While it’s a smaller environmental danger than carbon, scientists say fertilizer is an underrated and growing threat – one that’s more complicated to solve. UVA environmental scientist James Galloway said, “You need to have that nitrogen to grow the food, and the more people there are and the higher they’re eating up the food chain, the more nitrogen you need.”
Any action by the president after a removal vote would likely be challenged in court and even as bitterly divided as Washington seems, there’s likely little appetite for a constitutional showdown in the White House’s West Wing. “If the ex-president refused to go, he would be escorted out once Pence became commander-in-chief,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Harris is part of Hoops2O Hoops, aka “The Water Boys,” founded by professional athletes many of whose roots go back to the University of Virginia, Harris’ alma mater. Malcolm Brogdon, the Pacers’ point guard, initiated the program along with former NFL defensive end Chris Long, a two-time Super Bowl champ.
The Heritage Foundation announced today that four of the nation’s leading academics will join its ranks as visiting scholars in an effort to reaffirm American exceptionalism and reinvigorate civic culture. They include Jim Ceaser, a leading scholar on American politics and political thought from the University of Virginia.
A proposed tax on digital advertising revenues in Maryland could run into significant legal barriers. Even if Maryland lawmakers pass the bill, it could be challenged on constitutional and legal grounds, said Ruth Mason, a professor of law and taxation at the UVA School of Law.
Consider this example from presenter Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. He is a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and serves as an adviser to the Deseret News for its annual American Family Survey, now in its sixth year. During his “state of the union” presentation, he spoke of the students he teaches at the University of Virginia, lauding their many virtues: “They’re curious, they’re hard-working, they’re friendly, and many of them have big hea...
The University of Virginia’s Crossroads Family Medicine clinic is celebrating 25 years of helping patients in southwestern Albemarle County. The clinic opened in 1995, and serves as a primary care facility for 3,000 patients regularly.
In May, on the 65th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the school division honored and publicly recognized those 26 students who integrated the division for the first time. The three markers list the names of each student and credit the parents and community members who led the desegregation effort in the county. Kirt von Daacke, assistant dean and associate history professor at the University of Virginia and co-chair of the President’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation, said it’s difficult to capture change over time and nuance in a histori...
"Interestingly, Pennsylvania is the only state that currently has an exactly split (U.S.) House delegation by party," noted Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "The split is a good illustration of how divided Pennsylvania is," he said of the 9-9 partisan split.
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SCHEV’s Peter Blake noted there has been an ongoing conversation around enrollment challenges in the state. Last year, the General Assembly allowed the University of Virginia’s College at Wise to offer in-state tuition to students from the Appalachian region as a way to attract more students.
Many prospective students are looking to study an MBA before switching to a more purpose-driven career. UVA’s Darden School of Business was among the first to recognize ethics as a core business discipline. The school has integrated ethics across the MBA curriculum, and was ranked No. 1 for corporate social responsibility in the FT’s MBA ranking for 2019, the first year this was considered as a component for the list.
A standing-room-only crowd gathered at UVA’s Rotunda on Friday to hear panelists’ thoughts on presidential impeachment. The panel featured Deborah Hellman, a UVA professor of law; Kyle Kondik, communications director for UVA’s Center for Politics; and Chris Lu, former deputy secretary of labor under former President Barack Obama.
Jonathan Kipnis, the director of the Center for Brain Immunology and Glia and chairman of the department of neuroscience at the University of Virginia, was curious as to whether the body’s immune system might somehow be in dialogue with the brain, and microglia, in ways that could influence neurological and psychiatric conditions.
“If 18-year-olds are burdened with the responsibility of adulthood, they should be afforded some of its privileges,” said Charlotte Lawson, a 21-year-old fourth-year student at UVA who wrote an opinion piece in the campus paper in 2018 calling for the drinking age to be lowered from 21.
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to menopause expert Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, division director of the Midlife Health Center at the University of Virginia, who answers listeners' questions.
A proposed tax on digital advertising revenues in Maryland could run into significant legal barriers. The measure targets the revenue of large companies that profit from showing online advertising to users in Maryland. The tax rate would range from 2.5% to 10%, depending on companies’ annual gross revenue. If Maryland lawmakers pass the bill, it could be challenged on constitutional and legal grounds, said Ruth Mason, a professor of law and taxation at the UVA School of Law.
Cooper is not a typical police dog. He is a miniature American shepherd instead of a German shepherd, and a therapy dog instead of an explosive detection expert. “Our other handlers, they love Cooper, but they say it’s just not what we're used to seeing with a police dog, like a big German shepherd, whereas he’s short and hairy and kind of round,” said Sgt. Ben Rexrode of the UVA Police Department. Rexrode personally bought and trained Cooper to come to work with him and help members of the university community.
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