One legal expert said the Biden Justice Department may not be done with pursuing contempt of Congress charges now that Bannon has been indicted. “If you’re in for a penny, I don’t know why you wouldn’t be in for a pound,” said Saikrishna Prakash, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, citing the House’s continuing efforts to compel testimony from former Trump aides Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino and Kash Patel. “I don’t know why they would find him in contempt and not the others.”
The Scottsville Center for the Arts in the Natural environment, or SCAN, is creating a sculpture exhibit on its land outside of town. The first two pieces from the Kluge Ruhe at the University of Virginia were installed this weekend.
There are several places where parents can get their children vaccinated, including the Community Vaccination Center at Seminole Square, UVA Health’s Vaccination Center, area pharmacies and more.
In contrast, significant progress has been made toward freeing people with diabetes from daily injections. A meeting called Obstacles and Opportunities on the Road to Artificial Pancreas: Closing the Loop held in Washington, D.C. in December 2005 planted the seed that recently changed diabetes treatment options. Boris Kovatchev, a mathematician at the University of Virginia, remembers the meeting well. There, experts debated the prospects of creating a pump connected to the body to automatically supply a responsive stream of insulin. “There were opinions back and forth. Some people were saying...
By fall 2020, approximately 71% of New York and New Jersey small businesses said they backed paid family leave, up from nearly 62% one year earlier, according to a study from researchers at Columbia University, Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of Virginia. The study was circulated Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Rosenwald schools are places African American students gained an education during the Jim Crow mandates. Now, University of Virginia students and educators are working to preserve a piece of this history. “This is a part of Virginia, national, and world history that has been unappreciated and undocumented in the past,” architect Jody Lahendro said. Will Rourk teaches 3-D cultural heritage informatics at UVA. He, Jody Lahendro, and a group of UVA students are mapping the Pine Grove Rosenwald school.
The new Future Land Use Map has most of Charlottesville in general residential (bright yellow on the map). Medium intensity areas are scattered throughout the city — many are near public schools so more families with young children might be able to live close by. Most of the “high intensity” areas surround the University of Virginia.
Area veterans who are looking for help with their benefits can check out a free legal clinic that will be taking place Thursday. The law firm of Goodman Allen Donnelly is putting on the clinic in partnership with the University of Virginia School of Law.
Why was last week’s speech on LGBTQ rights “the most difficult” of LDS apostle Dallin Oaks’s career?
(Commentary) On Friday, Dallin H. Oaks, a counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spoke before a small crowd in the University of Virginia Rotunda and said that his remarks constituted “the most difficult address I have ever undertaken.”
University of Virginia employees have more time to get fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The Biden administration revised the deadline. All University employees, including those working remotely, must be fully vaccinated by Jan. 4. The date was initially Dec. 8 of this year.
Charles Raymond Kaut, 95, passed away in his sleep on Nov. 7 in Charlottesville. He overcame deep loss as a youth, grew up fast, joined the Army in World War II, and touched many lives in his family and as an anthropology professor at the University of Virginia, in the Philippines, and on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona.
(Co-written by Aaron S. Evans, professor of astronomy) In approximately 5 billion years, as the sun expands into a red giant star roughly the diameter of Earth’s orbit around it, our galaxy will collide with its nearest large neighbor, Andromeda. As gravity draws the pair toward each other for a close encounter, stars will be ripped from their orbits to make spectacular tails, and gas and dust will be squeezed toward the approaching nuclei, destroying the stately, grand spirals that have existed for almost three-quarters of the age of the universe.
October turned into one of the best months for Charlottesville-area hotels since the pandemic began, according to occupancy data and other revenue information. October had two University of Virginia home football games, where available hotel rooms on Friday and Saturday were more than 95% full. UVA proved to be a boon for area hotels throughout the fall.
(Commentary) Though he is little known today, Gov. William M. Fishback was one of the most recognized and polarizing political leaders in post-Civil War Arkansas. Though his gubernatorial administration was lackluster, Fishback successfully led the movement to repudiate the state’s debt in 1884. Known as “the Great Repudiator,” he ruined Arkansas’ already shaky credit worthiness, then promoted an issue which divided the years. William Meade Fishback was born Nov. 5, 1831, in Culpeper County, Va., the first of nine children born to Frederick and Sophia Yates Fishback. He grew up in a prosperous...
Martha Williams played polo at the University of Virginia. It’s a distinctive sport that, much like the oversight of wildlife and public lands, demands both finesse and the spine to stay in the saddle. The Maryland native then ventured more than 2,000 miles west to attend law school in Montana, and she’s been moving back and forth in state and federal policy circles ever since. Now, at age 54, Williams is back East again, where her experience managing tricky challenges atop the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks helped launch her nomination to head the Fish and Wildlife Service.
A former University of Virginia student was recently pardoned by governor Ralph Northam for a crime he committed while at the school. Now, he’s using his story as an opportunity to uplift youths who may be struggling. “One isolated incident can turn into a whole host of negative consequences and a spiral of negative behavior, “ former UVA student, Jared Brown said.
In 2009, Jared Brown was a first-year student at the University of Virginia and had everything going for him. “I was honored by the NAACP as the most outstanding first-year student,” he said. Named a campus leader, Brown was recognized by his professors for his outstanding work and accomplishments. But everything changed in an instant.
[UVA alumna] Diana Wilson, CEO of Yielding Accomplished African Women, has won the award for Female Innovator of the year at the Africa Tech Festival Awards 2021. The festival is the biggest and most influential tech event on the continent.
Former Capt. Geoffrey Hansen, whose 82nd Airborne Division unit had been assigned to the 34th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade during the missile strike, said some of the troops who served with him during a 90-minute Iranian ballistic missile barrage in Iraq almost two years ago suffered real injuries and deserve more recognition than they received. “These were people who were hurting bad but sucked it up,” Mr. Hansen, now a graduate student at the University of Virginia, told The Washington Times.
Koch said some community members were specifically concerned about neighborhoods at risk of displacement near the University of Virginia. The UVA Student Council weighed in on these displacement pressures in regards to the FLUM, releasing a letter last month that addresses the university’s legacy of gentrification. It was co-signed by 20 student organizations and includes five testimonials from UVA students about their individual struggles finding stable, affordable housing in the city. “Student Council decided to weigh in on the City’s Comprehensive Plan and FLUM because UVA students have his...