Margaret Foster Riley, a UVA law, public policy and health sciences professor, said striking the right balance between privacy and the public good can be a thorny issue. “I have serious problems with the law,” she said. “We have a privacy rule for health care, we have a privacy rule for banks and we have a privacy rule for education, but none of them overlap in a way that makes sense.”
Bees from the genus Andrena, a type of ground bee sometimes called a miner bee, are treasured in orchards, says T’ai Roulston, a biologist with UVA’s Blandy Experimental Farm.
Five years after purchasing the former North American Housing Corp. complex, Boones Mill sought help from graduate students from UVA’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy to determine how to make the property an asset for the town.
The Rivanna Medical device ‘Accuro’ is the new device in the world of sonogram imaging. Kevin Owen and Will Mauldin have created and acquired FDA approval for this new technology meant to provide a faster way to deliver epidural locals.
“First of all, there would be considerable resistance in many other quarters. And there might be efforts in Congress to deny funding for certain kinds of policies, particularly ones that might have a huge impact on powerful American constituencies. There would be some of that before the final shape of the implemented policy would take place,” said David Martin, an immigration policy consultant and a UVA professor of international law.
“Trump never had Teflon with anybody but his 35-40 percent slice of the GOP,” UVA political scientist Larry J. Sabato said Wednesday. “That's more than enough to win a nomination with 17 candidates in the field, but it doesn't translate to a much larger, diverse electorate in November.”
UVA law professor Richard Bonnie, who helped shape policy reform following previous mass shootings, said this latest violence reveals a threat more dangerous than the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Think of Floyd County, which has recently become part of the greater Blacksburg area. Or Culpeper becoming part of the D.C. region. Or Matthews County being added to Hampton Roads. Researchers at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center say these areas present a paradox – they’re growing but they not adding jobs.
No one is sure who is really in charge. “There’s no investment. Tourism is dead. The political parties have no plan whatsoever. They may talk about ideology, but the bottom line is power,” said UVA political scientist Robert Fatton Jr., who was born and raised in Haiti.
(Commentary co-written by UVA sociology professor W. Bradford Wilcox) In trying to account for the falling fortunes of young men from disadvantaged backgrounds, the focus has tended to fall on factors such as poverty and racial and income segregation. These structural factors matter, but so too does an oft-neglected factor – missing fathers.
UVA is looking to ease a traffic headache at the intersection of Emmet Street and University Avenue. UVA architects have been trying to figure out a plan that anticipates potential development for that area, while also creating a framework for the future.
UVA’s Danielle Collins was named the ITA National Women’s Collegiate Player of the Year on Tuesday. It’s the latest in a string of accolades for the U.Va. senior, who claimed the 2016 NCAA Women’s Singles Championship two weeks ago, marking her second NCAA singles title in the last three seasons. With the title, Collins earned a berth in the upcoming U.S. Open, which begins on Aug. 29.
Menopause messes with pH, too: When women stop producing estrogen, many experience vaginal dryness and thinning, which ends up killing off lactobacilli so pH starts to rise. In fact, postmenopausal women often have a pH in the range of 5 to 6, which is slightly higher than ideal, says Dr. JoAnn V. Pinkerton, executive director of the North American Menopause Society and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UVA Health Center.
Some fear the parade could be unsafe. Doug Meyer, a sociologist and lecturer of women, gender and sexuality UVA, focuses on violence against LGBT people and the influence of race, class and gender on sexual orientation-based discrimination. Meyer said that while most LGBT people have to deal with homophobia, marginalized people in the community, such as people of color, transgender people and those with a lower income, are more likely to experience physical attacks.
“The ideal outcome would be for Western visitors to think the park was Chinese and the Chinese visitors to feel the park was Western,” says Elliott Weiss, a UVA business professor and author of a case study on the park.
This summer, anyone can enjoy a handful of Andy Warhol pieces of art for free in Charlottesville. The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia is showing off a big gift it received from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
“Virginia is one of the jobs that has been circled on my wish list. As a young, aspiring coach, it’s one of those jobs, if you could get it, it would be a dream,” said Joanna “Jo” Hardin, named this week as UVA’s head softball coach.
On Tuesday, UVA Facilities Management hosted Girls Day, which gave 36 girls the opportunity to see behind the scenes at worksites and to talk with women about careers in a typically male-dominated field.
On Monday, 17 contestants for Miss District of Columbia 2016 began rehearsing for the annual pageant, scheduled for Sunday at Howard Theatre. Kayla Strong is a student at the University of Virginia. Her talent is vocal. Her pageant platform is “Human After All: Ending Violence Against Transgendered Women.”
"It's June, and I doubt this awful event will have any real impact come November. We move on quickly," Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said in an email. "Trump's backers will insist this proves him right about ISIS and the Muslim ban," Sabato added.