Court watchers and analysts have described Breyer as a pragmatic jurist and a part of the court’s liberal bloc of justices. “I think he thinks that in order for the people to have trust and faith in the court – the kind of trust and faith that lets the court do its job – he has to continue to be a neutral judge,” Risa Goluboff, dean of the University of Virginia Law School and a former Breyer clerk, said.
There’s a long history of justices in the minority entrenching their positions as a “committee of one,” says Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, for a time, was nicknamed the Lone Ranger, propping up a small cowboy doll in his chambers. The Supreme Court always plays the long game, she adds. “It is not lost forever to the liberals.”
(By Laurie Archbald-Pannone, associate professor of medicine and geriatrics) New data suggests that older adults who have received two shots of the COVID-19 vaccine but who have not yet received a booster shot are also getting sick and having poor outcomes. The omicron variant, which spreads very easily, is putting a spotlight on how critical it is for these seniors to get a booster shot – especially older adults living in close quarters with others.
A new program aims to improve health care access to certain neighborhoods in Charlottesville where there are high rates of chronic diseases and shorter life expectancies. It’s called WellAWARE, and it is now serving the residents of the Rose Hill and 10th and Page neighborhoods. It’s a collaboration between tUVA Health’s Office of Diversity and Community Engagement, the Charlottesville Free Clinic, and Central Virginia Health Services.
Icarus takes 3-D scans of a person’s knee, making the brace fully custom to each individual. The brace is then made using a combination of design automation and rapid 3-D printing. Johnson said the Icarus team is working with researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia on the design automation piece to help scale the manufacturing process.
A doctor and nursing professor with the University of Virginia are hoping an app they developed will break down barriers to health care. Azulado offers a way for people to screen for human papilloma virus at home, as well as find resources if they’re positive.
While GMAT test volume was once a leading indicator of forthcoming MBA application volume, that is also no longer true because so many business schools have gone test optional or now accept a wider variety of standardized tests, including those for law and medical schools. The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business will accept the Executive Assessment, MCAT or the LSAT or none at all. The school believes that a standardized is just one piece of information in a much broader, holistic evaluation.
UVA has such a program with Buford and Sutherland middle schools that provides training for students in science and engineering to get them ready for high-tech jobs.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) summoned leaders of many of Virginia’s public and private institutions of higher learning to the capital Thursday to tout his proposal for forming “lab schools” that partner colleges and universities with K-12 schools. … Other administrators onstage with Youngkin included presidents from Old Dominion, Mary Washington, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth, Christopher Newport and George Mason, as well as top officials from William and Mary, the University of Virginia and about 15 more.
Virginia’s state colleges and universities cannot require students to get a coronavirus vaccine to enroll or attend in-person classes, the state’s new attorney general found in his first opinion since taking office earlier this month. Jason Miyares, a Republican, concluded that the schools don’t have the authority to issue a coronavirus vaccine mandate for students without state lawmakers passing legislation allowing such a step, which has not happened.
Attorney General Jason Miyares issued a legal opinion Friday that Virginia colleges cannot require their students to receive COVID vaccines, the latest challenge to COVID mandates from the state’s new Republican leadership.
In December, UVA announced three different locations that would be considered for its affordable housing project, aimed at providing between 1,000 and 1,500 units. “I think it’s important to note that the University really doesn’t have expertise in affordable housing. Not exactly our core business, so we’ve sought outside help from consultants, as well as a lot of community input,” Senior Vice President for Operations and State Government Relations Colette Sheehy said.
University of Virginia immunologist and COVID-19 researcher Dr. William Petri continues to answer reader questions about COVID-19.
(Commentary by John Owen, Taylor Professor of Politics and a senior fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) Russia has 100,000 troops poised to invade Ukraine, and while that scenario conjures up memories of the Cold War or other recent bouts of aggression such as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the most illustrative historical parallel is actually a forgotten episode from nearly 200 years ago.
(Press release) Margaret Saha always loved science, but she didn’t set out to be a scientist. “When I was younger, I never thought I could do science,” she said. “Why not? I just thought science was for the really smart people. No one in my family had attended college, so I didn’t know what was even possible.” … She finished her history Ph.D., then switched specialties from Medieval European to history of science, but soon ramped off into science itself. “When I started my biology Ph.D., I was 33,” she said. “More than ten years older than everybody else. And I had a three-year-old and a one-y...
The lawyer for a once-celebrated high seas treasure hunter has been hit with a four-year Virginia license suspension while his former client sits in prison for refusing to reveal the location of 500 gold coins. The coins are a missing portion of millions of dollars in gold and other valuables pulled by Tommy Thompson from the wreck of the S.S. Central America, which sank in 1857 loaded with West Coast treasure. Lawyer Richard T. Robol, a graduate of both the University of Virginia and Harvard Law School, was Thompson’s counsel and defended Thompson against accusations that he was hiding record...
Teacher Deanna Cumberland said the program kicked off on Friday at school where her students had a tutor majoring in computer science from the University of Virginia teaching them how to create apps. “Friday night, we got on Zoom and met with Mrs. Velma Wilson, and she spoke to my students about Martin Luther King and her experience,” Cumberland said.
Challenges remain in making far-out EV concepts a reality. For electric trucks, the weight required of the batteries to pull heavy loads over long distances is testing the limits of current technology, said Michael Lenox, a UVA professor and author of the book, “The Decarbonization Imperative: Transforming the Global Economy by 2050” in an email interview. He said the same hurdles of weight and battery life are hindering the dream of long-haul commercial flights. “Biofuels and hydrogen may end up being a better solution to decarbonize commercial air flights,” Lenox added.
University of Virginia professor Paul Cantor argues that Macbeth, like Hamlet, is the story of a man and a country torn between antithetical ideologies, those of Christian England and pagan Norway.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said Biden should stick to scripted, public remarks rather than marathon press conferences like the one he presided over last week. “It would be hard for any president, even one as good at this as a John Kennedy, to stand up there for two hours and just do it. I think he is strongest giving set speeches and reading from a script, where most contemporary politicians are not as good at that.”