David Ramadan, a resident scholar at UVA’s Center for Politics, told the Washington Examiner in the wake of Virginia’s gubernatorial losses a rethink was overdue. “It’s simple — if Democrats do reckon with this, if they take this and understand the issues that came across here, they will have a chance of holding the political gains they had over the last few years,” he said. “If they do not, they will lose continuously.”
“I never called Virginia blue,” said Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics. “I have said consistently that it is blue-ish purple or purple-ish blue, because when you look at Virginia’s electorate, you realize instantly it’s no California.”
The recent gubernatorial election in Virginia should capture the attention of Michigan policymakers. A surprising victory by the Republican candidate was “powered by parents,” according to University of Virginia professor Brad Wilcox and American Enterprise Institute researcher Max Eden. Parents here are hoping for someone to champion their cause.
(Transcript) Kyle Kondik, director of communications at UVA’s Center for Politics, discusses the Virginia gubernatorial election.
(Commentary) A senior House Democratic House aide echoed that sentiment. “The bill gives parents the flexibility to choose a provider that best fits their needs ― including faith-based providers ― and it ensures faith-based providers can receive grant funding to build their capacity.” That’s not just spin. Micah Schwartzman, a University of Virginia law professor specializing in religion and First Amendment issues, reviewed the legislation at HuffPost’s request and thought the eligibility of faith-based centers was clear. “This is, in effect, a federally funded voucher program to be administer...
Fred Schauer, a University of Virginia law professor, said the message likely constituted a criminal threat under federal law by threatening gun violence at specific individuals. “There’s certainly an intent to put people in fear,” Schauer said.
Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia with an expertise in religious liberty and experience arguing related cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, explained: Religious exemptions don’t apply when “the objectors really do object to vaccination, but their reasons are not religious.” He added that given the opposition to COVID vaccination as an identity marker for the political right, it “could mean a flood of false religious claims” and court rejections of such exemption requests.
At UVA Health, Dr. Kathleen Haden says there’s a common gene for which people can look. “The BRCA2 mutation, the breast-ovarian cancer gene, increases the risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer. But many people don’t know that it increases your risk of pancreatic cancer by 10%,” she said.
Once a charge is filed, the EEOC conducts an investigation and tries to get both parties to settle. If a settlement is not reached, the EEOC will issue to the charging party (in this case, Brackney), a right to sue letter, which would allow the plaintiff to take the other party to court, said George Rutherglen, Earle K. Shawe Professor of Employment Law at the University of Virginia Law School. Hundreds of thousands of charges are filed with the EEOC every year, and they must be filed quickly, within 180 days of the alleged discrimination, he said. “It’s a routine step, but it does show that s...
Julie Bargmann is the inaugural recipient of the Cornelia Oberlander Prize, an international biennial award created by The Cultural Landscape Foundation in honor of the late landscape architect. From the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Visitors Center to Vitondale Park in Pennsylvania, Bargmann is celebrated for remediating neglected, often postindustrial parts of cities, and transforming them into new community spaces full of life. She is the founder of D.I.R.T. (“Dump It Right There”) Studio and also professor of landscape architecture at the University of Virginia. RECORD senior news editor Bridget Co...
(Commentary co-written by Brad Wilcox, sociology professor director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia) It was one of the most notorious lines associated with the Affordable Care Act: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” Now, with the “Build Back Better” framework being negotiated in Congress, Democrats are trying a similar line: “If you like your child care situation, you can keep it.” The Democrats’ current plan could easily sideline one particular type of child care: the faith-based, community grounded organizations that millions of families acro...
(By Caitlin Donahie Wylie, assistant professor of science, technology, and society) In the vertebrate paleontology laboratory of a natural history museum, volunteer fossil preparator Keith was hard at work. He was searching for the dinosaur bones encased inside a “jacket” — a basketball-sized chunk of rock wrapped in plaster and burlap that had been collected by museum staff on a field expedition to Montana. Muted sunlight filtered through the lab’s dusty windows, falling across fossils, tools, houseplants, toy dinosaurs, and other workers at nearby tables as Keith used a pen-sized steel pick ...
(Co-written by Sarah Lebovitz, assistant professor of commerce in the McIntire School of Commerce) Forget traditional brainstorming — tools used for rapid prototyping can speed product development when used for idea generation.
Nearly 15% of middle school students in Virginia say they use electronic vapor devices. The University of Virginia and others are partnering to stop this. The UVA Cancer Center is working with Southwest Virginia Community Advisory Board and Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth. They’re bringing students from UVA Wise to kids in middle schools to discuss the harms of vaping and smoking.
The effects of racial disparities within disciplinary practices in schools has been a growing topic of conversations that warrants further deliberation. In a new EdWorking Paper, University of Virginia researchers Amanda P. Williford, Pilar Alamos, Jessica E. Whittaker, and Maria R Accavitti reveal that teachers are more likely to use certain exclusionary practices--short of suspension--on Black kindergartners than White students due to preconceived assumptions about differences in social skills.
Scientists at the UVA School of Medicine say the human body has a natural ability to fight off cancer, but a particular gene mutation robs some people of that protection. The researchers found the mutation in the UTX gene disrupts cells’ ability to suppress tumors, though how that occurs is still not clear.
Virginia hasn’t encountered a repeat of increased cases that occurred last fall. It was in October 2020 when daily infections started creeping up ahead of holiday gatherings. So far, that path has been avoided and reduces the possibility of a large holiday surge, according to Friday’s report from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute.
The version of the American Revolution narrated by Alan Taylor, who holds UVA’s Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair in American History and has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, is raucous, complicated, unheroic and based on extremely rigorous scholarship. It also asserts that among the motivations of the colonists who broke away from Britain was the protection of slavery.
Time is running out for a generation of World War II veterans to tell their stories. Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a professor at the UVA School of Medicine, along with UVA students and volunteers, has taken up a project to capture local veterans’ narratives on video.
The UVA Biocomplexity Institute’s COVID-19 model shows there’s a 30% chance that we could see a winter surge that will have case numbers surpassing what we experienced in the summer because of the Delta variant. If we do, that surge could come in the first quarter of 2022.