(Press release) The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the appointment of Erica Y. Williams as chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Williams earned both a J.D. and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.
Trevor Scott Floyd was one of three theater workers who shared a fourth-floor walk-up in San Francisco’s Richmond District for part of 2019 and 2020. Kate Robinson, Bethany Byrd-Hill and he had all worked a range of theater gigs, but they had all at one point managed the box office at Marin Theatre Company. By the end of their lease, all three had left the industry — and the Bay Area. “I was paying $1,100 a month to live in what the last people had used as a closet,” said Floyd, who is now in law school at the University of Virginia. He got a lot of advice not to become a lawyer unless he was ...
Serving your country is a calling. “Overall I felt called to serve, so that’s why I decided to join ROTC,” said University of Virginia third-year cadet Jessica Bachman. For her, it was a call that came in part from her family and led her to ROTC at UVA. “I decided that, really based on my familial ties, that I wanted to join the military and serve my country,” she said. Her story is not unusual. Many of those in ROTC were inspired by a family member who also served.
Cadets at the University of Virginia have started their 24-hour vigil for veterans. The cadets will be marching across McIntire stage, switching out every 30 minutes, until Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. The march is to honor veterans including those who are missing in action and prisoners of war.
Albemarle County contains clusters of highly engaged voters that routinely show out at polls at higher rates than other voters in the state, according to Paul Freedman, associate professor of political science at the University of Virginia. “Voters in the county may have been paying particular attention to this election, not only to the gubernatorial race at the top of the ticket, but to some of the local contests as well,” Freedman said.
Abe Sutherland has been one of the loudest voices urging lawmakers to remove 6050i from the infrastructure bill. Sutherland, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, wrote a report for the Proof of Stake Alliance, a trade association he advises, in which he warns against crypto regulation that would expand surveillance of everyday Americans. 
“Miners, stakers, lenders, decentralized application and marketplace users, traders, businesses, and individuals are all at risk of being subject to this reporting requirement, even though in most situations the person or entity in receipt is not in the position to report the required information,” warned attorney Abraham Sutherland, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and adviser to the Proof of Stake Alliance, an industry group, in a September report.
“The most significant requirements of the Clean Economy Act are durable because they are in the legislation,” said Cale Jaffe, professor and director of the Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic at the UVA School of Law. “There are enough different actors that are either outside of any governor’s control or where a governor’s role is indirect that it seems the broad path is durable. That would be my prediction.”
(Audio) Among the guests is Kevin Pelphrey, Harrison-Wood Jefferson Scholars Foundation Professor of Neurology at 鶹ƽ Brain Institute and School of Medicine.
“Eternals” director Chloé Zhao, who was born in China, faced criticism from Chinese nationalists over a 2013 interview in which she said “there are lies everywhere” in China. “I would be surprised if ‘Eternals’ got released in China,” Aynne Kokas, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia and the author of the book “Hollywood Made in China,” recently told Insider. “The controversy has gotten a lot of attention and has been a rallying cry for Chinese netizens.”
(Press release) The University of Chicago will present honorary degrees to four distinguished scholars – including Cora Diamond, a philosopher at the University of Virginia – at its Convocation ceremony in June 2022, in recognition of their significant contributions to their fields of study. Cora Diamond , a distinguished philosopher, will receive the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Diamond has produced groundbreaking work in three major areas: the philosophical foundations of logic; the interpretation of 20th-century Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein; and the ethic...
UVA Health is launching a new program to cut tobacco use among teens and adults, called FamHealth. Backed by a three-year community innovation grant from the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth, FamHealth will send UVA College at Wise students to middle schools once a month to mentor students on refraining from tobacco use. 
Navigating name, image, and likeness deals for collegiate student-athletes can be difficult. Many student-athletes are now turning for help when it comes to creating their brand. Charlottesville’s Hook Sports Marketing was founded to help University of Virginia student-athletes make smart decision when it comes to NIL opportunities. The agency most recently brought on three members of the UVA men’s basketball team.
Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall said Monday he’s “planning” to have star quarterback Brennan Armstrong available Saturday night against No. 7 Notre Dame, though he declined to share much about the junior’s status as he recovers from an apparent rib injury suffered Oct. 30 in the loss at BYU. “It literally is day-to-day and we’re going to give him every minute, right until the ball is kicked off, to be our quarterback,” said Mendenhall. 
The industry’s high energy demands have also caught policymakers’ attention as the state moves to decarbonize its electric grid. One recent study from University of Virginia researchers found that data centers will be one of the primary drivers of growing electricity demand in Virginia over the next few decades.
The world’s largest social network has long been criticized for creating echo chambers or “filter bubbles” capable of political radicalization. Company executives have argued filter bubbles are “a myth.” But a study released last year from researchers at the University of Virginia found that “Facebook tends to polarize users, particularly conservative users, more than other social media platforms.” 
An investigation by InvestigateTV and the Gray Television Washington News Bureau found that, according to data from the University of Virginia, female drivers are 73% more likely to be severely injured and up to 20% more likely to be killed in a vehicle crash. However, female crash test dummies are not put in the driver’s seat for the tests for the two most common types of crashes in NHTSAs new-car program.
State data and new research from 鶹ƽ Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy show an increase in both court-ordered competence evaluations and the number of people who are ultimately found unfit. From 2007 to 2018, the number of evaluations in Virginia increased by 218%, researchers found. The number of patients deemed incompetent to stand trial has also risen, jumping nearly 40% between 2016 and 2018 alone. Those numbers have continued to rise over the last three years
“We have decades of research on what high quality means when we think about kids and learning, and it always comes down to the teachers,” said Daphna Bassok, a UVA associate professor of education and public policy. “When you have a little extra money to get through life crises that hit hard when you live in poverty, you’re able to stay in your job, and we know that for little kids, keeping your teacher consistent, building warmth and connection, is the baseline level of quality.”
The Justice Department maintains a comprehensive list of corporate crime settlements. The Trump Justice Department refused to make the list public. And now the Biden Justice Department is refusing to release the list. So last week, Jon Ashley filed a lawsuit to force the Biden Justice Department to release it. Ashley is a law librarian at the UVA School of Law.