Alan Taylor, a historian at the University of Virginia who received the 2014 Pulitzer for “The Internal Enemy,” recommends that Northam read Coates's full-length book, “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,” in addition to his magazine piece.
The effort to impeach Democratic Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax was prompted by the emergence of two women who accused him of sexual assault in the 2000s. … If the legislature is in session, the House would need a simple majority to vote to impeach Fairfax, said A.E. Dick Howard, a UVA law professor.
A U.S. Supreme Court majority typically protective of religious liberty voted Thursday night to expedite the execution of a Muslim death-row inmate in the face of what a lower court called a “powerful Establishment Clause claim.” To UVA law professor Douglas Laycock, it illustrated how religious freedom is often trumped by other issues when they collide at the high court.
Contributing to the lack of power is the fact that while Democrats seized control of the House after the November election, 12 of the 16 members of the Ohio delegation are Republicans. In this Congress, Republicans in the minority have little clout at all. “It’s a 12–4 Republican House delegation and it’s a Democratic House now,” said Kyle Kondik of the UVA Center for Politics. “So that invariably lends to the caucus having a little bit less sway.”
A.E. Dick Howard, the UVA law professor who led the commission that wrote the current version of the state constitution in 1971, said there is disagreement about whether conduct unrelated to an elected office can be grounds for impeachment.
Alan Taylor, a historian at the University of Virginia who received the 2014 Pulitzer for “The Internal Enemy,” recommends that Northam read Coates's full-length book, “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,” in addition to his magazine piece.
UVA students are camping outside John Paul Jones Arena before Saturday's game between Duke and UVA. Some students have been outside the arena since Thursday night.
(Video) A group of Albemarle County middle schoolers had a chance to learn a few hygiene tips thanks to some UVA nursing students.
(Video) Students at the UVA School of Law learn and share ideas to improve Charlottesville at the 'Shaping Justice' conference.
Dr. Marcus Martin, now 70 and UVA’s retiring vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity, said if anyone tried to let blackface or KKK-related pictures through when he was at Eastern Virginia Medical School — or had he seen them in his yearbook after it was printed — he would have called it out immediately.
That high bar may be one reason Congress hasn't been more active in pushing back on emergencies in the past. Another reason is presidents have typically used emergencies in line with congressional intent, said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at UVA’s Miller Center. But what Trump is contemplating would be different, he says.
Waiting in line outside John Paul Jones Arena at 4 a.m. on Saturday, UVA student Gabriel Simmons felt bad for whoever was going to be selected to take the halfcourt shot during ESPN’s “College GameDay” broadcast. Simmons ended up being the one chosen to take the shot. And he lived up to the standard.
With so much up in the air in the state, we decided to put together a flowchart showing how the dominoes might fall — if any do. We’re grateful to A.E. Dick Howard, Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of International Law at UVA and executive director of Virginia’s Commission on Constitutional Revision, for his patience with multiple, out-of-the-blue emailed questions as things got ever murkier. Let’s begin.
Later this year, Virginia will join 10 other states in what’s known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or RGGI – a group committed to cutting the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere by its electric utilities. William Shobe, Director of UVA’s Center for Economic and Policy Studies, says one man made the decision to go in.
CNN chief White House Correspondent, Jim Acosta, paid a visit to the University of Virginia Thursday to speak on the challenges and controversies of being a reporter in today's political climate.
“We’re going to see more of this — these pictures are probably lurking in people’s yearbooks everywhere,” said Kirt von Daacke, a history professor and assistant dean of arts and sciences at the University of Virginia who has been studying yearbooks. In Charlottesville, the University of Virginia has been combing through yearbooks for two months, part of an ongoing exploration into its past.
The University of Virginia and the National Geographic Society will partner to present National Geographic On Campus, a two-day science and storytelling event open to undergraduate and graduate students at UVA.
A group of Charlottesville high schoolers is teaming up with doctors and medical students at the University of Virginia for a chance to experience the medical field firsthand. This new, year-long program allows the kids to get a taste of all the different careers that are available to them in the field.
(Commentary by Christopher Ali, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia) Despite the large amount of funding coming from the Rural Utilities Service and the F.C.C., rural America has not seen broadband deployed and adopted at the same speed and effectiveness that it had with electricity and telephone service almost a century ago.
(Commentary by Mark Miller) I am a professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Virginia. I am also a victim of knee osteoarthritis and have gone through knee replacements for both of my knees a little over a year ago. Since then I have made it my mission to educate the public about this condition, and to try to keep the enthusiasm regarding new cutting-edge options in check. That is because I have seen many patients who have paid thousands of dollars for a so-called stem cell treatment only to discover later that they were duped. In most cases fortunately, the only injury was to their...