According to new figures from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, our commonwealth’s population has grown by about 6.5 percent in the past nine years – but our region’s population has only grown by 3.8 percent. That’s barely a trickle compared to the growth in Richmond (7.5 percent) and Northern Virginia (12.4) – the other metropolitan areas considered part of Virginia’s “big three” population centers.
Starting this month, the City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia – building upon a history of commitments on sustainability and climate action – will be embarking on a collaborative community outreach effort as each entity begins to update their greenhouse gas reduction targets and develop climate action plans. The results of these efforts will serve to guide climate action in the Charlottesville area for the next 10 to 30 years.
(Podcast) Bloomberg’s June Grasso speaks with UVA law professor George Yin, who testified in front of the House Ways and Means Oversight Committee to advise its members on how a legal struggle might play out if Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin blocked the release of President Trump’s tax returns.
Charlottesville, Albemarle County and UVA are requesting public comment and planning to hold public meetings as each institution updates their climate action plans. Each organization is coordinating their outreach efforts across sustainability offices.
There’ve been efforts to build coalitions that cross political aisles and bridge ideological divides for at least two decades, said Cale Jaffe, a UVA environmental law professor. They’ve largely failed.
(Commentary) Larry Alexander of the University of San Diego School of Law and Saikrishna Prakash of the University of Virginia School of Law have argued that a law cannot properly give to the president discretion to “make rules for the governance of society,” which is legislating.
“This is a widespread phenomenon, a global phenomenon, and what has taken place in this city and in this diocese is really representative of a larger trend,” Nichole Flores, a religious studies professor at the University of Virginia, said. Flores says this type of abuse is not confined to the Catholic Church.
Pouring through the University of Virginia’s old yearbooks, history professor Kirt von Daacke is uncovering countless examples of blackface and other mockery of minorities.
Dr. Irene Mathieu, who chairs the Equity and Inclusion Committee at UVA’s Department of Pediatrics, talks about bias in physicians and patients.
New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville will host a book talk and signing with Claire Millikin and Blake Calhoun on Friday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m. Millikin, who has taught at UVA since 2007 in art history and English, and Calhoun, an alum who works in the UVA Engineering School, will be discussing their book, “Substance of Fire: Gender and Race in the College Classroom.” This event is free to attend.
(By Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics) Richmond chaos could threaten state legislative takeover, but big-picture trends still favor team blue.
Hamed Joodaki, a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at the UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics, is conducting research into a more effect seat belt for all.
Alban Gaultier’s lab was studying the sigma-1 receptor, a protein within cells that influences inflammation. Gaultier’s team typically studies inflammation related to multiple sclerosis, but doctoral student Dorian Rosen thought existing drugs might be candidates to treat sepsis.
An antidepressant drug used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder could save people from deadly sepsis, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests.
While the Charlottesville scene has its own lore, the city also occupies an important point on global hardcore punk timeline: Back in 1981, WTJU DJ Aaron Margosis was the first person ever to play releases by seminal hardcore punk label Dischord Records over the air.
(Commentary by Veronica Haunani Fitzhugh, who earned a B.A. in English literature) While an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, I risked sharing my writing as my probationary presentation to the Thomas Jefferson Literary and Debate Society. I made people cry. And, I won a sterling Jefferson cup for the best showing of that semester. It changed me as a writer.
UVA is developing an “artificial pancreas,” and is prepping to present early results from a nationwide clinical trial of the device on Friday.
Journalist Jack Crosbie ran a few scenarios by Kyle Kondik, the managing editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball, which is run by the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Everything’s sort of on the table at this point,” Kondik said.
Though Mr. Fairfax has denied the allegations and may survive in his current term in office, the likelihood of winning a future election “is dim in a Democratic primary and even dimmer in a general election,” said Larry J. Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
“We just think it’s important given current events to let survivors - both male and female - know that there are people who believe them and will speak out for them,” said Tallulah Tepper of Team One Love at UVA. Students plan to host another fundraiser on UVA Grounds Wednesday and Thursday.