Saikrishna Prakash, a professor at the UVA School of Law, is joining The Volokh Conspiracy as a co-blogger. Prakash is one of the country’s leading scholars of the law and history of presidential power.
The University of Virginia Foundation recently announced that Love Golf Design, the golf course architecture firm founded by Davis Love III and his brother Mark, will build a new course on the site of the existing Birdwood Golf Course. The firm’s work on the layout is part of a multi-year improvement plan for the Boar’s Head Resort, the Virginia golf team’s facilities and the historic Birdwood Mansion.
(Commentary) Number crunchers at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service last week painted a picture of the state 23 years on. Virginia will have a population of 10.2 million – it’s now approaching 8.5 million – and will become the nation’s 10th-most-populous state, up from 12th, overtaking Michigan and New Jersey.
Former Virginia standout Malcolm Brogdon is the NBA’s Rookie of the Year. The Milwaukee Bucks guard earned the award on Monday night, beating out finalists Joel Embiid and Dario Saric, both of the Philadelphia 76ers.
On Monday night, Milwaukee Bucks guard Malcolm Brogdon was named Rookie of the Year at the inaugural NBA Awards in New York City. When he was announced as the winner ahead of Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid and Dario Saric, the former University of Virginia star celebrated the moment with his mother, team owners Wes Edens and Jamie Dinan as well as Bucks president Peter Feigin before heading up to the stage.
Former UVA basketball star Malcolm Brogdon was named NBA Rookie of the Year Monday night. Brogdon, who was a second-round draft pick (36th overall) by Milwaukee, becomes the first non-first round winner in the common draft era since 1966. Brogdon joins Ralph Sampson (1984) as the only other UVA player to be named NBA Rookie of the Year.
The UVA club men’s rowing team will race in the Henley Royal Regatta on the Thames River on Wednesday.
Kristina Killgrove, a biological anthropologist from the University of West Florida, is preparing for the trip of a lifetime. She’s heading to Italy soon to study skeletal remains of victims of the 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius volcano eruption. Killgrove grew up in Charlottesville near the University of Virginia, which she later attended.
Christopher Ruhm, UVA professor of public policy and economics, contributed to this STAT article.
(By Jack Hamilton, Slate’s pop critic and UVA assistant professor of American studies and media studies) On his new album “Big Fish Theory,” Vince Staples reunites hip-hop with the dance floor.
Johns Hopkins came in at No. 4 for neonatal care; The University of Virginia Children’s Hospital in Charlottesville ranked No. 30; and Inova Children’s Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia, ranked No. 44.
The four ranked specialties are: neonatology (30th), diabetes and endocrinology (34th), orthopedics (tied for 41st) and cardiology and heart surgery (44th).
UVA anthropologist Mark A. Sicoli, an expert on indigenous languages, talks about the rare whistled speech of people in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Two cohorts of 20 to 25 teachers are working at the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary to learn techniques to better teach reading and English as a Second Language, and will be certified as reading specialists at the end of the programs.
Chesapeake will surpass Norfolk to become the second-most populous city in Virginia by 2020, according to new projections from the University of Virginia. The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Demographics Research Group made the state-funded population projections. The numbers are shared with policymakers for planning.
On February 24, 1883, seven male patients lost consciousness after receiving their morning liquid medication. Autopsies performed by UVA chemistry professor John Mallet concluded – with the coroner’s jury agreeing – that the medicine had been poisoned with aconitine, a deadly extract of the monkshood plant.
A report from the National Marriage Project (directed by UVA sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox) that looked at more than 1,000 adults found that couples who took time to talk through big decisions together (as opposed to sliding through them somewhat haphazardly) were happier individually and as a couple later on.
The ruling, said UVA law professor Douglas Laycock, means that Blaine Amendments are unconstitutional in at least some of their applications. “The question is how many applications, or which applications,” he said. “The case is not just about playgrounds.” He expects it will be easier for funds to go to religious institutions.
Luca Connolly, a recent UVA graduate and a member of the Virginia Student Environmental Coalition, said she’s not prepared to deny Northam a vote just because of his pipelines stance. Connolly and about a dozen other members of VSEC from six Virginia universities temporarily hijacked the stage at Northam’s primary night watch party to protest the candidate’s pipeline stance.
One of the changes that Henderson enjoys the most is the new and improved signage around the museum. Created in collaboration with UVA graduate psychology students, it provides prompts for parents about how to engage with their children at each exhibit.