(Podcast) On this week’s “51%,” we hit the books. University of Virginia professor Andrea Press explains how today’s media can better represent women in her book, “Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism.”
It’s unclear what the state’s Supreme Court will do, but legal experts point to the state’s constitution. “The state constitution, when it was rewritten substantially in the early 1970s, sought to insulate education policy from politics, at least to some degree,” says Rich Schragger, a law professor at the University of Virginia. “This is coming out of the experience with massive resistance in segregated schools. And so the constitution makers set up a school board as essentially an independent entity.”
(Editorial) UVA law professors Richard Sharagger and Cale Jaffe, suggest Virginia’s new governor is overstepping his legal authority.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said it was “a bit naïve on Biden’s part” to believe Republicans would not be hell-bent on tanking his agenda and said it reflected an unwillingness to accept the reality of the highly partisan Trump era in which bipartisanship is near impossible. “Those days are just gone. They’re absolutely gone,” Perry said.
Biden has been directly involved in negotiating with Manchin by phone and in person, even hosting him and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) at his Wilmington, Del., home. Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said that Biden has been one of the most involved modern presidents in legislative negotiations.
To make their case, prosecutors will have to prove willfulness, a high standard under the law that implies some form of intent. In the past, federal prosecutors have been reluctant to bring these types of cases because of the difficulty proving willfulness. “The basic idea is that the officer has to know he is doing something wrong,” said Rachel Harmon, a former prosecutor in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division who now teaches at the University of Virginia School of Law. “Doing something with the intent to do something that the law forbids. He doesn’t have to be thinking specific...
(Commentary by John Rodden, retired professor) Have you already violated your New Year’s Resolutions? The time-honored tradition of making New Year’s resolutions is probably matched by the equally venerable tradition of breaking those very same resolutions — often within just a few days of our firm resolves. I’ve been guilty of this myself, in numerous Januarys. If you’re at all like me, you have a sorry record of Irresolute Resolutions. If so, then this is the time for: The Resolution Reset.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at the Darden School) One year into the Biden presidency, a disappointing lack of progress on immigration reform has been a factor in Biden’s slipping approval ratings.
(By Anne Trumbore, executive director of digital and open enrollment at the Darden School of Business) The “great resignation” has left a lot of people with time on their hands. And while this time may be a welcome respite from the daily grind, most folks will need to get back to work eventually. For many, this period is a time of reflection and a chance to pursue a new career.
The University of Virginia Medical Center says it has 615 patients as of Friday, a little more than 100 of whom are being treated for COVID-19. “We are at our highest point of surge throughout the pandemic and the numbers bounce around, but this is the most COVID patients we’ve had in house,” Wendy Horton with UVA Health said.
Fueled by the omicron variant, both the Blue Ridge Health District and the University of Virginia Medical Center set pandemic records this week for the number of new COVID cases and related hospitalizations.
In their paper ‘Steering Economic Progress’ Anton Korinek, an economist at the University of Virginia and Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel economist at Columbia University, recommend steps including nudges for entrepreneurs and tax changes to pursue labour-friendly innovations.
Scientists from the University of Virginia School of Medicine have developed a gene therapy to treat Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy, and potentially prolong survival for people with the condition.
Researchers have found thousands of Americans aren’t aware that alcohol can increase their risks of cancer. Nearly 4,000 Americans took a survey conducted by the National Cancer Institute. Researchers at UVA Health studied those results and found 50% of people surveyed didn’t know alcohol affects cancer risks.
A recent study by the University of Virginia Cancer Center suggests that less than half of Americans understand that drinking alcohol increases your risk for cancer.
The surge is likely to peak statewide soon, experts with University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute reported Friday. Pinpointing the high point of the surge isn’t an easy task, they conceded. One major complication is asymptomatic spread. “Usually, people with symptoms of a disease will avoid spreading it or isolate completely,” researchers wrote a report released Friday. “With COVID-19, many people spread the virus without ever knowing they had it.”
The peak — a moving target compounded by underreported infections — may come in a few weeks, researchers said, also cautioning that moment would mean half of the surge’s infections were still to come. “Omicron is causing an unprecedented number of cases and placing severe strain on Virginia’s hospitals, doctors, and nurses,” UVA officials wrote in Friday’s report.
An aging billionaire who heads a media empire is experiencing serious health problems. Is he legally bound to disclose that to his company’s shareholders? The scenario should sound familiar to viewers of “Succession,” the popular HBO series that follows fictional media baron Logan Roy and his four children as they vie to take over the family business. It’s also one of the plot points students dissected in a new class at the University of Virginia School of Law that uses the show to teach elements of corporate law.
“Ten years ago, as a graduate student thinking I would spend my career on star formation, I looked at the data from Henize 2-10 and everything changed,” Amy Reines, a UVA researcher and one of the study’s authors, said. “From the beginning I knew something unusual and special was happening.”
Over the next three years, UVA will receive more than $2.1 million to help address burnout and mental health among health care workers. U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine announced Virginia is getting more than $5.6 million in total from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration.