litigation Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law used American Sign Language to argue before a Richmond-based federal appeals court and won the case alongside her partner.
The commodification of self would seem to be a misnomer. If a commodity is a product, something that can be bought and sold, then in what sense can the self be commodified? According to Joseph E. Davis, research professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, there are two possible meanings of this modern, New Age phenomenon.