Former UVA basketball star Rick Carlisle is returning to the Indiana Pacers as their new head coach. The Pacers have hired Carlisle on a reported four-year $29 million contract after 13 seasons with the Dallas Mavericks.
(Video) Jennifer Lawless, Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Virginia, issued harsh words regarding U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s decision to remain associated with exclusive private clubs.
Experts say questions of labor and safety could remain unresolved years after any potential federal legalization. Despite Amazon's apparent relaxing stance on the issue, those questions could still require years of lobbying and tough calls by the company, and those decisions would come even as Amazon faces brutal labor turnover rates and workers, like those in New York, demand a consistent approach. "When you have a day upon which [nationwide] legalization happens, there's so much to be figured out after that," said Paul Seaborn, a professor at the University of Virginia's business school who ...
Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and a leading expert on religious freedom, went to the heart of the two justices’ objections. “A principal worry about this case from the beginning has been the risk that Philadelphia would simply rewrite its rules or contracts and create a generally applicable ban on refusing same-sex couples, with no exceptions,” Laycock told the Register. “That option is clearly open to the city. The case would resume and head right back towards the Supreme Court.”
As we age, our immune system weakens, rendering us more susceptible to illness. The pandemic has highlighted the fact that obesity can trigger and exacerbate similar immunologic changes even in younger individuals. “The biggest risk factor for about every disease is age,” says Kenneth Walsh, a professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. “A lot of that might be due to the process known as ‘inflammaging.’ When you get to the bottom of lots of diseases, they have an underlying inflammatory component to them.”
Dr. Jim Tucker, the director of the University of Virginia's Division of Perceptual Studies, since the late '90s has been studying children who report past-life memories. And while he finds past life regression therapy interesting, to say the least, he and his colleagues are "quite skeptical of it" and do not recommend it. "Although there is evidence that some young children have memories of a life in the past, such as in the cases we've documented in our work at the Division of Perceptual Studies, there is very little to suggest that past-life regression typically connects with an actual life...
Botanic gardens provide an emotionally rich experience, derived from interacting with plants that are constantly changing and adapting to their own environmental and ecological setting. Simply recognizing that gardens are living things—with soil, microbes, plants, and animals—elicits feelings of elation in people because they are drawn to care, as Beth Meyer, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Virginia, suggests in an essay published recently in the Journal of Landscape Architecture.
The approach turns the normal publishing timeline on its head: Authors write manuscripts laying out only their hypotheses, research methods, and analysis plans, and referees decide whether to accept them before anyone knows the study’s results. The innovation is that this guarantees publication for even the most mundane findings. “The decision [to publish] … is based on the importance of the question, and the quality of the methodology you’re applying,” says Brian Nosek, a UVA psychologist and an advocate of registered reports.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) Currently, one party controls all of the statewide elected executive offices in 36 of the 50 states. Candidate decisions by down-ballot executive officeholders in Florida and Missouri could make Republican statewide sweeps easier in those states, and Democrats may have opportunities to sweep more states on their side.
If you hear a siren in town Tuesday, don’t worry, it’s just proof that it’s working. The University of Virginia will test its emergency notification system between 10:50 and 11:05 a.m. Tuesday, including its siren and public address systems, as well as text message, Twitter and internet feeds.
The administration has sought to move quickly on domestic terrorism prevention measures and began implementing some of its new strategy before it was even completed, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Homeland Security adviser and deputy national security adviser to President Joe Biden, said at a virtual event hosted by the University of Virginia on Wednesday.
The University of Virginia’s Young Alumni Reunion is set to return on October 16. The event took last year off due to the coronavirus pandemic. YAR will be held at the Ting Pavilion on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall. The alumni association says it is especially excited to bring the classes of 2020 and 2021 together.
It had been six years since the Cavaliers had been to the College World Series, and Virginia fans were clamoring to get back on the scene. Among those fans is Cricket Morris, a Wahoo fan from Richmond. Cricket and her husband John, a former track and field athlete from Virginia, traveled to Nebraska with an extra good luck charm: a magic bean of sorts.
Making it to Omaha and the College World Series is a dream of every college baseball player. It’s a special trip for the families of those athletes, too.
Virginia’s season of improbable comebacks finally ended late Thursday night. The Cavaliers, who started ACC play 4-12 and lost the first game of their regional and super regional before advancing to the College World Series, fell 6-2 to No. 2 Texas in an elimination game. It’s UVA’s first loss in seven NCAA Tournament elimination games this season. Like it has all season, the Cavaliers fought valiantly to keep its season alive.
A cousin of the high-inducing chemical found in marijuana has bloomed in popularity across the country in the past year, but its ingestion also has brought an increase in calls to the Blue Ridge Poison Center at UVA Health.
(Commentary by Deirdre M. Enright, director of the Innocence Project at the School of Law) This month, FBI “seeking information” posters about the 1996 double murder of Julianne “Julie” Williams and Laura “Lollie” Winans in Shenandoah National Park began to appear at bus stops in D.C., marking the 25th anniversary of the unsolved murders. This effort overlooks the obvious forensic avenues that could solve this case.
A 1999 graduate in sustainable design from the University of Virginia, Dana Robbins Schneider led sustainability efforts for many years at the commercial-real-estate giant J.L.L. As the director of sustainability at the Empire State Realty Trust, she oversaw an energy-efficiency retrofit of the iconic Manhattan skyscraper on 34th Street, which demonstrated how landlords could save both carbon and money, and which helped pave the way for Local Law 97, the city’s effort to force large buildings to improve their energy performance. (Our interview has been edited.)
UVA Law alumna Robin Carnahan, who served as director of the state and local government practice at the General Services Administration’s 18F digital service organization from 2016 to 2020, has been confirmed by the Senate to lead the agency.
The Senate confirmed U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Boardman to serve as a district judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland with a 52-48 vote Wednesday. A Maryland native, Boardman was born in Silver Spring and raised in Frederick before moving to Pennsylvania to attend Villanova University until 1996. She got her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and spent six years as a senior associate in Hogan Lovell’s pro bono department.