Public policy advocate, Emmanuel Ndlovu, says there is a need to devise models of development that will help transform underrepresented and underdeveloped communities. Emmanuel is one of the 30 young Zimbabwean leaders selected as 2014 Washington Fellows, the new flagship program of President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). During this professional development exchange program, Emmanuel will spend six weeks at the University of Virginia and The College of William and Mary where he will study civic leadership.
The easiest way to get a true, at-a-glance picture of racial distribution in Atlanta is with the detailed interactive map of the United States made by the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The map, based on the 2010 Census, displays 308,745,538 dots — one for each person in the country — and zooming in to Atlanta shows just how far we have to go.
... MIT researchers and their colleagues at Adobe Systems and the University of Virginia have developed an algorithm that'll make your selfies even more distinctively beautiful than ever before.
The U.S. Department of Education doesn’t track the experience professors of education have in kindergarten through 12th-grade settings, and it seems fair to say that the backgrounds of education professors vary from place to place. Poking around on Google, for example, led me to the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, where all full-time faculty in its comparatively small Department of Education have teaching experience, according to instructor James Wardell.
Attempting to solve Virginia’s extraordinary budget stalemate, State Attorney General Mark R. Herring has turned to University of Virginia law professor A. E. Dick Howard. He has asked Mr. Howard — the man largely responsible for the 1971 rewrite of the Virginia Constitution — to consult on the question of authority in case a divided government fails to obtain a budget.
The panel's decision in the Milwaukee case, which takes up distinctly different issues, "could have some persuasive value nationally,' said Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, who consulted on the Milwaukee case early on.
As a gay man, it is worth noting that not everyone in the LGBTQ community criticizes University of Virginia professor Douglas Laycock for his attempt to balance LGBTQ rights and religious freedom (“LGBT activists take UVa professor to task,” The Daily Progress, May 24).
The Obama administration's proposal to require power plants to reduce carbon emissions is "arguably the most important environmental rule ever written," says Michael Livermore, an associate law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Another recent Supreme Court decision restoring the EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, which had been vacated by a lower court, also indicates the agency is due deference when crafting cost-effective programs to deal with large air pollution issues, Michael Livermore, associate professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law and senior advisor to the Institute for Policy Integrity, told Bloomberg BNA June 2. He said addressing air pollution that blows across lines is analogous to climate change regulation.
And that's not a good omen for a California Republican resurgence, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics's latest House ratings predict Republicans will net between five and eight House seats.
“It would have been unthinkable for EPA not to have included existing cap-and-trade programs,” said William Shobe, an economist and professor at the University of Virginia who helped design the original Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the carbon trading program covering power plants located in nine Northeastern states. “RGGI has a plan in place for doing more than required” by the EPA.
A federal judge will hear arguments on whether to toss out a $40 million lawsuit against the state and seven Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control agents. University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly filed the lawsuit in state court in March. The case was later transferred to U.S. District Court in Richmond.
With no sign of progress in a state budget standoff, Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) has hired a constitutional law expert [A. E. Dick Howard] to advise him — the clearest sign yet that the state is barreling toward a government shutdown and uncharted legal territory.
With no sign of progress in a state budget standoff, Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) has hired a constitutional law expert [A. E. Dick Howard] to advise him — the clearest sign yet that the state is barreling toward a government shutdown and uncharted legal territory.
At the urging of then-Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the General Assembly switched “could” to “would” in Virginia’s writ of actual innocence statute. The amendment took effect July 1, but the Virginia Court of Appeals has decided it makes little, if any, difference. ... Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and author of “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong,” said, “The legislature really did no more than make minor alterations to the statute.”
At the urging of then-Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the General Assembly switched “could” to “would” in Virginia’s writ of actual innocence statute. The amendment took effect July 1, but the Virginia Court of Appeals has decided it makes little, if any, difference. ... Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and author of “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong,” said, “The legislature really did no more than make minor alterations to the statute.”