Barbara A. Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said that presidents visiting the site of a tragedy often feels like a “member of our family” who is “coming to us to help us grieve and to give us comfort.” Perry noted that Biden’s own biography has shown Americans that “there is empathy in him because of what he suffered.”
You may think it’s good to glug loads of water during spin class — or that it can’t hurt. But there is such a thing as overhydration. Hyponatremia, in which the level of sodium in your blood gets too low, can be caused by drinking large volumes of fluid, even with electrolytes. It’s rare, but it can be deadly. “There is no reason to drink more than your body needs, and the sensor that tells us how much we need is thirst,” says Dr. Mitchell Rosner, professor of medicine at UVA Health.
(Commentary) GetReligion regulars know that The Guy always watches the thinking of Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia Law School, who has long favored legalized gay marriage. With Fulton he filed a religion brief in tandem with Thomas Berg of the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Their defense of near-absolute freedom of conscience starts from John Locke in 1690 and what America’s founders intended, seen for instance in exempting Quakers from general laws on military service and courtroom oaths.
Still, legal experts say that the lawsuit faces an uphill battle in the courts—the case may very well end up before the Supreme Court—even as it may succeed in directing more scrutiny to religious colleges. “With the solid conservative majority on the Supreme Court, protection for free exercise of religion is unlikely to be rolled back or interpreted narrowly,” said Douglas Laycock, a professor of law and of religious studies at the University of Virginia.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor at the University of Virginia, pointed out what I think is obvious to most of us who do teach: “That’s because [teaching is] hard to study, not because it is not being studied. Revision, questioning, reforming, experimenting is a major part of our professional obligations and effort. It’s also not a single question. Differs by subject, level, purpose, etc.”
Commercial sales won't begin until 2024, and many of the details about how the new industry will work have yet to be ironed out. The General Assembly still needs to figure out how the licenses to manufacture and sell marijuana will be distributed and who will get them. Paul Seaborn at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia says this is a rare opportunity for lawmakers to shape the creation of a new industry. "It is quite rare for a new industry to just show up somewhat suddenly," Seaborn says. "But I think Virginia has had the opportunity to watch and learn from other ju...
"It is quite rare for a new industry to just show up somewhat suddenly, but Virginia has had the opportunity to watch and learn from other jurisdictions," said Paul Seaborn, a professor at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. "The goals as they’ve been stated in Virginia is to make this new industry more equitable than most or maybe all of our other industries."
As Albemarle County takes another step forward on its quest for a more equitable community, it will need to find someone new to help lead the way. Earlier this month, the county and community partners announced the publication of an equity profile for Albemarle, just as Siri Russell, director of the county’s Office of Equity & Inclusion, decided to take a position at the University of Virginia School of Data Science.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidyanathan, professor of media studies) Within 12 hours of a federal judge tossing out a state and federal antitrust lawsuits against Facebook, the market value of the adolescent company exceeded $1 trillion. Facebook became the fifth company worth more than a trillion, joining Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet (the parent company of Google).
College Inn’s busiest hours were usually late at night, but things were lively early Wednesday, June 30. Former employees, nostalgic University of Virginia graduates, and fellow restaurant owners all showed up for the closing sale.
(Editorial) The Blue Ridge Poison Center at the University of Virginia reports receiving dozens of calls through June 15 of this year involving products containing delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol, marketed as Delta-8 THC. During the same period last year, there were no such calls.
In 1939, Bedford County expanded Bedford Training School with a rear two-story addition. The building lacked several prominent features standard in most white schools, such as a gymnasium and auditorium, cafeteria, as well as good standard learning materials and janitorial supplies. A study conducted during the time by a white Master’s degree student at the University of Virginia, Oscar Trent Bonner, found Bedford County expenditures for Black students came to just 57% of funds spent on white students.
The most complex life forms ever developed entirely in Petri dishes can pump blood through tiny beating hearts, gradually growing nerves and muscles in a laboratory. These little collections of mammalian cells form rudimentary mouse embryos, built from scratch out of stem cells - cells that have the potential to develop into any other cell type in the body. "Watching an embryo develop is a marvelous thing to behold," said developmental biologist Christine Thisse from the University of Virginia, one of the authors of the study.
Members of the community have a chance to provide feedback regarding the UVA Police Department. According to a release, the department is set for a virtual on-site assessment as part of a program to maintain its internationally accredited status through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.
Starting Thursday, all UVA students who live, work or learn in person have to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Some students say the vaccine is well worth the return to pre-pandemic life.
(Podcast) “Sunday Morning Wake-up Call” host Rick Moore talks with University of Virginia assistant dean and assistant professor Shilpa Davé about the role the Muppets have played in reflecting modern culture.
AT&T Business CEO Anne Chow is a rare exception to the typical path, said Laura Morgan Roberts, a business professor at the University of Virginia. She added that bias continues throughout a woman's career and is often amplified for women of color.
A.E. Dick Howard was a confident young college professor, only 34, when he got the assignment of a lifetime: Oversee the writing of a new constitution for Virginia. Hope was hard to come by that year — 1968 — with cities in upheaval over the assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. But Howard’s task amounted to a stroke against the darkest forces of society.
(Memoir by Nancy Slonin Aronie, graduate of the University of Virginia’s Mary Washington College) In my junior year of high school, my principal called me into his office and asked me where I wanted to go to college. I said, “Duke.” He said, “Duke?” I said, “Yup.” He said, “Why Duke?” I told him I heard it was the Yale of the South, and “Yale doesn’t take girls.” The year was 1958. He said, “What about the University of Virginia? They have a great theater department.”
Some housing experts are wary of new home construction as a means of increasing homeownership among low-income households, because of the high cost. Edgar Olsen, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Virginia, said subsidizing new houses is less efficient than having renters buy existing homes. “Subsidizing the construction of new houses and selling them at below-market prices is a highly cost-ineffective approach to increasing the homeownership rate,’' Olsen wrote in an email. It “concentrates huge subsidies on the fortunate few who are offered units while offering n...