(Commentary) Last year, Amy Coney Barrett was denounced as “not a feminist” by other women primarily because she is conservative, a devout Catholic, a mother of seven children and pro-life. “Feminists support upholding Roe v. Wade. Amy Coney Barrett does not,” Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia, told HuffPost at the time. She continued, “Opposing a female nominee who is antithetical to feminist principles reflects a commitment to the cause.”
Trump has always been open about supporting those who praise him and attacking those who criticize him. Since leaving office, he has intervened in low-level races where he has a personal history. “He’s got a long memory and is one of the most vengeful people we’ve ever come across,” says Larry Sabato, a prominent political analyst and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
For the second time in five months, some of America’s leading “scholars of democracy” are sounding the alarm on voting rights — and condemning what they call Republican efforts to deny them. “This is no ordinary moment in the course of our democracy,” says a 700-word letter posted Monday on newamerica.org.
“Virginia has become somewhere that public figures and public officials think that they still might be able to intimidate their would-be critics, as opposed to other jurisdictions with stronger anti-SLAPP laws,” says Lin Weeks, a staff attorney with the University of Virginia First Amendment Clinic.
(Podcast) Host Alan B. Hart and Kimberly Whitler, the Frank M Sans Senior Associate Professor of Business Administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business, talk about the release of her new book, “Positioning for Advantage,” which has been ranked No. 1 in product management on Amazon. They also discuss what positioning is and what value marketers have to a business.
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is 11 states instead of one, and more varied market forces are ramping up its carbon price more slowly than California’s, but with a similarly broad set of supporting policies, University of Virginia Professor of Public Policy William Shobe said.
(Video and transcript) Tiffany King will join the American Studies Department as Anschutz Distinguished Fellow for the spring 2022 semester. King is currently an associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Virginia. King discusses her upcoming spring seminar “Black and Indigenous Feminist Survival and Experimentation in the Americas,” her work within the intersecting fields of Black, Native/Indigenous, and Feminist studies, and her 2019 book “The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies.”
(Podcast) Our guest in Episode 209 of Class Dismissed is here to help us make some sense of memory. He’ll also give us some teacher tips on how to make a more memorable lesson plan. Dr. Daniel Willingham is a psychologist and professor at the University of Virginia. He’s also the author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?” His book dives into how the mind works and what it means for the classroom.
Allen is joined in the partial class by world champion whitewater canoeist Jon Lugbill, former University of Virginia football star Anthony Poindexter and three-time Pro Bowl running back Chris Warren. Lugbill, who attended Oakton High in Fairfax County and UVA, is a five-time world champion in C1 Slalom canoeing, a seven-time team world champion and a three-time World Cup gold medalist. He’s the only paddler ever to appear on a Wheaties box. Poindexter, a Lynchburg native, is one of the most decorated defensive players in UVA football history. He was a first-team All-American and ACC Defensiv...
For Dr. Yao-Lun Yang, an astronomy post doctoral fellow at the University of Virginia, Webb represents the opportunity for deep research into fundamentals such as the “chemical heritage” of Earth and other celestial bodies. Webb will help scientists better understand something as complex as how a star is made, he said in a Nov. 18 public webcast sponsored by Massanutten Regional Library in Harrisonburg.
(Press release) At a Congressional hearing in 2003 on the Tibetan language and Tibet’s future, David Germano of the University of Virginia forewarned, “by losing the Tibetan language, the specifically Tibetan identity and world, the culture, insights, values and behaviors, is essentially consigned to the past.”
Though the economy has seen a drop in unemployment claims and a rise in stock prices, those big-picture indicators have been eclipsed by a historic 6.2% inflation spike since last year, which has rankled consumers. Republicans have seized that narrative early and argue it reflects on how poorly President Joe Biden and his Democratic colleagues have managed the country since taking power. “Midterms are often implicitly or even explicitly about the perceived overreach or perceived mistakes of the presidential party,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the Crystal Ball, a political analysis new...
At a panel discussion on the Mississippi case sponsored by the Federalist Society, University of Virginia law professor Richard Re said the court has not really prepared the public for an outcome that would overturn decades of abortion rights. That might suggest some sort of half-measure, as the court has employed before. That would set off rounds of legal battles, such as over Mississippi’s six-week ban.
If it turns out vaccines need to be adjusted to target the new omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, a University of Virginia infectious diseases expert said it could be done quite quickly. It’s about how messenger RNA vaccines, such as the COVID-19 vaccines, work. “It’s very, very simple to change a single mRNA molecule so that your vaccine now is effective against the most recent variant,” said Dr. Bill Petri, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health at the University.
(Co-written by Peter Gray, a professor in the McIntire School of Commerce) Few habits are harder to break than “the way we do things around here.” Organizational culture is notoriously difficult to change, in part because it reflects people’s values — their deeply held beliefs about what is good, desirable, and appropriate.1 Relationships can complicate matters further. When colleagues are embedded in informal networks with others who share and reinforce their values, they often become entrenched rather than open to new attitudes and behaviors. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Those same n...
According to data from the University of Virginia, cyber insurance has been the biggest security investment. In fact, in 2016, fewer than 50% of organizations had coverage, while today, that number has risen to 79%. That also means that the loss ratio for cyber insurance has risen. In 2019, it was 44.8% and grew to 67.8% in just one year.
As next-generation sequencing advances, emerging techniques could prove key to new areas, such as tackling obesity. New research from UVA’s College of Arts & Sciences has added a significant contribution to the growing evidence that lifestyle choices aren’t solely responsible for obesity: our genes can be responsible too. The regulation of fat storage, the ways that the body converts food into fuel, and the genes that control these functions can also contribute to obesity.
Brett C. Tjaden, a computer scientist from the University of Virginia, conducted research and discovered that out of the approximately 300,000 actors who have ever appeared on television or film, the average degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon are exactly 2.83! Ponder the implausible odds that there are less than three degrees of personal connectivity between one actor and every other actor who has ever participated in the history of the industry. And Kevin Bacon did not even make the top 50 of actors and their connectivity in Tjaden’s study.
Recent studies are emerging that point to red wine as potentially having the ability to reduce cancer risk by preventing the growth of cancerous cells, particularly those associated with breast cancer and esophageal cancer. That’s because a protein in grape skin can actually kill cancer cells, according to researchers at the University of Virginia.
With COVID-19 variants on the rise, doctors at UVA Health are working to create a universal vaccine for the virus. A universal vaccine is built to protect against any variant of COVID without needing to modify or alter what’s in the shot. Doctors are pretty far along in the testing process for such a vaccine.