The future of Roe v. Wade has received the bulk of attention lately. What about same-sex marriage — could it be in peril? University of Virginia law Professor George Rutherglen says: "Not likely. This is mainly because the country has come to accept gay marriage. But wholly apart from that, many gay marriages have since taken place. What would happen to those marriages if Obergefell was overruled? They couldn't be invalidated without immediate legal consequences for vested rights to support, property and custody of children. So many gay marriages would have to be recognized, whatever happens t...
(Commentary) Opposition to legal recognition of same-sex marriage commands less than a majority even among those who vote or lean Republican. University of Virginia legal scholar Sai Prakash writes that in this area Justice Kennedy’s “opinions seem secure because his jurisprudence largely mirrors changes in society.”
It's a "working assumption" that any of Trump's nominees will favor overturning Roe vs. Wade, says Dick Howard, with the University of Virginia School of Law.
The group is visiting civil rights sites in various southern communities, encouraging people to learn more about the nation's history of racial divide. "Part of it is we just don't understand our history and we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. So we are actually making the pilgrimage in order for us to change the narrative and change our public spaces, which are right now dominated by confederate statues," says group member Frank Duke, a professor at the University of Virginia.
The forum Saturday included the screening of “An Outrage,” a short documentary about the history of lynching in the South and how communities and the decedents of those victims remember the horrific acts of violence. After the movie, the two filmmakers, Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren, participated in a panel discussion with Black Lives Matter activist and University of Virginia professor Jalane Schmidt and Siri Russell, an Albemarle County resident and descendant of a lynching victim whose murder is described in the movie.
Saturday morning people gathered in a solemn ceremony to dig soil from the area where John Henry James was lynched in 1898. The soil will be traveling in a pilgrimage to a lynching memorial in Alabama. The ceremony was quiet, but more than a century ago, John Henry James was likely screaming out his last cries for help. Jalane Schmidt, a professor at the University of Virginia, did the research on James' story.
(Commentary) A new report by the American Enterprise Institute, “Black Men Making It in America,” uses Census data to show that African-American men are succeeding in the United States. Written by University of Virginia sociology professor W. Bradford Wilcox, director of research at the Institute for Family Studies Wendy Wang and Columbia University social policy professor Maurice Russel, the report reveals that more than one-in-two black males–57 percent–now belong to the country’s middle or upper class. There is still clearly work to be done, but this cannot be described as anything other th...
VCU has reached agreement with Inova Health Systems to hire high-level research faculty who would work both for the university and the Genomics & Bioinformatics Research Institute soon under construction – with $20 million in state support – at the Inova Center for Personalized Health in Fairfax County. The Inova genomics institute is a collaboration among the Northern Virginia health system, the University of Virginia and George Mason University – two higher education institutions that also have submitted proposals to recruit joint faculty for research at the new facility.
Virginia agriculture and its related industries generated $70 billion in total output in 2015, with $36.2 billion in value added to the state’s economy — or about 7.5 percent of Virginia gross domestic product, according to a study last year by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
In many cases, the decision to take or prescribe a particular medication is a matter of weighing the benefits versus the side effects. The effort to minimize or eliminate such unwanted effects has thus been the subject of much research. In an effort to pave the way to side effect-free drugs, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have now developed a technique to precisely target molecules within cells.
Local colleges and universities have growing programs that should help Social SafeGuard and other cybersecurity outfits throughout the region find workers. In March, University of Virginia’s Cyber Defense Team upset the defending national champions from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County — yes, that UMBC — to win the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
These 10 law schools are the most competitive with acceptance rates below 25 percent. University of Virginia – received 5,049 applications for 923 spots for an 18.3 percent acceptance rate.
Want to make sure that your child—and you—get the most out of a college visit? Take notes on what these admission staffers from George Mason, Virginia Tech, University of Virginia and American University had to say about things to look for and questions to have in mind.
The Charlottesville Civil Rights Pilgrimage is sponsored by the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, the Charlottesville City Council, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, the University of Virginia Office for Diversity and Equity and several other organizations.
As temperatures heat up, so does playground equipment. Dr. William Woods from UVA's Pediatric Emergency Medicine said these high temperatures could even cause serious burns, especially on children. "Temperatures over 140 degrees are much more likely to cause a burn in young children. It can be quite a disfiguring burn," said Woods.
UVA's Center for Politics recently received an extensive collection of U.S. presidential memorabilia made up of hundreds of items from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Carter political eras. The donation came from the estate of Jack F. Christie, of New Jersey, who had a long career in politics during the 1950s and ’60s.
UVA associate professor Jalane Schmidt is noted as a co-organizer of local residents’ trip to the Equal Justice Initiative’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. to commemorate a local lynching. UVA is a co-sponsor of the trip.
Reddit’s little mascot Snoo’s existence has always been something of an inside joke. Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian doodled the creature in a notebook during a marketing class his senior year at the University of Virginia.
The Thunder is going to be an expensive team in need of inexpensive talent. The NBA values the two-way wing more than any position. Maybe the Thunder can have both in Devon Hall. When the Thunder tips off in the Las Vegas Summer League on Friday, it'll do so with buzz about everything but the second-round pick out of the University of Virginia.