(Commentary by Nomi Dave, assistant professor of music) The current Black Lives Matter protests around the world build on a longer history of anti-racist solidarity and struggle across the Atlantic. Guinean people see, clearly, what the U.S. is – both good and bad.
UVA leaders are thanking those who spoke out against a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the coronavirus pandemic.
After a week of voluntary football workouts at Virginia, coach Bronco Mendenhall has become an authority on nearly all known aspects of coronavirus prevention in athletics, while his staff and players have followed suit.
UVA athletes from all over returned to campus last week to begin voluntary workouts – but not before undergoing COVID testing. Only two of the 110 athletes Virginia tested came back positive, an encouraging sign as the program navigates a return to in-person training.
Taison Bell, an assistant professor of medicine in the divisions of infectious diseases and international health and pulmonary and critical-care medicine at the University of Virginia, said regions of the country with the highest mask use are seeing some of the lowest positivity rates.
(Commentary by Jacqueline Skalski-Fouts, global studies undergraduate student) With most countries closing borders and issuing some form of stay-at-home orders, safety and services dedicated to asylum-seekers and refugees have dramatically decreased. The result is a large number of migrants in Morocco and around the world facing dangerous health situations and increased economic insecurity.
(Commentary by Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine) The difference reflects, at least in part, each state’s behavior expectations and the willingness of residents to keep up safety precautions like wearing masks, avoiding large crowds, maintaining social distance of at least six feet and staying isolated when they are ill or may have been exposed to the virus.
(Commentary by Rachel Harmon, professor of law and director of UVA’s Center for Criminal Justice) No state can so easily create a federal decertification database that prevents officers who have a history of misconduct from wandering from one state to another state.
(Commentary by Mehr Afshan Farooqi, associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures) Each time I try to write a tribute to Asif Farrukhi, my fingers freeze on the keyboard. I find it incredibly hard to write about Asif in the past tense. It can’t be true that Asif is no more. A person with such indomitable energy can’t go away so suddenly. Yet, he did leave us; we are his mourners, wringing our hands in sorrow and despair. How does one begin to enumerate the wide-ranging engagements of his visionary repertoire? As an eminent writer of fiction, lit...
The Washington Redskins, UVA and Virginia Tech haven’t said how many fans they’ll allow at games this year, if any.
Del. Jerrauld C. “Jay” Jones (D-Norfolk) announced Monday that he will seek his party’s nomination for state attorney general. Jones is a partner at the law firm of Bischoff Martingayle in Norfolk, focusing on civil litigation. He earned his law degree from the University of Virginia.
(Video) As caseloads, death tolls and hospitalizations continue to rise across the country, President Trump wore a mask in public for the first time. Dr. Ebony Hilton, associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Virginia and co-founder and medical director of Goodstock Consulting, joins MSNBC’s Joshua Johnson to discuss the latest.
UVA law students are urging administrators to create new classes and policies to protect international students threatened by new visa policy.
Multiple religious, grantmaking, civic and professional organizations also received loans, including the University of Virginia Darden School Foundation and the UVA Alumni Association, which each received between $1 million and $2 million, according to the data.
At the University of Virginia, a commission to examine the school’s role in racial segregation issued recommendations in March on handling past and future memorials. The guidelines include questioning whether the person’s main legacy was contested during their lifetime. An equity task force is now examining the report and plans to issue an opinion in August.
In recent weeks, a growing list of M.B.A. programs, including UVA’s Darden School of Business, said they plan to extend their test-optional format to the 2021 admissions cycle.
The Atlantic Coast Conference is expected to play a conference-only schedule this fall. That applies to all sports, including football. The Virginia football team will no longer open the season on September 7th against Georgia in Atlanta, however, they will still travel to Atlanta, as the Cavaliers will play at Georgia Tech in October.
“There is no doubt that risk assessments are biased,” says Megan Stevenson of the University of Virginia. “Anything that has data from a biased world will have a biased output.” But this means that “there is no way to test a risk assessment tool for fairness,” because any measures, such as if a bailed person is rearrested, can also be affected by racial bias in the justice system.
Explains University of Virginia legal history professor Cynthia Nicoletti, who wrote “Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis,” the Confederacy’s only president, some Southerners and Northerners believed at the time that states could opt out of a union they voluntarily joined. She notes that Davis was never put on trial for treason, though it appears that it would have been an easy case to prove. “Treason in the Constitution is levying war against the United States,” Nicoletti said. “It was incredibly easy for them to prove that Davis levied war against th...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on Thursday that local prosecutors in New York may obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns and other closely guarded financial records from his accountants and lenders. … But Saikrishna Prakash, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, said the impact will be limited.