Gerrymandering is a factor, but the fact is that Democrats are densely packed into cities and college towns, leaving them with limited numbers of districts where they can compete successfully in many states. “Legislators are in safe seats,” says Richard Schragger, a UVA Law professor who studies state-city relations. “That means you don’t get a lot of rural-urban coalitions built, at least in state legislatures.”
“It is important that there is a continuation from the intervention that we are giving them and the help into the community through case management, through different programs,” says Dr Nassima Ait-Daoud Tiouririne, a UVA psychiatrist and addiction specialist. “Help with housing, employment, transportation.”
Many institutions have in recent years created diversity officer positions, but academics say it’s crucial for people of color to also fill general executive roles – department chairs, deans, residency program directors, and so on. As Taison Bell, a UVA critical care physician and assistant professor, put it, tapping a person of color to be chief diversity officer but having white executives otherwise “is like adding another passenger in the car, but who’s driving the car?”
Cathy Hwang, a UVA Law professor who teaches corporate law, explained that the “report just underscores how under-represented women (and people of color) continue to be in corporate America. Many companies have focused on hiring a diverse workforce, but there’s still a ton of work to be in retention and promotion.”
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, likewise said primary battles wouldn’t benefit the GOP. “The last thing you want is intraparty disputes because it drains money and alienates some of your own people,” he said. But if McConnell and Trump end up duking it out in their party’s primaries, Sabato said he’d bet on the Kentuckian in a lot of those battles. “McConnell’s a much better strategist than Trump has ever been,” he said.
The researchers were inspired in part by the work of University of Virginia economist Christopher Ruhm, who has examined relationships between recessions and mortality.
Danielle Citron, a UVA law professor, argued that attempts to limit the offense should be examined more as a technical enhancement to existing harassment laws. “While the problem might present itself as potentially solved by arguing that the content could be permissibly censorable as obscene, modern technology’s rapid development should perhaps instead inspire a reexamination of when a photograph or video becomes an action rather than speech,” she wrote, comparing it to modern day cyberstalking laws.
In an op-ed last May that appeared in The Washington Post, a trio of constitutional law professors from Cornell University and UVA argued that churches were making contradictory claims by arguing they were entitled to PPP funds while at the same time saying they should be exempted from certain pandemic-related health orders.
UVA Health is in negotiations to buy outright the Northern Virginia and Culpeper hospitals and facilities that it currently owns in partnership with Novant Health.
The Virginia Department of Corrections said Deloitte is assisting them with a strategy for vaccine distribution in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Health. VADOC added they have a weekly consult with members of UVA’s infectious disease team about its vaccine rollout.
A national publication has honored the UVA Medical Center, UVA Women’s Services and the UVA Children’s Hospital. According to a release, Newsweek has listed the facilities on its Best Maternity Hospitals 2021 list for providing care for mothers and newborns.
To reset your gut microbiome, increase the probiotics and prebiotics you eat. Probiotic-rich foods contain bacteria that help your body and brain. An animal study in 2017 from the UVA School of Medicine indicated that Lactobacillus can reverse depression in rats. Similar findings have been established in humans.
“Recidivism is reduced by 43% in the year after an individual submits their DNA,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said, citing UVA professor Jennifer Doleac’s 2017 study on the effects of DNA databases on the deterrence and detention of offenders.
More than half a million Virginians have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and many more could have been infected without developing symptoms. The state also reports vaccinating more than a million people. So are we getting close to what’s known as herd immunity?
UVA officials said Thursday that widespread noncompliance with campus health guidelines is driving an explosion of coronavirus cases at the school.
“Gen Z has rejected the way religion has sought to shape their forms of gender and sexual identity and expression,” said Matthew Hedstrom, an associate professor at UVA who studies religion in the 19th and 20th centuries. “If the religion of my parents tells me there is a certain ‘right’ way to be a woman, or to be a sexual person, and I reject that one ‘right’ way, then I might very well also reject the religion that promoted it, and seek alternative religious, spiritual, or secular ways of being and belonging.”
Doubling the pace of shots would require some logistical fancy footwork: arranging for vaccinators and sites, providing reservation systems both by phone and online, and programs to help people overcome vaccine hesitancy, among other things, said Vivian Riefberg, a professor of practice at UVA’s Darden School of Business and a senior adviser with McKinsey & Co.
The Padres Owe Fernando Tatís Jr. $340 Million. He Owes an Investment Fund Millions From His Payday.
Fernando Tatís Jr. was 18 years old, just a low-level prospect from the Dominican Republic trying to work his way up in the San Diego Padres farm system, when he made a financial deal that would impact his entire baseball career. And it wasn’t with the Padres. Tatís signed a contract with Big League Advance, an unusual investment fund that pays minor-league players money up front in exchange for a share of their future MLB earnings. The company’s founder and CEO is UVA alumnus Michael Schwimer.
Elisabeth Epps, who in 2018 established a revolving community bond fund for those Coloradans who are unable to pay cash bail, has received the University of Virginia School of Law’s award for public service. The Colorado Freedom Fund has raised in excess of $1.3 million and has paid bond for the pretrial release of more than 1,000 people. Epps, a 2011 graduate of UVA law, is one of the three alumni recipients of this year’s Shaping Justice Award for Extraordinary Achievement.
A nonprofit founder who previously worked in countries including Haiti is the city’s first-ever chief medical officer, the Health Department announced Tuesday. [UVA undergraduate alumna] Dr. Michelle Morse will oversee the agency’s work on ending racial disparities in deaths, among other tasks, according to the department.