Rich Schragger, a Perre Bowen Professor at the UVA School of Law, expressed doubt about a federal court intervening in the actions of the Virginia Senate. “The acts of legislators related to their own declarations or in establishing rules that govern their own internal deliberations are normally clothed with virtually absolute immunity,” he said in an email, noting Chase’s suit should fail on this first step.
Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician at UVA who is on UVA Health’s vaccine distribution committee, said that the Biden administration is “coming out of the gate handicapped” without complete and accurate data on who is getting vaccinated.
Juan Jones is now enjoying his freshman year of college, which is something he didn’t think would be possible a few years ago.
As promising as laser powder bed fusion has been in aerospace manufacturing, the technique has a downside. Bubbles of gas in molten material can leave voids, called “pores,” hidden inside the walls of metal parts. This kind of defect is annoying for noncritical parts such as air-conditioning brackets, but unacceptable for critical parts, such as components of engines, because they can lead to cracking. The mystery of how and why pores form is beginning to lift, largely because of a microscopic imaging technique applied by UVA professor Tao Sun and his team.
Donald Trump lost the presidency, but the social divide he amplified while in office remains, and scholars are trying to figure out how to bridge it. UVA’s School of Education and Human Development will soon launch Educating for Democracy, a program designed to help teachers talk with students about race and other divisive issues of our time.
Some highly selective colleges went test optional for a year, citing the pandemic. Now many of them [including UVA] are extending those bans.
The majority of the 106 active student cases of COVID-19 at UVA were discovered through pre-arrival testing, according to Dr. Mitchell Rosner, who chairs the University’s Department of Medicine.
UVA students returned to class Monday to begin the spring semester. Due to Sunday’s snowfall, the University suspended all in-person classes prior to 10 a.m. Monday. After that, classes resumed as normal.
UVA students came back in full force Sunday, the day before their first day of class for spring 2021. During what may be the height of the pandemic, UVA is welcoming back thousands of students to Grounds, but some students felt safe last semester with the University’s COVID regulations, and are hopeful for the spring.
The 27th annual Virginia Festival of the Book will present more than 40 virtual events during this year’s event, which will take place from March 13 to 26, mostly over Zoom and Facebook Live.
One valuable yet often overlooked leader in the fight for Black equality is finally getting his due in [the late UVA history professor] Julian Bond’s “Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.” The late author’s lectures from his prolific teaching career, assembled here for the first time, are full of firsthand lessons from his direct involvement in the civil rights movement.
About 22,000 students returned for classes at the University of Virginia Monday, and the school’s president says UVA is ready. A look at how things have changed since the fall, and what new limits students will face.
Six players joined the Virginia Baseball Hall of Fame on Friday night, the program announced. The group of 2021 inductees includes Steve Bryant, Nathan Kirby, Branden Kline, Mike Papi, Josh Sborz and Brandon Waddell. The Virginia Baseball Hall of Fame was created in 2017 and 28 members now belong in the exclusive club after this year’s selections.
In 2005, in a bustling University of Virginia library lobby better suited for socializing than studying, Reddit entered the world humbly. A small plaque now hangs next to the clunky desktop computer where Reddit’s cofounder Alexis Ohanian, then an undergrad at the state school, registered the now-ubiquitous domain name. It marked just another day for dozens of students printing essays nearby, but whether they realized it or not, they were witnessing history: The birth of a social media site that would send Wall Street into crisis mode (and make billionaires out of a few lucky investors) 16 yea...
It was a year so weird, so wild, so wacked out that it often felt like a twisted version of chess, with every move the wrong one and every piece out to pawn off the king and queen. Thanks to Ashburn siblings Lindsey, Melissa and Kevin Hart, two of whom are UVA graduates, the fun of “now what?!,” which defined 2020, can be relived again and again through their card game, The 2020 Game.
One of “the symbols and tropes of white nationalist ‘troll’ culture” that has been adapted to Mormonism involved the concept of “redpilling,” said Stephen Betts, a UVA doctoral student in religious studies. “Redpilling normies” is an alt-right process, suggesting that someone who has awakened from liberal thinking can wake up “normies,” or normal people, Betts wrote in an unpublished paper. In the LDS version, “normies” have become “Mormies.”
I’m planning on sending a couple letters this weekend – maybe I’ll even use the old typewriter I forgot I had. Whomever I write to, I’ll recommend they listen to my college professor Rita Dove reading her poem “Last Words” on The New Yorker’s website.
COVID-19 has changed what we watch and how we watch it, which has impacted movie theaters. “The issue with everyone being in their home watching movies on their devices is it doesn’t stop after the vaccines,” said UVA communications professor Anthony Palomba, a former Nielsen researcher.
The headline-grabbing matter of Trump’s account is little more than a distraction, critics say. “The fact that Donald Trump is unable to express himself on Facebook is less important than the fact that all of his followers and supporters continue to express themselves on Facebook,” says Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies, who is not affiliated with the alternative board. “The phenomenon that we should be worried about is the aggregate message that undermines democracy, divides societies, spreads hatred. That continues, and Facebook either can’t or won’t do anything about it.”...
Louisiana teetered into potential civil war yet again. Terror-backed Democrats forcibly seized the Louisiana House, seating Democrats in contested seats. Yet again, the military ejected the claimants. “Sheridan wires Washington to tell Grant and the War Department that all these Democrats are banditti and have to be executed, and what unfolds unleashes a storm of criticism in the white North,” Caroline Janney, an American history professor at UVA, said. “Grant is condemned, running what people call a ‘government by bayonet.’”