"This has really taken off in recent years," Larry Sabato, a top elections expert and the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, wrote in an email. "Big money is easy to collect, but small money gets a campaign votes, not just cash. People who give even five bucks have skin in the game. … Anybody who buys a piece of merchandise from an e-store is almost certainly a strong supporter of the candidate who will give money, volunteer in some way, and give a candidate the best kind of advertising — vocal endorsement to family and friends.”
A UVA historian talked Monday about the legal status of Africans when they first arrived in Virginia 400 years ago. Many historians say they are not exactly sure about the legal status of the first Africans to Virginia, but they said it is safe to say the first Africans were all enslaved when they arrived at Point Comfort in Virginia.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with A.E. Dick Howard, a drafter of Virginia's current constitution, about the state's impeachment policies, and how and why an elected official could be impeached.
The UVA Health System is opening an expanded eye clinic at the UVA Medical Park Northridge on Ivy Road. The expansion is in response to an increase in population and in high-risk groups.
The UVA Health System has opened an expanded eye clinic at UVA Medical Park Northridge on 2955 Ivy Road. The expanded clinic includes nine additional rooms and new eye specialties available, including cornea and retinal care along with treatments for cataracts and uveitis.
A member of the UVA School of Medicine has been recognized for research discoveries that are making a major impact. According to a release from the UVA Licensing and Ventures Groups, Lee M. Ritterband has been named the 2019 Edlich-Henderson Innovator of the Year.
Campus free speech policies in practice leave marginalized students vulnerable to hate speech. Students, therefore, cannot depend on their universities to provide protection from incidences like the demonstration at the University of Virginia, targeted flyers that promote harmful ideas and speakers who spread hateful ideologies. Thus, “neutral” free speech policies are insufficient if universities intend to provide a safe environment for all of their students since “neutral” free speech policies allow hate speech that is harmful for some of their students.
UVA students and faculty are researching ways for people to act in more sustainable ways in their everyday lives. On Monday, researchers from various academic backgrounds presented their findings on a range of topics aimed at improving the environment.
For 39 years, UVA alumnus Dan Bonner has been a television analyst for college basketball games, mostly in the Atlantic Coast Conference. There may be names you know better from the ACC, but no one has been at it longer than Bonner.
Alan Taylor, a historian at the University of Virginia who received the 2014 Pulitzer for “The Internal Enemy,” recommends that Northam read Coates's full-length book, “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,” in addition to his magazine piece.
The effort to impeach Democratic Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax was prompted by the emergence of two women who accused him of sexual assault in the 2000s. … If the legislature is in session, the House would need a simple majority to vote to impeach Fairfax, said A.E. Dick Howard, a UVA law professor.
A U.S. Supreme Court majority typically protective of religious liberty voted Thursday night to expedite the execution of a Muslim death-row inmate in the face of what a lower court called a “powerful Establishment Clause claim.” To UVA law professor Douglas Laycock, it illustrated how religious freedom is often trumped by other issues when they collide at the high court.
Contributing to the lack of power is the fact that while Democrats seized control of the House after the November election, 12 of the 16 members of the Ohio delegation are Republicans. In this Congress, Republicans in the minority have little clout at all. “It’s a 12–4 Republican House delegation and it’s a Democratic House now,” said Kyle Kondik of the UVA Center for Politics. “So that invariably lends to the caucus having a little bit less sway.”
A.E. Dick Howard, the UVA law professor who led the commission that wrote the current version of the state constitution in 1971, said there is disagreement about whether conduct unrelated to an elected office can be grounds for impeachment.
Alan Taylor, a historian at the University of Virginia who received the 2014 Pulitzer for “The Internal Enemy,” recommends that Northam read Coates's full-length book, “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,” in addition to his magazine piece.
UVA students are camping outside John Paul Jones Arena before Saturday's game between Duke and UVA. Some students have been outside the arena since Thursday night.
(Video) A group of Albemarle County middle schoolers had a chance to learn a few hygiene tips thanks to some UVA nursing students.
(Video) Students at the UVA School of Law learn and share ideas to improve Charlottesville at the 'Shaping Justice' conference.
Dr. Marcus Martin, now 70 and UVA’s retiring vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity, said if anyone tried to let blackface or KKK-related pictures through when he was at Eastern Virginia Medical School — or had he seen them in his yearbook after it was printed — he would have called it out immediately.
That high bar may be one reason Congress hasn't been more active in pushing back on emergencies in the past. Another reason is presidents have typically used emergencies in line with congressional intent, said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at UVA’s Miller Center. But what Trump is contemplating would be different, he says.