Tax Notes chief correspondent Stephanie Soong Johnston and legal reporter Ryan Finley discuss Ireland and Apple’s state aid win with law professors Ruth Mason of the University of Virginia and Stephen Daly of King’s College London.
(Commentary by Kimberly Whitler, assistant professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business) One of the most interesting interviews I’ve conducted over the past few years was with Dave Morgan, CEO/founder of Simulmedia. He suggested that some of the world’s most vaunted CPG firms (e.g., Procter & Gamble, Unilever, General Mills, etc.) aren’t actually good at marketing. What fascinates me about Morgan is how he is comfortable challenging the status quo; he has a unique perspective and is willing to challenge accepted beliefs in an effort to help businesses succeed. I recently caught up with Mor...
UVA Health is offering four free COVID-19 testing events each week for the foreseeable future. UVA Health and the Virginia Department of Health have worked together to create a testing schedule that will allow more people from Charlottesville and the surrounding region to access COVID-19 testing.
An image of a building with the sign board ‘Babri Hospital’ is being shared on social media claiming it as the design and first look of Babri hospital to be constructed in Ayodhya. In its 2019 verdict on Ayodhya dispute, Supreme Court allotted 5 acres of land to Sunni Waqf Board for constructing a mosque in Ayodhya.
(Editorial) It’s been a long time coming, but shovel-in-the-ground progress is a step closer for a Charlottesville-Albemarle courthouse renovation. The project has been under consideration for the better part of two decades. Albemarle’s population is surging, putting stress on court facilities. County population is expected to jump to nearly 150,000 by 2045, say data crunchers at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service – up from roughly 109,000, according to U.S. Census figures from last year.
Jeffrey White and Julia Preziosi are two University of Virginia medical students bringing people from all over the country together during the pandemic each Tuesday at 8 p.m. with a self-made virtual trivia game. According to White, the game is known as “Quarantine Trivia” and garners more than 200 participants a week.
The University of Virginia is launching a new website and app, called “HOOS Health Check,” on Monday. The app is meant to provide UVA students and employees a chance to monitor any COVID-19 symptoms.
“Feeble-minded” was a catch-all term for the mentally challenged, uneducated and undesirable, and Priddy, the colony’s superintendent, wanted an expansion to serve women of childbearing age. He wrote of his determination to stop “dissemination of defective protoplasm,” adding that “no psychic trauma is inflicted by eugenic sterilization,” according to research at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia held a virtual town hall Friday to address questions from the UVA community. One of the questions raised to the University was if it planned to again delay students returning, as well as the start of classes. “Our current plan is to make a go-no-go decision by the end of August,” UVA President Jim Ryan said. “We recognize that this one delay is difficult enough and people need time to plan.”
The Nature Conservancy and the University of Virginia’s College at Wise are developing what could become a seed-money source for environmentally based businesses in Southwest Virginia.
The University of Virginia will hold a virtual town hall Monday afternoon for community members. President Jim Ryan and his top staff will zoom in on plans for the new academic year and the latest developments in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Subscription required) The uncertainty around if and when the pandemic will end, and what life will look like in that future, is also causing distress. “One of the things that carries young people through all of the things they have to do is some vision of the future: ‘Here’s a life I see for myself that looks interesting.’ Suddenly that gets hard to see,” says Joseph P. Allen, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Dr. Allen says this can zap motivation to do things like study for the SAT or even just get off the sofa, which can make mental-health issues even worse.
A hot object can cool more quickly than a warm one, a new study finds. And in some cases, the speedup was even exponential, physicists report in the Aug. 6 Nature. But the simplicity of the study is part of its beauty, says theoretical physicist Marija Vucelja of the University of Virginia.
UVA’s football program wants to be a catalyst for change in the community, helping to turn the pain of Aug. 12, 2017, into a celebration of life, love and unity. The team wants Charlottesville to be defined by much more than the white supremacists who visited three summers ago.
When you call your student at school, “it can’t be coronavirus 24/7,” said Bethany Teachman, a UVA psychology professor. Start instead by asking them about their classes and the friends they are making. “You want to keep those channels of communication open,” she said.
From the better who falter and fail, to the worse who rally and heal, the doctors, nurses and staff in the UVA Medical Center’s COVID-19 care units have seen a lot in a short time. Medical staff in the new Acute Care Special Pathogens Unit say the last four months have been the absolute dickens, simultaneously the best and the worst of times.
Of the three House Democrats who have lost their primaries in the 2020 cycle, all have been defeated by progressive candidates. “That’s well within the normal range,” Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia, said of the seven losses. “In fact, I would even call it a bit low considering what’s going on. The world is turned upside down between the pandemic and the economy, racial unrest, whether the schools should reopen or not.”
Virginians’ faith in Gov. Ralph Northam’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has dipped 15 percent since April, according to a statewide poll released last week by the Center for Public Policy at VCU’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. Raymond C. Scheppach, a professor of public policy at the University of Virginia and the former executive director of the National Governors Association (NGA), told 8News on Thursday that the decline in Northam’s approval rating could be linked to the uptick in cases the state reported in July, but like Wilder, cite...
Though the steps to remove the monuments are outlined by the legislation that passed earlier this year, Charlottesville Circuit Judge Richard Moore would still need to alter the injunction as the plaintiffs have requested before the City Council can begin its process. “The basis for the litigation has disappeared because of the modification for the statue,” said Rich Schragger, a law professor at University of Virginia. “The judge should just lift it on his own accord.”
Children raised in homes where their parents are happily married are more likely to do well across a wide swath of measures, from academic achievement to less criminal activity to future prosperity and good health. But U.S. policies sometimes penalize married couples and those should be changed. In a recent presentation at the American Enterprise Institute, University of Virginia sociologist and institute scholar W. Bradford Wilcox, who runs the National Marriage Project, cited research on other benefits of a solid marriage.