UVA is leading the commonwealth’s new plan to improve mental health in K-12 students. A new statewide project called the Virginia Partnership for School Mental Health aims to strengthen school mental health services.
(By Ha Do Byon, assistant professor of nursing) As a former visiting nurse at one of New York City’s largest home health care agencies, I know firsthand what these caregivers face when they cross the threshold of a patient’s home. In the best situations, it’s a patient’s gratitude for coming to provide comfort, reduce isolation, and maybe even spark a little conversation. At other times, coming through that door provokes intense discomfort. Dread. Even danger and violence.
A model created by researchers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute predicts local numbers will continue to rise until the end of February. The forecast predicts that on the week of Feb. 21, Charlottesville will see 1,259 new confirmed cases. “In Charlottesville, cases are growing,” the researchers wrote. “However, viruses are difficult to forecast and this is just one potential path. One outbreak – or one outbreak avoided – can set us down a very different path. The future course of COVID-19 depends on all of us.”
“If I’m going to come out with a product that is vegan, it has to align with the same environmental values I have,” states Jaylah Koree Webb, a University of Virginia sophomore. At 19 years old, Webb has a passion for our planet, evident in her Global Studies major with a concentration in Environmental Sustainability, as well as for her minor in Entrepreneurship. Just a couple years ago, she started making her own vegan body products, such as lip balms and body butters, which would soon blossom into the small business known as Koree’s Kare.
UVA student-athletes are trying to keep their nonprofit, Run Your City, alive this year, even if they can’t meet in person. The group meets with children of various ages and backgrounds in the the Charlottesville area each week to introduce them to running and other sports.
Many fathers and mothers tell me they feel betrayed by their children’s lack of availability or responsivity, especially those who provided their children with a life they see as enviable compared with their own childhoods. As UVA sociologist Joseph E. Davis told me, parents expect a “reciprocal bond of kinship” in which their years of parenting will be repaid with later closeness.
By limiting the reach of religious freedom protections, the Do No Harm Act would make it harder for many people of faith to operate businesses, launch charities or share their beliefs in the public square, said Doug Laycock, a UVA professor of law and religious studies. “This bill would strip the heart out” of religious freedom law, he said.
The overwhelmed subsidy policy that took force after the earthquake meant that “today, practically, all the food consumed in Haiti is imported, including products such as sugar and rice, which were produced without the need for imports. ... We can say that the international community set out to prevent Haiti from being a successful experiment and so far it seems that this objective has been achieved,” Robert Fatton, UVA professor and author of several investigations on Haiti, told “BBC World” in 2020.
(Audio) Journalists struggle to find the words to describe what happened at the Capitol on Wednesday. Plus, why supporters of the president’s baseless election fraud theories keep invoking the “lost cause” myth of the confederacy. And, taking a second look at "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." Guests include Caroline Janney, UVA historian of the Civil War, on the evolution of the post-Civil War Lost Cause mythology; and Jack Hamilton, UVA associate professor of American studies and media studies, on the mixed and missed messages in the rock anthem "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," by ...
With President Donald Trump acknowledging president-elect Joe Biden’s victory, NBC 29 took a deeper look at the state of the Republican Party. “I think the party is relatively divided, and I think that’s what happens, usually, when a party loses the White House,” UVA Center for Politics Director of Communications Kyle Kondik said.
For the past several months, Gov. Lawrence Hogan has worked to elevate his national profile and is widely seen as taking steps toward a possible White House run in 2024. But UVA political science professor Larry Sabato told The Baltimore Sun last year that “the GOP would have to change drastically by 2024 for Hogan to have a real shot” at the party’s presidential nomination.
“The Native American vote was a key factor,” J. Miles Coleman, a UVA elections analyst, wrote in an email describing how Biden won the state. “Biden’s campaign made serious investments in [get-out-the-vote] efforts with Native voters, and I think it paid off.”
Abrams launched an unprecedented voter registration effort, Fair Fight, backed by a $5 million donation from the billionaire former New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg. While that was peanuts compared to the donations raised by political candidates, “it may be some of the best $5 million spent in this election,” said Miles Coleman with UVA’s Center for Politics.
A step back from individual races would seem to help Republicans, since the first midterm election for a president has long presaged losses for his party in Congress. But as Kyle Kondik of Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA has written: "Senate midterm history is not quite as bleak for the presidential party as the House history is. Yes, the president's party often loses ground in the Senate in midterm elections, but the losses are not as consistent: Since the Civil War, the president's party has only lost ground in the Senate in 24 of 40 elections, with an average seat loss of roughly 2.5 per cycle...
J. Miles Coleman, associate editor for the Sabato's Crystal Ball political newsletter at UVA, said he isn't writing Hawley's political obituary quite yet. "We've seen this a lot during the Trump era: it's the American public collectively has a very short memory," he said.
Frederick Schauer, a leading First Amendment Scholar and professor at the University of Virginia, says there's a "very tough hurdle to clear" to win the kind of defamation lawsuits Dominion and Smartmatic may soon be filing. "Anybody in this situation has a very, very serious burden.”
Violence at the United States Capitol Wednesday brought back horrific memories for those who witnessed the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville four years ago. UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato said while there are similarities between the two events, there really is no comparison to this dark day in our nation’s history.
Trump has called for a foundational Internet law known as Section 230 to be revoked — and conservatives are expected to continue that charge after he leaves office. But if the former president were to launch his own social network, a repeal of Section 230 could open him to legal jeopardy. Danielle Citron, a professor at the UVA School of Law, warned a repeal of Section 230 could leave Trump open to defamation lawsuits and an array of other possible charges.
“We don’t let people go into their garages and create nuclear materials,” said Danielle Citron, a UVA law professor and author of the 2014 book “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.” She’s one of the people who wants changes to Section 230, in part because social networks have so much potential to do harm when poorly run.
Even before the latest round of enforcement actions, Trump's campaign had reportedly considered focusing on some of these alternative social networks. But these services have nowhere near the reach of mainstream platforms like Twitter, which has hundreds of millions of monthly users, and Facebook, which has more than 3 billion monthly users across its various applications. "There are other places to go," said Danielle Citron, a UVA law professor and unpaid advisor to Facebook and Twitter who has long been vocal about how speech on social media platform can lead to real-world violence. "At the ...