Braithwaite edited numerous poetry anthologies over the course of his career. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia holds 40 boxes of manuscripts, correspondence, and other related materials related mainly to this editorial work, in three separate Braithwaite collections.
Georgia’s friend-of-the-court brief in the abortion case the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear calls on justices to “condemn” language used by the Black federal judge in his 2018 ruling against the abortion law passed by Mississippi’s legislature. The same judge took on President Trump’s criticism of the judiciary in the judge’s 2019 speech at the University of Virginia. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves said in prepared remarks, in accepting the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law: “[W]hen the Executive Branch calls our courts and their work ‘stupid,’ ‘horrible,’ ‘ridiculous,’ “inco...
(Editorial) Fortunately, with foundation support, much groundwork for such a probe has been laid by the Covid Commission Planning Group led by Philip Zelikow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Florence Nightingale is considered the founder of modern nursing, but many women of color – and men – also made important contributions to the field. At the University of Virginia, experts at the Center for Nursing History are telling their stories.
The Class of 2021 was met with some pretty challenging experiences during their time at the University of Virginia, which makes Final Exercises all the more special on Friday.
Whether the University of Virginia’s Class of 2021 could graduate in person and in May this year was up in the air for most of this school year, but on Saturday, thousands of students in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences strolled down the Lawn and spilled into Scott Stadium to celebrate commencement.
While some UVA students got rid of their furniture during the move-out period, another group of students saw that as an opportunity to help others in need.
Margaret Riley, a professor at UVA’s schools of Law, Medicine and Public Policy, says businesses have a fair amount of leeway in how they can check if customers are vaccinated. “As long as they’re not engaging in discriminating behavior, they can actually determine who gets to come into their business,” she said. “They could require for example, proof of vaccination.”
UVA’s decision to hold in-person graduation ceremonies is giving local businesses a financial boost as students, friends and family come to town for the events.
Never throw out the first number. That’s the first rule for negotiating a good counteroffer, according to [UVA alumnus] Nick Singh, a career coach and author of the forthcoming book “Ace the Data Science Interview.” Singh has helped hundreds of people land jobs at large tech companies.
A federal judge seen as a possible future U.S. Supreme Court pick by President Joe Biden cleared a key hurdle on Thursday in her nomination to an influential appellate court, winning approval in a Senate committee despite Republican opposition. The Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Washington-based U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on a 13-9 vote. Among the other four nominees was UVA Law alumna Deborah Boardman, for the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
Hundreds of UVA students marched on Grounds on Thursday to protest the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The protest was organized by the Students for Justice for Palestine group. The protesters were mostly chanting “Free Palestine” and speakers said they wanted the U.S. government to stop funding Israel with American taxpayer money.
(Photo essay) Led by members of Justice 4 Palestine, about 100 people marched at the University of Virginia on Thursday in support of Palestine, which has been the target of attacks by Israel in recent days. Israel’s Security Cabinet on Thursday declared a unilateral cease-fire to halt the 11-day military operation in the Gaza Strip.
When Ryan MacDonald decides he wants to go back to college to bolster his career, he lets nothing stop him. MacDonald, 46, is graduating Friday with a clinical nurse leader certification and a master’s degree in nursing from UVA. MacDonald’s also the assistant nurse manager of the UVA Medical Center’s Special Pathogens Nursing Unit, the nursing corps that handled most of the University’s COVID-19 patients. Never one to shirk from a challenge, MacDonald went for his master’s degree at the same time he took on the assistant manager position.
Choosing to defend the endangerment finding, long a target of EPA’s conservative critics, seemed out of character for the Trump team. Jon Cannon, who served as EPA general counsel during the Clinton administration, said most actions by Trump were to undercut climate rules. “Here’s a decision that seems to defend the science and the validity of regulating greenhouse gas emissions,” said Cannon, now a University of Virginia law school professor.
(Editorial) Youngkin is easily the wealthiest person ever to run for statewide office in Virginia; his personal fortune has been estimated as high as $367 million. His campaign will not lack for funds. As longtime political analyst Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia has quipped on Twitter, Youngkin’s idea of a fund-raising event is lunch with his accountant.
Philip D. Zelikow, who served as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission and is now a professor at the University of Virginia, said the bill language on the appointment of staff members to the Jan. 6 commission was identical to the bill language Congress used in establishing the 9/11 Commission.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy also erected scores of monuments throughout the South. They were ostensibly about memorializing Confederate soldiers, but historians say their real aim was to immortalize a warped history of the war – and remind newly emancipated Blacks of their place in society. Jim Crow laws would limit their ability to vote, work and get an education; public monuments would remind them who was in charge, historians say. And a carving on Stone Mountain would send the loudest message yet. “It’s really part of that whole era,” said Grace Elizabeth Hale, a UVA American st...
The United Daughters of the Confederacy also erected scores of monuments throughout the South. They were ostensibly about memorializing Confederate soldiers, but historians say their real aim was to immortalize a warped history of the war – and remind newly emancipated Blacks of their place in society. Jim Crow laws would limit their ability to vote, work and get an education; public monuments would remind them who was in charge, historians say. And a carving on Stone Mountain would send the loudest message yet. “It’s really part of that whole era,” said Grace Elizabeth Hale, a UVA American st...