A Charlottesville-based public defender and University of Virginia lecturer has been elected to serve on the Virginia Court of Appeals. Lisa Lorish, a UVA School of Law graduate, was one of eight new nominees to the court, which Virginia Democrats voted to expand from 11 to 17 judges.
Supporters, however, say threat assessments give school staff a structured system for the sensitive and serious process of gathering information to evaluate the probability of a student causing harm to others. Without it, there is greater potential for school staff to overreact and make rash decisions that would inappropriately – and perhaps disproportionately – push more students toward suspensions, expulsions or arrests. “It's a question of whether they do them intuitively, impulsively, out of fear and anxiety, or they do them systematically with a standard process,” said Dewey Cornell, a cl...
During the legislative process, additional language was added requiring school districts to follow any CDC guidance “to the maximum extent practicable.” According to Virginai Gov. Ralph Northam, that means all districts must follow the new recommendations put out by the CDC last Wednesday. They include universal masking for all students, staff, teachers and guests regardless of vaccination status. Margaret Riley, a professor of health law at the University of Virginia, says she “tends to side” with Northam’s interpretation. “I don’t think a single legislator, even if an original sponsor... get...
As the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus spreads, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is discussing the possibility of booster shots. A health expert from UVA Health says most people won’t need them. Dr. William Petri says that booster vaccine doses are not currently necessary for the vast majority of the population.
“At the end of the day, if you’re seeing women dying 20% more often in a driver seat belted than a male, that’s something we need to fix,” said Chris O’Conner, CEO of Humanetics, a company that manufactures crash test dummies, referencing a University of Virginia study that found women are 73% more likely to be injured and 18-20% more likely to be killed behind the wheel.
Sunflowers face the rising sun because increased morning warmth attracts more bees and also helps the plants reproduce more efficiently, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, Davis. The research team also included Evan Brown, an undergraduate student supervised by Ben Blackman at the University of Virginia.
A Friday report from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, which identifies COVID trends, found the delta variant, lower vaccination rates and more relaxed behaviors among residents are driving the surges in the state’s health districts. The potential aftermath: infections surpassing the record-high set in January within a month.
VisitAble was founded by Joe Jamison in 2019, as he was finishing his degree at the University of Virginia. One of his senior capstone objectives was to start a business – and he knew that he wanted to do something for the disability community.
(By Daniel Willingham, psychology professor) Like many parents, my wife and I limit time on the Internet for our children (ages 12 and 14). They usually respect that limit, so I try not to set the agenda for how they spend the time. And yet … Some content they favor drives me crazy.
With COVID-19 cases rising, UVA Health will begin restricting visitors and visiting hours at the Medical Center and clinics beginning Thursday.
Dawn Staley continues to have an amazing coaching career. Staley, a University of South Carolina head women’s basketball coach and North Philadelphia native, led the United States women’s Olympic basketball team to 90-75 victory over Japan to win the gold medal. The former UVA women’s basketball star has earned six gold medals in her Olympic career. She has won three as a player, two as an assistant coach and one as a head coach.
Wilson Craig, a 27-year-old University of Virginia graduate, left his New York City finance job to follow his dream and become an entrepreneur. Now, he’s projecting annual revenue to top $25 million by August 2022 from the launch of his canned cocktail company Waterbird. Sales recently jumped more than 2,800%, he said.
Joan Kuhl, author of “Dig Your Heels In,” chats with rising golf stars Megha Ganne, Bailey Davis and Riley Smyth about overcoming self-doubt, mental wellness, the push for diversity in their sport and more. Smyth, a senior at the University of Virginia, finished in the top-10 players for four of eight events she competed in this year while also setting the UVA record in 2021 for her 54-hole tourney score.
Also Monday, the House Courts and Senate Judiciary committees announced that they had agreed on eight nominees to fill two vacancies and six new seats on the Virginia Court of Appeals, the second-highest state court. The nominees are expected to be certified in committee votes Tuesday and then formally elected by a vote in the full chambers later that day. The nominees include Lisa M. Lorish of Charlottesville, an assistant federal public defender and appellate specialist for the Western District of Virginia and lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law.
“Just in terms of space, Republicans probably have an advantage at home,” said Jay Miles Coleman, of the University of Virginia’s Politics Center. “Well, in the Senate it will be the first mid-term since Franklin Roosevelt where every seat the Democrats hold, they hold in the state of Biden. In other words, one of the advantages Democrats have this year compared to 2010 and 2014 is that all the seats they defend are on the grass.”
In North Carolina, for instance, “in addition to the state’s deep red rural component there are several large suburban counties that are 60% Republican and that hasn’t budged much over the last decade,” said J. Miles Coleman, co-author of a recent University of Virginia Center for Politics analysis. The study predicts that redistricting could give Republicans at least six additional U.S. House seats in the South.
“We understand that stress injuries can impact many aspects of a person's life and there are many different strategies that may be helpful. We can use the five essential needs as a way of identifying and prioritizing what types of activities of resources would be most helpful to promote resilience and recovery,” said Richard Westphal, co-director of the Wisdom and Wellbeing Program at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. He is a co-creator of the stress first aid toolkit.
“Marriages are definitely up this year in 2021 as a reflection of pent-up demand for weddings,” University of Virginia sociologist and National Marriage Project director Brad Wilcox said.
University of Virginia Professor Jalane Schmidt will be among the keynote speakers. It's her hope that this event can help inform the public on how to stop these extremists groups altogether. "Some of those that were here at the Unite the Right rally in 2017 invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6 of this year," she said. "There is a straight line of that violence and of this fascist and some of them self-identified themselves as fascists and these brave students decided to stand up."
Between January 2020 and last Wednesday, COVID had killed 416 children in the U.S. That's a tiny percentage of overall deaths, but "anything that kills more than 350 children a year is going to automatically rank in the top 10 causes" of childhood death, says Debbie-Ann Shirley of UVA Health.