With elections just weeks away, the individual scandals could spell broader trouble for the GOP, poll watchers say. “An incumbent can survive a great deal in an election year that’s favorable to his or her party,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “But if there is a wave crashing for the other party, a scandal is extra weight that can cause a candidate to sink.”
A program at the UVA Children’s Hospital is helping patients keep up with school work while they are in the hospital long-term. While in the hospital, students have their lesson plans tailored to their needs and work for short periods throughout the day. UVA’s Children’s Hospital is one of only three in the state of Virginia to offer education services to students while they are being treated.
The University of Virginia will host a debate later this month between Virginia’s 5th District congressional nominees, Democrat Leslie Cockburn and Republican Denver Riggleman. The debate will be moderated by Craig Volden, director of the UVa Center for Effective Lawmaking, and Gerald Warburg, a professor at UVa’s Frank D. Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.
For the first time, watercolors by Georgia O’Keeffe are leaving her eponymous museum in Santa Fe and traveling to the University of Virginia’s art museum. In the summers from 1912–1916, the artist produced watercolor studies on the campus of UVA. The paintings will be on exhibit Oct. 19-Jan. 27 at UVA’s Fralin Museum of Art.
Winners tended to die more than one year earlier than losers, according to the paper by University of Virginia assistant professor Adam Leive, now available online at the Journal of Health Economics.
“Voters assess male and female candidates on a variety of issue competencies as equals,” said Jennifer Lawless, a professor at the University of Virginia, referring to research she did with Danny Hayes of George Washington University for the 2016 book “Women on the Run.”
Health care, however, ranked second in importance to men, who more often said they want candidates to talk about the economy and jobs. But it’s women who are playing a starring role this election as voters, candidates and donors. “Some are already starting to describe this year as the year of the suburban, college-educated women’s revolt,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the UVA Center for Politics’ newsletter on campaigns and elections.
The chairmen of the tax-writing committees -- whether they act together or alone -- don't need to disclose that they've requested the president's returns. But they may choose to -- and likely would -- share the returns with their committee members in closed session. If the committee thinks releasing the returns to the House or Senate would further a legitimate committee purpose, they're permitted to do so, according to George Yin, a former chief of staff at the Joint Committee on Taxation and a UVA professor of law.
Gravitational waves also may reveal physics beyond relativity in other ways, notes Kent Yagi, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Virginia.
A career diplomat and civil servant has been named the latest James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. John Negroponte was the first director of national intelligence under President George W. Bush and later served as deputy secretary of state, where he was the State Department’s chief operating officer.
As the University of Virginia Foundation fine-tunes its new vision for the Research Park on Airport Road and U.S. 29, two related projects strike us as particularly useful — to UVA and the larger community.
President Donald Trump’s war of words with his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, bled into day one of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Saikrishna Prakash, a law professor at UVA’s Miller Center, said the president has the authority to tell the Justice Department what to do.
Dr. Francis H. Shen is the Warren G. Stamp Endowed Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the UVA Health System. With expertise in cervical, thoracic and lumbosacral spine surgery, he serves as the spine surgery division head within the Health System's orthopedic surgery department.
Several expert witnesses, including economists James Heckman of the University of Chicago and Kenneth Elzinga of the University of Virginia, will also testify on behalf of the NCAA and the 11 conferences. These economists will contend that changes to scholarship rules would damage the economics of college sports.
Google will be represented with an empty chair at the witness table. “Google knows that there is no reasonable regulatory intervention that is likely to affect Google. Google is deeply imbedded in our daily lives and habits," said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies who has written books on Facebook and Google. "I think the folks who run Google are too arrogant to stoop to answering to the American people."
“I’ve been overwhelmed by the fact that they are liberated to make news judgment the only judgment,” says Siva Vaidhyanathan, a journalist who worked at three Texas newspapers and now directs UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship.
Medical providers serving patients with HIV showed gaps in understanding the Affordable Care Act, according to survey results published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. “The ACA’s interaction with the current HIV health care delivery system is complex,” Dr. Kathleen A. McManus, a UVA assistant professor of medicine, told Infectious Disease News.
(Commentary co-written by Kevin Cope, research assistant professor of law and a faculty affiliate with the Department of Politics) The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh are off to a contentious start, replete with protesters and an accusation of “mob rule.” The hearings will likely provide more drama than substance. Republicans will defend Kavanaugh as principled, Democrats will brand him as extreme, and Kavanaugh himself will reveal as little as possible.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has new treatment recommendations for children with concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries, thanks in part to a physician at the UVA Health System.
A UVA physician helped the Center for Disease Control craft new recommendations to help health care providers and parents with concussions.