The University of Virginia will open its gates a bit wider to in-state students in the next school year and offer some middle-class families a new tuition break worth $2,000 a year.
From Russia to Iran, and from Pacific trade to nuclear proliferation to climate change, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees to lead his government this week staked out sharply different positions than those taken by candidate Trump. “It is highly unusual for Cabinet nominees to express their disagreements with their president or president-elect so openly and fully,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Before the bunting and barriers are even cleared away from Friday’s inauguration of Donald Trump, hundreds of thousands are likely to attend the Women’s March on Washington the following day. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s center for Politics, cited anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and civil rights-era protests that attracted crowds up to half a million as among the most prominent in U.S. history.
For presidents who left the office in disgrace, a transition into private life can have a rehabilitative effect, says Nicole Hemmer, an expert on presidential studies who lectures at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. Carter was a one-term president "who also left on a sour note," Hemmer says, but "was able to reinvent his career as an advocate for human and civil rights," becoming a beloved figure among Democrats.
(By Ed Hess, professor of business administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence at UVA’s Darden School of Business) Many business leaders tell me that one of their top priorities is increasing the quality and speed of their organizational innovation. Faster and better is now being applied to innovation just as it has been applied for decades to operational excellence.
The Centers for Disease Control have issued new human papillomavirus vaccination guidelines that UVA researchers helped draft. Researchers say HPV vaccines are important for more than just preventing sexually transmitted infections.
Once upon a time, it was thought that crop diseases affected only crops. New research shows, however, that a common wheat virus can spread and harm perennial native grasses. In the current issue of the Journal of Ecology, researchers from Michigan State University, the University of Kansas and the University of Virginia show that farmers and scientists need to think about how best to protect native plants from diseases emanating from crops.
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine stopped by the UVA School of Medicine to talk with students about the future of the Affordable Care Act. Kaine says he wanted to get input from the medical students, and find out what's important to them to help him become a better advocate.
All week, there will be events around Charlottesville and at the University of Virginia, including films and music as well as national speakers on social justice and equality, to explore the concept of "Silence as Betrayal." There will also be a community forum on planning a memorial to enslaved laborers at UVA on Jan. 23 along with other speakers on a variety of issues and the recent presidential election.
Months after the fateful presidential election swung out of his favor, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., swung by the UVA School of Medicine to share his passion for health care, speak on the dangers of repealing the Affordable Care Act and above all, to listen.
UVA students are offering free summer camp to children affected by a parent with cancer. Children aged 6 through 18 can apply to attend the weeklong Camp Kesem in August. It's run entirely by undergraduate students from UVA.
On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump promised to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. But UVA health policy experts say Trump is likely to take less drastic action, replacing the most controversial parts of the law while preserving the rest of it.
With just days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take the oath of office, UVA’s Miller Center is looking at national security issues that he and his administration might have to face.
A day after announcing it would play a 2020 game against Georgia, the University of Virginia announced that it would face old ACC rival Maryland in a home-and-home series in 2023 and 2024. The teams will meet Sept. 16, 2023, in College Park, Md., and Sept. 14 the following year in Charlottesville.
Kenneth S. Stroupe Jr., chief of staff at the UVA Center for Politics and former press secretary for former Virginia Gov. George Allen, wrote that a growing body of research connects gerrymandering with reducing political competition, protecting incumbents, promoting partisan bias and polarization, tamping down voter turnout, increasing voter apathy, heightening legislative gridlock instead of a willingness to find common ground, and enabling a lack of accountability among legislators who occupy politically insulated safe seats.
The Obama administration in its waning days is taking companies to task in a way that it generally did not in its early years; it is getting corporations to plead guilty and charging executives in connection with crimes. “There’s absolutely been a marked shift away from out-of-court deals with companies where no individuals were prosecuted to plea agreements with companies and individual indictments,” said UVA law professor Brandon Garrett, author of “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations.”
One of the biggest threats to human rights in 2016 was the rise of populism, according to Human Rights Watch, which launched its 2017 report on human rights Thursday in Washington, D.C. The report cites the human rights implications of key elections in the U.S. and around the globe, as well as the refugee crisis and the rise of demagogues. Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics said too many people are not paying attention. "It ought to concern anyone who cares about small 'd' democracy,” he said, “because so often what happens in the United States or in other democracies like Great Britain...
An electronic sensor for real-time monitoring of drug molecules in the blood soon could continuously guide drug dosing in humans by monitoring drug metabolism or organ function. UVA’s Robin Felder welcomes the advance, commenting that “continuous improvements in aptamer chemistry and biosensor engineering promise a truly bright future for personalized medicine.”
Professor Gary Ferguson, a queer studies specialist at the University of Virginia, reveals the 450-year-old history of same-sex marriage.
Health care providers and families in Central Virginia are trying to plan ahead, but that's hard when the future of the Affordable Care Act is so uncertain. “There’s a lot of uncertainty, but the way we have planned at this time is we’re assuming that the provisions that are in place will continue,” said UVA Health System Chief Financial Officer Larry Fitzgerald.