(Commentary by Paul Stephan, School of Law) Pundits have reveled in the prospect of using the Russian central bank funds currently frozen by the U.S. Department of Treasury to make reparations to Ukraine for war crimes and other injuries inflicted by Russia’s devastating and outlaw invasion. How delicious it would be to enforce international law against such an obviously culpable perpetrator, all done by the United States without any outside help!
The University of Virginia has been ranked as the best public college for financial aid. The Princeton Review, which is not affiliated with Princeton University, released its 2022 Best Value Colleges list on Tuesday.
Kate Daniels has long been captivated by the connection between writing and the healing process. After earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, Daniels worked as a nurse’s aide at UVA Medical Center while she was in the process of applying to graduate school. The job was grueling, physically and emotionally, and she found herself writing poetry in the staff break room to decompress from the intense hours spent helping care for terminally ill patients. She did not realize its therapeutic benefit until years later.
“Everyone in the imaging community should really see this as a call to arms to work with our imaging vendor exchange communities to solve this problem for the benefit of patients,” emphasized Dr. Krishnaraj, Chief of the Division of Body Imaging with the Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Two international law experts backed vitamin C importers Monday in their bid for another U.S. Supreme Court review of a price-fixing case against a pair of Chinese exporters that was nixed by the Second Circuit, warning that the lower court is in no position to make case-by-case judgments that could impact foreign relations. University of California, Davis, law professor William S. Dodge and University of Virginia School of Law professor Paul B. Stephan, both of whom are former international law advisers to the U.S. Department of State, argued that the Second Circuit ruling made it much more l...
Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said an urban vs. rural divide among voters has gotten sharper in recent decades. Divides on cultural issues have also become starker to voters. “I think that as the Democratic Party has become more sort of clearly associated with cultural liberalism and the Republican Party more associated with cultural conservatism on issues like guns and abortion and energy production,” Kondik said.
Biden received a small boost in popularity in the immediate aftermath of the invasion as he helped lead the NATO response to deter Russia. But his average approval rating remains low at 42.2 percent, according to analytics website FiveThirtyEight. “Even though it’s a momentous world event, I don’t think it’s really changed how people view the president in any sort of meaningful way,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “People’s concerns are generally domestic.”
University of Virginia professor of art history, Douglas Fordham, also talked to the Georgetowner about how the rise of NFT art might fit into the long-term trends of art history. “For more than a century now, artists have been working in what we call ‘new media’ which has ranged from film to video to digital art, and much of that work took the form of a critical interrogation of the medium itself, pushing beyond entertainment or absorption to analyze the way in which a medium functions in society or as an untapped vehicle of expression,” Fordham said. “NFT art seems to capitulate entirely to ...
Austin Keeler, a postdoctoral student at the University of Virginia, uses CRISPR in the lab to alter the genetic makeup of mouse embryos to create transgenic animals for research. Though he finds CRISPR’s potential exciting, he thinks a lot about its ethical implications on issues that currently resemble science fiction more than reality. These thoughts inspired the subject of a course he teaches to undergraduate students entitled “Homo CRISPR — Future Humans?”
(Analysis) WhatsApp is the leading social network in Brazil; it also “became a public service in the country,” said David Nemer, a professor of media studies and Latin American studies at the University of Virginia. “Phone companies offer access to WhatsApp at no cost.” In other words, there is less incentive to read the news on an actual news site when, on WhatsApp, consumers can read headlines for free. “Although many see this as digital inclusion,” Nemer said, “it’s actually digital colonialism.”
A cache of experimental pavilions and organic shelters show what is possible if we embrace biodegradable alternatives to concrete and steel. The Biomaterial Building Exposition is being hosted at the University of Virginia, with designs contributed by students from its architecture school as well as visiting professors and researchers.
The first home event for the University of Virginia men’s golf team in more than a decade bears the name of the late Lewis Chitengwa, and that’s a fitting honor. Chitengwa, who died tragically of meningococcal meningitis in June 2001 at the age of 26, was a pioneer in the Cavaliers’ program.
Last month, a small group of descendants also met with University of Virginia graduate students Jake Calhoun and MaDeja Leverett, who have been searching Albemarle County’s chancery records for sales of enslaved people for several months. So far, they have identified the names of over a dozen enslaved people who were sold on the courthouse steps.
The City of Fairfax's Fleet Maintenance Division made the list of the top transportation fleet operators in the country for the second time in three years. NAFA FLEETSolutions magazine's list of "The 100 Best Fleets in the Americas" ranked Fairfax City at No. 97 in 2022, one spot ahead of its 98th ranking in 2020. The new rankings were announced April 11 at NAFA's Institute and Expo, held in Columbus, Ohio. Other Virginia fleet operators to make the top 100 list of 2022 included University of Virginia Facilities Management at No. 66.
The University of Virginia Facilities Management Apprenticeship Program is seeking more applicants. The program offers hands-on experience and allows you to master a trade you may not learn anywhere else. A job fair for the program was held early Tuesday to help get the word out.
Police Chief Mario Arriaga is back in Plainfield after attending an intensive three-month FBI National Academy class open to only a select group of national and international law enforcement professionals. For 10 weeks beginning in January, Arriaga and 257 other police department executives from across the country and beyond – Class 281 boasted 32 international students – spent their days taking a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses though the University of Virginia at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s training academy in Quantico, Virginia before graduating on March 17.
Associate Justice Stephen Breyer was at the University of Virginia School of Law on Tuesday. While there, he accepted the 2022 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law, which is the highest honor that can be conferred by UVA and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello.
A member of the U.S. Supreme Court made his way to the University of Virginia’s School of Law Tuesday afternoon. Justice Stephen Breyer is adding to his list of accomplishments. He was awarded the the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law. UVA President Jim Ryan says this award is one of UVA’s highest honors.
The soon-to-retire U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer reflected on his career and the complicated impact of the highest court as he accepted an award Tuesday from the University of Virginia. Breyer, 83, is the latest recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law, UVA’s highest external honor.
Former Vice President Mike Pence is speaking Tuesday night at the University of Virginia as speculation grows about a potential 2024 presidential run. His speech is titled "How to save America from the woke left" and will focus on his "freedom agenda" for the Republican Party. CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa joins "Red and Blue" ahead of the speech to discuss the significance of his visit to Charlottesville.