Gov. Terry McAuliffe may have hoped for some surprise good news in Tuesday’s special General Assembly elections, but tonight he’ll deliver his final State of the Commonwealth speech facing the same daunting political landscape. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said McAuliffe’s hands have been tied by an opposing legislature, leaving the governor to focus his “considerable energies” on economic development and unilateral executive orders.
"We've had presidents before who were rich, but we're in some uncharted territory given Trump's wealth and his myriad of business interests," said Saikrishna Prakash, a professor at UVA School of Law who specializes in constitutional separation of powers.
The Commonwealth of Virginia is piloting an electronic data exchange project to automate submission of newborn screening information to the state government. The Virginia Newborn Screening Electronic Data Exchange Project currently includes three hospital nurseries, including the UVA Medical Center.
Anita Hill, attorney and civil rights advocate, will be the keynote speaker during a two-week celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. hosted by UVA.
A groundbreaking new study shows that implicit biases have very little to do with how people actually act. The report, authored by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Harvard, and the University of Virginia, looked at 499 studies on the topic conducted over a 20-year period with 80,859 participants, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The University of Virginia-Virginia Tech Carilion Neuroscience Research Collaboration has announced more than $500,000 in grant funding awarded to nine research teams to tackle pressing problems in brain development and function in health and disease.
According to Nicole Fleming of UVA’s Thriving Cities research initiative, American Underground and Durham, North Carolina have figured out a formula for equitable, far-reaching economic success being sought by urban planners nationwide.
In many ways, Dylann Roof’s case is an anomaly: He chose to defend himself, showed no remorse and alluded to killing again, said Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor who has studied death penalty cases from 1990 to 2015.
Thomas Pierce, a 2013 alumnus of UVA’s Creative Writing Program, had this short story published in the Jan. 16 edition of New Yorker magazine.
Presidents give farewell addresses primarily to reflect on their achievements during their four or eight years, sometimes even including expressions of regret for promises left unfulfilled, said Marc Selverstone, associate professor at UVA’s Miller Center, which studies the presidency. The speeches are also used to raise warning flags about specific policies.
"If the bribery scheme is not just to personally profit a number of brokers, but they're doing it in a way that their employer is gaining from the business, it's logical to think about whether the entity ought to be liable," said Brandon Garrett, a professor at the UVA School of Law and the author of “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations.” "A company shouldn't be allowed to profit from an illegal scheme."
The UVA Medical Center just earned 2017 Women's Choice Awards for two of its programs. UVA Medical Center received its Bariatric Surgery Award by having a lot of patient satisfaction post-surgery. The Cancer Center also earned the Best Hospitals for Cancer Care Award because of its patient care and research.
Researchers at the UVA Health System will soon begin testing a potential therapeutic treatment for dry eye.
A study from the University of Virginia found that grandparents who routinely hugged their grandchildren had higher levels of oxytocin and lower levels of stress, which can help keep them healthy in their older years.
UVA has been selected as one of 18 schools across the country to help research major transportation challenges that our nation will face over the next three decades.
Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia with a presidential vibe in architecture and surrounded by stunning grassy gardens filled with flowers, a mix that makes it one the most beautiful college campuses. If the landscapes and building didn’t convince you to take into consideration the fact that The American Institute of Architects also called the campus “the proudest achievement of American architecture in the past 200 years.”
John Adams left the White House in a flurry of paperwork, working till midnight to fortify the United States against the next president, his political nemesis and friend, Thomas Jefferson. Each founder’s legacy was bound up in the other’s, setting a precedent for every president who followed them. “These tensions in the American psyche go all the way back to the revolution,” said Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
"What's dangerous is the carbon dioxide gas," UVA physicist Louis Bloomfield said. "Once it has been forced out of the water as the water crystallizes, the carbon dioxide accumulates in the small remaining space in the can and the pressure of that gas skyrockets."
In a campaign hosted by Google, actors Hill Harper and Rosario Dawson read a letter that UVA second-year student Kyndia Riley wrote to her mother, who is in prison in West Virginia. Her mother and father were hit with multiple life sentences for selling drugs. Her grandparents and sister died before she started college. She was struggling to stay in school, but after her story first aired, everything in her life changed.
As a legislator, he was “low-key and soft-spoken, which may be one of the reasons he was so well-liked and successful,” said Larry J. Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “He wasn’t wont to call press conferences or get up on the soapbox. When he spoke, people really did listen.”