A Norfolk man sentenced to 48 years in prison for a drive-by shooting in which no one was injured has received an absolute pardon, thanks in part to efforts from the University of Virginia’s Innocence Project.
Even in a city like Houston, which has a uniquely large network of air quality monitors, pollution hotspots can easily be missed due to constraints on how many monitors are present and where they’re allowed to be installed. And this disproportionately affects marginalized communities, who are far more likely to live near pollution sources. So, a team of researchers – led by Sally Pusede, a UVA assistant professor of environmental science – used satellite data to measure these disparities.
Dr. Christopher Holstege, director of UVA’s Blue Ridge Poison Center, encourages people to think twice before recreational marijuana use. “We know there’s a couple of things that occur ... increased exposure to the pediatric population, toddlers are getting into different items ... brownies with marijuana or gummies with marijuana,” he said.
Is the significant number of cases a sign of COVID in the world around us, or is there something different about sports competitions? “There’s not a lot of places we test as frequently as we do with professional sports and college sports,” said Dr. Costi Sifri, a UVA infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist. He said it’s not a bad thing that frequent testing of athletes is picking up what have often been notable numbers of asymptomatic cases.
June 24 was a bittersweet day for Virginia baseball coach Brian O’Connor. His team fell to Texas in Omaha, ending its College World Series run. That same day, however, O’Connor put pen to paper on a contract extension, keeping him in Charlottesville through at least the 2027 season. “He is the ultimate professional, an amazing leader and a great representative of the University of Virginia,” athletic director Carla Williams said in a statement.
The Indiana Pacers announced Friday the hiring of Lloyd Pierce, Ronald Nored, Mike Weinar and Jenny Boucek as assistant coaches for Head Coach Rick Carlisle’s staff. Per team policy, terms were not disclosed. Boucek, a UVA alumna, joins the Pacers after spending the past three seasons as an assistant coach with the Dallas Mavericks.
Jersey City residents share suggestions, concerns over admission policy changes at two elite schools
Todd Hall, a McNair graduate, said he understands the board’s desire to change the policy, but cautioned that a similar shift in Chicago public schools in 2009 led a reduction in both racial and socioeconomic diversity. “With that my suggestion is that if you want to focus on improving socioeconomic diversity, it really would really be helpful to rely on student’s own free and reduced lunch status,” Hall, an education policy Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia, said.
The story of Jacob Lawrence’s “Struggle” series first unfolded in our pages in an article by [UVA professor] Elizabeth Hutton Turner in January/February 2017. At the time, six of the series’ 30 panels had been lost. Three have now resurfaced.
For Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and fellow Deseret News contributor, one reason behind the seeming upsurge of reports in estrangement between parents and their adult children is divorce. “When parents get divorced, children are often hurt. And now, it seems, some young adults are steering clear of one or both of their parents because they are angry about how their parents’ marriage ended.”
A USA Today survey of GOP lawmakers who voted to impeach Trump and those who questioned the severity of the Capitol riot found prolific fundraising on both sides. “This is so unprecedented that a lot of people will give more money than they usually will because the stakes are so high for this country,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, who predicted a banner year for all fundraising.
(Commentary) Ain’t politics grand? So, now Virginia GOP chairman, Rich Anderson, wants long-celebrated University of Virginia political pundit and all-utility analyst Professor Larry Sabato to shut up. Well, good luck on that. Over the decades, a lot of pins and voodoo dolls have been expended by pols hoping to do in Sabato, a Norfolk-native. None of it worked. He’s not going to keel over — and he’s not going to clam up, either.
W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, says he would like to see Congress enact a child allowance. “I think making the child tax credit permanent would give Americans greater confidence when it comes to having and raising kids,” he says via email.
If her father, or anyone on Spears’ team, objects to the removal of the conservatorship, they will be required to provide testimony and documentation supporting their claim, said University of Virginia Family Law Professor Naomi Cahn who also specializes in trusts and estates. Then, the judge would decide whether to deny Spears’ request or allow it with specific conditions. “Once it’s clear that it’s going to be contested, which it may well be, because there seem to be people on both sides of this, then it’s set up to go on the case management system,” Cahn said.
(Podcast) The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has plunged Haiti deeper into instability. There have been calls lately both from within and outside of the country for international support. Former Canadian ambassador to Haiti Gilles Rivard and Haitian-Canadian activist Jean Saint-Vil join guest host Adrian Harewood to discuss what role — if any — Canada should be playing now. Meanwhile, University of Virginia professor of history Laurent Dubois explains how this current crisis fits into Haiti’s history.
She arrived hours after a key group of international diplomats on Saturday appeared to snub the man currently running Haiti by urging another politician, the designated prime minister, to form a government following Moïse’s killing. Robert Fatton, a Haitian politics expert at the University of Virginia, said the statement is very confusing especially after the U.N. representative had said that Joseph was in charge. “More confusion in a very confusing and bewildering situation,” he said.
“We have a very deep crisis, probably as pronounced as the one we had immediately after the [2010] earthquake,” Robert Fatton, an expert on Haitian politics at the University of Virginia, and a native of Haiti, told Yahoo News. “But it’s a different type of crisis. Virtually all the institutions in the country are essentially being eviscerated.”
(Commentary) When Karen McGlathery used to swim in the coastal bays off Virginia’s Eastern Shore, the water would quickly turn cloudy and brown as sediment swirled around her. Now, 25 years later, for as far as she can swim the water remains clear. The sediment is anchored in place by lush green seagrass meadows, teeming with fish, scallops and crustaceans. McGlathery, an environmental sciences professor at the University of Virginia, is part of a team running the largest seagrass restoration project in the world in these coastal bays — and one of the most successful.
Dr. Costi Sifri with the University of Virginia says, nationally, only 30% of school-aged children are fully vaccinated. “It is a more susceptible population,” Sifri said. “The Delta variant, being more transmissible, it’s like gravity: It’s going to seek areas where there are vulnerable populations, and children are potentially that group.”
Coronavirus infections are on the rise in every state for the first time since January. As Lilia Luciano reports, experts warn the pandemic has entered a dangerous stage. Then, 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 with more on what lies ahead.
(Commentary by Bob Gibson, communications director and senior researcher at UVA’s Cooper Center for Public Service) Ninety-seven years ago, in 1924, when Charlottesville dedicated its Robert E. Lee statue, the Ku Klux Klan threw a giant parade in celebration. This July 10, when the city took down the Lee statue, local residents in attendance cheered its removal.