(Commentary by Lillian Bevier, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law Emerita) Sixth Circuit Judge Amul Thapar is one of the six judges whom President Trump is considering to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Kennedy’s retirement. For the last seven years, Judge Thapar and I have co-taught an intensive week-long class about judicial philosophy at the UVA Law School. In this context, I have learned much about his approach to judging and his understanding of the judicial role.
Brice T. Cocke of Daphne, Alabama lost his University of Virginia class ring 47 or 48 years ago on Carolina Avenue in South Roanoke. A landscaper found it in some dirt June 6, and a neighbor worked with a jeweler, UVa's alumni office and a national fraternity to identify the owner and return it.
James Stone, Wytheville’s longest practicing physician, is hanging up his stethoscope. Over the years, he’s delivered babies and treated everything from sniffles to dangerous infections. Forty-five years ago, Stone had already earned an undergraduate degree from the Virginia Military Institute and graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1968. After finishing his residency at Norfolk General Hospital and completing a stint in the military, he decided to strike out on his own.
Ria Scott has been named the new women's golf coach at Virginia after nine seasons leading the Oregon Ducks. The Ducks played in the postseason in every season in her tenure and Scott coached each player in UO's career top-10 in season scoring average.
(By UVA student Amy Zhang) This week we celebrate the United Nations International Day of Cooperatives, commemorated every year on the first Saturday of July. Cooperatives’ success in sustainable development, wealth creation, and poverty alleviation give many hope for an equitable future. As we commend cooperatives, it is important to recognize and understand how they function.
Archaeologists are currently working to excavate a slave quarter at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. It's a part of a field school through the University of Virginia.
Another reason for the lopsided fundraising numbers is that a lot of the big money Republican donors are staying away from Corey Stewart — like the Koch brothers, for example, or the National Republican Senate Committee. Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says they have other races to fund. “There are 10 seats that are up that Democrats control that are in states that Donald Trump carried in 2016, and so starting with that list those all would rank ahead of Virginia from the get-go.”
Larry Sabato, UVA professor of politics, said this was not the first time the administration had used the White House Twitter feed to attack Democratic senators. “The 2020 campaign unofficially began the night Trump won in 2016. It is well underway as of now,” he said. “Trump knows when he attacks a Democrat, it helps him or her with the party base. My enemy’s worst enemy is my best friend.”
Beginning in 2002, Amy Coney Barrett has taught at her alma mater, the Notre Dame Law School. She has also served as a visiting associate professor and John M. Olin Fellow in Law at the George Washington University Law School and as a visiting associate professor of law at the University of Virginia.
Jerry Stenger, director of the state climatology office at the University of Virginia, said the rains raised stream flows and improved groundwater. "We are looking at a very different potential situation than we were a couple of months ago," Stenger said. "The chances of having serious water supply problems throughout this area are greatly reduced."
Sid Milkis, a professor at UVA’s Miller Center, spoke about the legacy of the Declaration of Independence, and whether America is currently living up to the ideals written by Thomas Jefferson in that document.
Dawna Clarke, executive director of admissions and financial aid at UVA’s Darden School of Business, said she is always pleased to see applicants who have already completed business-focused training such as a certified-public-accountant certification or the HBX Credential of Readiness program at Harvard Business School, an online training curriculum covering topics such as business analytics and accounting that the school began widely offering in 2015. “I want to encourage people to take those quantitative classes before they even apply. It makes life easier when you’re in an M.B.A. program, a...
Dr. Gregory Saathoff is a co-founder of ParadeRest and a professor at the UVA School of Medicine. He worked with veterans when he was a medical student and realized their stories need to be told.
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation's Board of Trustees has new leadership. The nonprofit that owns and operates Monticello selected a new chairman and vice chair for its board. According to Glamour, Melody Barnes, who assumed the position of vice chair on June 15, is the first Africa-American person to ever hold the position. She is a senior fellow and Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics at UVA’s Miller Center.
According to University of Virginia historian Peter Norton, who studies the early automotive era, we’re on the brink of the most sweeping technological change in transportation since the transition from the horse and carriage to the car about a century ago.
(Commentary by U.S. Army Maj. Katie Hillegass, an assistant professor of military science at the University of Virginia) In February, Brazilian President Michel Temer placed the country’s military in charge of security for the state of Rio de Janeiro. The move marked the culmination of a decade-long expansion of the military’s role in internal politics and security. To date, the military intervention has been constitutional, legally sanctioned, and well-intentioned on the part of the military leadership. However, the use of the military for internal security is not a good practice for the mili...
(Video) Quite often physicians feel overworked and underappreciated, but it's nice to step back once in a while and think about the things that make it all worth it. Dr. Keith R. Bachmann, pediatric orthopedic surgeon at the UVA Health System, explains that every young physician should always remember what they find most rewarding about the work they do.
The UVA Health System is being honored for its heart care. The Heart Failure Program got the nod from the American Heart Association. This is the fifth consecutive year the program has received the Gold Plus and Target: Heart Failure recognition.
In 2015, two Princeton University economists published a key study showing that life expectancies were beginning to decrease for middle-aged Caucasians. The deaths were often attributed to drugs, alcohol, and suicide—the pair dubbed these “deaths of despair.” To probe the phenomenon further, UVA professor Christopher Ruhm examined U.S. mortality rates from 1999 to 2015. He found that increases in drug-related deaths during that period could account for “the entire growth” in mortality rates and years of potential life lost among Caucasians aged 22–56. “We have this surprising result that white...
"Every time I'd fly across the state, I'd look down from the plane and see large areas that had been impacted by prior economic uses, like mining, landfills, sand and gravel operations, and brownfields," said John Zablocki, southern Nevada conservation director for the Nature Conservancy. "I'd think to myself, ‘why not put solar development there? Or at least put as much of it as we can there. Who could argue with that?'" To answer that question, the Nature Conservancy partnered with the University of Virginia Law School to identify what legal, financial, and other barriers might explain why d...