The Federal Reserve maintained the federal funds rate Wednesday at 2.25% to 2.5%, but suggested it may reduce the rate if the economic outlook worsens. “This is the first time that they really pretty strongly signaled that they're considering loosening policy going forward,” said Francis E. Warnock, professor of business administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
The Federal Reserve maintained the federal funds rate Wednesday at 2.25% to 2.5%, but suggested it may reduce the rate if the economic outlook worsens. “This is the first time that they really pretty strongly signaled that they're considering loosening policy going forward,” said Francis E. Warnock, professor of business administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
University of Virginia psychologist Brian Nosek, the creator of the Centre for Open Science, and first author of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines — intended to curb motivated reasoning through best practices for research design and dissemination — explained the process to journalist Philip Ball. Whether one is a scientist or not, “most of our reasoning is in fact rationalization,” or fitting what one thinks one observes to what one wants to see. Whereas confirmation bias is a filtering mechanism, motivated reasoning both filters and distorts the influx of new informatio...
The House Committee on the Judiciary will host a second hearing on the Mueller report entitled, “Lessons from the Mueller Report, Part II: Bipartisan Perspectives” at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday. Witnesses include Saikrishna Prakash, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
(Commentary by Ashley Deeks, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School) “Would the United States then have the right under international law to use force against Iran in self-defense? The answer is unclear, even under current U.S. interpretations of jus ad bellum rules.”
(Commentary by Cale Jaffe, director of the Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Virginia) Virginia has the authority to ban uranium mining under state law, even as the federal government regulates the processing of nuclear fuel under the Atomic Energy Act, the Supreme Court has ruled.
Paul M. Gaston, a professor emeritus of history and a civil-rights activist at the University of Virginia, died on June 14. He was 91. Gaston worked at the university from 1957 until 1997. He served as faculty adviser to a student group, the Human Relations Council, and helped bring Martin Luther King Jr. to speak at the university in 1963.
The Fourth of July fireworks show at McIntire Park was on the verge of being canceled this year, but a couple of big sponsors stepped up to save the show. The University of Virginia also could not imagine the Fourth of July without fireworks in the city. Jon Bowen, the special advisor to the president for external affairs at UVA, said the President Office of UVA jumped in and sponsored as part of their goal to be more involved in the community. "When we heard that the annual fireworks show was in danger of being canceled,” said Bowen. “It seemed like a natural extension of that effort to be a ...
Justin Reid, Director, African American Programs with Virginia Humanities and Manger of the General Assembly African American Cultural Resources Task Force, recently visited the James Solomon Russell – Saint Paul’s College Museum and Archives. Reid spent several hours looking at and discussing the museum’s collection. During the visit, Reid recorded the story of the museum as told by Grimstead and took many photographs of the artifacts in the collection. The audio and photography will be shared with audiences around the state through Virginia Humanities’ radio and podcast programs, online reso...
Hunter, the NABC National Defensive Player of the Year who led Virginia to its first NCAA Tournament championship in program history, is expected to be a lottery selection in Thursday’s NBA Draft. And yet, Hunter has been relegated to a supporting role in the lead-up to the draft, as have many of his contemporaries.
The spirit of equality and reconnecting with goals aimed at saving the planet stem from the spiritual consciousness of millennials. Matthew Hedstrom, an associate religious studies professor at the University of Virginia, points out that millennials are more spiritually conscious than previous generations.
Obviously we need some way of assessing the reliability of scientific and expert testimony. What would the ideal system look like? … Barbara Spellman, University of Virginia School of Law: “Judges decide whether scientific evidence is reliable and relevant, but ‘credibility’ is left to the jury.”
(Commentary by Derrick P. Alridge, a historian and professor of education at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education and Human Development) On June 19, African Americans across the United States will celebrate Juneteenth, the day in 1865 that marked the end of slavery in Texas, and with it, the complete abolition of the practice in the United States. On this day, we realize the moment when the ideals of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation reached every state. While the holiday represents a relatively unknown marker in American history, it is a powerful reminder in the African Amer...
Cale Jaffe, law professor and director of the Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic at the University of Virginia, said the decision is significant because other states will have a role to play in setting major environmental policy, especially with the rollback of federal regulations under President Donald Trump. “States will have a lot of leeway to chart their own course,” Jaffe said.
By homing in on working-class white Americans and tapping into their grievances over globalization and the liberal elites, Trump successfully ate into the Democrats’ own base. On Tuesday he will renew that pitch. “The way he looks at it, it worked beautifully in 2016 when everyone else was wrong, so he’ll follow the same instincts and (believe he’ll) win again in 2020,” veteran University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato said.
By homing in on working-class white Americans and tapping into their grievances over globalization and the liberal elites, Trump successfully ate into the Democrats’ own base. On Tuesday he will renew that pitch. “The way he looks at it, it worked beautifully in 2016 when everyone else was wrong, so he’ll follow the same instincts and (believe he’ll) win again in 2020,” veteran University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato said.
When U.S. President Donald Trump officially launches his re-election campaign in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday night in front of a crowd of up to 20,000 supporters, he will be neither a favourite nor an underdog. In fact, some experts say it's pretty much a toss-up at this point whether Trump keeps his job or not. "I'd put it at maybe 50/50," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a non-partisan political newsletter produced at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Other regional institutions that won a ranking were the University of Maryland Children’s Hospital in Baltimore (ranked 32nd in cardiology and heart surgery) and the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital in Charlottesville (ranked in the Top 50 in eight specialties).
According to a recent study by the University of Virginia, alternative relationships are warranted in the new age of romance, and individuals are growing more interested in non-traditional dating.
Machine learning algorithms can rapidly analyze biopsy images and reduce the time it takes to diagnose gut diseases in children, revealed a study published inJAMA Network Open. Researchers from the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine used a machine learning tool to read thousands of biopsy images and distinguish between environmental enteropathy (EE) and celiac disease (CD), two overlapping conditions that can cause stunting and undernutrition in pediatric patients.