William Shobe, a UVA professor of environmental economics, reckons the state has made considerable progress greening its electricity supply. The fleet of new Virginia gas plants has not only replaced coal generation in the commonwealth, but also reduced imported coal electricity from neighboring states like Pennsylvania and Ohio.
When the new coronavirus hit, hospitals around the state moved quickly to prepare – canceling elective surgeries, tests and procedures – telling most patients to stay home. Dr. Tracey Hoke, chief of quality and performance improvement at the University of Virginia’s medical center, said, “We basically redesigned health care in a matter of weeks.”
Despite the potential drawbacks, one political analyst said it's possible that Trump could return to the Green New Deal during the campaign. But he would have to commit hard to that strategy. And even then, it's not certain to work. The areas where energy workers are out of jobs have been trending away from Democrats for decades, so an anti-Green New Deal message won’t carry the same weight, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics.
One local bakery, KrissyCakes, made a sweet donation to help feed front-line workers in the Charlottesville area, donating 300 cupcakes to health care workers at UVA Health.
As it stands, carbon fiber costs around $15 per pound, and the researchers behind this new breakthrough hope to one day lower that figure to $5. Made up of scientists from Pennsylvania State University, the University of Virginia and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the research team aims to edge toward this goal by making tweaks to the expensive production process, with the ultimate goal of making carbon fiber a viable option for mass car manufacturers.
Some two- and four-year institutions though are collaborating to smooth the transition between those two collegiate tiers, Jenkins said. For instance, Valencia College in Orlando, Florida, has its DirectConnect pipeline program to the University of Central Florida. And Northern Virginia Community College has transfer agreements with 40 institutions, inside and outside the state, including the University of Virginia.
“No one makes it to graduation alone.” Thousands of University of Virginia students gathered virtually for a stay-at-home graduation ceremony in front of their TV or computer monitors during the Covid-19 pandemic.
(Commentary co-written by Richard J. Bonnie, Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law and director of UVA’s Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy) Bonnie argues the U.S. Supreme Court put the insanity defense – “a bedrock principle of American criminal justice” – in peril, but states should not abandon it.
No state is really meeting all the metrics set out by the federal government; instead, local governments appear to be picking “what seems to be working for them.” “I hate to say it in these terms,” said Raymond Scheppach, a UVA professor of public policy, “but I think we’re in a period of experimentation.”
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors discussed aspects of financial mitigation from the cost of the coronavirus pandemic during a virtual Monday meeting.
“Over the course of the last several months the playing field has gotten a little bit bigger, and I’d say Democratic prospects in some of these individual races have also seemed to get a little bit better,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has criticized French and other European digital tax proposals as discriminatory, targeting predominantly U.S.-based tech companies. Making this case would’ve been “a lot harder when Maryland has one,” explains Ruth Mason, a professor at the University of Virginia law school.
The researchers from the University of Virginia also cautioned that COVID-19 treatments can interact with medicines used to manage patients' existing cardiovascular conditions.
The University of Virginia held a virtual commencement ceremony for its graduates on Saturday after the coronavirus pandemic stopped their original plan for Final Exercises on the Lawn.
On the grounds Saturday afternoon, there was an event that was totally unique. An assortment of University of Virginia deans announced how many degrees they were going to award this spring to students who had completed their degree requirements. There were no colorful balloons or laughter on The Lawn. The Wahoos in the Class of 2020 class were monitoring the ceremony elsewhere on their computers.
Few if any other architects worked as closely with former Charleston Mayor Joe Riley during his four decades in office as did Jaquelin Robertson, and few have left as large a mark on the city. Mr. Robertson’s legacy also is intertwined with Mayor Riley’s in the creation of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, which continues to this day and has advised more than 1,200 U.S. mayors on specific building and planning issues in their cities. In its experimental early years, Mr. Robertson, then dean of the University of Virginia’s architecture school, was able to attract top talent to counsel the m...
University of Virginia fourth-years across the nation celebrated Final Exercises virtually. With the pandemic preventing an in-person commencement, many are doing the best they can to honor this milestone in a positive way.
Two green building programs are being honored by the Virginia Energy Efficiency Council for their innovative efforts to drive energy efficiency in schools, libraries, university construction and government buildings. The programs, which are led by Henrico County and the University of Virginia, received VAEEC’s fifth Virginia Energy Efficiency Leadership Awards on May 14 at the VAEEC Spring Forum.
The College of William & Mary announced Monday that A. Benjamin Spencer, a civil procedure and federal courts scholar who teaches law at the University of Virginia, is the new dean of the Williamsburg university’s law school. Spencer is the first African American dean of any school at William & Mary, a spokesman said.
At UVA’s Darden School of Business, 22 different faculty filmed personal videos of congratulations and encouragement to the 336 graduates who completed the school’s full-time MBA program. One prof strummed a guitar and sang Elton John’s “Rocketman”; another pair belted out an a capella verse of the Everly Brothers’ “All I Have To Do Is Dream.”