“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 Âé¶čÆÆœâ°æ Brain Institute and School of Medicine.
“Eternals” director ChloĂ© 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 Âé¶čÆÆœâ°æ 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.
John Freeman is coming home. The Crozet native was officially named the University of Virginia’s radio play-by-play announcer for football and men’s basketball on Monday by the school’s athletics department and Playfly Sports Properties. Freeman had been handling the role on an interim basis since the departure of Dave Koehn. 
In an era where there are many firsts for women, [UVA alumna] Val Ackerman, commissioner of the BIG EAST Conference, has been a staple trailblazer and role model in the world of sports for over 30 years. She was the first woman staff attorney and special assistant to the late commissioner David Stern at the NBA, and she was the first president of the WNBA. Notably, she has held leadership positions in both men’s and women’s sports at the collegiate, professional, national and international levels.
That power shift could mean a lot for the fate of the state’s “right-to-work” law that says employees don’t have to pay dues to a union, and alter the trajectory of some Democratic priorities for labor reform, according to J.H. Verkerke, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who studies labor law. “With a Republican governor-elect and Republican control of the House of Delegates, there is no prospect whatsoever that the [right-to-work] law will be repealed until the 2026 session at the earliest,” Verkerke said. Some observers had hoped that the right-to-work law would be repe...
The ballots in Virginia and California can provide lessons for the 2022 midterms, with GOP candidates clamoring for Trump’s blessing and Democrats fearing they could lose their majority. “Glenn Youngkin effectively distanced himself from Trump just far enough to reclaim Never Trump Republicans,” said William Antholis, CEO of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said: “Ever since [the insurrection at the US Capitol on] 6 January, they have been looking for ways to get around Donald Trump, and they think they’ve found it using this Virginia race. “It’s to not ignore him, because he will lash out and you’ll lose his base, but it’s to say good things and to make sure you have emissaries, which is what Youngkin did, who are keeping him informed and in the loop and telling him how important he is. And then just never being able to get together. ‘We just can’t get the schedules...
Analysts say Youngkin’s hazy messaging worked to his advantage when cobbling together a coalition of voters to make him the first Republican elected Virginia governor in more than a decade. “Youngkin seems friendlier, nicer, more normal. Who knows if he really is?” says Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “We know nothing about him, really. That is what [his campaign] wanted: tabula rasa. You write on that slate anything you want.”
Youngkin was raised here as a teenager. Winsome Sears, the lieutenant governor-elect, was a state legislator in the early 2000s for the 90th District, which includes parts of Norfolk and Virginia Beach. And Jason Miyares, who defeated two-term incumbent Democrat Mark Herring for attorney general, currently represents the 82nd District, which encompasses parts of Virginia Beach. “In terms of having maybe a home region boost, the Virginia Beach area is a pretty good area to be from,” said J. Miles Coleman, University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.