"The president personally has been publicly hostile to Muslims," said Douglas Laycock, a professor of religious liberties law at the University of Texas and University of Virginia. "The encouraging news here is the Justice Department and its career people working in an apolitical way and filing briefs in other kinds of cases as well."
Marc Short left UVA’s Miller Center just six months into his one-year fellowship. The former Trump administration official, whose controversial appointment led two historians to resign their posts with the center, has not caused any major changes to how the center’s leadership sees its mission or how it selects its fellows, officials said. It has, however, come in the midst of an ongoing effort to balance the center’s budget, attract new projects and fundraising and enmesh more of its operations within UVA.
The UVA Health System’s ALS Clinic has been named the state's first certified treatment center of excellence by the ALS Association.
The third proposal I have is potentially the most exciting and game-changing. The NFL data is limited in a couple of ways. One is that the shoulder pad sensors, because they only measure your position every 100 milliseconds, they don’t really tell you about the forces you experience, the acceleration you experience. … What I was proposing is to require players to wear some sort of helmet sensors, whether it be these mouthguard accelerometers the NFL has been testing out at the University of Virginia. By requiring these mouthguard sensors, you can monitor if a person experienced 50 Gs or 100 Gs...
General Assembly budget negotiators have reached a compromise that boosts higher education spending by more than either the House of Delegates or state Senate had previously proposed. The compromise would add nearly $565 million to the state's cash reserves and includes new spending for the Hampton Roads region, including $4 million for a new biomedical research initiative involving the Eastern Virginia Medical School, Old Dominion University, the University of Virginia and local medical facilities.
Hundreds of students from across the country visited UVA for the 2019 National IMPACT Conference, the largest annual conference focused on getting college students engaged in civics. The conference was all about giving a place for students to connect and share ideas about ongoing issues.
The General Assembly has approved more than $520,000 in compensation for Gary Linwood Bush, who served almost 11 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of two bank robberies. The Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law helped Bush and Deeds throughout the process.
(Video) Employees from UVA’s Facilities Management hosted a free “Queens of DIY: Toolbox Workshop,” teaching women basic skills in plumbing, carpentry and electrical work.
Larry Terry, executive director of UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, is joining five state officials to form a commission considering how parole officials can help reduce the number of prisoners returning to jail.
Rather than advocating for censorship, political revolutionaries in the 18th century doubled down on the importance of the free press. Figures such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were responsible for creating important institutions of reason and learning, such as the University of Pennsylvania and University of Virginia, precisely for the purpose of educating America’s citizens.
Brennan is marking one year in the anchor chair of “Face the Nation” and is the currently the only female host on the Sunday circuit. The career trajectory of Brennan, who graduated with honors from UVA, has been a rapid ascent.
“The big theme is a return to light-hearted humor," University of Virginia professor Kim Whitler said. "There's an acknowledgement the Super Bowl is about entertainment."
An ad promoting its Google Translate service pointed out that although "words can hurt and sometimes divide," the most translated words in the world are "How are you," ''Thank you" and "I love you." Kim Whitler, marketing professor at the University of Virginia, said the ad was an example of how the night's "most powerful ads focused on unity, positivity and commonality."
The American College of Healthcare Executives each year recognizes industry leaders for their work in transforming care delivery at organizational, local and national levels. ACHE's Gold Medal Award is the organization's highest honor. This year's winners include Kenneth White, associate dean for strategic partnerships and innovation at the University of Virginia's School of Nursing.
This year two economists – Caroline M. Hoxby of Stanford University and Sarah Turner of the University of Virginia– published a working paper that looks at how colleges define their success in serving low-income students, and suggests a new way to measure an individual institution’s goals. Current methods often focus on students who qualify for Pell Grants, which could mean less support for students who are just above that threshold. The researchers stressed that no one is saying colleges shouldn’t do more for low-income students. Rather, they said, how colleges are going about it ma...
It doesn’t really matter which Republican candidate takes on Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in November 2020, as long as is isn’t Roy Moore. If the GOP can avoid a candidate with the kind of baggage Moore had, Jones seems destined to lose his bid to win a full term representing Alabama in the Senate. Jones is the most vulnerable Senate Democrat facing re-election in 2020, and most think he's as good as gone. The University of Virginia's Larry Sabato rates the race as a toss-up, but admitted "that probably is being kind to Jones."
Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, said that poor showings in New Hampshire in 2020 could be a significant hurdle for Warren and Sanders, especially as the primary contest moves into South Carolina and Nevada. “I think it’d be reasonable to look at it like a home game for them,” Kondik said.
This year’s county elections come as the locality’s population sits just a few hundred shy of the 100,000 mark, according to estimates recently released by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Policy. Montgomery County is estimated to have grown by about 5 percent since the last census in 2010, and projections put the county on pace to surpass Roanoke by 2030 to become Southwest Virginia’s largest locality by population.
In a diverse group of American children between the ages of 2 and 19, nearly one in five will be obese, and if all the kids are Hispanic, that number rises to more than one in four. That’s bad news, according to Anna Maria Siega-Riz, associate dean at UVA’s School of Nursing, because she says, "Once you’re obese, it’s really hard to reverse it."
Epidemiologist Joellen Schildkraut, a UVA professor of public health, has said that studies to date on talc powder and cancer – including some of her own – don’t meet scientific criteria for causality. Part of the problem, she said, is that media coverage and publicity that question the safety of baby powder have skewed people's perceptions and memories.