Mike Vasil isn’t used to this. It’s only been a couple of weeks, but he usually doesn’t get the luxury of spending an elongated period of time during the summer at his home in Wellesley. Fresh off his junior season at the University of Virginia, the highly-touted, hard-throwing right-hander expects his summers to take place elsewhere in the future. The exact location is unknown at the moment, but Vasil will gain clarity on his next destination when the three-day MLB draft commences on Sunday.
In Virginia, Andrew Abbott is considered to be the best baseball player available. Abbott, a left-handed pitcher who played at the University of Virginia, has a fastball that sits in the low-90s and throws a 12-to-6 curveball that might be better than his fastball. Abbott struck out 162 in 106 2/3 innings this spring, third-best in Division I baseball.
If you enter Roots Natural Kitchen at 939 W. Grace St. on any given day, chances are it’s bustling with people, from college students in line creating their own salads to delivery drivers grabbing brown paper bags filled with grain bowls. Located in the heart of the Virginia Commonwealth University area, the fast-casual concept with its own ordering app made its Richmond debut three summers ago and has since garnered a faithful following. Originally launched in Charlottesville, Roots was the vision of young business-savvy UVA graduates Alberto Namnum and co-founder Alvaro Anspach.
(Book review by Rory McAlevy, who is studying archaeology and history and is currently an intern at the Naval Historical Foundation) How do you explore the last 150 years of British seafaring history in just one book? One shipwreck at a time, according to the author of “Breaking Seas, Broken Ships: People, Shipwrecks & Britain, 1854-2007.” Ian Friel followed “Britain and the Ocean Road,” a deft and historically sound coverage of the history of British maritime history from the Middle Ages to the Victorian period, with this work which carries the narrative into recent years.
J. Miles Coleman, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said he thinks it’s strategically wise for Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe not to speak out too much on GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin‘s invocation of critical race theory and other cultural issues. “I think that if you acknowledge it and try to kind of level with his critics on it, I don’t think a lot of his Democratic base voters would really like that,” Coleman said. “If I were him, I would just sidestep that issue and keep talking, OK well, here’s what I want to do for the rural areas or to help broadband. I think the be...
(Video) Section 230 is a provision in the United States Communications Decency Act that provides immunity for website platforms from third-party content. The major problem with 230 however, is that online platforms do not have any incentive to curb illicit and toxic content, and those harmed have no recourse in court. This panel is a part of a series examining various facets of Section 230. Panelists included professor Danielle Citron (University of Virginia Law School).
UVA associate professor of public policy Dr. Brian Williams, who organized this discussion, says bridging the gap starts with police training. "How can we be proactive in a co-active way instead of being reactive? We've constantly reacted to situations without trying to be intentional in terms of engagement with one another to address these problems," Williams said.
The lack of job security, or availability of only lower-wage jobs with limited benefits, is heavily tied to health, said Dr. Fern Hauck, a University of Virginia professor who founded Charlottesville’s refugee clinic in 2002. Her patients have reported headaches, backaches and dizziness as a result of doing work they’re not used to – which then leads to mental distress.
(Video) The U.S. has vaccinated 40% of its population against the coronavirus. The major strides in the nation’s recovery come just in time for a holiday weekend. Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at the University of Virginia, joins CBSN’s Lana Zak to discuss the latest.
(Video) Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine in the divisions of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at the University of Virginia, joined Yahoo Finance Live to break down the long-term and short-term impact of the delta COVID variant being in the U.S.
With the threat of the Delta variant growing daily – now surpassing 50% of all new reported cases in the U.S. – experts are increasingly sounding the alarm on the need to boost the vaccination rate. Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician at University of Virginia Health, joined Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the variant and the possibility of mandating vaccines in offices and higher education facilities.
(Audio) Less than 24 hours after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moises, security forces killed four people and took two more into custody after a shootout in Port-au-Prince. Authorities haven’t released the suspects’ identities or given any evidence that ties them to the president’s murder. What’s next for Haiti? And could it involve the U.N. — or the U.S.? Guest: Laurent Dubois, co-director of the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia.
(Video) The "alleged assassins" of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise were in custody Wednesday, a government minister said, less than 24 hours after the leader of the impoverished Caribbean nation was killed in a gun attack at his home. The attack at Moise's private residence in the capital Port-au-Prince, which also left First Lady Martine Moise wounded, pitched the crisis-hit country into uncertainty, leaving citizens fearful as shocked world leaders called for calm. UVA professor Marlene Daut tells us more.
Laurent Dubois, co-director of the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia and an expert on Haitian history, said Moïse helped create the crisis that preceded his death and did little to help the impoverished people in a land where some 60 percent of the population make less than $2-a-day. “In general, Moïse has been consolidating power around himself increasingly over the past years, which has created a deepening crisis of governance,” Dubois said in an email to NBC News. “The refusal to step down, which was based on conflicting interpretations of the Constitution, was one example ...
Right now, the first task of those leading Haiti is to establish credibility, says Marlene Daut, a professor of African diaspora studies who focuses on Haitian history at the University of Virginia. “There needs to be an investigation on multiple levels to figure out who did this,” she says. “The key to what happens next is if the interim government will have any legitimacy, not to mention the people who planned this—what’s their next move? Ultimately, the Haitian people need to have a say in what happens next. It can’t just be more of the same: elite men taking power and keeping power.”
Haiti, the first free republic founded by former slaves, is in the midst of several crises: violent armed gangs, rising hunger and child malnutrition, and economic disarray. “The future is totally uncertain,” said Robert Fatton, a Haiti-born longtime political scientist at the University of Virginia. “Without a local solution involving a government of national unity there is a real danger that the country could descend into chaos. “The question is whether the opposition and the government are prepared to compromise,” Fatton added. “Without this compromise the door to a possible U.N. interventi...
Robert Fatton, a Haitian politics expert at the University of Virginia, said gangs were a force to contend with and it isn’t certain Haiti’s security forces can enforce a state of siege. “It’s a really explosive situation,” he said, adding that foreign intervention with a U.N.-type military presence is a possibility. “Whether Claude Joseph manages to stay in power is a huge question. It will be very difficult to do so if he doesn’t create a government of national unity.”
The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse at his home threatens to exacerbate Haiti's already rampant problems. "Everything that could go wrong seems to be going wrong," says Robert Fatton, an expert on Haitian politics at the University of Virginia, and a native of Haiti himself.
(Audio and transcript) The president of Haiti was assassinated Wednesday morning in his home on the outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Jovenel Moise had been in office for four years. His wife, Martine, was wounded in the brazen attack. Yamiche Alcindor begins our coverage and speaks with Robert Fatton, a professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia, who has written widely on Haiti.
“I’m just dumbfounded by the event,” said Robert Fatton, a Haitian politics professor from the University of Virginia. “I don’t understand how you just go inside the residence of the president, and you kill him – and then you leave. It’s all very strange. I’m not sure who is going to benefit from that …. We have no clue.”