(Podcast) Emily Ogden, a UVA associate English professor and the author of “Credulity: A Cultural History of U.S. Mesmerism,” is the guest.
Fox Sports’ Joe Buck is one of the best-known play-by-play announcers in football. Chris Long played in the league for 11 seasons. It’s only logical, then, that their paths crossed from time to time over the years. What makes their story unusual is that one encounter between the announcer and the defensive lineman [and UVA alumnus] took place in Africa. It forever changed Long’s life and has contributed to saving the lives of an untold number of others.
UVA graduate Ramon Breeden will leave his development footprint on the housing market. The Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority made the call as part of a huge effort in the South First Street area. Richmond-based construction company Breeden Construction will handle phase one of the South First Street revitalization.
After months of searching for a new Superior Court judge for Judicial District 15B of Chatham and Orange counties in North Carolina, Alyson Grine was sworn in as judge on Jan. 22. Grine earned a Master of Arts in Spanish from the University of Virginia.
(By Jessica Swoboda, graduate student in English and Jefferson Fellow) “Attunement” was a catchword with the first-year students from the University of Virginia who decided to spend the semester abroad in the fall of 2019. We were in London, exploring how and why we became attached (or didn’t) to works of art we encountered during our time there.
Between the trend of midterm elections usually favoring the party that is not in the White House, a closely divided House, and a party apparatus ready to continue their expectations-exceeding 2020 strategy while Democrats rework theirs, Republicans are on track to winning back the House in 2022. “It has the makings of what could be a good year for the Republicans when it comes to the House,” said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics.
Analysts say it’s the top U.S. Senate race to watch in the 2022 midterms. “The sole toss-up Senate race to start the 2022 cycle is Pennsylvania,” said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the nonpartisan newsletter at the UVA Center for Politics.
As for the 11 legislators who are running for governor, lieutenant governor or attorney general, “Maybe they technically can raise money” during a special session, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, noting that he is not “100% certain” on the issue. “But doing so is clearly against the spirit of the law, since this so-called special session is just a sleight-of-hand maneuver around the GOP’s refusal to have the normal length session. Anybody who raises money during this extra session is creating an issue that their opponents can and should use against them on the campaig...
“The unusual factor is President Biden’s age in 2024. He will be 82 in November of that year,” said UVA’s Larry Sabato. “Will he really run again? Most observers are betting against it, but most observers could also be wrong. Biden has spent decades with the White House as his goal. Now that he achieved his dream, will he give it up so quickly?”
“I don’t know if [Haitian President Jovenel Moïse] is strong. The opposition is weak,” Robert Fatton, a longtime Haiti watcher and UVA political science professor, said. “The opposition doesn’t really generate a credible alternative and the international community is afraid of massive instability. In that vacuum, Jovenel remains the main guy.”
Children might try tracking a speaker’s lips, watching a speaker’s facial expressions, or following where a speaker is looking. Searching for such cues may incite children to be bolder in using their eyes to explore what’s around them. Monolinguals, on the other hand, don’t flex those abilities as much. For example, imagine showing kids an apple and a pear. “If I say ‘apple,’ but look at the pear, bilingual children are more likely to look at the pear, while monolingual children are more likely to look at the apple,” says Vanessa Diaz, a UVA psychology researcher who wasn’t involved in the stu...
“The Supreme Court is hearing this one case involving Mr. Edwards, but the outcome of the case will affect somewhere north of a thousand prisoners in Louisiana,” said UVA associate professor of law Thomas Frampton.
The Obama administration was portrayed as anti-Catholic by pro-life groups and, of course, Republicans. The Catholic bishops, meanwhile, were portrayed by pro-choice groups as a bunch of old men who wanted to take away women’s birth control. Many interest groups opposed any compromise because they profited from the fight through publicity and fundraising. For their part, the bishops and the nuns played their hand aggressively. “The Little Sisters escalated their demands every time the Obama people made a concession to satisfy them,” explained Douglas Laycock, a religious freedom expert at the ...
“The fact that the government doesn’t have an easily accessible, searchable, well-constructed interface where the public can access… the judicial decisions that constitute case law is just completely ridiculous,” said Michael Livermore, a UVA law professor and co-editor of “Law as Data: Computation, Text, and the Future of Legal Analysis.”
“I have my own therapist that I see. I think mental health is primary care,” said Dr. Cameron Webb during an episode of the series. The series suggests that even the most distinguished individuals need to see a therapist, like Webb, who is a UVA physician and White House Health adviser. He also ran for Congress last year.
(Subscription required) It’s a warm night in mid-October, and I’m winding my way up to UVA’s McCormick Observatory on a quest to solve an abiding mystery: Why are Earthlings so dang obsessed with Mars? Tonight UVA astronomer Ed Murphy has made a special trip up to the observatory, which is closed to the public because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The whirling dance of orbital dynamics has put Mars at its biggest and brightest in the sky right now, and Murphy calculated that this would be the best time to see it from Central Virginia, where the turbulent air can sometimes complicate nig...
(Video) “A decrease in access to to health care resources, including substance abuse resources and mental health resources, I think it’s put a lot of people at risk for overdose,” said Dr. Nathan Charlton, a medical toxicologist at UVA Health.
“The most unprecedented element of this second [Trump] impeachment is that it results from the one and only time a U.S. president has engaged in insurrection and an attempted coup against our own country,” said Barbara Perry, a professor and director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
More than 170 constitutional law scholars signed an open letter last month concluding the Constitution permits the impeachment, and potential conviction and disqualification of Trump from holding future office. “The impeachment is clearly constitutional,” said Douglas Laycock, a UVA professor of law and signatory to the letter. “Presidents do not have a free opening to … try to overthrow the newly elected government at the end of their term, or commit any other high crime or misdemeanour just because there is no longer time to complete a trial in the Senate.”
(Co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project) The chaos and controversy surrounding the 2020 presidential election – plus election takes that stress the role of race, gender and education in solidifying President Biden’s victory – obscure a deeper current running through American political reality. Namely, even today, American politics remains fundamentally divided by family life.