(Commentary) This writer and the newspaper I write for are pondering why the name of former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears was not included on that list. … She matriculated to Cornell University, obtained her bachelor’s degree and became a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She went on to get her law degree from Atlanta’s Emory University in 1980, followed by a Master’s law degree from the University of Virginia in 1985.
(Editorial) Having a comprehensive view where inequities exist among Virginians is the first step toward figuring out how to rectify them. In this regard, CRT has been used as a guide. In a recent interview, Janice Underwood offered an example of how her team (including student volunteers from the University of Virginia School of Law) applied the theoretical framework to remove the racist language in the Code of Virginia.
Avinash “Avi” Agarwal, M.D., 47, died Jan. 19 at home. He was an associate professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation Surgery at UVA Health for the past 11 years. He served as the program director of the Abdominal Transplant Fellowship at the UVA Department of Surgery, and was also the medical director of the UVA Transplant Unit and medical director for LifeNet Health Virginia. During his time working with LifeNet, he recovered 833 transplanted organs and saved 793 patient lives.
“The president’s party often struggles in the midterms, and that can be exacerbated by a president who is unpopular, as Biden is,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “The outlook for Alabama Democrats, and Democrats in other right-leaning states, is pretty grim right now.”
This cycle, Republican primaries are more competitive than their Democratic counterparts. The majority of Senate retirements are on the Republican side, creating more consequential races for open seats. “Inherently, there’s more action on the Republican side,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the nonpartisan Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, which tracks campaigns and elections. “Basically, all the seats that the Republicans are targeting, in terms of the Democratic seats, Democrats have incumbents running in those races.”
Some experts say the absences go beyond packed schedules. “It’s hard to believe that you have a schedule conflict with the president unless you didn’t want to be photographed with him. What else could it possibly be?” said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. “They know what the polls say and they don’t want to provide video evidence of their closeness to the president to their opponents, that’s really what it’s about.”
“For many universities, this is perhaps disappointing,” University of Virginia law professor Margaret Foster Riley told CNN, adding that Miyares’ interpretation “will guide the actions of the universities” in term of vaccine mandate requirements, but the “question is whether someone will challenge it.”
(Analysis) Youngkin’s mask order faces legal challenges, and it remains unclear exactly how or whether the order on “divisive” topics could affect classroom instruction, said Richard Schragger, a law professor at the University of Virginia who studies local government law. Still, the potential for a flood of emails over a controversial lesson plan could affect how educators prepare for class. “It could have a chilling effect on what teachers teach, which means that their decisions about what is important for the students to learn are being overridden by the fear that they’ll be informed upon,”...
Even some in Youngkin’s own party are wary. The executive orders were “fulfilling campaign promises. They were certainly very fast-paced and ill-advised,” said David Ramadan, a former Republican member of the Virginia House who endorsed Youngkin’s opponent, Terry McAuliffe, and is now at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government and a resident scholar at the University of Virginia’s Center of Politics.
Decoupled from science, the issue became a political banner for Bolsonaro’s millions of supporters. “You have to remember that Bolsonaro and his camp had really worked to delegitimise the mainstream press in recent years,” says David Nemer, a Brazilian assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. “So, when the press reported that these drugs were ineffective, they said it was just the media lying again. They create their own truths. They only believe what comes from channels they trust.”
Dr. Patrick Jackson, assistant professor of infectious diseases at the University of Virginia, aligns his isolation period guidelines with the Centers for Disease and Control. He recommends people with COVID-19 to stay home for at least five days after onset of symptoms or after their positive test, if asymptomatic.
One of the former clerks who shared their memories with Law360 Pulse, Risa Goluboff, who now serves as dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, said she views Justice Breyer as a statesman and believes his legacy will be that he served as “the glue of the court.” “I think his departure will really be a loss,” said Goluboff, who clerked for Justice Breyer in 2001 and 2002. “I think the court is losing a champion for the court, for the work of the court, and for what judges do.”
(Commentary by Barbara A. Perry, director of presidential studies and Gerald L. Baliles Professor at UVA’s Miller Center) Contemplating my dissertation topic in the mid-1980s, the concept of seats on the nation’s highest tribunal reserved for religious minorities caught my eye after reading a book on Jewish justices. I later broadened my study to include seats filled based on religion, race and gender and later wrote a book on the subject.
African American history can be recounted in epic or tragic ways, but its texture depends on small moments, and Kevin Jerome Everson has become a master in extracting a cinematic kernel of truth from such mundane happenstances. With Pride, he signs his ninth collaboration with his colleague at the University of Virginia, historian and cultural critic Claudrena N. Harold.
Health Wagon CEO Teresa Tyson said Friday that the $40,800 grant recently awarded by the FCC will help pay for three telemedicine carts, giving improved connectivity with distance medical specialists. Tyson said the carts – containing digital stethoscopes, cameras and microphones – will provide improved links with medical specialists at the University of Virginia’s Medical Center and George Mason University.
The University of Virginia Health System is seeing its highest number of COVID-19 cases, including pediatric cases. However, with masking made optional in many local school divisions, Dr. Costi Sifri said at a COVID-19 briefing Friday morning that it’s hard to predict an impact with hospitalizations.
As of Friday, there are 627 patients in the University of Virginia Medical Center: 111 patients have COVID-19, 30 of them are adults in the ICU, and nine children in the pediatric unit. “We are having our highest rates of pediatric patients who are in the hospital right now with COVID, and we’re seeing the highest numbers of children with who are diagnosed with COVID have occurred in the last two weeks,” said Dr. Costi Sifri, a UVA epidemiologist.
The number of births in Virginia has been declining for years, not just in rural counties with shrinking populations, but across the state. Indeed, since 2016 the fall-off in births has been sharpest in Northern Virginia, according to data published in StatChat, the University of Virginia’s demographic research group blog. Birth rates are declining in all developed countries. In Northern Virginia, suggests analyst Hamilton Lombard, the drop is aggravated by young adults and families leaving the region.
Scientists and engineers collaborating across seven universities and two national laboratories have made a fundamental discovery about the atomic structure and vibrations in multilayer nanostructures, advancing the design of materials with unique infrared and thermal properties. Their paper, “Emergent Interface Vibrational Structure of Oxide Superlattices,” was published Jan. 26 in Nature. Their discovery emerged from a long-standing collaboration of microscopy, spectroscopy and theory experts spanning fields from physics to engineering to materials science. Eric Hoglund, first author and post...
Bruce Greyson, among the pioneering researchers to investigate near-death experiences, describes the profound and long-lasting effects that such encounters can have for the people who live through them