Sean Singletary was switching on a pick-n-roll when LeBron James suddenly came barreling toward him at full speed. In that instant, Singletary needed to make a decision.
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act was signed into law 36 years, ago, but that hasn't stopped it from happening. In fact, pregnancy discrimination managed to grow steadily in recent years. So this week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released a new, lengthy set of guidelines spelling out what exactly constitutes discrimination against pregnant workers, hoping that employers will better get the picture. "The immediate practical impact is pretty great," says George Rutherglen, professor of employment law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
“A substantial proportion of 401(k) plans have poorly designed menus that offer participants [high-fee] funds,” wrote the researchers, Ian Ayres, a professor at Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management, and Quinn Curtis, of the University of Virginia School of Law. “The problem of excess fees is sufficiently severe that in 16% of plans young participants would do better to forego the tax-benefits of 401(k) saving and invest any unmatched contributions in low-cost stand-alone investments.”
“I would be surprised if any court would find that Boehner can bring this action,” said John Harrison, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Whenever allegations of research falsification, fabrication, or plagiarism arise at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, David Hudson is the university’s first responder. Most universities and research institutions have someone like Hudson: a single, designated person who is charged with overseeing these delicate undertakings, dubbed the research integrity officer.
One of those controversial governors is Rick Scott of Florida, who is being challenged by the former Republican governor who turned Democrat, Charlie Crist. The latest poll gives the incumbent a two-point edge, but Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics said Scott is vulnerable.
“This is a pretty attractive pick up opportunity for Republicans. I think they’re pretty interested in this seat,” Kyle Kondik, who watches Minnesota campaigns for the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said in an interview. ”This is one of the frontline House races in the whole country.”
Others, however, say Section 292 does not impose a ban on federal funding for legal counsel at removal proceedings. David Martin, former principal deputy general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security and currently a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, says the section is a “general authorization” for such persons to have counsel.
Unlike removals, a return does not bar someone from legally entering the country someday, though that is hard for most because they do not have a family or employment connection necessary to get in line for citizenship, said David Martin, a University of Virginia School of Law professor.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said both candidates will have enough to get their messages out. "Alison Grimes is one of the great Democratic hopes of 2014 across the country," he said. "If you had to pick one Republican most Democrats want to see lose, it would be Mitch McConnell," the Senate minority leader. "That gives you big donations, small donations."
By Carolyn Long Engelhard, director of the Health Policy Program at the School of Medicine's Department of Public Health SciencesRight now it is unclear whether or not these system reforms will be enough of an antidote to the choice versus cost trade-off for many Americans who, when it comes to health care, want it all.
Seven University of Virginia Health System specialties are honored in the U.S. News & World Report 2014-2015 “Best Hospitals” guide. These seven specialties join the neonatology and urology programs at UVa. Children’s Hospital, which were honored in June as part of U.S. News’ “Best Children’s Hospitals” guide.
Researchers at the University of Virginia were recently amazed to discover that many people would rather self-administer painful shocks than sit quietly with their own thoughts for 15 minutes. So what’s so bad about sitting alone and thinking? Study author Erin Westgate helps parse the results.
A recent study published in the journal of Science by Dr. Timothy D. Wilson and his team from University of Virginia, shows that people prefer doing mundane activities as opposed to thinking!
Clubs for ugly people, ear trumpets designed for mourners, mesmerism as a cure — disability in the 19th century reflected all of the Victorian era’s oddities and societal changes. Nineteenth-Century Disability: Cultures & Contexts, a digital research archive of text and images on this more overlooked aspect of history, is part of the U.Va.–hosted NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship).
The other vivid memory was from a few days later. I was at the University of Virginia, and we had a huge 24-inch telescope there, built in 1885.
So now, not only can you watch Game of Thrones on HBO, but now you can actually STUDY it thanks to the class being offered at the University of Virginia!
The camp is on Shakespeare at the Blackfriars Theater, and this week of summer learning fun is for grown-ups. The No Kidding Shakespeare Camp for Adults is taking place for the fifth year. The experience also attracted grown-ups when the center held the Summer on the Lawn seminars at the University of Virginia. When the center's partnership with U.Va. ended, some of those campers wanted to return, Grey said.