(Commentary co-written by Richard J. Bonnie, Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law and director of UVA’s Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy) Bonnie argues the U.S. Supreme Court put the insanity defense – “a bedrock principle of American criminal justice” – in peril, but states should not abandon it.
No state is really meeting all the metrics set out by the federal government; instead, local governments appear to be picking “what seems to be working for them.” “I hate to say it in these terms,” said Raymond Scheppach, a UVA professor of public policy, “but I think we’re in a period of experimentation.”
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors discussed aspects of financial mitigation from the cost of the coronavirus pandemic during a virtual Monday meeting.
“Over the course of the last several months the playing field has gotten a little bit bigger, and I’d say Democratic prospects in some of these individual races have also seemed to get a little bit better,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has criticized French and other European digital tax proposals as discriminatory, targeting predominantly U.S.-based tech companies. Making this case would’ve been “a lot harder when Maryland has one,” explains Ruth Mason, a professor at the University of Virginia law school.
The researchers from the University of Virginia also cautioned that COVID-19 treatments can interact with medicines used to manage patients' existing cardiovascular conditions.
The University of Virginia held a virtual commencement ceremony for its graduates on Saturday after the coronavirus pandemic stopped their original plan for Final Exercises on the Lawn.
On the grounds Saturday afternoon, there was an event that was totally unique. An assortment of University of Virginia deans announced how many degrees they were going to award this spring to students who had completed their degree requirements. There were no colorful balloons or laughter on The Lawn. The Wahoos in the Class of 2020 class were monitoring the ceremony elsewhere on their computers.
Few if any other architects worked as closely with former Charleston Mayor Joe Riley during his four decades in office as did Jaquelin Robertson, and few have left as large a mark on the city. Mr. Robertson’s legacy also is intertwined with Mayor Riley’s in the creation of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, which continues to this day and has advised more than 1,200 U.S. mayors on specific building and planning issues in their cities. In its experimental early years, Mr. Robertson, then dean of the University of Virginia’s architecture school, was able to attract top talent to counsel the m...
University of Virginia fourth-years across the nation celebrated Final Exercises virtually. With the pandemic preventing an in-person commencement, many are doing the best they can to honor this milestone in a positive way.
Two green building programs are being honored by the Virginia Energy Efficiency Council for their innovative efforts to drive energy efficiency in schools, libraries, university construction and government buildings. The programs, which are led by Henrico County and the University of Virginia, received VAEEC’s fifth Virginia Energy Efficiency Leadership Awards on May 14 at the VAEEC Spring Forum.
The College of William & Mary announced Monday that A. Benjamin Spencer, a civil procedure and federal courts scholar who teaches law at the University of Virginia, is the new dean of the Williamsburg university’s law school. Spencer is the first African American dean of any school at William & Mary, a spokesman said.
At UVA’s Darden School of Business, 22 different faculty filmed personal videos of congratulations and encouragement to the 336 graduates who completed the school’s full-time MBA program. One prof strummed a guitar and sang Elton John’s “Rocketman”; another pair belted out an a capella verse of the Everly Brothers’ “All I Have To Do Is Dream.”
Privacy and surveillance around testing and “passports” are also challenges, more than many people may realize, said Jarrett Zigon, who directs UVA’s bioethics program and also studies technology and justice. “Think back to Sept 11, 2001. We as a country, and as a government, were quite quick to give up certain rights and privacy,” he said. “Now here we are again.”
Dr. William Petri at UVA Medical Center says when the vaccine for polio was finally created in the 1950s, it was a major victory for science. Now, he believes the impact of past vaccines is helping to lay the groundwork for a possible COVID-19 vaccine in the not-too-distant future.
On the surface, percent positivity is fairly straightforward, said Dr. William Petri, a UVA infectious disease specialist. “That’s the easiest part of the equation,” he continued. “It’s just the number of tests that have been performed versus the percent that come back positive.”
So where does Virginia land on the scale? According to an analysis done by WalletHub, the commonwealth is the 43rd-most federally dependent state. “There is no ‘fairest’ way to redistribute resources among states and localities,” said William Shobe, director of UVA’s Center for Economic & Policy Studies. “We have to ask what outcome we hope to achieve by redistributing resources. The key to redistribution is that it makes the opportunity to thrive more equal.”
Our editor Joanne Kenen recently talked coronavirus antibody status and so-called immunity passports with Jarrett Zigon, an anthropologist who directs the University of Virginia Bioethics Program and the Center for Data Ethics and Justice. Zigon said he's quite concerned that we’re rushing to surrender privacy in an emergency, much like he said we did after Sept. 11, 2001.
UVA’s Final Exercises would have been held this weekend, but in its place, a virtual celebration and conferral of degrees will be livestreamed in honor of the class of 2020 on May 16 at 1 p.m.
Henrico County and the University of Virginia received the Virginia Energy Efficiency Council’s fifth Virginia Energy Efficiency Leadership Awards today at the VAEEC Spring Forum. UVA’s Delta Force Program is responsible for achieving energy efficiency and savings across the university’s nearly 18 million square feet of building space. Since 2009, UVA has invested $17.4 million in energy projects, for a savings of $28.7 million in energy costs and 180,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions.