SANS community members gathered at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Saturday afternoon to hear Andrew Kahrl — associate professor of history and African American studies at the University of Virginia, and author of “The Land Was Ours” and “Free The Beaches” — discuss the importance of sustaining black beach resorts in African American life.
Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of law who has researched and written extensively about the wrongful convictions of innocent persons, wrote that he strongly favors changing the way business is done now. "Criminal defense lawyers are perceived as unprepared and not adequately developing evidence, while commonwealth's attorneys are perceived as hiding evidence," wrote Garrett.
The religious icons and imagery found in the lobbies of most Catholic hospitals have decreased markedly in recent years, said Barbra Mann Wall, a professor of nursing at the University of Virginia and the author of a history of Catholic hospitals in the United States. At the same time, she said, American bishops have grown stricter about enforcing the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholics Health Care Services. “The religion component is getting more important, but less transparent,” Professor Wall said.
As Stanford Law School Dean M. Elizabeth Magill steps down to accept a provost position at the University of Virginia, she leaves behind a firm legacy of “achievement and innovation,” according to a prepared statement from the university.
(Commentary) There's a compelling opinion piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education Review this week titled "The University Run Amok!" Adam Daniel and Chad Wellmon, both employed at the University of Virginia, warn convincingly that modern-day American universities have stretched themselves too thin trying to provide services that, the authors argue, were once provided elsewhere.
The FBINA follows a collegiate model, so attendees have core courses they have to take – like physical training and contemporary issues in law enforcement – but the rest of a student’s curriculum is primarily dependent on what they select for themselves. I took only graduate-level courses, which I regretted mid-session when I had loads of papers to write, but am now grateful, as I earned 17 credits toward a graduate certificate from the University of Virginia. Instructors are genuinely engaged and want students to maximize the opportunity. They impart information, but also facilitate the shari...
M. Elizabeth Magill, dean of Stanford University's Law School, will become provost at the University of Virginia in the summer of 2019.
Student Government will be working to foster alumni participation moving forward with Student Body President Ian Green’s announcement about a launch of the “Class Council Agency.” The agency will help UF as it reaches for a top five public schools ranking from U.S. News & World Report, Green said. The idea for the council is modeled after institutions like the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Virginia, which are already ranked in the top five.
According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted with UVA’s Center for Politics, a majority of Americans remain supportive of keeping monuments in public places. Support and opposition for Antifa, Black Lives Matter and alt-right groups remains relatively unchanged, as well.
Views about race relations remain incredibly complicated in America, even a year after the riot in Charlottesville. A majority of Americans believe race relations in America have gotten worse since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. The poll, which was conducted by UVA and Ipsos, found that 57 percent of people believe race relations are worse now.
With a record number of women running for Congress, there's a decent chance that the number of women on Capitol Hill will grow next session. However, there's little reason to expect it will make Congress more bipartisan, according to a new study. "Women and men are first and foremost partisans," said Jennifer Lawless, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia.
1. University of Virginia. The only university in the United States designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, UVA is one of the oldest in the country, founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson. The author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the U.S. was a talented architect, and the Academical Village he designed is still at the heart of the campus.
When Sam Kraus was in the third grade, his family moved to Kenya, where his father was a medical missionary. After graduating high school in Kenya, Kraus went on to study public health at the University of Virginia. His passion for people was sparked in Kenya, a society where relationships are of most importance.
The allegations against Collins give a boost to Democrat Nate McMurray, the town supervisor of Grand Island, in a western New York district outside Buffalo that overwhelmingly supported Trump in 2016. "A strong Democratic year combined with a potentially damaged candidate means this should be on the competitive radar," according to Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the election forecaster Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, which also shifted its rating of the race.
(Commentary) Tuesday's results "fell right in line with expectations based on all the of the other data we have," said Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor at Crystal Ball, a political analysis website hosted by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "The range of outcomes is mostly favorable to Democrats — and if Republicans do retain the House, it will be by an extremely narrow margin."
(Commentary) Ohio native Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics said the GOP’s narrow lead in the special election “is very much in line with what we’ve seen all over the country in special elections this cycle: Democrats often running well ahead of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 performance.”
“Nothing that happened on Tuesday night suggests that the environment is improving for Republicans. They barely held a traditionally GOP seat in Ohio,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the University of Virginia‘s Center for Politics, who added that other results showed “a House playing field that is expanding, not contracting,”
As the general election campaign gets underway, going negative on Sharice Davids – Kansas’s first openly gay, Native American nominee for Congress – could present pitfalls for Republican congressman Kevin Yoder. “I do think there’s potential because of the education level of the district, and it’s got a decently sized non-white population, there’s a chance for blowback” from negative ads or campaigning, said Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
If Colyer goes on to lose by the current margin, “it will actually be the closest loss for any gubernatorial incumbent candidate in any primary ever,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics whose research dates to the 19th century.
You’ve heard this advice over and over again, but it’s worth repeating: Spending time online right before bed (or in bed) is a recipe for poor sleep. First there was evidence that the type of blue light our devices emit could disrupt our circadian sleep rhythms. “When you take smartphones out of the bedroom, people sleep better and longer, and they’re more focused the next day,” says Kostadin Kushlev, a psychology research scientist at the University of Virginia who has studied the effects of smartphones on human health.