Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia with an expertise in religious liberty and experience arguing related cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, explained: Religious exemptions don’t apply when “the objectors really do object to vaccination, but their reasons are not religious.” He added that given the opposition to COVID vaccination as an identity marker for the political right, it “could mean a flood of false religious claims” and court rejections of such exemption requests.
At UVA Health, Dr. Kathleen Haden says there’s a common gene for which people can look. “The BRCA2 mutation, the breast-ovarian cancer gene, increases the risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer. But many people don’t know that it increases your risk of pancreatic cancer by 10%,” she said.
Once a charge is filed, the EEOC conducts an investigation and tries to get both parties to settle. If a settlement is not reached, the EEOC will issue to the charging party (in this case, Brackney), a right to sue letter, which would allow the plaintiff to take the other party to court, said George Rutherglen, Earle K. Shawe Professor of Employment Law at the University of Virginia Law School. Hundreds of thousands of charges are filed with the EEOC every year, and they must be filed quickly, within 180 days of the alleged discrimination, he said. “It’s a routine step, but it does show that s...
Julie Bargmann is the inaugural recipient of the Cornelia Oberlander Prize, an international biennial award created by The Cultural Landscape Foundation in honor of the late landscape architect. From the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Visitors Center to Vitondale Park in Pennsylvania, Bargmann is celebrated for remediating neglected, often postindustrial parts of cities, and transforming them into new community spaces full of life. She is the founder of D.I.R.T. (“Dump It Right There”) Studio and also professor of landscape architecture at the University of Virginia. RECORD senior news editor Bridget Co...
(Commentary co-written by Brad Wilcox, sociology professor director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia) It was one of the most notorious lines associated with the Affordable Care Act: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” Now, with the “Build Back Better” framework being negotiated in Congress, Democrats are trying a similar line: “If you like your child care situation, you can keep it.” The Democrats’ current plan could easily sideline one particular type of child care: the faith-based, community grounded organizations that millions of families acro...
(By Caitlin Donahie Wylie, assistant professor of science, technology, and society) In the vertebrate paleontology laboratory of a natural history museum, volunteer fossil preparator Keith was hard at work. He was searching for the dinosaur bones encased inside a “jacket” — a basketball-sized chunk of rock wrapped in plaster and burlap that had been collected by museum staff on a field expedition to Montana. Muted sunlight filtered through the lab’s dusty windows, falling across fossils, tools, houseplants, toy dinosaurs, and other workers at nearby tables as Keith used a pen-sized steel pick ...
(Co-written by Sarah Lebovitz, assistant professor of commerce in the McIntire School of Commerce) Forget traditional brainstorming — tools used for rapid prototyping can speed product development when used for idea generation.
Nearly 15% of middle school students in Virginia say they use electronic vapor devices. The University of Virginia and others are partnering to stop this. The UVA Cancer Center is working with Southwest Virginia Community Advisory Board and Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth. They’re bringing students from UVA Wise to kids in middle schools to discuss the harms of vaping and smoking.
The effects of racial disparities within disciplinary practices in schools has been a growing topic of conversations that warrants further deliberation. In a new EdWorking Paper, University of Virginia researchers Amanda P. Williford, Pilar Alamos, Jessica E. Whittaker, and Maria R Accavitti reveal that teachers are more likely to use certain exclusionary practices--short of suspension--on Black kindergartners than White students due to preconceived assumptions about differences in social skills.
Scientists at the UVA School of Medicine say the human body has a natural ability to fight off cancer, but a particular gene mutation robs some people of that protection. The researchers found the mutation in the UTX gene disrupts cells’ ability to suppress tumors, though how that occurs is still not clear.
Virginia hasn’t encountered a repeat of increased cases that occurred last fall. It was in October 2020 when daily infections started creeping up ahead of holiday gatherings. So far, that path has been avoided and reduces the possibility of a large holiday surge, according to Friday’s report from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute.
The version of the American Revolution narrated by Alan Taylor, who holds UVA’s Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair in American History and has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, is raucous, complicated, unheroic and based on extremely rigorous scholarship. It also asserts that among the motivations of the colonists who broke away from Britain was the protection of slavery.
Time is running out for a generation of World War II veterans to tell their stories. Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a professor at the UVA School of Medicine, along with UVA students and volunteers, has taken up a project to capture local veterans’ narratives on video.
The UVA Biocomplexity Institute’s COVID-19 model shows there’s a 30% chance that we could see a winter surge that will have case numbers surpassing what we experienced in the summer because of the Delta variant. If we do, that surge could come in the first quarter of 2022.
WVIR’s signal went live on March 11, 1973. Harold Wright made that possible. Harold came to Charlottesville as an engineering student at the University of Virginia. It was there he fell in love with broadcasting, first with radio. Harold decided Charlottesville deserved, and could support, its own television station. So, with about $500,000 in capital and secondhand equipment from a failed station in North Carolina, WVIR was born. Harold Wright passed away peacefully at his Lake Monticello home Saturday.
As far back as summer 2010, near the midpoint of his 12-year pro basketball career, Roger Mason Jr. left money on the table to sign a contract with the Knicks, knowing that playing and networking in New York could fuel his post-retirement business. After retiring, Mason heeded an invitation from NBPA executive director Michele Roberts to join her as the deputy director of the players’ union. He served in that role for two years, became commissioner of the Big3 basketball league and is now CEO of Vaunt, a sports and entertainment development company he co-founded with his business partner, Omar...
(Press release) The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the appointment of Erica Y. Williams as chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Williams earned both a J.D. and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.
Trevor Scott Floyd was one of three theater workers who shared a fourth-floor walk-up in San Francisco’s Richmond District for part of 2019 and 2020. Kate Robinson, Bethany Byrd-Hill and he had all worked a range of theater gigs, but they had all at one point managed the box office at Marin Theatre Company. By the end of their lease, all three had left the industry — and the Bay Area. “I was paying $1,100 a month to live in what the last people had used as a closet,” said Floyd, who is now in law school at the University of Virginia. He got a lot of advice not to become a lawyer unless he was ...
Serving your country is a calling. “Overall I felt called to serve, so that’s why I decided to join ROTC,” said University of Virginia third-year cadet Jessica Bachman. For her, it was a call that came in part from her family and led her to ROTC at UVA. “I decided that, really based on my familial ties, that I wanted to join the military and serve my country,” she said. Her story is not unusual. Many of those in ROTC were inspired by a family member who also served.
Cadets at the University of Virginia have started their 24-hour vigil for veterans. The cadets will be marching across McIntire stage, switching out every 30 minutes, until Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. The march is to honor veterans including those who are missing in action and prisoners of war.