(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) Currently, one party controls all of the statewide elected executive offices in 36 of the 50 states. Candidate decisions by down-ballot executive officeholders in Florida and Missouri could make Republican statewide sweeps easier in those states, and Democrats may have opportunities to sweep more states on their side.
If you hear a siren in town Tuesday, don’t worry, it’s just proof that it’s working. The University of Virginia will test its emergency notification system between 10:50 and 11:05 a.m. Tuesday, including its siren and public address systems, as well as text message, Twitter and internet feeds.
The administration has sought to move quickly on domestic terrorism prevention measures and began implementing some of its new strategy before it was even completed, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Homeland Security adviser and deputy national security adviser to President Joe Biden, said at a virtual event hosted by the University of Virginia on Wednesday.
The University of Virginia’s Young Alumni Reunion is set to return on October 16. The event took last year off due to the coronavirus pandemic. YAR will be held at the Ting Pavilion on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall. The alumni association says it is especially excited to bring the classes of 2020 and 2021 together.
It had been six years since the Cavaliers had been to the College World Series, and Virginia fans were clamoring to get back on the scene. Among those fans is Cricket Morris, a Wahoo fan from Richmond. Cricket and her husband John, a former track and field athlete from Virginia, traveled to Nebraska with an extra good luck charm: a magic bean of sorts.
Making it to Omaha and the College World Series is a dream of every college baseball player. It’s a special trip for the families of those athletes, too.
Virginia’s season of improbable comebacks finally ended late Thursday night. The Cavaliers, who started ACC play 4-12 and lost the first game of their regional and super regional before advancing to the College World Series, fell 6-2 to No. 2 Texas in an elimination game. It’s UVA’s first loss in seven NCAA Tournament elimination games this season. Like it has all season, the Cavaliers fought valiantly to keep its season alive.
A cousin of the high-inducing chemical found in marijuana has bloomed in popularity across the country in the past year, but its ingestion also has brought an increase in calls to the Blue Ridge Poison Center at UVA Health.
(Commentary by Deirdre M. Enright, director of the Innocence Project at the School of Law) This month, FBI “seeking information” posters about the 1996 double murder of Julianne “Julie” Williams and Laura “Lollie” Winans in Shenandoah National Park began to appear at bus stops in D.C., marking the 25th anniversary of the unsolved murders. This effort overlooks the obvious forensic avenues that could solve this case.
A 1999 graduate in sustainable design from the University of Virginia, Dana Robbins Schneider led sustainability efforts for many years at the commercial-real-estate giant J.L.L. As the director of sustainability at the Empire State Realty Trust, she oversaw an energy-efficiency retrofit of the iconic Manhattan skyscraper on 34th Street, which demonstrated how landlords could save both carbon and money, and which helped pave the way for Local Law 97, the city’s effort to force large buildings to improve their energy performance. (Our interview has been edited.)
UVA Law alumna Robin Carnahan, who served as director of the state and local government practice at the General Services Administration’s 18F digital service organization from 2016 to 2020, has been confirmed by the Senate to lead the agency.
The Senate confirmed U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Boardman to serve as a district judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland with a 52-48 vote Wednesday. A Maryland native, Boardman was born in Silver Spring and raised in Frederick before moving to Pennsylvania to attend Villanova University until 1996. She got her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and spent six years as a senior associate in Hogan Lovell’s pro bono department.
The Senate confirmed U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Boardman to serve as a district judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland with a 52-48 vote Wednesday. A Maryland native, Boardman was born in Silver Spring and raised in Frederick before moving to Pennsylvania to attend Villanova University until 1996. She got her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and spent six years as a senior associate in Hogan Lovell’s pro bono department.
(Commentary by Maeellen Megginson, incoming first-year student) The tap is on. Water floods the floor as the sink overflows. We have access to plenty of mops and towels to clean up the mess, but these are a secondary solution. It takes one second of problem-solving to realize that first, we must turn off the tap. This is an analogy used by environmentalists to describe how we should approach solutions to climate change.
As a whole, women of color tend to have a more negative experience in the workplace than white women, said Laura Morgan Roberts, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. “They’ve historically worked in environments that have not been physically safe for them, much less psychologically or emotionally safe.” Many women of color feel disconnected or disengaged at work, overlooked for projects and not fully connected to co-workers and colleagues. There’s a feeling that white co-workers don’t really “understand, respect or appreciate our cultural context or our journey...
(Video) Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, co-founder and medical director, GoodStock Consulting LLC, and associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Virginia, joined “Yahoo Finance Live” to break down her thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic and what's next.
Virginia’s 1971 Constitution moved the commonwealth out of the era of Jim Crow and Massive Resistance. Fifty years after it went into effect on July 1, the constitution faces new and old challenges: the persistence of inequities of past eras, distrust in government, and the survival of democracy itself. Still, the legal scholar who oversaw the process believes their work has held up well. “I think the process today -- if you tried to do the same thing -- would be messy, would be divisive, contentious,” said Dick Howard, a University of Virginia law professor who served as the executive directo...
University of Virginia law professor Thomas Frampton on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Baton Rouge asking the court to stop what Frampton describes as the City of Baton Rouge’s retaliation against his freedom of speech. He argues that the city is trying to put him in jail for contempt of a proceeding that never existed.
(By Kimberly A. Whitler, assistant professor in the Darden School of Business) Imagine trying to start a company while getting an MBA. Now imagine that in the midst of launching the company Covid happens. This is exactly what Whit Hunter, CEO of BetterWorld, along with cofounders Ben Yobp and Colin Hunter, faced when they decided to launch a company with an ambitious goal of transforming the charitable giving space by offering nonprofits a free platform of fundraising tools where they can keep 100% of the dollars they raise.
(Video) The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank is providing nutritious groceries to patients at the University of Virginia Kidney Center. Patients suffering from food insecurity can receive 15 pounds of food per week to get through rigorous dialysis treatments.