Last week, I wrote this story about Virginia law professor Dayna Bowen Matthew being named the next dean of George Washington University Law School. For the record, UVA’s five women deans since 2012, in addition to Matthew, are: Elizabeth Magill, who was dean of Stanford Law School before returning to Virginia as provost; Jennifer Mnookin, who is now law dean at UCLA; [Kerry] Abrams, currently dean at Duke Law; and Risa Goluboff, who was on the Virginia faculty before moving into the dean’s office in 2016.
Commentators and political scientists, especially those who study women in politics, noted how unapologetically Ms. Warren had expressed anger on the stage – despite the risk she faced, given sexist double standards. “I don’t know how to put it other than she was a badass,” said Jennifer Lawless, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia and former director of the Women & Politics Institute at American University.
Divorce is down more than 30% since 1980, and seems to be headed lower, said UVA sociology professor Brad Wilcox. “A clear majority of marriages being formed today will go the distance,” he told a congressional committee Tuesday. The bad news, he said, is that the nation still faces a deep divide when it comes to family structure and stability, with children from black and less-educated homes facing markedly higher rates of family instability and single parenthood.
If the poor represent a majority of voters in India, why doesn’t this electoral power translate into better quality government services? Why are some vulnerable communities able to secure development from the state while others fail? These are some of the big questions that political scientists Adam Auerbach and Gabi Kruks-Wisner shed light on in this week’s episode of “Grand Tamasha.” Gabi is assistant professor of politics and global studies at the University of Virginia and the author of “Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India.”
Larry Sabato, a politics expert at the University of Virginia, said the debate had not dramatically changed the race, but that it could raise some concerns about Sanders and, as a result, shore up Biden’s waning support in the state. “Sanders gave as good as he got,” Sabato said. “But one caution: South Carolina voters probably watched in large numbers. They heard a lot of things about Sanders they didn’t know – and some won’t like what they heard.”
According to our experts, the 10th Democratic debate was an ugly spectacle for everyone involved. And that could give Bernie Sanders reason to celebrate. “Bloomberg improved his performance from godawful last week to merely awful this time,” said Larry J. Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Professional investors tend to move the fastest when a market suddenly turns. That’s largely out of self-preservation, because the biggest risk they face is being so out-of-step with the market that their clients fire them. That can lead the pros to chase the market trend too far and too long. “Institutions sell more than individuals when there is a large stock-market drop,” finance professors Patrick Dennis and Deon Strickland found in a 2002 study. They also showed that the more widely a stock is held by big investors, the greater its trading volume during sharp market drops.
The UVA School of Medicine hosted its annual Infectious Diseases and Global Biothreats Research Day on Monday in Pinn Hall. UVA scientists shared their research on ways to fight deadly diseases around the world, such as E. coli, drug-resistant tuberculosis and salmonella.
The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia, or iTHRIV, has awarded pilot funding to four medical research projects. According to a release, the $200,000 in funding will support the early-phase research projects to help accelerate the discovery of potential treatment options for cancer, depression and a gastrointestinal disorder that causes pain, as well as help patients who are recovering from rotator cuff surgery. Physicians, researchers and engineers at the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic were awarded funding as part of the iTHRIV Clinical an...
The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV) has awarded $200,000 in pilot funding to multi-institutional research projects that will accelerate the discovery of potential treatment options for cancer, depression and a painful gastrointestinal disorder, as well as aid patients in recovery from rotator cuff surgery. Teams of physicians, researchers and engineers at the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic were awarded the funds as part of the iTHRIV Clinical and Translational Research Award (CTSA) from the National Center for Advancing Transla...
Four-fifths of 913 public and private colleges and universities recently surveyed were either in a fundraising campaign or about to enter one, according to Linda Durant, vice president of development for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. More than 50 campuses have launched $1-billion fundraising campaigns. Fourteen have aimed even higher, at $5 billion or more, including five public institutions: UCLA, UC San Francisco, University of Washington, University of Virginia and University of Michigan. USC raised $7 billion in its recent campaign.
Nestled against the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville is a true quintessential college town, and home to prestigious University of Virginia, founded Thomas Jefferson. The University’s centerpiece building, the Rotunda, is a UNESCO World Heritage site, plus visitors can also take a look into the room where Edgar Allan Poe lived when he was a student.
As argument nears in the Supreme Court battle between Booking.com and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 12 parties have now filed amicus briefs in support of Booking.com. Among the amici are the Intellectual Property Owners Association, the International Trademark Association, and the Survey Scholars and Consultants. The Survey Scholars & Consultants teach at colleges and universities throughout the United States and include consultants who analyze consumer perceptions specifically in the area of trademark law. The specific amici include Professor Ronald T. Wilc...
UVA Health wants people to open up their homes to pediatric families in need. LilyPads Housing is looking for anyone who has extra room to become hosts.
One example is Scott County, Indiana, where 215 people were diagnosed with HIV between 2011 and 2015, according to a 2018 Lancet study. Koeppel said 36% of drug users they’ve tested in Appalachian Virginia have hepatitis C. Nationally, a CDC estimate says 1% of the U.S. population has hepatitis C. A 2018 UVA study found links between rising injection drug use and endocarditis, an infection of the heart chamber lining.
The Clinical and Translational Science Award partnership between Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, Carilion Clinic, and Inova Health System has awarded $200,000 in funding to four research projects through the Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies Program.
“The second surge seems to have reached a peak, with all regions declining,” Dr. Bryan Lewis, a professor at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, said. “This doesn’t negate that we are at a peak, and thus these weeks are some of the highest activities of the season in many areas.”
Virginia is continuing to see declining reading test scores, and the state says enough is enough. The Virginia Department of Education hosted a literacy summit in Charlottesville Monday afternoon with representatives from every school district in the state. The event featured presentations from professors at UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development to get the state’s educators caught up on the latest trends in literacy education.
UVA hosted a panel discussion on coronavirus Monday during the “Batten Hour.” Five experts discussed how the deadly disease cannot be fought through one policy alone.