Tidewater is becoming a more popular place to live, according to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The center creates population estimates for Virginia localities every year, which are based on factors such as births, deaths, school enrollment and residential housing construction.
The latest statewide population projection shows continued growth in the number of people calling the Shenandoah Valley home, with more than 80,000 living in Rockingham County for the first time. A study from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service estimating the number of people living in Virginia was released last week.
Still the fastest-growing county in Virginia, according to a UVA survey, Loudoun now has more than 396,000 residents. In the last decade, more than 60 percent of Virginia’s population growth has been concentrated in Northern Virginia, according to latest population estimates released by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
On Monday afternoon, former White House photographer Pete Souza spoke to a packed UVA auditorium about what it was like to follow Barack Obama for eight years.
Several research teams are getting funding from UVA’s Brain Institute. The projects are looking at dyslexia, autism-related disorders, the effects of dopamine on the body clock, the mechanics of concussions, and brain cancer therapies and imaging techniques, among other topics.
Records go back to at least the 1980s on designated survivors, historians say. To be chosen, the person must be in the president's Cabinet in a position that is part of the line of succession and falls under the criteria to run for the office. Whittling down the list takes time, said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
In a presentation at UVA, former White House photographer Pete Souza sought to share a portrait of President Barack Obama the public rarely glimpsed.
When James Ryan becomes UVA’s president in August, he’ll move into Pavilion VIII on the Lawn. That’s because the traditional presidential residence, Carr’s Hill, will be undergoing renovations. Carr’s Hill is the latest historic building to be overhauled as the University tries to update and preserve historic sites while reducing its carbon footprint.
The ACC’s best team went into arguably the conference’s toughest venue and picked up its biggest victory of the year. The Cavaliers (20-1, 9-0 ACC) are off to their best start in league play since opening the 1980-81 season 12-0.
No. 2 Virginia (20-1, 9-0 ACC) lived up to its ranking on Saturday afternoon, defeating No. 4 Duke (18-3, 6-3 ACC) 65-63 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. UVa won its 12th-straight game and is now halfway through a perfect season in the conference.
Jorge Secada, a UVA professor of ethics and political philosophy, agrees that Comey’s decision to publicly reopen the Clinton email investigation was misguided. “Politically, it was very ill-judged; he should have been much more careful. The FBI doesn’t have to make public everything they look into at any moment,” he says.
Future presidents, not this one, may weigh on the minds of the justices in general. “The fundamental question [of this case] is whether this president gets the same deference that every other president gets,” said Douglas Laycock, a UVA law professor and religious-freedom expert.
As UVA law professor Deborah Hellman notes, just because you have a constitutional right to do something doesn’t necessarily mean you have a constitutional right to spend money to do that same thing.
Workers across the country and in the Charlottesville area might receive a raise, a one-time bonus or increased 401(k) matches, thanks to recent tax law changes. George K. Yin, a UVA law professor and former chief of staff of Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation, said that both large and small businesses are, in general, going to be winners with the tax law changes, but workers won’t necessarily see pay increases immediately.
Why a child bullies varies from case to case: Some might want to display dominance, while others are reinforcing social status, said Catherine Bradshaw, a UVA education professor who studies bullying, trauma and violence among young people. Some children who bully might have trouble engaging with others or in expressing their feelings.
You’re busy with stuff. When it comes to day-to-day priorities, sexuality often falls low on the totem pole. We prioritize the things that stress us out the most, even if its emptying the dishwasher, said Dr. Anita Clayton, UVA psychiatry professor and writer of “Gratification: Females, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy.” When our partner approaches us, we suppose, I have to get this done and you’re talking about that?
UVA Darden School of Business Professor Morela Hernandez has a passion for behavioral research. It’s this passion that led the associate professor in leadership and organizational behavior and academic director of the Behavioral Research at Darden Lab to develop a new project: the Behavioral Research for Society Lab.
In the U.S., some perceived a generational gap in reaction to the detailed account by a woman identified as "Grace" of a sexual encounter with comedian Aziz Ansari that left her feeling disrespected and abused. Among millennial men such as Ansari -- who is 34 -- there's a cultural contradiction at play, according to sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at UVA. "There's a public embrace of more egalitarian, feminist sensibilities and ideas," he said, but that often doesn't carry over to their private approach to sexual encounters. As for millennial women, Wi...
Analysts predict Trump will start by claiming credit for America's strong economy after his recent tax cuts, even though he inherited low unemployment and a booming stock market from his predecessor. Larry Sabato, UVA professor of politics, said: “Most people have no idea how much a president influences the economy, but Trump will take 100 percent of the credit for the good news – of that we can be sure."
Kyle Kondik, an Ohioan who is a political analyst for UVA’s Center for Politics, said there are "scattered signs" that Kasich is weak among Ohio Republican voters.