Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia who’s written extensively about religious freedom, similarly suggested the Our Lady decision’s impact on wage and hour law could be muted.
UVA law professor Douglas Laycock, who signed a brief siding with the religious schools, conceded that as a result of Wednesday's opinion, there may be injustices in some cases, with teachers being fired over forbidden criteria such as age or disability, only to have no recourse in courts. “We tolerate the occasional abuses because the cost of judges and juries second-guessing every personnel decision ... are on the whole much greater,” Laycock said.
The News Leaders Association has also been working with Meredith Clark, lead researcher and an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, in hopes of creating an easy and quick process for news leaders to fill out the survey, thus increasing participation. Clark has also been conducting case study research to offer organizations tailored approaches and tools to help them improve newsroom diversity.
Only 1.9% of contacts developed laboratory-confirmed clinical influenza after post-exposure prophylaxis with baloxavir compared to 13.6% of those assigned to placebo, reported Dr. Frederick Hayden of the University of Virginia and colleagues. Moreover, risk of influenza infection was lower in the baloxavir group, regardless of symptoms, the authors wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine.
As other countries bring COVID-19 cases to manageable numbers and cautiously implement reopening policies, many around the world are looking at the U.S. and asking: “what went wrong?” Now, a team from the University of Virginia and the University of British Columbia has applied big data analytics to reveal a major source of this failure: a distinctly American brand of individualism.
G. Thomas Tanselle, who was president of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia from 1993 to 2006, is the most influential bibliographical scholar of his generation. His “Descriptive Bibliography” is a “comprehensive guide to . . . the activity of describing books as physical objects.” In essence, a bibliographical description anatomizes a book’s structure and supplies a schematic overview of its printing history.
Fitch Ratings has assigned a ‘AAA’ long-term rating to the following series of bonds issued by The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, on behalf of the University of Virginia.
(By Marlene Daut, professor of African diaspora studies) Much of the reparations debate has revolved around whether the U.S. and the U.K. should finally compensate some of their citizens for the economic and social costs of slavery that still linger today. But to me, there’s never been a more clear-cut case for reparations than that of Haiti.
(Commentary co-written by James Ceaser, professor of politics) As political observers speculate as to the consequences of a contested presidential election outcome with President Trump alleging fraud and refusing to leave office, we pose another nightmare scenario with perhaps greater likelihood: a 269-269 tie in the Electoral College.
(Video) Two UVA students and Stephen Mull, vice provost for global affairs, discuss a new federal rule that requires international students to leave the country if their classes are fully online.
The announcement also seemed to satisfy what the University of Virginia’s Carmenita Higginbotham, who teaches and studies Disney, told The Washington Post just last week was required of the company. “What Disney has to do is figure out how to make itself matter, how to get in front of audiences in very different ways than it has in the past,” she said. “Because the previous rules … of just riding safely down the middle of American society” no longer work.
Multiple anesthesiologists are questioning the amount of Ketamine, a widely employed sedative, used on Elijah McClain just before he stopped breathing last August, with one doctor saying it was, “Too much, twice too much.” Ketamine, which is used in association with anesthesia, is commonly used by first responders on individuals exhibiting excited delirium symptoms. But Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, a UVA anesthesiologist, said the 500 mg dose used on McClain was far too much.
In his Independence Day Celebration speech, controversially located at the base of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, President Donald Trump announced the issue of an executive order to create a “National Garden of American Heroes.” Released July 3, the executive order calls for the creation of a national garden that will pay tribute to “the giants” of the U.S.’s past. “Presidents certainly have a role in shaping national conversations about the meaning of our history. But this comes off as a desperate act of political grandstanding to his base,” Kevin K. Gaines, a professor o...
A new map of the entire sky, as seen in X-rays, looks deeper into space than any other of its kind. The map, released June 19, is based on data from the first full scan of the sky made by the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard the Russian-German SRG spacecraft, which launched in July 2019. “At present, we probably know about a little less than 8,000 clusters of galaxies,” says Craig Sarazin, an astronomer at the University of Virginia not involved in the work. But over its four-year mission, eROSITA is expected to find a total of 50,000 to 100,000 clusters. In the first sweep alone, it picked up ...
This summer, communities across the country are putting in place measures to restrict beach and pool access amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But this isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. Places of public recreation, including pools and beaches, have long been flashpoints of race and class conflict. We spoke to Andrew Kahrl, professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Virginia and author of “Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline.”
Last year, Democrats’ path to at least a 50-50 split, according to Dr. Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, was a “possibility” but not necessarily the “probability.” “Now, I still wouldn’t call it the probability, but I would say, at worst, for Democrats is 50-50 – and I don’t mean 50-50 Senate seats – I mean that it’s a coin flip as to which party will control the Senate,” he said.
(Video) Claire Kaplan, an advocate against sexual assault and violence, is retiring from UVA’s Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center.
More than a dozen new interactive chalkboard murals will be painted by a local artist at UVA Health’s Department of Inpatient Psychiatry.
The new analysis from researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden and the UVA School of Medicine confirms this simplistic storyline, but also finds both silver linings and a potentially darker explanation for the pandemic’s death toll in the country.