This was another key moment in Mayer’s article because it makes an important distinction. The speaker is Nicole Hemmer, assistant professor of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center and the author of “Messengers of the Right,” a history of the conservative media’s impact on American politics, “Fox is not just taking the temperature of the base—it’s raising the temperature,” she says. “It’s a radicalization model.”
Caitie Finlayson, an assistant professor of geology at the University of Mary Washington, told the board at Monday’s packed meeting that she had researched the methodology that Moseley used, and it didn’t follow best practices. She urged school officials to get new estimates from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, which develops the official population estimates for Virginia and its localities.
“The motivation behind this particular study was a need to better understand the development of self-regulation in the context of poverty. We know that stress in the family environment is a key pathway by which poverty may affect children’s development, and their self-regulation in particular,” said study author Chelsea A.K. Duran of the University of Virginia.
The National Institutes of Health awarded $23 million to a Virginia partnership that includes the state’s top rival universities to jointly advance the pace of bringing medical discoveries out of the lab and into physician practices. Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia teamed up with Carilion Clinic and Inova Health System in Northern Virginia to form the integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia, or iTHRIV, which was awarded a five-year grant. The Center for Open Science and UVa’s licensing and venture groups are also part of iTHRIV.
The email from Maryland's university system chancellor promoting a jewelry company's charm bracelets was so unusual, it prompted then-University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan to write to an aide of Chancellor Robert Caret, questioning its authenticity. The 2017 email also triggered a chain of events that led to a grievance over alleged retaliation by Caret and a settlement signed by the chancellor.
The iTHRIV consortium includes the University of Virginia, Inova Health System, Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic, and is the first cross-state effort in Virginia to integrate clinical and translational research resources. Affiliates of the iTHRIV include the Center for Open Science, a non-profit technology organization based in Charlottesville, and UVA's Licensing & Ventures Group.
According to UVA law and religious studies professor Douglas Laycock, the state of California will have lots of legal precedent and a strong case for why cannabis churches do not deserve a religious exemption to the state’s system of licensing, regulations, and taxes.
For Vanessa Ochs, an expert on Jewish ritual who teaches at the University of Virginia, “my Orthodox friends describe seven days of shiva as a nightmare. It’s arduous and exhausting to have to be available for visits for such a long time. No one can sit for that long – it causes a panic. What remains powerful is the getting up from shiva and walking around the block and having to re-enter life.”
Prospective college students from New York down to Mississippi now have a school to consider with in-state tuition: the University of Virginia's College at Wise. Gov. Ralph Northam has signed off on House Bill 1666 that grants in-state tuition privileges to students in 13 states at the Wise County school.
Leigh Middleditch, a cofounder of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia, has won the institute’s first annual Founder’s Award.
Data from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service shows that over the last 10 years, Roanoke's population has jumped more than 3 percent, from 97,032 residents in 2010, to 100,033 residents in 2018. Hamilton Lombard, a UVA demographer, says much of that growth is thanks to more available housing in Roanoke's downtown area. "We've been doing some preparation work for the 2020 census and when we were doing that we counted almost 1,000 new housing units created in the downtown, mostly former offices or commercial spaces converted to apartments," said Lombard.
Wally Smith’s foray into citizen science started with him “getting in trouble.” Smith, a biology professor at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, was conducting research on green salamanders for his graduate degree in the early 2000s and was having a hard time finding the small creatures. So Smith applied for a federal grant to conduct research through citizen science, utilizing public participation for his studies. Smith hosted one of several workshops on Grounds over the weekend as part of partnership between UVA and the National Geographic Society for a two-day science and storyte...
The University of Virginia is already in discussions with third parties to develop and operate a hotel and conference center on the Ivy Road corridor, according to discussions at Board of Visitors meetings Thursday.
The community is encouraged to go to www.ClimateActionTogether.org to learn about the City of Charlottesville, the University of Virginia and Albemarle County’s participation opportunities, previous regional climate action efforts and more information about sustainability and climate action.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former NATO supreme allied commander, spoke to dozens of UVA students recently, encouraging them to change the political atmosphere.
Design. Innovation. Disruption. Those buzzwords are driving strategies and decisions from boardrooms to bullpens across the globe. And yet: What is good design worth, and how can that value be measured? Measuring the effects and results of design involves “a complex set of issues,” cautioned Jeanne Liedtka of UVA’s Darden School of Business, author of the forthcoming book “Designing for the Greater Good.”
The UVA Health System’s executive vice president announced Monday that he will step down in May. Dr. Rick Shannon has been at UVA for six years, overseeing the Medical Center, the schools of Medicine and Nursing, the Health Sciences Library and physicians’ group.
The 2018 midterm elections saw a record number of women elected to Congress. Now, women are organizing to make the ‘moment’ into a movement. “In politics there are these jolts to the system and something fundamental happens,” said Jennifer Lawless, a UVA professor who writes extensively about women in politics. “It’s likely that 2018 was that year.” But the 116th Congress is still only 23.7 percent female.
Gov. Ralph Northam appointed Jim Ryan, president of the University of Virginia, to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority.
Gov. Ralph Northam appointed Jim Ryan, president of the University of Virginia, to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority.