UVA law professor Toby Heytens, the Biden administration’s first nominee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, garnered bipartisan support on Wednesday for his appellate work and faced little opposition as he appeared before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing.
For those who wonder whether you can get “there” from “here,” whether you can achieve greatness and success by attending a local community college – McDowell Tech, for example – Mackenzie Dobson is proof that you can. This fall, at just 20 years of age, Mackenzie is entering a Ph.D. program in American Politics, Public Policy and Research Methodology at the University of Virginia, consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top graduate programs in Political Science by U.S. News and World Report and similar rating systems.
J. Miles Coleman, an associate editor with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Trump’s loss in Texas puts more of a premium on the race in Ohio. “Trump may risk another black eye,” Coleman said. “Two losses in a row would have some people really questioning his relevance.”
The University of Virginia Center for Politics thinks McAuliffe may be back in Charlottesville before the election to try to secure the ticket. “We would probably see McAuliffe and the Democrats as the favorites, but if enough things go right for the Republicans, certainly, fundraising could play into that,” J. Miles Coleman with the center said. “If enough things go right for the Republicans, then they may have a shot.”
(Commentary) One hundred and sixty years ago Wednesday, Major Sullivan Ballou of Rhode Island died of wounds sustained in the First Battle of Bull Run, Manassas, Virginia. Two weeks earlier he had written a very eloquent and heartfelt love letter to his wife, Sarah. The letter catapulted to national prominence when a segment of it was read in Ken Burns’ documentary, “The Civil War,” airing on PBS in 1990. Academics debate whether Ballou actually wrote the letter. Noting “tonal and linguistic discrepancies,” English Professor Stephen Cushman of the University of Virginia states that there is “n...
MBA applicants should request recommendation letters by phone or, ideally, in person, experts say. “We encourage candidates to spend time with their recommenders – grab coffee or lunch – and share with them why you are interested in pursuing your MBA and why you are excited about the schools to which you are applying,” Whitney Kestner, senior director of admissions at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, said via email.
Dr. Allison Pugh, a sociology professor and chair of the women, gender and sexuality department at the University of Virginia, says women’s studies programs are giving campus communities the tools they need to understand what’s going on “outside my window right now. … We drag the university into the 21st century,” she says. “Administrations point to us when they want to highlight their commitments to equity or justice or inclusion. But it’s not just as a symbol. We provide the intellectual decoder rings for the enormous cohorts of students who are driven to understand current events.”
The new study shows that even when there are significant reductions of the pollutant across a city, disparities persist, says Gaige Kerr, a postdoctoral researcher at George Washington University who led the study with environmental health scientist Susan Anenberg. “This gives an insight into just how entrenched, how substantial these inequalities are,” says Sally Pusede, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the work.
Saikrishna Prakash, a constitutional law scholar at the University of Virginia School of Law, said that he considers the lawsuit a stretch. He said the 27th Amendment was primarily focused on stopping lawmakers from giving themselves a pay raise that takes immediate effect. He said the House has authority to create rules for its own proceedings and to punish members for breaking rules. “Why are they doing this? The ultimate reason is political,” Mr. Prakash said. “They don’t like the mask rules and their constituents don’t like the rules and this was a way of drawing attention to what they tho...
When looking at a state-level map, counties like Fluvanna and Albemarle are listed in yellow as they are in moderate zones. But more counties in southern Virginia are red because of high transmission. Infectious disease specialist Dr. Patrick Jackson at UVA Health is worried about those red areas. He says vaccination is the best protection against transmission. ‘‘I mean you can see nationally that the areas that you see high and substantial transmission are areas that are generally lower vaccination,” said Jackson. “Probably below 40% of the population. So areas where there are high rates of v...
The CDC is again urging Americans to wear protective masks indoors – even if they’ve been vaccinated – in places where COVID is surging. While the state’s health department considers that announcement, Sandy Hausman spoke with an expert at UVA about what it means for Virginia. Thirty-eight counties in Virginia report high or substantial rates of COVID transmission. Many are in the southern part of the state, but Roanoke City, Buckingham, Greene, Louisa, Spotsylvania, Charles City and Chesterfield are also included. That’s why Dr. Taison Bell says area residents would be wise to resume we...
(Video) The Centers for Disease Control has updated its mask guidance as the Delta variant sends new COVID infections skyrocketing. Some vaccinated Americans are now being advised to mask up. Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, co-founder and medical director of Goodstock Consulting and an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Virginia, discusses the pandemic’s fourth wave.
(Commentary co-written by William Antholis, director and CEO of UVA’s Miller Center) This summer, Americans are flocking to Greece. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken should take the hint and consider making a trip of their own. It would be as good for America as it would be for Greece. Two centuries after Greece declared its independence from Ottoman rule – inspired by the American Revolution – the United States could not find a better partner in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic and renewing democracy across the globe.
(Commentary co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of socioly and director of the National Marriage Project) China’s cratering fertility rate led its leadership to reverse its anti-natalist course by introducing a two-child policy in 2016, but that policy has not boosted the births. … A more promising possibility for China is religion – understood as a set of values that endow ordinary life with transcendent value. Religion is strongly linked to fertility in countries across the globe. By placing a high value on family life and according status to men and women who sacrifice their own des...
Feeling stressed? Suffering from pandemic anxiety? Need a staycation? “Breathe with Me” offers a special respite. Inspired by dadirri, the Aboriginal practice of deep listening, “Breathe With Me,” an installation at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, invites visitors to slow down, attune to nature, and connect with the salubrious qualities well known to Indigenous people and now embraced by Western medicine.
In our quest to improve our lives, we tend to add to them. We add resolutions to our annual to-do list. We add recycling to the bin. We add information and ideas to solve problems. But what if, instead of adding to our increasingly busy lives, we subtract from them? This is the basis of a recent book by Leidy Klotz, University of Virginia professor of engineering and author of “Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less.” Dr. Madhuri Karak of Rare’s Center for Behavior & the Environment recently sat down with Leidy for a Rare Conversation to discuss his new book, its implications for solving e...
Last spring, researchers at the University of Virginia published a study in the science journal Nature about our typical response as humans to any questions around improvement or advancement. Nature isn’t a news source often read by organizational executives, though perhaps it should be. The title of the paper alone should be a head turner for leaders: “People systematically overlook subtractive changes.”
A University of Virginia study finds families in the Charlottesville-area are having more babies this year than expected. This goes against the national trend where births are decreasing. “We have seen an impressive and consistent increase in the same interval this year with births between 191-209 between March and June of 2021. So a significant increase during this interval this year,” associate professor at UVA in obstetrics and gynecology Dr. Vanessa Gregg said. According to Gregg, in May of 2021 there were 199 births at UVA Medical Center. That’s about a 25% increase from last year.
The best paid MBA graduates are from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, with an average starting salary of $179,111, according to GradReports by higher education data research company Optimal. Next highest was the $173,400 average earned by graduates of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is changing its app available for students’ safety. UVA Police Sgt. Ben Rexrode says Guardian is replacing the Live Safe app that students had downloaded before. He says they’ve been able to upgrade much of their alert and emergency communication software, and this new app is compatible for more services.