Though a Charlottesville Circuit Court judge recently ruled on a major aspect of the 2017 lawsuit over City Council’s votes to remove two Confederate statues, several issues are still unresolved. According to Richard Schragger, a University of Virginia professor of law who focuses on the intersection of constitutional law and local government law, an equal protection defense is fairly straightforward and is intended to prevent the government from racial discrimination.
Traditionally, top White House and congressional officials were reluctant to engage in tactics that could fundamentally change the separation-of-powers playing field. Knowing that majorities in Congress shift and control of the White House changes hands, there was a clear incentive to maintain balance. “That certainly does not seem to be [Sen.] Mitch McConnell (R-KY)’s way of governing,” Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia’s nonpartisan Miller Center, said. “That’s, ‘I will do whatever I can do right now and the future be damned.'”
By 2040, according to a University of Virginia analysis of Census population projections, about half of the country will live in just eight states — which means 16 senators for one half of America and 84 for the other half. Meanwhile, according to Stanford political scientist Jonathan Rodden, partisanship closely correlates with population density — “as you go from the center of cities out through the suburbs and into rural areas, you traverse in a linear fashion from Democratic to Republican places.”
The weekend also included a cancer research symposium at the Salamander Resort & Spa. Joseph Moore, M.D., Medical Director of the Duke Raleigh Cancer Center and Professor of Hematology and Oncology at Duke Cancer Center, hosted the symposium to reinforce the urgency and momentum behind research today. Each of the Virginia Vine mission partners – Inova Schar Cancer Institute, University of Virginia Health System Cancer Center and Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center – will receive a mission grant. The V Foundation will also fund competitive team science research in Virginia...
(Commentary co-written by Sarah Turner, professor of economics and education) To make college affordable, should we create a scholarship program that gives the biggest financial rewards to students from rich families? Put that way, it’s hard to imagine such a program becoming politically popular, particularly on the left. Yet some of the “free college” plans touted by many Democratic presidential contenders would do just that. They generally would provide the largest benefits to those with the greatest capacity to pay.
If you hire top-notch architects for a high-profile project at your university, do you then have some kind of curatorial responsibility to care for it, even as tastes and needs — and presidents and trustees — change? The University of Virginia has just torn down University Hall, a round 1965 basketball arena by Anderson, Beckwith & Haible that had a spectacular ribbed roof and was eligible for both the state and national historic registers.
Games can be a highly effective way to develop, retain, and reward talent. For proof, look no further than another cybersecurity contest, the 2019 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Jake Smith and Daniel Chen, both members of this year’s winning team, interns at Raytheon (a sponsor of the event), and students at the University of Virginia, said the reason they became interested in cybersecurity in the first place was due to CyberPatriot, a similar contest sponsored by the Air Force Association and aimed at high school-level participants.
There’s also evidence e-cig users are more likely to start smoking cigarettes. Robert Klesges, co-director of UVA’s Center for Addiction and Prevention Research, says he’s most concerned with this “gateway property.” Vapers are up to nine times more likely to switch to cigarettes, he explained.
(Video) A Central Virginia woman is helping children at UVA Medical Center find comfort while they receive treatment.
At this time of year, temperatures in Iraq routinely rise into the mid-90s and in summer the record high is 124 degrees. That’s brutal for soldiers who carry heavy packs and wear body armor to protect them from bullets. A UVA team is doing research for the Department of Defense, hoping to provide information that could lead to lighter forms of protection.
(Commentary by Marlene Daut, associate professor of African diaspora studies in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies) The five heavily armed U.S. citizens who were arrested and then transported out of Haiti by the U.S. Embassy last week have been making headlines, but this account distracts from the real story. Instead of focusing on these individuals, the U.S. public should be paying attention to the White House’s highly asymmetrical responses to demonstrations in Haiti and Venezuela.
Marlene Daut, associate professor of African diaspora studies in UVA’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, talks about the history of the Haitian revolution.
Kyle Klondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political newsletter run by the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Democrats’ path to victory relies on taking back Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Trump won the Midwest “blue wall” states in 2016, but each swung for Democrats in 2018 midterms.
UVA political analyst Kyle Kondik says Northam remains in office for a number of reasons. “For one thing, Fairfax is even more toxic than he is, and the accusations against the lieutenant governor help insulate the governor. But I also think the governor surveyed the political climate and determined that he was better off staying in office than resigning. Northam did, in fact, face a lot of pressure to resign, but he weathered it and decided not to step aside in spite of it,” he explained.
In general, the experts I consulted agreed that the optimal number of children is specific to each family’s desires and constraints. “When a couple feels like they have more interest in kids; more energy for kids; maybe more support, like grandparents in the area; and a decent income, then having a large family can be the best option for them,” says Brad Wilcox, the director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project. “And when a couple has fewer resources, either emotional, social, or financial, then having a smaller family would be best for them."
Primary care physicians often struggle to connect patients with specialists. Specialists, on their end, are often overwhelmed by referrals. Five years after its launch, the AAMC's Project CORE has helped improve patient care for more than 2 million patients. “There are definitely providers who, for their patients that are paying out of pocket, almost always start with the eConsults instead of referrals just because it is much more cost-effective if the patient doesn’t need to see the specialist” in person, says Kim Dowdell, MD, primary care lead for CORE at the University of Virginia Medical C...
(Commentary by UVA professors Lisa Woolfork and Noelle Hurd) Without Joe Biden setting foot in Charlottesville, his presidential launch video managed to transform our hashtagged city from a potential campaign backdrop into a campaign prop. Mentioning Charlottesville cannot substitute for advancing a genuine racial justice platform.
Google Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton Cerf spoke Wednesday at the UVA School of Engineering about cyber-physical systems, which connect the physical world to the virtual world.
Charlottesville School Board members appeared visibly moved after UVA doctoral student Margaret Thornton’s presentation covering the local and federal background of gifted education and the early years of Charlottesville’s gifted program.
A UVA School of Medicine scientist has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, which is one of the highest honors for a scientist. Edward H. Egelman is among 100 new members of the academy, bringing the number of active members to 2,347.