The lack of a central enforcement authority has thrown into confusion questions over who would be sued to stop the law. The law “clearly violates the federal Constitution as it’s currently interpreted,” said Douglas Laycock, a UVA constitutional law professor. “The problem with the case is there no one to sue,” said the professor, who described the Texas statute as “exceedingly clever.”
The Jets owned the first overall pick in the 1997 NFL Draft. And even though James Farrior was a first-team All-ACC linebacker as a senior at the University of Virginia, there wasn’t much speculation he’d be New York’s top choice.
“Social identities remain but as one is turned into a consumer, they are increasingly shaped and conditioned by patterns of consumption. We identify our real selves by the choices we make from the images, fashions, and lifestyles available in the market, and these in turn become the vehicles by which we perceive others and they us,” writes Joseph E Davis, University of Virginia sociologist in his essay “The Commodification of the Self.”
We have been talking about tick bite meat allergy for at least a decade. That’s when we started interviewing Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills. This University of Virginia researcher has been described by his colleagues as “a living legend” and “the most insightful clinical investigator of allergic diseases of his generation” (UVA Today, Feb. 8, 2019). Dr. Platts-Mills told us how a tick bite could trigger a serious allergic reaction to red meat (alpha-gal syndrome).
“The Supreme Court has just given Terry McAuliffe a gift two weeks before early voting starts,” said Larry Sabato, the founder and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and a longtime watcher of the commonwealth’s politics. “The problem for Youngkin is that Virginia is decidedly pro-choice, especially in vote-rich Northern Virginia. Independents are mainly pro-choice, too.”
University of Virginia Police Captain Bryant Hall is putting his police badge aside, and his teaching hat on, as Greer Elementary School’s newest tutor. “It actually changed my life,” Hall said. “This program is near and dear to me because of the impact that I was able to have on elementary age students.”
Richard Schragger, the Perre Bowen Professor of Law at University of Virginia’s School of Law, said there are few options for the plaintiffs. While he opined they could try and argue a constitutional takings claim and take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, they would have to start back in the lower state courts, which may use Thursday’s opinions as grounds to deny the claims from the outset. “The court’s strong assertion that the plaintiffs’ theory, that they could perpetually bind the government to engaging in a certain kinds of speech, is contrary to public policy,” Schragger, ...
The report alleges the prime minister had multiple phone calls, including on the morning of the assassination, with Joseph Badio, a former justice official now at the center of the murder investigation as a suspect. When Henry was asked about the calls with Badio in a recent radio interview, he said he knew Badio and defended him. “The idea of defending the guy publicly is peculiar, and dismissing the whole possibility that he might have been involved is clearly an interference into the investigation,” said Robert Fatton Jr., a Haiti expert and professor of government and foreign affairs at th...
Dr. Cameron Webb, director of Health Policy and Equity at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and White House Senior Policy Advisor for COVID-19 Equity, addressed the Fauquier NAACP last Friday during the group’s annual fundraiser. The event, held over Zoom, also featured music, trivia and presentations about the civil rights organization’s activities over the past year.
With COVID-19 cases on the rise and the Labor Day Weekend ahead, more people want to get tested for the virus. However, finding a test may be harder with increased demand unless you plan ahead. “I went in and asked if you had any, and they said, we are all out. I asked do you know any other stores that have any, and they said, we think we are all out,” said Dr. Taison Bell, critical care physician at UVA Health. This week, Bell said he was in search of a take-home COVID-19 test, but struggled to find one in his area, near Charlottesville. He checked at least 7-8 stores online, by phone, or in ...
(Audio) Now that the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 has full FDA approval, companies and government agencies can require employees to be vaccinated. And we’re seeing more and more organizations do just that. Will this approval give us the push we need to end the pandemic? We get answers from Bill Petri, professor of medicine and immunology at the University of Virginia.
(Video and transcript) Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia, joins the Yahoo Finance Live panel to discuss the latest coronavirus developments.
Dr. Susan Gray is a pediatrician. She’s also a parent. That means she looks at the COVID-19 pandemic through two lenses. As a physician and interim head of the pediatrics division at UVA Medical Center, she understands the science and supports getting young people — all people, really — vaccinated against the virus. As the parent of two children, she also appreciates the apprehension some parents may have in sending their kids back to in-person learning and risk exposure to COVID.
(Transcript) Good morning, and thank you for joining us here at Washington Post Live. I’m Karen Tumulty. I’m a columnist at The Post and deputy editor of the editorial page, and our guest today is Philip Zelikow. Mr. Zelikow is currently a professor of history at the University of Virginia, but he previously served as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, and right now, he is leading an effort called the “COVID Commission Planning Group.”
(Commentary co-written by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) The Democratic Party is sometimes referred to as a “coastal” party. Indeed, Democrats hold a 53-15 edge in the combined U.S. House delegations of the West Coast states of California, Oregon, and Washington. But on the country’s Atlantic Coast stretching from Virginia Beach to eastern Maine, Democrats have an even larger advantage in the nine states in the region with more than one congressional district: 63-15. Add in one-district Delaware and Vermont, and the edge expands to 65-15.
A new UVA study has found that hospitals have a wide array of bathing practices for newborns. According to a release, a national survey of hospitals found a variety of approaches to newborn skincare, including the timing of the first bath. This could potentially have lasting impacts on the baby’s health and well-being.
The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine appears to generate a stronger immune response than the Pfizer-BioNTech shot, which has a similar formulation, a UVA study published Thursday by JAMA Network Open found. This is particularly true in adults age 50 and older, based on levels of antibodies, or immune cells that fight off viruses, the data showed.
For the second time in four days, researchers have found that Moderna’s vaccine for COVID-19 generated significantly higher antibody levels in recipients than a similar vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech, although not as dramatic a difference as the first study reported. In addition, Pfizer’s vaccine stimulated roughly 50 percent lower antibody levels in older adults than in younger adults, according to the study by University of Virginia researchers published Thursday.
William Sidney Porter never published this piece of apprentice work from about 1895, titled “The Return of the Songster.” It has languished in an archive at the University of Virginia, and it might be there still (or never archived at all) except for the fact that, under the name of O. Henry, Porter went on to master a form of the short story that featured a surprising conclusion. “The Return of the Songster” is now collected, along with two other previously unprinted pieces, in “101 Stories,” the Library of America’s comprehensive edition of this popular writer’s work, edited by Ben Yagoda.
Campus Pride’s 2021 Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities list includes schools from Massachusetts to Oregon, from Wisconsin to Texas. The main Best of the Best list comprises 30 four-year institutions that have achieved five out of five stars on the Campus Pride Index, a benchmarking tool that tracks LGBTQ-friendly policies, programs, and practices. [UVA is among the top 30, in an unranked list.]