(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies) When Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, announced on Wednesday that Twitter would no longer host political advertisements, he scored points with those who lament the ways social media platforms have polluted political culture. At Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg responded by reaffirming that his company would continue to distribute political ads without fact-checking them.
Psychologists Daniel Gilbert from Harvard and Timothy Wilson from the University of Virginia have found that humans generally are bad at predicting how we will be affected by future events. Their research shows that people tend to overestimate the emotional effect of bad events and underestimate their ability to cope with those events.
Instead of requiring students to submit their applications by midnight on Friday, colleges, such as the University of Virginia and Columbia University, changed the deadline for students affected by the fires. Due dates varied based on the school, but they generally ranged from midnight on Nov. 8 to midnight on Nov. 15.
For 24 hours, dozens of University of Virginia Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets will keep vigil for the missing and captive as part of the corps’ annual Veterans Day ceremonies. The vigil at the McIntire Amphitheater is a tradition among UVA cadets, but this year it will exclude the traditional 21-gun salute usually performed by the color guard from local American Legion Post 74.
Samuel Lengen, a research associate at UVA’s School of Data Science, has noted effects of big data and social networks on less powerful groups: "The truth is that datafication, with all its privacy implications, does not affect everyone equally.”
The Accelerated Master’s Program in Systems Engineering is helping veterans make their transition into civilian life smoother. The program allows students to maintain and grown in their careers while furthering their education.
Voters in Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia will elect either a whole slew of state lawmakers or a governor and other statewide executives. "The conventional wisdom – often repeated in legislative circles – is that Virginia does not want to moor its ship to the federal man-of-war," said UVA law professor Dick Howard, who helped write Virginia's current constitution.
After retiring as a partner at the Richmond law firm of Hunton & Williams, he returned to his law school alma mater, the University of Virginia, in 2006 to direct the Miller Center of Public Affairs.
“Luiz is extremely well qualified to take on the role of executive director of CCI and brings a wealth of experience through his recent role in managing a similar center,” said Melur “Ram” Ramasubramanian, vice president for research at the University of Virginia and CCI executive director search committee member. “He will be very effective in positioning Virginia as a world leader in cybersecurity, data analytics, machine learning, and autonomous systems.”
Tuesday, Nov. 5, is Election Day. Across the state, Virginians will go to the polls to elect members of the General Assembly. All 140 seats in the Virginia Senate and House of Delegates are up for election. “Every election is determined by the people who show up,” political analyst Larry J. Sabato of the University of Virginia has said.
Alan Taylor’s latest book, “Thomas Jefferson’s Education,” also addresses the connection between slavery and the University of Virginia, where he has served as a professor of history since 2014. But Taylor approaches the question from a different perspective.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have designed a wind turbine inspired by palm trees that has two blades instead of three and faces downwind instead of upwind.
Many excellent public universities, despite severe budget shortfalls, have substantially increased their size. In the last quarter century, the University of Virginia boosted undergraduate enrollments by more than 40%, to over 16,000.
Virginia has been leaning more and more Democratic since the election of President Trump, according to Kyle Kondik, managing editor at UVA’s Center for Politics. The Democratic surge in the 2017 election – almost but not quite winning the majority in the House – bodes well for the party’s chances in next week’s election.
UVA landscape gardeners are accustomed to motoring around Grounds on diesel-powered utility vehicles. Now, a cleaner and more nimble electric cargo bike means the workers’ transportation footprint can be as green as their thumbs.
(Commentary co-written by Barbara A. Perry, Gerald L. Baliles Professor and Presidential Studies director at UVA’s Miller Center) The Trump administration faces unrelenting challenges, many as a result of chaotic decision-making. The incumbent may be unique in many respects, but self-inflicted wounds are not unprecedented in presidential history. How best to stanch the bleeding?
In just a week, the University of Virginia men's basketball team takes the court as defending national champions. UVA's roster looks much different than it did last year.
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a newsletter from UVA’s Center for Politics, wrote in an email that Democrats have shown good fundraising capabilities in the Donald Trump era throughout Virginia and the rest of the country. “But that fundraising almost always is not enough to offset the fundamental partisanship of a seat, and HD-18 is still strongly Republican,” Kondik wrote.
The U.S. Supreme Court needs to clear up a circuit split over whether disciplining a worker for conduct caused by a disability counts as disability discrimination, according to a former federal intelligence agency employee who claimed attendance issues stemming from depression cost her her job. “Hannah P.’s” legal team includes Daniel R. Ortiz of the University of Virginia School of Law Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.