International law scholars say, the whims of the Russian government could determine the fate of U.S. assets in Russia. The stakes are high: Exxon has $4 billion in Russian limbo, according to a Reuters analysis of company statements. Citigroup has $10 billion there, the analysis found. “Whether it's a storefront or a mine, there's really not not a whole lot you can do to protect that from seizure by the government,” says Paul Stephan, a law professor at University of Virginia’s School of Law and expert in post-Soviet legal systems.
Students at the University of Utah who want to study how “environmental anti-racism” intersects with “carceral studies” are in for some good news – their school has received $517,000 to create a new program with that focus. The University of Utah was one of five schools in the nation to be awarded this grant. The University of Southern California, Georgia State University, the University of Virginia, and New York University also received this grant.
One of the researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Center for Reproductive Research, Dr. Daniel Heisenreder, said, “We’ve known for decades that obese women often have difficulty getting pregnant. For this reason, many doctors recommend weight loss before pregnancy, but few studies have addressed a healthy lifestyle, the problem of comparing exercise to exercise and weight loss.”
Public institutions' funding streams have changed, notes the NBER paper, which was written by Emily Cook, economics professor at Tulane University, in New Orleans, and Sarah Turner, economics professor at the University of Virginia. The paper has been peer reviewed and is forthcoming in the journal Economics of Education Review, according to Turner.
UVA’s Darden School of Business ranks No. 25.
Acut cable in Culpeper disrupted internet service to local schools Tuesday, including at the University of Virginia.
In the fall of 2017, a resident of western Albemarle County was surprised to see a caravan of dump trucks making their way up a rural road – into the woods. That’s where contractors for the University of Virginia dumped a mysterious green cargo – 199 tons of synthetic turf. The news alarmed a local parent, Kate Mallek. She knew that turf fields were filled with shredded tires that provide cushioning but contain potentially toxic chemicals.
University of Virginia students voted by a wide margin earlier this month to stop expelling students for honor code violations, amending the institution’s 180-year-old “single-sanction” rule. The amendment to the Honor Committee Constitution, which students approved during a three-day spring election, would reduce the penalty for students found guilty of honor code offenses from expulsion to a two-semester suspension, meaning students could return to UVA to finish their degrees.
[UVA Law alumnus] Griff Aldrich describes his career path as surreal. It certainly has not been linear but more of a full circle to get to this point as head coach for Longwood men's basketball, which clinched its first Division I NCAA tournament bid by winning the Big South Conference Championship. The tournament trophy sits in Aldrich's office, tiny compared with the workspaces of his former professional life as a partner in a large international law firm, a business owner and private equity executive.
[UVA Law alumnus] Griff Aldrich spent roughly two decades building a successful career in law and private equity. Then, he blew it all up for a chance to coach college basketball. Now, Aldrich is gearing up for March Madness, as the 47-year-old coach leads the Longwood University Lancers to the NCAA’s “Big Dance” for the school’s first time ever.
Hemorrhoids are swollen blood vessels in and around the anus and the lower rectum—they’re a bit like varicose veins—and they’re very common. Internal hemorrhoids form in the lining of the anus and the lower rectum, while external ones occur under the skin around the anus. “Take a good look with a mirror—they look like a bunch of grapes around the anus,” says Dr. Cindy Yoshida, a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at UVA Health.
WFXR News’ Kelsey Jean-Baptiste spoke with a University of Virginia gastroenterology fellow, Lindsey Bierle, who says her life was forever changed by colon cancer after her father was diagnosed with it. Now, she works to help others prevent it. “If I could spare anyone the pain that I endured that is truly my life’s work,” said Bierle.
Becca Krukowski, a professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia and an expert in behavioral weight management, explained the approach: “Weight loss through larger changes is often associated with weight regain, so some argue that the goal should instead be weight stability. The thought is that small changes may be more palatable and sustainable for the broader population, rather than large changes.”
Kim Forde-Mazrui, a law professor at the University of Virginia, said Fairfax school officials’ best argument is that the TJ admissions system uses race-neutral methods to increase the enrollment of underrepresented students — a tactic that has long been established as legal under precedents including the Supreme Court’s rulings in the 1978 Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case and the 2016 Fisher v. University of Texas. Going by those cases, Forde-Mazrui said, the 4th Circuit should uphold the TJ admissions system.
Owners of Russian debt could recover something, but maybe not for decades, said University of Virginia law professor Mitu Gulati. Investors who bought defaulted bonds of the Russian imperial government that fell in 1917 were partially repaid in the 1980s when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sought to access capital markets.
(Editorial) For a decade [UVA Health nurse] Valerie Goodman decorated Easter eggs for fun. Now, she's doing it for money to help Ukraine fight flor freedom against Vladimir Putin's Russian invaders. Goodman is organizing Psanky parties. Psanky is a traditional Ukrainian egg-painting method. Goodman learned how to do it from a friend. She hopes to teach it to dozens of small groups until Easter. She charges $25 for each egg a student paints. All proceeds go to Ukrainian relief funds vetted by CNN.
(Book review by Christine Riosen, fellow at UVA’s Inbstitute for Advanced Studies in Culture) Most people assume they know what the internet is. But if asked to describe its power, its reach or its history, most of us will lapse into easy metaphor: We call it a “web,” a “virtual public square” or “the cloud,” to name a few common terms. In “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” Justin E.H. Smith, a professor of history and the philosophy of science at the University of Paris, asks how our use of such metaphors informs our understanding—and misunderstanding—of the internet.
(Commentary by Wendy Cohn, associate director for community outreach and engagement at the UVA Cancer Center; and Dr. Thomas Loughran, director of the UVA Cancer Center, F. Palmer Weber-Smithfield Foods Professor of Oncology Research and professor of medicine and co-director of the Paul Mellon Urologic Cancer Institute at UVA) Last month, the University of Virginia Cancer Center became the commonwealth’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and one of just 52 in the United States — and it wouldn’t have been possible without our neighbors and partners throughout...
A new study from nine medical institutions — including the UVA School of Medicine’s Center for Research in Reproduction — finds weight reduction among obese women does not increase the chance of conception of delivering a healthy baby.
A new UVA Health study says women who are obese and struggling to become pregnant may have been following the wrong advice. Research suggests that there are no fertility benefits to losing weight.