Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, attributed today’s divisions to a confluence of factors – the coronavirus pandemic and related economic downturn, former President Trump’s tendency toward sowing division, 24/7 news coverage and social media. She described the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol as the type of “violent disunity” last seen during the Civil War era. “All of these relate to and develop and perpetrate the divisions that we now see, so that it’s very hard for any president to try to bridge those gaps,” Perry said.
The playbook for the legal world is different from the political world. And in the political world, “every time a president does something controversial, it becomes a building block for future presidents,” said Saikrishna Prakash, a law professor at the University of Virginia who studies presidential powers.
In jurisprudence, “true threat” has a specific meaning. “Vociferous dissenting speech at a school board meeting is protected,” said law professor Douglas Laycock at the University of Virginia School of Law. “Disrupting the meeting and making it impossible to continue probably is not. Threatening the school board with physical violence definitely is not.”
“With COVID, it is estimated that because of how many patients delayed screening for cancer, that means that there were going to see more patients present with more advanced cancers in the future. And the former head of the National Cancer Institute estimated that there will be about 10,000 excess deaths from colon and breast cancer because of the lack of screening,” said Dr. Joan Schiller, adjunct professor at the University of Virginia, board member at the Lung Cancer Research Foundation, and OUCH member. Like with COVID-19, screening disruptions caused by climate change could spell worse ou...
“The ties that bind have grown tighter for those navigating COVID together,” said Wilcox, a survey adviser whose professional titles include director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. “On the downside, all the uncertainty, trials and tribulations made people not currently in a family a bit more cautious.”
Many young adults see marriage as “nice,” but not a priority and view their 20s as a time to focus on education, work and fun, said Brad Wilcox, a survey adviser whose titles include director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and senior scholar at the Institute for Family Studies. He notes that when young adults delay marriage and starting a family, they become less likely to do either.
One challenge to overall fertility is that so many couples wait longer to get married and start families, said Brad Wilcox, an Institute for Family Studies scholar who directs the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and was a survey adviser.
Climate change and other human actions are erasing wetlands and the benefits they come with. Hurricanes, which scientists expect climate change to make more severe, flood wetlands with ocean water storm surges that kill plants with too-salty conditions. Meanwhile, rising sea levels, which are advancing between three and almost five millimeters a year in the Chesapeake, inundate the plants with water and drown them in place, said Elliott White Jr., a coastal wetlands researcher at the University of Virginia.
UVA President Jim Ryan ran in the Boston Marathon on Monday to raise money for nurses. He raised more than $13,000 that will go toward scholarships for students in UVA’s Nursing School.
The UVA School of Medicine’s Medical Center Hour this week will be talking about the role social media has played during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Danny Avula, the COVID-19 vaccination coordinator for Virginia, will be speaking along with Dr.Max Luna, director of the UVA Latino Health Initiative.
The Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School is the subject of an open federal Office of Civil Rights complaint filed in 2013 by a group including Paul Fleischer, a retired Richmond Public Schools gifted and talented teacher, and Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor who studies segregation. In it, they allege that the Governor’s school’s admissions process “shows clear evidence of persistent bias against Black and ... Latino students.” The problems persisted even after a 118-page study of the school done by the University of Virginia offered various policy recommenda...
A new program aims to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks among adults in Southwest Virginia. The UVA School of Medicine has teamed up with community groups in that region to test a web-based program called iSIPsmarter. According to a release, this study has been funded by a five-year, $3.4 million grant from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities. It’s also part of ongoing efforts to work with Southwest Virginia residents to improve health across the region.
UVA and community groups in Southwest Virginia are testing a web-based program that could help adults in the region reduce their consumption of sugary drinks. Researchers estimate adults in Southwest Virginia drink two to three times more sugary drinks than the average American. And that makes them more likely to face a variety of health conditions.
Ground has been broken on a new interdisciplinary building that will be going in at the Dell on Emmet Street. According to a UVA release, the Contemplative Commons will include outdoor spaces such as contemplative gardens, a tree-lined courtyard and a pedestrian bridge across Emmet Street. A ceremony was held Friday to celebrate the groundbreaking, which began with a meditation session led by David Germano, the executive director of the Contemplative Sciences Center, which will be part of the Commons.
The UVA endowment’s 49% investment return for the year ending June 30 helped raise the total value of its investment portfolio to $14.5 billion. The University of Virginia Investment Management Company reported that the gains were led by private equity investments, which returned 98.7% for the fiscal year, while public equity and real assets returned 51.4% and 49%, respectively. Private equity is the endowment’s second-largest asset allocation at 26.4%, behind its 29.9% asset allocation to public equity.
Even in Indian summer, a soda, pop, energy drink, sweet tea or fruit-flavored punch might sound good when doing that end-of-season mowing or fall raking. UVA researchers and Mountain Empire Older Citizens hope to convince adults in Southwest Virginia that those drinks may taste good, but have bad health outcomes in a new program, iSIPsmarter.
In his new book, UVA historian Peter Norton punctures the claims of autonomous vehicle companies and warns that technology can’t cure the urban problems that cars created.
Dr. William A. Petri, an immunologist at the UVA School of Medicine, answers this week’s questions from readers on COVID-19.
Roshida Dowe has always been a hard worker. From her early days as a receptionist to her decision to go to law school [at UVA] and spend years as a consumer automotive finance lawyer in Silicon Valley, she is well-accustomed to the grind. But in 2018 at age 39, everything changed when she was laid off and decided to capitalize on her newfound joblessness by taking a year to travel the world.
(Commentary) I proudly serve on the Mid-Atlantic Regional Advisory Board for the One Love Foundation, which was founded in honor of Cockeysville native Yeardley Love, who was tragically killed by her former boyfriend in 2010 while they were students at the University of Virginia. Yeardley’s death, like Gabby’s, received copious media coverage; she, too, was a beautiful white woman. But the foundation created in her memory is dedicated to ending relationship abuse across a diverse spectrum, understanding that to make a profound difference in the lives of the next generation, we need to commit t...