Professor John C. Harrison of the UVA School of Law has submitted an interesting amicus brief in Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the blockbuster case before the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the CFPB.
Charlottesville currently operates under a “council-manager” or “weak mayor” system, which UVA law professor and municipal government expert Rich Schragger categorized as the most common form of government in towns and small cities across the country.
UVA professor Dewey Cornell and University of Missouri associate professor Francis Huang’s 2015 research into the effectiveness of anti-bullying programs showed limitations inherent in nearly every type.
Science Storytellers brings together two groups of innately curious individuals: scientists and children. One of the volunteers at that first Science Storytellers event was Brian Nosek, a psychologist at the University of Virginia who studies implicit bias – thoughts and feelings that exist outside of conscious awareness or conscious control, such as racial bias. Nosek spoke to an 8- or 9-year-old boy who immediately made a connection between Nosek’s research and a story he knew. Cutraro, listening in, caught a bit of their conversation, which she and Nosek recall as going something like this.
Christopher Deppmann, a UVA biologist who was not involved in the work, said he believed it had “profound implications” for how scientists think about stem cell biology, stress biology and potentially the aging process. “Like any good study, it opens up at least as many questions as it answers, but it may represent an important steppingstone toward rationalizing and developing pharmaceutical fountains of youth,” he said.
Researchers have successfully treated age-related macular degeneration in mice after finding an unexpected link between the two main forms of the blinding eye disease, which is the leading cause of vision loss in people 60 and older. “It’s not as if this is the final answer to the problem, but it’s certainly a big step along the way, hopefully,” said researcher Brad Gelfand, of the UVA schools of Medicine and Engineering, in a news release from the medical school Wednesday.
UVA researchers found an unexpected link between two main forms of macular degeneration that they think have the potential to better treat both forms.
The Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization approved shifting money around to fund passenger count systems during its meeting on Wednesday. The MPO is a federally mandated planning group comprised of officials from Charlottesville, Albemarle County, UVA and state and federal transportation agencies. It covers the city and urbanized parts of the county, including Crozet.
The 21st annual American Democracy Conference at UVA’s Center for Politics hosted prominent women in politics from across the political spectrum on Wednesday. They tackled topics like the politics of division and the Trump administration, as well as looking forward to the 2020 election.
The forthcoming papers in the replication study were likely to be a “wake-up call” to science “given that so much information is missing” from published papers, said UVA psychology professor Brian Nosek, director and co-founder of the Center for Open Science.
On Wednesday, UVA’s Center for Politics hosted the American Democracy Conference. The event honored the centennial of women getting the right to vote.
Shayla Clark and Christopher Deppmann, researchers from UVA’s graduate neuroscience program, who were not involved in the study, said it was interesting to consider what possible evolutionary advantage might be conferred by stress-induced graying. “Because grey hair is most often linked to age, it could be associated with experience, leadership and trust,” they wrote.
The 2019-20 flu season has been atypical in one significant way. Until now, Influenza B/Victoria – the season's less severe version of the flu compared to Influenza A(H1N1) – has been the more impactful strain of the flu virus. "That's quite unusual," Dr. Bryan Lewis, a professor at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, told AccuWeather. Lewis works with a team in a research partnership with AccuWeather. "This is likely the most cases caused by Influenza B in any season in the last 20 years."
(Video) The number of reported flu cases is starting to drop, but experts at the University of Virginia's Biocomplexity Institute warn that flu season is far from over.
On this first day of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, a nonpartisan group out of the University of Virginia is weighing in. On Tuesday, the Senate got to work setting rules for the proceedings. The Miller Center’s CEO and president, Bill Antholis, is studying the ways this impeachment process is similar and different from those of former presidents Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and Andrew Johnson.
Charlottesville-based SaaS security platform provider SafeGuard Cyber has hired Thomas A. Dukes Jr. as its senior vice president for information security and corporate affairs, the company announced Tuesday. In his new role, he will manage data security and work with product and operations teams on quality and security standards. He will also continue his roles as a U.S. Air Force Reserve brigadier general and adjunct professor of cyber law and policy at the University of Virginia.
History professor Elizabeth Varon writes for the Miller Center at the University of Virginia – which studies the American presidency – that “Andrew Johnson gives truth to the saying that in America, anyone can grow up to become President.”
Yet the amendment has strong critics, including some conservatives who have long argued that it would provide a new constitutionally guaranteed right to abortion access. And ERA skeptics span the political spectrum: Kim Forde-Mazrui, a UVA law professor and constitutional law scholar who calls himself “a liberal supporter of women’s equality,” argues that the amendment would do nothing and even potentially be harmful.
But the general reception toward ugly, racist humor is changing, sure enough. “There’s been a raising of consciousness about what we laugh at,” says Shilpa Davé, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and author of “Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film.” “Humor reveals something about institutionalized inequality and prejudice and discrimination – racism, sexism, and classism – that’s ingrained in our culture.”
A not insignificant number of "Bernie Bros" can be obnoxious sexist bullies online, but they are not representative of the majority of his supporters. But Robert Wheel wrote in a thorough data-driven study for UVA’s Center for Politics that the reason the toxic Bernie Bro online phenomenon was "so prominent is that men in their 20s spend the most time online and, I speak as a former man in his 20s, are the most strident people online." He implored Clinton diehards to understand "the election was not your Twitter mentions."