Republicans, Democrats, neo-Nazis, antifascists, religious groups and even nations share a common need to reinforce and defend their identities, a need that creates deep social divisions and makes unity difficult, according to a UVA psychoanalyst who has worked worldwide to bridge international conflicts. Dr. Vamik Volkan has spent a lifetime working in international crisis zones to bring opposing sides together in negotiations.
Young Black audiences are “looking to see themselves,” said Valerie Adams-Bass, a developmental psychologist who teaches a course about adolescents and the media at the University of Virginia. “It’s super-important to see people your age who look like you. To see how they’re managing these encounters, how they navigate the racial tensions, the class tensions that have to do with your identity.”
When Bronco Mendenhall finalized plans to become the football coach at Virginia in December 2015, among his stipulations was the Cavaliers never having to play Brigham Young under his watch. Mendenhall had spent his first 11 years as a head coach restoring the Cougars to national prominence and along the way forged bonds with those within the athletic program, the university administration and the community at-large he still counts as some of the most important in his life.
“BYU is near and dear to my heart,” UVA head coach Bronco Mendenhall said. “They gave me an opportunity to be a head coach. Thirteen years I was at Brigham Young University. My father played there. My brother played there. I lived close by. It’s an amazing experience to now be able to return, but it’s been six years, and I’m the coach of the University of Virginia and so thankful to be here and to continue to learn and grow and progress. I’ll always be thankful for the opportunities I was given, for the institution — I’m talking about BYU — and for the unique set of values that align with my f...
Now that abortion is once again front and center – in the Supreme Court, and in the Florida legislature –and passions on both sides of this thorny issue are rising, it seems a good time to retell the story of a Fernandina physician who was felled by those same passions some 27 years ago.
A Mercer County native has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to lead the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The Senate voted Monday evening to confirm [UVA Law alumnus] Doug L. Parker, 52, to become the head of OSHA, according to a press release Tuesday from the office of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. The final vote was 50-41.
University of Virginia graduate student Alexis Ward has found a way to bring together all members of the community to help grow the sport of rugby. “Basically, if you think flag football, but put rugby into it,” Ward said. Only in its infancy, Ward has created an adaptive rugby program linking the men’s and women’s teams at UVA with members of the special needs community.
The Texas map, as well as the one enacted in Indiana, “hypothetically could have been more aggressive in targeting current Democratic seats, but those maps are still gerrymanders that are designed to perform durably both in 2022 and beyond,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a publication of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
The mail delivery problem trickled into the Virginia 2021 election, which Larry Sabato, director at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, highlighted earlier this month when he took to Twitter to express his frustration. On Oct. 1, Sabato revealed that while he’d requested a mail-in ballot weeks prior, he still hadn’t received it.
Harris isn’t the only high profile Democrat who has joined McAuliffe on the campaign trail this election season: Former President Barack Obama, first lady Jill Biden, failed 2018 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms have also stumped for McAuliffe in recent weeks. “The McAuliffe campaign may not be bringing out the big guns unless they really need to,” said J. Miles Coleman, an elections analyst at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. It’s no coincidence that four high-profile black Democrats—Harris, Obama, Ab...
Virginia’s race for governor matters because it’s the only competitive big election this year, but it’s not “an unerring predictor” of what will happen in next year’s midterm elections, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, in an email.
On Oct. 14, political analysts at the University of Virginia Center for Politics wrote that “early voting is down a good deal compared to last year’s presidential race, as expected.” They also cautioned that drawing any conclusions from early vote totals in Virginia would be difficult “because the lion’s share of Virginians have traditionally voted on Election Day, aside from last year during the pandemic.”
(Podcast) Laura Shin, host of the Unchained Podcast, interviews Abe Sutherland, an adjunct professor at University of Virginia School of Law, who believes another provision tucked inside the bill could end up being a far more significant issue for anyone transacting in digital assets.
Several members of the committee expressed irritation at the “binary choice” of either voting “yes or no” on the recommendation, as opposed to a more nuanced recommendation. However, Dr. Peter Marks, director of FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, charged the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committeeat the beginning of the meeting that their job was not to decide who would get the vaccine within the population, nor to discuss or consider vaccine mandates. “I understand why the question was asked that way, but I certainly don’t like it,” said Dr. Michael Nelson...
Marlene Daut, a professor of African American studies at the University of Virginia who is Haitian and specializes in French-speaking Caribbean nations, believes the continuous events have made it difficult for Haitians officials and citizens to process what’s going on.
Legal scholars say that even if courts ruled in favor of taxing unrealized gains at their increased values — known as a “mark to market” assessment of value — it’s unclear how they would approach the constitutionality of a tax conditioned on the wealth of the taxpayer rather than on his or her income. “There are plausible arguments on both sides,” said Andrew Hayashi, a professor who is the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Tax Law.
In one-on-one interview with 10 News, Terry McAuliffe details his plans if elected Virginia governor
On the day of our interview, Democrat Terry McAuliffe met with leading health experts from UVA in Charlottesville, all talking about the risks and problems from COVID-19. “The head of infectious diseases for the University of Virginia Medical Center was telling me we are going to live with this for another two years,” McAuliffe said during a one-on-one interview, which is why he’s banking that his tough-on COVID-19 stance will appeal to voters. “As you know, I want to require that every nurse, every doctor, every teacher, be vaccinated. Every student who attends college needs to be vaccinated....
(Commentary) Back when I taught a course on race, racism, and racial identity, one of my students discovered the University of Virginia’s Racial Dot Map, a tool that allows users to visually assess the racial demographics of a given location, including the racial and ethnic disparities of state prisons. This interactive resource was created by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service and added a great deal to our understanding of the racialization of geography.
(Commentary) After learning about the birth of country music, I wanted to know more about Southwest Virginia. It’s still rural and sparsely populated compared with the rest of the state, roughly 90 percent White, working class and solidly Republican. An article posted in September to the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics website found that for voters in the state who fit that profile, “racial resentment” was a driving force behind their candidate preferences.
One of the studies, published by University of Virginia researchers earlier this month, used satellites to measure the near-daily emissions of nitrogen dioxide in 52 major U.S. cities, including Phoenix, Los Angeles and Newark, New Jersey. It found that low-income neighborhoods and communities of color experience an average of 28% more nitrogen dioxide pollution than higher-income and majority-white neighborhoods.