Albemarle County contains clusters of highly engaged voters that routinely show out at polls at higher rates than other voters in the state, according to Paul Freedman, associate professor of political science at the University of Virginia. “Voters in the county may have been paying particular attention to this election, not only to the gubernatorial race at the top of the ticket, but to some of the local contests as well,” Freedman said.
Abe Sutherland has been one of the loudest voices urging lawmakers to remove 6050i from the infrastructure bill. Sutherland, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, wrote a report for the Proof of Stake Alliance, a trade association he advises, in which he warns against crypto regulation that would expand surveillance of everyday Americans.
“Miners, stakers, lenders, decentralized application and marketplace users, traders, businesses, and individuals are all at risk of being subject to this reporting requirement, even though in most situations the person or entity in receipt is not in the position to report the required information,” warned attorney Abraham Sutherland, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and adviser to the Proof of Stake Alliance, an industry group, in a September report.
“The most significant requirements of the Clean Economy Act are durable because they are in the legislation,” said Cale Jaffe, professor and director of the Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic at the UVA School of Law. “There are enough different actors that are either outside of any governor’s control or where a governor’s role is indirect that it seems the broad path is durable. That would be my prediction.”
(Audio) Among the guests is Kevin Pelphrey, Harrison-Wood Jefferson Scholars Foundation Professor of Neurology at UVA’s Brain Institute and School of Medicine.
“Eternals” director Chloé Zhao, who was born in China, faced criticism from Chinese nationalists over a 2013 interview in which she said “there are lies everywhere” in China. “I would be surprised if ‘Eternals’ got released in China,” Aynne Kokas, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia and the author of the book “Hollywood Made in China,” recently told Insider. “The controversy has gotten a lot of attention and has been a rallying cry for Chinese netizens.”
(Press release) The University of Chicago will present honorary degrees to four distinguished scholars – including Cora Diamond, a philosopher at the University of Virginia – at its Convocation ceremony in June 2022, in recognition of their significant contributions to their fields of study. Cora Diamond , a distinguished philosopher, will receive the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Diamond has produced groundbreaking work in three major areas: the philosophical foundations of logic; the interpretation of 20th-century Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein; and the ethic...
UVA Health is launching a new program to cut tobacco use among teens and adults, called FamHealth. Backed by a three-year community innovation grant from the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth, FamHealth will send UVA College at Wise students to middle schools once a month to mentor students on refraining from tobacco use.
Navigating name, image, and likeness deals for collegiate student-athletes can be difficult. Many student-athletes are now turning for help when it comes to creating their brand. Charlottesville’s Hook Sports Marketing was founded to help University of Virginia student-athletes make smart decision when it comes to NIL opportunities. The agency most recently brought on three members of the UVA men’s basketball team.
Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall said Monday he’s “planning” to have star quarterback Brennan Armstrong available Saturday night against No. 7 Notre Dame, though he declined to share much about the junior’s status as he recovers from an apparent rib injury suffered Oct. 30 in the loss at BYU. “It literally is day-to-day and we’re going to give him every minute, right until the ball is kicked off, to be our quarterback,” said Mendenhall.
The industry’s high energy demands have also caught policymakers’ attention as the state moves to decarbonize its electric grid. One recent study from University of Virginia researchers found that data centers will be one of the primary drivers of growing electricity demand in Virginia over the next few decades.
The world’s largest social network has long been criticized for creating echo chambers or “filter bubbles” capable of political radicalization. Company executives have argued filter bubbles are “a myth.” But a study released last year from researchers at the University of Virginia found that “Facebook tends to polarize users, particularly conservative users, more than other social media platforms.”
An investigation by InvestigateTV and the Gray Television Washington News Bureau found that, according to data from the University of Virginia, female drivers are 73% more likely to be severely injured and up to 20% more likely to be killed in a vehicle crash. However, female crash test dummies are not put in the driver’s seat for the tests for the two most common types of crashes in NHTSAs new-car program.
State data and new research from UVA’s Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy show an increase in both court-ordered competence evaluations and the number of people who are ultimately found unfit. From 2007 to 2018, the number of evaluations in Virginia increased by 218%, researchers found. The number of patients deemed incompetent to stand trial has also risen, jumping nearly 40% between 2016 and 2018 alone. Those numbers have continued to rise over the last three years
“We have decades of research on what high quality means when we think about kids and learning, and it always comes down to the teachers,” said Daphna Bassok, a UVA associate professor of education and public policy. “When you have a little extra money to get through life crises that hit hard when you live in poverty, you’re able to stay in your job, and we know that for little kids, keeping your teacher consistent, building warmth and connection, is the baseline level of quality.”
The Justice Department maintains a comprehensive list of corporate crime settlements. The Trump Justice Department refused to make the list public. And now the Biden Justice Department is refusing to release the list. So last week, Jon Ashley filed a lawsuit to force the Biden Justice Department to release it. Ashley is a law librarian at the UVA School of Law.
John Freeman is coming home. The Crozet native was officially named the University of Virginia’s radio play-by-play announcer for football and men’s basketball on Monday by the school’s athletics department and Playfly Sports Properties. Freeman had been handling the role on an interim basis since the departure of Dave Koehn.
In an era where there are many firsts for women, [UVA alumna] Val Ackerman, commissioner of the BIG EAST Conference, has been a staple trailblazer and role model in the world of sports for over 30 years. She was the first woman staff attorney and special assistant to the late commissioner David Stern at the NBA, and she was the first president of the WNBA. Notably, she has held leadership positions in both men’s and women’s sports at the collegiate, professional, national and international levels.
That power shift could mean a lot for the fate of the state’s “right-to-work” law that says employees don’t have to pay dues to a union, and alter the trajectory of some Democratic priorities for labor reform, according to J.H. Verkerke, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who studies labor law. “With a Republican governor-elect and Republican control of the House of Delegates, there is no prospect whatsoever that the [right-to-work] law will be repealed until the 2026 session at the earliest,” Verkerke said. Some observers had hoped that the right-to-work law would be repe...
The ballots in Virginia and California can provide lessons for the 2022 midterms, with GOP candidates clamoring for Trump’s blessing and Democrats fearing they could lose their majority. “Glenn Youngkin effectively distanced himself from Trump just far enough to reclaim Never Trump Republicans,” said William Antholis, CEO of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.