The continuing COVID-19 surge of patients into area hospitals is placing a greater burden on already over-burdened health care workers, the chief executive officers of the UVA Medical Center and Augusta Health said Monday. “Our health care workers – your loved ones, friends and neighbors – are at their breaking point,” they wrote in a joint statement.
Brooker taught at several art schools over the course of his career, including the University of Virginia. In a 2017 PBS profile, Brooker said, “Every school that I’ve gone to, I was the first Black person in that department. University of Virginia, I caught hell.”
People inside and outside Liberty were left asking what had caused Falwell, a married father of three, to completely self-destruct in public. He was a University of Virginia–trained lawyer and successful real estate developer. He rescued Liberty from near bankruptcy and transformed the nonprofit university into a financial powerhouse with more than 100,000 students and a $1.7 billion endowment. Over the course of a few months, he blew it all up.
A member of the University of Virginia national champion women’s lacrosse team now has an app with Charlottesville ties. Caitlin Iseler and her team have created Happyly, a wellness app. It connects families with free activities in the area they’re in.
Health researcher [and UVA alumna] Sara Gomez-Trillos has helped to increase awareness and use of genetic counseling and testing for Latina women who are at increased risk for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome, work that may one day benefit her home country of Colombia.
Toya Corbett has been appointed associate vice president for strategic initiatives for student affairs at the University of Virginia. Dr. Corbett previously served as the assistant vice president for student affairs for the University of North Carolina System.
(Commentary) Teachers are on the front lines of this spending dearth and should be prioritized in any funding policy changes. The added stress of educating through a pandemic has exacerbated the extent to which Tennessee’s teachers are massively undercompensated. In the words of Robert Pianta, the University of Virginia’s former School of Education and Human Development dean, “Education is not different from other fields. You get what you pay for.”
“I don’t think there will be ‘pressure’ to nominate a woman for a few reasons. First, Rhode Island has come a long way in terms of women’s representation. A woman has served as governor. Women are the lieutenant governor and Secretary of State. Multiple women are running for governor this cycle,” said Lawless, who today is the chair of the political science department at the University of Virginia. “It’s hard to make the case that women don’t have a seat at the political table. Although there hasn’t been a woman in the congressional delegation in 30 years, women are no longer excluded from ele...
The abolition of prison gerrymandering did have a small effect on district sizes, said University of Virginia demographer Hamilton Lombard. However, the changes did not significantly impact district maps.
(Audio and transcript) UVA historian Neeti Nair points out similarities between the political climate in India and white supremacists’ increasing boldness during the presidency of Donald Trump.
(Commentary) James Loeffler of the University of Virginia, writing in The Atlantic, offers a telling sketch of the historical origins of the phrase “Judeo-Christian Tradition.” And it turns out to be a lot less historical than one might expect. Loeffler notes that the very idea would have been out of step with most American Christians in the 18th and 19th centuries, for they typically looked for the conversion of the Jews rather than seeing them as cultural partners or equals.
(Podcast) On this week’s “51%,” we hit the books. University of Virginia professor Andrea Press explains how today’s media can better represent women in her book, “Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism.”
It’s unclear what the state’s Supreme Court will do, but legal experts point to the state’s constitution. “The state constitution, when it was rewritten substantially in the early 1970s, sought to insulate education policy from politics, at least to some degree,” says Rich Schragger, a law professor at the University of Virginia. “This is coming out of the experience with massive resistance in segregated schools. And so the constitution makers set up a school board as essentially an independent entity.”
(Editorial) UVA law professors Richard Sharagger and Cale Jaffe, suggest Virginia’s new governor is overstepping his legal authority.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said it was “a bit naïve on Biden’s part” to believe Republicans would not be hell-bent on tanking his agenda and said it reflected an unwillingness to accept the reality of the highly partisan Trump era in which bipartisanship is near impossible. “Those days are just gone. They’re absolutely gone,” Perry said.
Biden has been directly involved in negotiating with Manchin by phone and in person, even hosting him and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) at his Wilmington, Del., home. Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said that Biden has been one of the most involved modern presidents in legislative negotiations.
To make their case, prosecutors will have to prove willfulness, a high standard under the law that implies some form of intent. In the past, federal prosecutors have been reluctant to bring these types of cases because of the difficulty proving willfulness. “The basic idea is that the officer has to know he is doing something wrong,” said Rachel Harmon, a former prosecutor in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division who now teaches at the University of Virginia School of Law. “Doing something with the intent to do something that the law forbids. He doesn’t have to be thinking specific...
(Commentary by John Rodden, retired professor) Have you already violated your New Year’s Resolutions? The time-honored tradition of making New Year’s resolutions is probably matched by the equally venerable tradition of breaking those very same resolutions — often within just a few days of our firm resolves. I’ve been guilty of this myself, in numerous Januarys. If you’re at all like me, you have a sorry record of Irresolute Resolutions. If so, then this is the time for: The Resolution Reset.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at the Darden School) One year into the Biden presidency, a disappointing lack of progress on immigration reform has been a factor in Biden’s slipping approval ratings.
(By Anne Trumbore, executive director of digital and open enrollment at the Darden School of Business) The “great resignation” has left a lot of people with time on their hands. And while this time may be a welcome respite from the daily grind, most folks will need to get back to work eventually. For many, this period is a time of reflection and a chance to pursue a new career.