A University of Virginia fourth-year student from Oxford has been named a Rhodes Scholar. The announcement was made last week by Elliot Gerson, the American secretary of the Rhodes Trust. Evan Barrett Berhle, 21, has been named one of 32 students nationwide to receive an all-expense paid scholarship courtesy of what is widely considered the most famous and prestigious award available for American college students. He will spend two to three years at Oxford University in England studying public policy and political theory.
(By Rick Webb, senior environmental research scientist) NO: I recognize the need for alternative energy. I am aware of the harm caused by reliance on coal, and I am concerned about global warming. Appalachian wind development, however, is more of a distraction than a solution to these problems. And it threatens some of the best of the region’s wild landscape.
(By Micah Schwartzman, Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, and Nelson Tebbe) The Supreme Court just agreed to hear a case challenging the requirement that most employers provide contraceptive coverage in their employee health insurance plans. On the front page of Monday’s paper, the New York Times previewed one of the two cases the justices have agreed to hear: Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. At issue is whether for-profit corporations can have rights of religious conscience.
Almost every time he eats a steak, Mack Halsey develops hives on his arms and legs. Burgers are no better. About two to four hours after a meal, his skin starts to itch and break out in hives. For a long time, Halsey, who lives in Charlottesville, blamed the additives in meat, the antibiotics, the hormones. It was only after he went to Scott Commins, a University of Virginia immunologist, that he got his diagnosis: alpha-gal allergy, a reaction to red meat that results from having been bitten by a tick. … Until recently, the medical world was unaware that tick bites could cause an aller...
(Letter to the Editor by Colin Hood) Regardless of future public policy, the negative stigma of mental illness must be conquered in order to support those struggling with mental illness. This requires a shift in our culture, our schools and our hearts.
The lone star tick, whose bite can cause alpha-gal allergy to meat, is present in the Washington area, but it is not an urban pest. “If you live and work on Capitol Hill, you probably won’t get it,” says University of Virginia immunologist Scott Commins. “People we usually see in our clinic either live in Northern Virginia and work in D.C., or their hobbies take them outside of D.C. on the weekends.”
University of Virginia research from 2012 also found that mindfulness-based stress reduction courses to significantly improve burnout and well-being scores for various types of health care providers.
“The significance of keeping these murals in good shape is that they were from a time when there was not only optimism in this country, but unity,” says Daniel Bluestone of the University of Virginia, a leading architectural historian. “That is more important than ever today.”
Fortunately for the GOP, the byzantine Senate rules provide many alternatives to outright warfare, says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Of course there will be retaliation,” says Sabato. “The Senate rules encourage it, with so many ways provided for single Senators or small groups to slow down the process. The GOP base expects retaliation, and politicians usually play to their base.”
The University of Virginia is also using the national campaign as a chance to invest in the future through its first Giving TueHoosDay initiative. “We want folks to feel like they can give any amount to any area of the university and there's one place that you can give for the day - so it makes it really simple,” said Johanna Montague, assistant director of reunions and class activities at UVA's Alumni Hall.
(Commentary) During a conversation with Larry Sabato, a prominent political commentator from the University of Virginia, he said "as yet no one has shown me (Schieffer) evidence to convince me that he--that there was anybody else connected." And he asks Sabato why that is, and Sabato dutifully replies that it is difficult to accept the minor cause of the major effect.
People who make a living following politics in the Commonwealth, such as George Mason University’s Mark Rozell and the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato, see such a scenario as unlikely but nonetheless don’t outright dismiss a potential candidacy by the state’s controversial sitting attorney general.
The U.S. Department of Justice is being sued over its refusal to publicly disclose a $2 million non-prosecution agreement prosecutors reached with a Houston-based tree services company that employed undocumented workers. The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression represents the challenger, Jonathan Ashley, a business reference librarian at the University of Virginia School of Law. Ashley and Brandon Garrett, a criminal justice professor at the law school, run a web site that features hundreds of deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements.
The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing in Richmond has received a $280,600 award from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to help fund the planning of an Advanced Manufacturing Apprentice Academy Center. The regional training center will provide hands-on training to prepare area workers for careers in advanced manufacturing. "With this new training facility, we'll able to create a pipeline of advanced manufacturing workers that will not only meet the needs of the region's current companies, but also position us to attract other companies to build and expand wi...
The University of Virginia's annual Legislative Forum is set to begin at noon Dec. 18 in the Rotunda Dome Room. Members of the General Assembly representing Central Virginia will be on hand to talk about issues affecting the university and the UVa Medical Center.
In “The End of the Church,” Ephraim Radner deployed figural exegesis to show that the divided Church is a dead Church, deprived of the Holy Spirit, corresponding to Jesus’ own dead, deprived, and broken body on the cross. In his latest book, “A Brutal Unity,” Radner contends that the divided Church is murderous, complicit in all sorts of violence, such as the Rwandan genocide and the Holocaust. To curb these violent tendencies, God has raised up the liberal state, which at once judges the Church’s failures and shows something of what she has failed to be: a ...
(Commentary) Over the years I have collected quotations, pithy sayings, and clever comments, all of which I keep in the top right-hand drawer of my desk. As it turns out, I’m not the only person who collects the same sort of comments. Dr. Gabriel Robins, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, also collects them. Part of the reason for collecting clever sayings, I think, is that most of them make a salient point about life in very few, but carefully chosen, words. This week I’m going to share some the best quotations from Dr. Gabriel’s collection.
(Commentary) (Referring to Woodrow Wilson) “No man in supreme power in any nation’s life,” wrote the University of Virginia’s president Edwin A. Alderman, “was so profoundly penetrated by the Christian faith. He was sturdily and mystically Christian.”