Emmet Street near Ivy Road will be completely shut down during the nighttime hours this week. The road will close at 9 p.m. and reopen at 4 a.m., beginning Monday night. This is part of the University of Virginia’s Ivy Corridor Project.
The University of Virginia wants to hear from some business owners about how to remove barriers to doing business with it. According to a release, UVA is looking for feedback from local small, woman-owned, and minority-owned businesses. Such businesses that currently do business with UVA and those that are interested in doing business with the University can join in on online interactive sessions.
A just-released analysis by demographer Lyman Stone and UVA sociologist Brad Wilcox for the Institute for Family Studies suggests dire predictions of a long-term crisis-related drop in births similar to what followed the Great Recession have been headed off.
(Video) Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA assistant professor of medicine in the divisions of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, discusses the latest surge in the Delta variant.
The Virginia football team was tabbed to finish fifth in the ACC’s Coastal Division in a preseason poll of 147 ACC media voters released Monday morning. The Cavaliers received two votes to win the division and one vote to win the ACC.
[UVA alumnus] Dr. Robert Vranian has spent decades looking beyond the heart and the vessels connected to it to see the whole person, the same way he assessed his hometown of West Point as a child.
(Podcast) In this episode of “New Books Network,” G.P. Gottlieb talks to Karen Salyer McElmurray, who has an MFA in fiction writing from UVA, about her new novel, “Wanting Radiance.”
(Transcript) Moise faced a lot of opposition in the country, too. He faced accusations of mass corruption and increasing authoritarianism. Particularly of late, protests were continual, calling for his resignation. He was a very polarizing figure. I spoke with Robert Fatton, a political science professor at the University of Virginia, about Moise's legacy. He says this democratic defender portrayal - he called it a gross exaggeration. He says all you have to do is look at the conditions of Haitians four years since Moise took office.
"By forcing Haiti to pay for its freedom, France essentially ensured that the Haitian people would continue to suffer the economic effects of slavery for generations to come," said Marlene Daut, a professor at University of Virginia specializing in pre-20th century French colonial literary and historical studies.
"DeWine has a significant amount of crossover approval with Democrats," said Kyle Kondik, communications director for the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of the book, “The Bellwether: Why Ohio Elects the President.” "In the general election, he may be in pretty good shape," he said. "But that could erode if Republican and Democratic attacks on DeWine take a toll, and the nuclear bailout is part of that."
Political opponents, yes, but Virginia’s gubernatorial candidates share a taste for pricey Zip codes
What distinguishes McAuliffe and Youngkin is that they are running against each other while living 5.8 miles apart in the area’s toniest neighborhoods. The median household income in McAuliffe’s Zip code is $123,000, or nearly twice Virginia’s median; the median home value is $922,000, more than three times the state figure, according to Hamilton Lombard, a University of Virginia demographer. Great Falls, with a median income of $228,000, and a median home value is $1.08 million, “is the wealthiest Zip code in Virginia,” he said.
Virginia has gotten increasingly blue in its politics in the past dozen years, and Democrats now hold every statewide office and control both chambers of the state legislature. But gubernatorial elections in Virginia are always competitive, notes Kyle Kondick, a political analyst with the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, and Democrats aren't taking this fall's race for granted. While Biden won Virginia by 10 percentage points in 2020, "the president's party typically does worse in the governor's race than they did in the state beforehand," in the presidential election, Kondick say...
Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said this race is something of a reversal from McAuliffe’s last one, in large part because the state’s demographics have grown more favorable to Democrats. “McAuliffe is clearly trying to nationalize the race, while Youngkin wants to localize it,” he said. “The last time, it was his opponent who wanted to nationalize it, while McAuliffe was the one who was trying to set out his own way.”
All of that has piled up to create a confusing, byzantine system, some critics say, making it inaccessible to those who need it most. “There’s very little clarity or predictability. They feel like they don’t understand where they’re at in the process,” said Del. Sally Hudson (D-Charlottesville), a labor economist at the University of Virginia. “Most of them are just waiting for a call that may someday come, but they don’t know when it’ll come.”
UVA Health epidemiologist Dr. Costi Sifri says one of the reasons we’re doing better than other states is because of our vaccination rate. “We’re in a good place,” Sifri said. “We are seeing an uptick a bit in cases but importantly that’s not been translated into hospitalizations and deaths, I think both statewide and in our community.”
According to the emergency procurement documents, Team Henry was chosen to conduct the removal because of the firm’s experience removing Confederate statues “under controversial terms” in Richmond and Tennessee. City staff first spoke with Team Henry’s owner, Devon Henry, on June 16. The city also noted that the firm was recommended by Jalane Schmidt, professor of race and religion at the University of Virginia and a member of the city’s Historic Resources Committee, as well as Andrea Douglas, executive director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.
The author of the 220-page independent review of the chaotic events of summer 2017 in Charlottesville calls the removal of the two downtown Confederate statues “a victory”. Tim Heaphy is a former federal prosecutor who was working as an attorney with Hunton & Williams when his team wrote the document. He’s now chief counsel at the University of Virginia.
A body believed to be that of a missing Virginia woman has been found in the Shenandoah National Park, officials said Saturday. Based on the preliminary identification of the remains, the search for Julia Christine Devlin has been suspended, the park said in a news release.
(By Marlene Daut, professor of African diaspora studies) A specialist in Haitian literary and historical studies from the University of Virginia, Marlene L. Daut has selected four Haitian-authored novels that sit with the contradiction between pride over the revolution for freedom and independence from France in 1804, and frustration over continuous foreign meddling, along with many others.
(Commentary by Robert Fatton, Julia A. Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs) The July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was the brutal culmination of the country’s decades-long crisis. As investigators scramble to identify those who commandeered, financed and carried out the murder, there’s much more to this story. Irrespective of the individuals responsible, it is the zero-sum politics rooted in old and deep structures of inequality and widespread poverty that provides the context for the assassination of Haiti’s president.