The Zimmermans’ initial gift: $100,000. The goal for what they’re calling the Pros for Heroes Covid-19 Relief Fund: $250,000, with the help of athletes from all of Washington’s professional sports teams. The hope: Solicit gifts, both big and small, to create a sustaining gift that can help front-line health workers and their families get through this crisis.
America’s poor have previously blamed themselves for their own poverty, UVA sociologist Allison Pugh said. But “it’s gonna be hard to blame yourself when your grandmother dies,” she said. “All of a sudden, it doesn’t feel like your fault anymore. And you’re gonna look up and be like, ‘This is not OK.’”
“For these five years, juries would say, ‘You know, let’s take an example like 100 years,’” Juliet Hatchett of the Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law said. “They would think that meant that the person was going to become parole-eligible in 20 years or something like that, and then that wasn’t the case. So, they’re giving much longer sentences than they actually realized that they had been giving.”
“It’s a gigantic change,” Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said in an interview on Monday. “There really is no precedent. There is no period like this. Virginia has never had a liberal period.”
(Commentary by Raymond Scheppach, professor of public policy) “Governors Have the Best Political Jobs in America” is the name of one of my lectures in a leadership course I occasionally teach at the University of Virginia. I might call that lecture now, “Governor, Why Did You Want That Job Anyway?”
“It has been a painfully long haul, but I am grateful that we finally have the legal ability to remove these racist relics from our public spaces. These Civil War participation trophies commemorate a failed white supremacist slave-ocracy that destroyed black people’s lives by theft, violence and extraction, only to perversely glorify those horrors as heroic acts. The time to idolize white supremacy in statuary or deed is long past. This bill is the first step to building racial justice and repair for Virginia." - Dr. Lisa Woolfork, associate professor of English.
The two presidents have always been polar opposites. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, added: “Trump’s narcissism is overpowering: everything is about him. Obama was a very controlled person. He would have given you the facts and nothing more. He would have been perfect for this.”
A new UVA study shows just how large the financial fallout could be. “A coming recession is pretty much baked in at this point – the only question is how severe it is,” said UVA economist Terry Rephann, the paper’s author. “We don’t think these are the final estimates by any means but we’re trying to show a range of.”
Larry J. Sabato, who has spent a lifetime studying national elections as a UVA political science professor and director of its Center for Politics, said the prospect of one party using its power to disrupt the other party’s primary is unprecedented and outrageous. It also demonstrates the imperative for states to develop ways to ensure the continuity of the most fundamental act of a democratic republic.
Herbert “Tico” Braun, professor of history at the University of Virginia, said that just starting can be a challenge, especially for those who aren’t writers. “We have to convince ourselves that we’re writing something that perhaps other people want or need to read,” he said.
“Former presidents are a rarity and they are a precious, valuable informed commodity,” Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, said. And it’s not only because they know issues, “but they also have the experience of being president.”
UVA associate dean of admission Jeannine Lalonde said that the school’s housing department offers floor plans and virtual tours.
Researchers from the UVA School of Medicine made a new discovery that could change the trajectory for people with neurodegenerative diseases. The neurologists think they have uncovered the source of lifelong behavioral issues. It is an unexpected form of cell clean-up takes place in developing brains.
Hospitals across the globe are having to fight just to ensure health care workers have the personal protective equipment needed to treat patients infected with COVID-19. In that battle, UVA Health is unveiling a new secret weapon: TRU-D, an ultraviolet room cleaning machine.
Virginia public officials have said social distancing and closure guidelines cannot be lifted until data shows the curve of new COVID-19 cases in the commonwealth is dipping. Researchers with the University of Virginia plan to release information about a new Virginia-specific model tracking and predicting coronavirus cases in the state.
Before he was a vocal climate-change contrarian, Dr. Singer had an illustrious scientific career. An early rocket scientist whose work was important to the development of earth observation satellites, he was a professor at the University of Maryland, the University of Miami and the University of Virginia, among other institutions, alternating with positions in government.
Dr. Singer was a professor at the University of Maryland in the 1950s, then in 1964 became the first dean of a school of environmental and planetary studies at the University of Miami. He held high-ranking positions at the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency before joining the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1971.
Virginia Catalyst’s first 10 funding rounds enabled it to dedicate $19.1 million for 43 collaborative projects. The projects have created more than 170 new jobs and brought an additional $228 million of investment capital. Created by the Virginia General Assembly, the organization is funded by the Commonwealth’s General Fund, Eastern Virginia Medical School, and several universities: George Mason; Old Dominion; University of Virginia; Virginia Commonwealth; Virginia Tech; and William & Mary.