It’s not unusual for Republicans in Virginia to gripe about the arcane rules of party-run nominating conventions, which attract a small fraction of the voters of a state-run primary. But this year’s complaints from Chase and other candidates come at a fraught moment for the party, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “The pieces and factions of this state party are simply reflecting the kind of paranoia we’re seeing from the Trump national party,” Sabato said. “This has been instilled in the GOP now and I think we’re gonna see a lot more of this in a...
Simply rewriting the asylum rules may not be easy. “It’s going to be difficult because the issue is difficult,” says David Martin, a former top lawyer at the Department of Homeland Security who also taught at the University of Virginia School of Law. Martin thinks the recent surge of migrants at the border complicates the situation because the Biden administration doesn’t want to encourage more unauthorized migration. The challenge, Martin says, is to protect vulnerable women who cannot find protection in their home countries — without opening the door too widely.
"Certainly, with Joe Biden, he has this problem of a narrow, almost infinitesimal, majority" in Congress, as opposed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, another president who passed big federal programs to bring the country out of a crisis, says Barbara Perry, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. "It's hard to say he's going to continue to have smooth sailing."
Said University of Virginia economics professor Jonathan Colmer: “By decomposing disparities in fine particulate matter into their component sources, their research shines a light on where researchers, policymakers, and communities might focus efforts going forward.” Colmer, lead author on a 2020 paper about disparities in air pollution, was not part of the new study.
On Thursday evening, a group that has led the way for helping Charlottesville communities of color learn about and get the vaccine held a virtual town hall. It featured medical experts, community leaders, and an area pastor, touching on a number of topics. The conversation started with a reminder of why getting your shot is crucial to ending the devastations of COVID, which have unfairly and disproportionately hurt Black communities. “We have the most to lose, frankly, by not becoming vaccinated as quickly and early as possible,” said Dr. Michael Williams, a surgeon at UVA Health.
UVA Health administered its 100,000 COVID-19 vaccine Thursday. Nearly 45,000 people have been fully vaccinated through the UVA Health vaccination site as of Thursday. UVA Health's Dr. Costi Sifri says they began the vaccination process on Dec. 15. He says hitting 100,000 shots administered within five months wouldn't have been possible without everyone involved.
Researchers from eight Virginia universities [including UVA] will soon take part in $1 million worth of state-funded cybersecurity and autonomous vehicle-focused research projects through a statewide research initiative, Virginia Tech announced on Thursday.
The UVA Facilities Management department says it will accept applications for its Apprenticeship Program through May 16.
U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Tim Kaine (D-VA), who have worked together to sponsor wide-ranging legislation, spoke Thursday morning during the Democracy Dialogues event. Thursday's event was titled "Democracy Dialogues: Self-government in the age of disunion" and included an introduction from University of Virginia President Jim Ryan.
Two U.S. senators from across the political aisle are discussing issues of polarization and the importance of bipartisanship. Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Shelley Moore Capito took part in the UVA Miller Center’s second Democracy Dialogues event Thursday. Both senators stressed the importance of working together to get things done on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Other employers are already offering a $15 an hour minimum wage in Virginia, such as the University of Virginia and Sentara Healthcare. On Jan. 1, 2020, UVA raised its minimum wage to $15 for University employees and most full-time contractors, covering approximately 96% of its 28,000 employees. The University estimated the increase cost roughly $4 million. The University froze hiring in April 2020 due to the pandemic, and its number of employees has remained relatively flat over the past year. “UVA was able to follow through on our commitment to the living wage of $15 per hour, so that was fu...
The University of Virginia held an online community event Thursday evening to kick off its effort to address affordable housing. The goal is to support the development of between 1,000 to 1,500 affordable housing units in and around Charlottesville over the next 10 years. The plan is to build those units using land that is owned by UVA or the UVA Foundation.
With a portfolio of property, University of Virginia officials have joined area agencies and governments looking to provide affordable housing to residents of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. University officials are hoping to help housing advocates in any way they can and said they will spend the next few months finding out exactly how that may be.
One of those who paved the way for Amanda Gorman and so many other emerging poets is Rita Dove, who in 1993 became, at age 40, the youngest U.S. Poet Laureate and the first Black poet to hold that position. This August, Dove, who also teaches poetry at UVA, will publish a new collection, “Playlist for the Apocalypse.”
According to the calendar, the UVA men’s lacrosse team had hosted Army a little more than two weeks before Mike Szlamowicz was interviewed for this article. For Szlamowicz, it felt more like over a year. The discrepancy makes sense when you realize the extra workload Szlamowicz – the director of video service, live events and ACC Network at UVA – and his team are tasked with in 2021. The extreme has become routine.
Terrell Jana was a freshman at UVA taking part in what felt like the longest scrimmage of his life. It was Aug. 10, 2017, and while the West Vancouver, British Columbia, receiver had spent the past two years in Virginia finishing off his high school career, he was about to see a side of his new home that he couldn’t have fully anticipated.
For decades, [UVA alumna] Kathryn Peace D’Angelo and Valerie I. Harrison engaged in conversations about race and racism. However, when D’Angelo and her husband, who are white, adopted Gabriel, a biracial child, her conversations with Harrison, who is black, were no longer theoretical and academic. The stakes grew from the two friends trying to understand each other’s perspectives to a mother navigating, with input from her friend, how to equip a child with the tools that will best serve him as he grows up in a white family. These friendly dialogues about guarding a child’s confidence and nurtu...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and [UVA alumnus] Heber Curtis came together to take part in the Great Debate about the scale of the Universe. But what ultimately, was astronomy’s Great Debate about, and how did it change the way we look at the Universe?
After Jacqueline Novogratz earned an economics degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Stanford University, it was hardly surprising that she would take up a career on Wall Street. Less expected was that she would leave that career path three years later, in 1986, to help launch Duterimbere, a microfinance institution in Rwanda.
“It’s very easy for adults to get caught up in their own jobs and funding and getting published. And Bob was really focused on what actually works for the kids who need the support the most,” said Bart Epstein, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Education who leads the nonprofit EdTech Evidence Exchange.