As consequential as the case might be, the Supreme Court “may be burned out on free exercise for awhile,” said Douglas Laycock, a scholar of religious liberty and law professor at the University of Virginia. “These anti-discrimination laws are important and address historic wrongs. But applying them to force conscientious objectors out of the wedding business is a greater wrong. She must permanently surrender either her conscience or any opportunities in the wedding business,” he added, referring to Smith. “Any same-sex couple that she refers elsewhere has a one-time incident. They may feel in...
Green infrastructure also has added benefits, Sedlak said. “One is that by growing more trees and vegetation in the city, you cool it and make it more livable. The other is, you infiltrate more of that water into the ground and you have a chance of getting that water back out later as a water supply.” That’s why China calls them “sponge cities,” said Shaw Yu, a retired University of Virginia civil and environmental engineering professor. They absorb water when it rains, “and then when water is needed, it could be pumped out, like when you squeeze the sponge.”
(Audio) The WDET Book Club is continuing its discussions about the U.S. Constitution to better understand how the document influences our daily lives. It is also looking at the ways the framers got it wrong. Bertrall Ross, a professor of law at the University of Virginia and a constitutional law expert who focuses on election law and voting rights, argues that the Reconstruction amendments marked the shift from thinking of the United States as a republic to being a democracy.
A doctor at the University of Virginia is sending out warnings that the Delta variant of COVID-19 is pulling us in the wrong direction as we all try to return to normal. Dr. Patrick Jackson says it is unfortunate we didn’t have enough people getting vaccines to prevent this summer’s surge in cases. However, by getting the shot and masking up, we can stem the tide. “I was hoping that it would not be this bad,” Jackson said.
Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious disease expert at UVA Health, says he’s fully vaccinated and wearing a mask adds an extra layer of protection even in places with low rates of transmission, like Charlottesville and Albemarle County. “I never stopped wearing my mask in public spaces,” he said. “People who are fully vaccinated, or live with people who are immune-compromised, are at high risk, should really think about continuing to wear masks in public spaces.”
UVA Health is increasing its collaboration with a Lynchburg-based health care organization to expand cooperation in cancer and transplant treatments, officials announced Wednesday. UVA Health will work with Centra Health to provide patients from Lynchburg to Danville expertise in blood cell disorders and kidney transplant processes and to combine physician recruitment efforts.
Among those listed is the UVA Founcdation’s Boar’s Head resort. The author writes: “The 600-acre property is a wooded escape in the confines of one of the most charming college towns in America. The in-room Pelotons are a nice upgrade feature for this price point.”
The report also cited the University of Virginia’s establishment of a $120 million School of Data Science, which will train students in data analysis, machine learning, statistics, computer science and communication.
Students interested in working in the public sector are getting hands-on experience thanks to the 22nd Century Scholars Program at the University of Virginia.
Add Paige Madden to the list of University of Virginia swimmers to take home a medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Madden competed Thursday morning in Tokyo as part of the United States’ 4X200-meter freestyle relay team. The group, which also included Katie Ledecky, Allison Schmitt and Katie McLaughlin, finished second to only China. Madden and company won the silver medal with a time of 7:40.73.
She’s gone from wondering why bridges stayed up in the air to studying pits of concrete in the ground. Sarah Besecker, a rising third-year UVA engineering student, is getting firsthand knowledge of the highs and lows of civil engineering while serving as a summer intern with Sweden-based contractor Skanska.
The students who research shows would benefit the most from mentoring – namely students from low-income families – are less likely to have access to iinformal mentoring relationships, according to a study by UVA’s Noelle Hurd and two Brown University colleagues.
UVA law professor Toby Heytens, the Biden administration’s first nominee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, garnered bipartisan support on Wednesday for his appellate work and faced little opposition as he appeared before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing.
For those who wonder whether you can get “there” from “here,” whether you can achieve greatness and success by attending a local community college – McDowell Tech, for example – Mackenzie Dobson is proof that you can. This fall, at just 20 years of age, Mackenzie is entering a Ph.D. program in American Politics, Public Policy and Research Methodology at the University of Virginia, consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top graduate programs in Political Science by U.S. News and World Report and similar rating systems.
J. Miles Coleman, an associate editor with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Trump’s loss in Texas puts more of a premium on the race in Ohio. “Trump may risk another black eye,” Coleman said. “Two losses in a row would have some people really questioning his relevance.”
The University of Virginia Center for Politics thinks McAuliffe may be back in Charlottesville before the election to try to secure the ticket. “We would probably see McAuliffe and the Democrats as the favorites, but if enough things go right for the Republicans, certainly, fundraising could play into that,” J. Miles Coleman with the center said. “If enough things go right for the Republicans, then they may have a shot.”
(Commentary) One hundred and sixty years ago Wednesday, Major Sullivan Ballou of Rhode Island died of wounds sustained in the First Battle of Bull Run, Manassas, Virginia. Two weeks earlier he had written a very eloquent and heartfelt love letter to his wife, Sarah. The letter catapulted to national prominence when a segment of it was read in Ken Burns’ documentary, “The Civil War,” airing on PBS in 1990. Academics debate whether Ballou actually wrote the letter. Noting “tonal and linguistic discrepancies,” English Professor Stephen Cushman of the University of Virginia states that there is “n...
MBA applicants should request recommendation letters by phone or, ideally, in person, experts say. “We encourage candidates to spend time with their recommenders – grab coffee or lunch – and share with them why you are interested in pursuing your MBA and why you are excited about the schools to which you are applying,” Whitney Kestner, senior director of admissions at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, said via email.
Dr. Allison Pugh, a sociology professor and chair of the women, gender and sexuality department at the University of Virginia, says women’s studies programs are giving campus communities the tools they need to understand what’s going on “outside my window right now. … We drag the university into the 21st century,” she says. “Administrations point to us when they want to highlight their commitments to equity or justice or inclusion. But it’s not just as a symbol. We provide the intellectual decoder rings for the enormous cohorts of students who are driven to understand current events.”
The new study shows that even when there are significant reductions of the pollutant across a city, disparities persist, says Gaige Kerr, a postdoctoral researcher at George Washington University who led the study with environmental health scientist Susan Anenberg. “This gives an insight into just how entrenched, how substantial these inequalities are,” says Sally Pusede, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the work.