Some say Dominion and Appalachian should be moving faster to renewable energy, in light of the growing climate change crisis. But that’s often hard for large, investor-owned utilities, said Cale Jaffe, a UVA professor of law and director of the law school’s Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic. “I sort of analogize them to those huge container ships you might see out in the ocean,” Jaffe said. “They’re doing a lot, they’re carrying a lot, and as a result they’re very slow to turn.”
Cale Jaffe, director of the Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic at UVA and a former SELC attorney, said the National Environmental Policy Act was intended to create an environmental mandate, forcing developers and the government to consider the environmental impact of potential development and determine less harmful methods.
“I’ve watched Joe Biden since he was first elected [to the Senate] in 1972,” Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said. “He was full of energy and joking around and had a big personality, but I don’t think anyone has associated the word ‘vision’ with Joe Biden. Democrats are looking for a vision; Biden’s vision is to go back to Obama’s policies. I understand it, but it doesn’t get you standing up and cheering.”
While indulging in that sugary goodness may not be harmful for one day like Valentine's Day, a UVA Health clinical dietitian is warning consumers to be mindful of their daily consumption of added sugar. "If you have a little bit of sugar, it can make you feel good and perk you up and make you feel happy, but if you are consuming excessive amounts of added sugar, over time, it can lead to the total opposite," Katherine Basbaum said.
“A lot of it is a continuation of a trend that goes back decades,” said Hamilton Lombard, a demographer with UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center. “Chesapeake has lots of space for new homes," unlike Norfolk, where building something new means “knocking something down.”
A network of academic medical centers throughout the South and Midwest — including the University of Virginia — have filed a federal lawsuit, asking to prohibit the federal government from implementing the policy.
The grants will be used to develop and test the technologies in simulated environments over the next 10 months, demonstrating their readiness for a potential lunar mission as early as 2023. UVA is among six universities and colleges receiving grants.
On Presidents Day: Hear former President Bill Clinton’s closing keynote address at the Presidential Ideas Festival held last year at the University of Virginia.
The UBike docked bicycle program started in 2015 and has provided bicycles to UVA students, staff and faculty, as well as general community members, for a fee. Rebecca White, director of UVA’s Department of Parking & Transportation, said the decision to discontinue the UBike program was influenced by several simultaneous events, including that Social Bicycles, the provider of the brain/lock mechanism and software for the bikes, did not want to renew the procurement.
(Video) Someone is disrupting years of research at UVA. The question of who is responsible remains a mystery.
The school’s commitment to put unsurpassed teachers in every class starts with Darden’s recruitment and hiring of new faculty and ends with student evaluations that are taken as seriously as a professor’s academic research.
(Commentary by Gary Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor Emeritus in the History of the American Civil War) It has become common to say that the United States in 2020 is more divided politically and culturally than at any other point in our national past. As a historian who has written and taught about the Civil War era for several decades, I know that current divisions pale in comparison to those of the mid-19th century.
He taught and coached at Albemarle for 12 years. While there, he earned an administration and supervision endorsement from UVA and took on supervisory roles that helped prepare him for his current position as principal of Orange County High School. During his first stint at OCHS, from 2001 to 2004, he earned his teaching license and completed a master’s degree in education at the University of Virginia.
Multiple attorneys who have practiced federal criminal law for years in various parts of the justice system emphasized that the jury selection process for a federal trial is explicitly designed to eliminate the complaint at the heart of President Trump’s accusation: bias that would prevent a juror from fairly weighing the facts and law of a case. “The whole process is designed to flag potential bias,” said Timothy Heaphy, a former U.S. Attorney who is now general counsel for the University of Virginia.
“I have spoken to a lot of senior Democrats who want to do whatever they can to stop Sanders winning the nomination,” says Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “They think he would be a disaster, but they don’t believe Buttigieg is experienced enough to win a general election. They are willing to support Bloomberg if that’s what it takes.”
The UVA Medical Center has been named one of the 100 hospitals and health systems with great neurosurgery and spine programs for the sixth year in a row.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have determined that a rare form of childhood brain cancer, previously thought to have a simple structure, actually grows in a very complex way.
Former Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo has been named the University of Virginia’s associate vice president for safety and security and chief of police.
Former Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo is now the police chief at the University of Virginia. Longo will also serve as associate vice president for safety and security.
Tim Longo, former chief of the Charlottesville Police Department, was named UVA’s associate vice president for safety and security and chief of police on Thursday.