(Commentary by Eli Jones and Stephanie Metherall, third-year law students) On Feb. 27, the Virginia General Assembly approved House Joint Resolution 555, the bill of House Majority Leader Charniele Herring, D-Alexandria, to amend the Virginia Constitution to make the restoration of voting rights for people with felony convictions automatic, and not contingent on the will or views of the sitting governor. Gov. Ralph Northam supports this proposed constitutional amendment, as does his Commission to Examine Racial Inequity in Virginia Law. Virginia made the right choice for its citizens, since it...
As a teenager, Nicole Lee Schroeder worked part time at McDonald’s — eight-hour shifts at $7 an hour — just to afford a car to get to and from her unpaid internship. Ten years later, she’s a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia. She’s held a range of positions within academia, from research assistant to editor. Yet, according to Schroeder’s viral Twitter thread, she still considers the McDonald’s gig the hardest job of them all.
UVA student volunteers are on a mission to collect as many pounds of food as they can and deliver it to those who need it the most. “We bridge the gap between food waste and food insecurity,” FoodAssist President Damir Hrnjez said. “There is all of this waste and there’s a lot of food insecurity, as well, so you can solve two things with one.” Since 2018, students at UVA have been collecting leftover food from sorority houses and dining halls through the FoodAssist program and donating it to places like the Salvation Army and Computers4Kids.
A community outreach group formed by the University of Virginia football team has been honored. The UVA IDEA Fund says the Groundskeepers group is the winner of a 2020 Marcus L. Martin Endorsed Award. According to a release, this award honors an existing UVA project or program that works to facilitate long-term, institutional change in inclusion, diversity, equity or access.
(Podcast) In this episode of “The Sound of Economics,” Giuseppe Porcaro and Alicia García-Herrero are joined by Syaru Shirley Lin, Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. They discuss the middle/high-income trap in East Asia, and especially in China. Is the high-income trap different between East Asia and Western Europe, especially in terms of their economic relationship with China? How has COVID-19 changed the economic landscape?
With no physical contact because of the COVID-19 pandemic, hugging and shaking hands have become taboo. "One of the things we’ve learned about the pandemic is things like hugging and touching is a little bit like small talk. You start feeling sad and lonely. We don’t really think about it until it’s not there," said James Coan, a University of Virginia psychology professor.
Despite the controversy, Kwame Edwin Otu, assistant professor of African studies at the University of Virginia, and specialist in LGBT issues, is optimistic: “If the reaction of homophobes is so violent, it is because Ghana is changing. Before considering a decriminalization of same-sex relationships, it is necessary to provoke debate, and this is what LGBT Rights Ghana has done. “
(Video) The 2020 presidential election saw historic voter turnout. Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, discusses how absentee ballots played a role in the outcome.
As the dosing is being figured out doctors are encouraging individuals to take advantage of what is out there. "Any one of them is just so amazingly effective, and nobody anticipated we’d have vaccines that worked so well against this," said Dr. William Petri, an immunologist at the University of Virginia.
“There is evidence that content from highly conservative news sites is favored by Facebook algorithms,” Steven Johnson, an information technology professor at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce told USA TODAY in November.
“Positive Waves for COVID Days” by Matalie Deane, presented by the University of Virginia Health Arts Program, can be seen Thursday through April 29 in the Main Hospital Lobby.
The intersection of life, art and storytelling will take a variety of directions this month at Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. “The Art in Life: Comic Books,” a webinar presented by Kluge-Ruhe and The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, will start the explorations at 7 p.m. Thursday.
The old and the young could benefit from nearly $80,000 in study grants recently approved by a National Institutes of Health organization of medical providers and universities, officials say.
Superintendent of Public Instruction James Lane announced Wednesday that the Virginia Department of Education has secured a three-year, $999,912 federal grant that will go toward support researchers from VDOE and the University of Virginia as they examine pre- and post-pandemic trends through the 2022-2023 school year.
The system is long past a crisis. Now, a prominent forensic psychiatrist and a nationally recognized expert in mental health law are calling for a reset. In a paper published in Psychiatric Services, Dr. Steven Hoge and Richard Bonnie are proposing a new commitment pathway that would divert offenders with serious mental illness into treatment. (Bonnie is a UVA professor of law and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy.)
UVA says there were 12 new COVID-19 cases reported on Tuesday, all but one of which were among students. There are currently 230 active cases of the virus in the UVA community, including those who live on Grounds. The seven-day average positivity rate has dipped 0.7%.
(Video and photos) UVA Chapel bells rang out Wednesday from 1:50 p.m. to 2 p.m. to commemorate the day the Union Army marched into Charlottesville 156 years ago. Liberation and Freedom Day is the annual commemoration of the freeing of Charlottesville’s enslaved population.
For the second straight year, UVA students on the slate to graduate will find very little pomp due to a lot of circumstances as the school has decided to forego traditional final exercises in light of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
Some kids likely won’t get COVID vaccines until 2022: Is it safe for Virginia schools to reopen now?
Dr. Steven Zeichner, a UVA pediatrics professor, said it’s not necessary for all children to be vaccinated for in-person learning to resume safely, as long as school districts are following proper precautions. He said it’s a “reasonable possibility” that students will still need to wear masks and practice social distancing well into next school year.
Dozens of third-year UVA nursing students are waiting for the call to help administer coronavirus vaccines in Albemarle County.