(Commentary co-written by Melody Barnes, co-director of the UVA Democracy Initiative and a professor of practice at the Miller Center of Public Affairs) Even as they debate often profound policy disagreements, a successful Democratic candidate must inspire Americans with a clearer, bolder vision than President Trump has offered for what America can be in the 21st century.
UVA constitutional law professor Richard C. Schragger said a county may leave one state and join another with the majority vote of both states’ legislatures and the U.S. Congress, according to the U.S. Constitution. Schragger predicted that while West Virginia’s legislature might welcome Justice’s proposal, Virginia’s remaining Republican lawmakers would be loath to let conservative counties break away. Virginia’s Democrats would probably oppose the secession also, he said, “as a matter of pride and … a sense of the historic integrity of the state.”
A Doritos spot featured Lil Nas X and actor Sam Elliott in a dance-off to the viral hit “Old Town Road.” “Doritos does this mash-up of different targets colliding,” said Kimberly Whitler, assistant professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business. “They’re trying to draw all the audiences. I have to believe the people who know Sam Elliott don’t know Lil Nas, and the people who know Lil Nas don’t know Sam Elliott.”
Gov. Ralph Northam’s proposed budget, if approved by the legislature, would attempt to address several health care issues at Virginia’s prisons. It contains a pilot program in which UVA and Virginia Commonwealth University, two schools with medical departments, would oversee portions of prison health care.
A.E. Dick Howard, a UVA constitutional law expert, said there’s a long way to go before questions about the Equal Rights Amendment will be settled. “My goodness, can you imagine the number of parties and other states that would want to be heard in this?” he said.
“Children should learn to decode – i.e., go from print on the page to words in the mind – not by shrewd guesswork and inference, but by learning to decode,” UVA psychologist Daniel Willingham said. He said the inferences Columbia University professor Lucy Calkins applauds are “cognitively taxing, and readers don’t have much endurance for it. … It disrupts the flow of what you’re reading, and doing a lot of it gets frustrating.”
UVA research says state-purchased insurance plans could make life better for people living with HIV and keep the disease from spreading.
As a veteran, Ramela is able to take advantage of the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill, which covers his education expenses and provides a monthly housing allowance. It covered around $46,000 per year in tuition and fees at American University, where Ramela earned a master’s in finance, completed in December. He receives about $28,000, or just over $2,300 per month, to put toward housing as well. Ramela isn’t done with school yet. He’s working on his second master’s degree in information technology at the University of Virginia, which he started pursuing in August.
UVA Facilities Management employee Emily Martin was presented the Community Leadership award for her work to develop a diversity and inclusion program. "I think it's important to remain engaged in the community, because we shouldn't be complacent,” Martin said.
In an unlikely bid, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice says he would welcome neighboring Virginia counties to join his state amid Democrats' control of Virginia's government. Such a move would require approval from both states and Congress, said Richard Schragger, a University of Virginia law professor who focuses on the intersection of the Constitution and local law.
John Norton Moore, a professor of law and director of the Center for National Security Law and the Center for Oceans Law and Policy in the School of Law at the University of Virginia, plans to retire. He has been a member of the Law School faculty for 53 years.
Regardless of how such incidents are resolved – with the firing of an officer or a finding of justifiable force – the outcome does little to ensure that future incidents won’t occur, according to Barbara E. Armacost, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen’s ideas about why some businesses adjust to competition and some don’t were so controversial that a battle broke out on Twitter within hours of his death last Friday at the age of 67. “It's easy for journalists to mock someone known for ‘disruption theory,’” said Nieman Lab editor Joshua Benton, “but Clay was a brilliant mind and one of the very nicest people I've ever sat across a desk from.” That brought the first of several blistering retorts from Siva Vaidhyanathan, a prominent media-studies scholar at the University...
In 2009, scientists used Spitzer to detect a previously unknown ring of dust around Saturn. The ring glows in infrared light and is also much larger than any other known ring of Saturn. “If you could see the ring, it would span the width of two full Moons’ worth of sky, one on either side of Saturn,” said Anne Verbiscer, an astronomer at the University of Virginia and lead researcher on the discovery.
Roanoke-based Carilion Clinic generated more than $3.2 billion in economic impact and approximately 24,000 jobs in Virginia in 2018, according to a Carilion-commissioned study released Wednesday from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Center for Economic and Policy Studies.
At the University of Virginia, students in China “were advised to depart” on Monday, the day the CDC and State Department advisories were upgraded, a spokesman told WTOP in an email. “At this time,” he added, the University has “no faculty-led or UVA-administered education abroad programs planned for the remainder of the spring 2020 semester in China.”
A partnership between two University of Virginia publishing groups recently received $1 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The funding will support the Virginia Digital Publishing Cooperative, a cooperative between the Center for Digital Editing and the University of Virginia Press that developed out of a similar grant awarded in 2017.
Negative emissions technologies, which remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, could halt or even reverse the process of climate change – but not without major consequences, according to new research from UVA doctoral candidate Jay Fuhrman and associate professor of engineering Andres Clarens.
(Commentary co-written by law professor Michael Gilbert) Lawmakers in the General Assembly are considering a proposal that would amend the Virginia Constitution to transfer redistricting authority from the General Assembly to a new redistricting commission made up jointly of citizens and legislators.
By 2040, according to a UVA analysis of census projections, half the population will live in eight states. About 70% of people will live in 16 states – which means that 30% of the population will control 68% of the Senate.