(Editorial) FDR’s attempt at court-packing was strongly opposed – by the justices themselves, Congress and the public at large. “Congress and the people viewed FDR’s ill-considered proposal as an undemocratic power grab,” noted Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. A crisis was averted when two of the sitting justices were persuaded to support the New Deal, which historians call “the switch in time that saved nine,” and FDR eventually got to replace all nine justices as they either died or retired.
UVA Miller Center Director Bill Antholis says arguments are likely not to cease in Washington even if senators do not vote to convict former-President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. Antholis says senators could put together a resolution barring Trump from seeking further office even if he’s not convicted in the trial.
The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library will host events to celebrate Black History Month, including one on gospel music and civil rights on Thursday. Claudrena Harold, a UVA professor of history, will talk about her latest book, “When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras.”
It’s been known that stress, fever, and sunburn can cause cold sore flare-ups but patients may wonder why that happens. Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have been studying the herpes simplex virus for years, and they might have the answer.
UVA will host a hiring fair to fill many temporary jobs around the University. People will have the opportunity to meet with recruiters on Zoom starting at 2 p.m. Thursday.
UVA’s Equity Center has announced its 2021 class of Fellows-in-Residence.
Some OB-GYN physicians, including Dr. Jennifer Doorey of UVA Health, are changing their guidance to their patients. “At this point, I’m telling people, I can’t recommend it across the board, but what we do know is pregnant women are at much higher risk for complications because of COVID, so it’s a balance of the risks that we do know from a deadly disease and the risks that we may or may not know fully yet from a vaccine in pregnancy,” Doorey said.
The report, around 100 pages long and layered with primary sources and historical research, focuses on six policy areas: housing, education, criminal justice, health, environmental justice and agricultural equity. UVA Law students worked on the research and drafting that formed the basis of the report, and commissioners arrived at policy recommendations through majority votes after taking public comments and suggestions from advocacy groups.
(Transcript) Melody Barnes of UVA’s Democracy Initiative, Miller Center and Law School, and former chief counsel to the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy – who helped broker the rules for President Clinton’s impeachment trial – was a guest.
A Q&A with UVA alumnus Alexander Olesen, co-founder of Babylon Micro-Farms.
Retired running back Tiki Barker is elusive and quick on the gridiron and in the boardroom. Barber played 10 seasons in the NFL with the New York Football Giants. Since retiring, he has followed his passion for business in which he earned his degree from the University of Virginia. “What I learned, obviously from my football career but also my early business career, is that relationships are invaluable,” he said.
Dawn Staley grew up carrying the weight of a burden, but she didn’t know it. She was poor, living in the projects of North Philadelphia, coping with four older siblings “who thought it was their right to tell me what to do,” she said. Today, the UVA alumna is among the winningest college basketball coaches ever.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, superimposed himself in front of the ‘distracted boyfriend’ meme.
Eleanor Roosevelt was scorned by some for being an activist First Lady who pushed for universal civil rights and social programs. “She was more liberal than her husband and constantly pushing on civil rights, generally, women’s rights, labor rights,” says Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. “She was always pressing for the social programs that she wanted and was much reviled because of that.”
(Commentary) As UVA sociologist Brad Wilcox has noted, the right is stuck “playing catch-up” to the left when it comes to using economic policy to support parents.
The implications for energy policy, experts say, loom large. A new seat for South Florida could translate into a stronger voice for Everglades restoration, said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics. But in Texas, most of the population growth has been around Houston, and not so much in West Texas, where much of the oil and gas production is located, he said. “The population hasn’t grown in just one spot, and it’s possible that some rural districts out in West Texas, they’ll have to expand even more and take in even more population, and oil ...
One analyst said the Arizona Republican Party could hurt itself in the long run by continuing to press election fraud claims. “You had a lot of Republican voters who thought, ‘Well, the election is stolen, you know, there’s all this election fraud, my vote’s not going to count anyway, so I’m just not going to vote,’” said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Margaret Foster Riley, a UVA professor of law and a professor of public health sciences, said health care providers are understandably wary of the potential for HIPAA breaches because each breach can incur significant penalties and obligations. HIPAA actually already had exceptions for public health purposes, but some of these have been ambiguous. Consequently, providers may tend to be risk-averse and release insufficient for public health purposes data, Riley said. “For example, one constraint on all HIPAA exceptions is that the covered entity release the ‘minimal amount necessary,’ but by be...
The professors have made their recommendations and research available in one place on UVA’s website to help guide lawmakers as they decide how to address fiscal issues stemming from the pandemic. The website includes steps that lawmakers can take at the local, state and federal level to respond to the fiscal crisis facing states – including ways to raise revenue to shore up budgets. “I think using the website as a clearinghouse has been a really great way to help lawmakers get in touch with researchers who have expertise on these issues,” said Ruth Mason, a professor at the UVA School of Law a...
(By Emily Solari, professor in the School of Education and Human Development) How kids learn to read is a well-researched aspect of human learning. Scientists have identified what happens in the brain when children learn to read and why some children have difficulty mastering this skill. Despite this wealth of evidence about how reading develops, only 37% of 12th graders read at a proficient or advanced level, according to the national assessment.