A public hearing for the proposed University of Virginia indoor golf practice facility was postponed Tuesday night after Albemarle County staff discovered issues with the legal notice for the hearing. In a portion of the meeting separate from the scheduled hearing, county staff and planning commissioners also said they are concerned about location of the parking lot at the proposed facility.
In an interview with the New York Times last week, Trump said he would never have hired Sessions had he known that he would recuse himself. “We all know Trump has little self-control of his emotions. And loyalty is a one-way street for Trump,” said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. “He is extremely angry about the Russia probe, and he’s concluded that Sessions could have protected the president and didn’t [and] doesn’t care that it would have been unethical for Sessions not to recuse himself.”
A megateam of reproducibility-minded scientists is renewing a controversial proposal to raise the standard for statistical significance in research studies. To explain to a broader audience how weak the .05 statistical threshold really is, Johnson joined with 71 collaborators on the new paper (which partly reprises an argument Johnson made for stricter p-values in a 2013 paper). Among the authors are some big names in the study of scientific reproducibility, including psychologist Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who led a replication effort of high-profile psychol...
In an interview with the New York Times last week, Trump said he would never have hired Sessions had he known that he would recuse himself. “We all know Trump has little self-control of his emotions. And loyalty is a one-way street for Trump,” said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. “He is extremely angry about the Russia probe, and he’s concluded that Sessions could have protected the president and didn’t [and] doesn’t care that it would have been unethical for Sessions not to recuse himself.”
Government experts said Trump wants Sessions gone – but doesn’t want to fire him and face the repercussions. Trump wants to “try to persuade him to step down rather than trying to take action himself. He wants the investigation to end so is trying to move out players causing problems . . . without doing the firing,” said Julian Zelizer, a professor of public affairs at Princeton. “Trump is trying to intimidate his own AG,” added University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.
Government experts said Trump wants Sessions gone – but doesn’t want to fire him and face the repercussions. Trump wants to “try to persuade him to step down rather than trying to take action himself. He wants the investigation to end so is trying to move out players causing problems . . . without doing the firing,” said Julian Zelizer, a professor of public affairs at Princeton. “Trump is trying to intimidate his own AG,” added University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.
Joseph Hart, an associate professor at the University of Virginia, said: “In the past, osteoarthritis was considered a disease that affects only the elderly. We are seeing increasing evidence that young and middle-aged adults are suffering from osteoarthritis as well, and it is often attributable to a history of acute traumatic joint injury.”
Portfolio inflows in emerging markets in Asia are expected to rebound after falling sharply to well below benchmark level, said Frank Warnock, a UVA professor of business administration. He said in Indonesia, equity inflows were well below benchmark level while bond inflows were above it.
(Co-written by Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics) Later this year – unless President Donald Trump intervenes – the American people will get access to the last of thousands of secret government files about a turning point in the nation’s history: the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Where you live in Virginia could make a big difference in how much you are spending on local taxes. UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center analyzed local tax rates across the state and compiled the tax figures to help taxpayers understand how different localities are using their hard-earned money.
Voracious readers, grammarians, wordsmiths, and trivia masters may have an advantage when it comes to staying mentally young, at least if they do something with their skill every day. "[It] does not tell us if people who do crosswords have less cognitive decline because of that or if people who have less cognitive decline are more likely to enjoy doing crosswords," he says, pointing to a different study conducted by researchers at University of Virginia. Sorting participants by age, the Virginia researchers found that at every age, people who did crossword puzzles had better cognitive function...
A recent study out of the University of Virginia, Yale University, and Boston University finds mobile technology can help parents protect babies from sudden infant death syndrome and other sleep-related deaths.
Using email and text messages to remind new mothers of the importance of safe sleep practices for infants improves adherence to those practices, a study has shown. Dr. Rachel Y. Moon of the University of Virginia and colleagues report their findings in an article published online July 25 in JAMA.
Whites will comprise less than a majority of Virginia’s population by 2040 – 47.4 percent – according to recent projections by the Demographics Research Group at the University of Virginia. That’s down from a forecast 58.6 percent in 2020.
The University of Virginia's Miller Center, a nonpartisan center for presidential scholarship, points out that Roosevelt was hard to pin down on the political spectrum. “Upon entering the Oval Office, FDR was neither a die-hard liberal nor a conservative, and the policies he enacted during his first term sometimes reflected contradictory ideological sources,” they wrote.
A series of educational videos sent via text might help encourage new mothers to ensure their infants are sleeping properly,a ccording to research done jointly by the UVA schools of Medicine and Nursing, Yale University School of Medicine and Boston University School of Medicine.
UVA’s Center for Politics will release a new documentary, “This is the House That Jack Built,” on the life of John F. Kennedy this fall. The film will explore the life, political ascendancy and death of the 35th president, focusing on “new and little-known” stories that surfaced while the center was researching an earlier project, titled “The Kennedy Half Century.”
True or false: A candidate who raises more money is more likely to win. You might assume that’s true, but a new analysis from the Virginia Public Access Project looked at candidates who spent the most money in 20 open-seat primaries and found that they were more likely to lose. Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says that’s true, but it’s a phenomenon limited to open-seat primaries.
When Hillary Murray was an undergraduate at Penn State University, she and her friends had a unique way of parting company. “Love U Mean It,” they would say. So when Murray went on to attend business school at the University of Virginia and started her own organic juice business, what else could she call it but Lumi – Love U Mean It?
In August, people in portions of the continental U.S. will experience total darkness before the sun goes down. “Here in Charlottesville, the moon will cover about 86 percent of the sun. You’ll need special solar glasses to see that happening. The problem is for most people, if you don’t have the glasses, you won’t notice anything unusual going on,” UVA astronomy professor Edward Murphy said.