Trump “has not reached out to reunify a badly divided country in any sustained way," UVA political scientist Sabato said. "As a result, he has the lowest ratings of any modern president-elect during the transition period.”
The Virginia High School League is taking some steps to try and protect the arms of its young baseball players. The VHSL is taking steps to try and cut back on arm, elbow and shoulder injuries like those seen by UVA sports medicine doctor Winston Gwathmey.
Trump’s first-100-day plan, which includes potential executive actions on immigration, ethics and energy, says he will “cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum, and order issued by President [Barack] Obama.” Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics, anticipates more than symbolism from Trump’s earliest days.
(By Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at UVA’s Miller Center) William Howard Taft holds the distinction of being the only person to both take and administer the presidential oath of office, first in 1909 as president, then in 1929 as chief justice of the Supreme Court. He also holds the distinction of getting it wrong both times.
A federal appeals court affirmed the criminal conviction of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship on Thursday in connection with the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades. UVA law professor Brandon Garrett said it's an important decision because it has been so rare for corporate chief executives to be prosecuted.
It’s tempting to believe that it’s Trump’s uniquely pugnacious personality that is the cause of this protest. Yet, writing for his Crystal Ball on Thursday, UVA’s Larry Sabato reminds us that this isn’t the first inauguration clouded with controversy.
Donald Trump’s inauguration will feature readings, musical performances and prayers, but like his Republican predecessors, no poets, according to the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. This prompts the question: What impact does poetry – or its absence – have at moments of national significance? Former Poet Laureate of the United States Rita Dove thinks not having poet is a meaningful moment missed.
(Commentary by Larry J. Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics) Tomorrow marks the start of the brave new world of President Donald J. Trump. But today marks the end of the Obama-to-Trump transition. They, and we, survived the interregnum, more or less – and it was not guaranteed and is worth celebrating.
UVA’s i.Lab Summer Accelerator is accepting applications for its 2017 class. The program is open to seed and early-stage ventures, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, founded by members of the UVA, Charlottesville or Albemarle County communities.
Playing ACES Chess is a collaboration between the UVA Chess Club/Team, the UVA Madison House Volunteers and the Charlottesville City Chess Club that brings expert adult chess players into our area schools to mentor young people in kindergarten through 12th grade on the game.
A new study argues that academic publishing chooses papers based on where they come from over what they say. Piper and his research partner, Chad Wellmon, a UVA associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures, attempt to make their case quantitatively and conceptually.
On a Saturday afternoon, 20 undergraduate psychology students have gathered in a large multi-purpose room to converse with ten non-speaking autistics from Northern Virginia who meet regularly at Growing Kids, a speech therapy center run by UVA professor Elizabeth Vosseler.
Thomas Jefferson designed the Academical Village to fit his vision for learning as a lifelong and shared experience. The centerpiece was the Rotunda. After a fire ravaged much of the building in 1895, the interior was redesigned by McKim, Mead and White, and numerous changes and restoration efforts followed – the latest of which was completed this past August.
Scientists today are exploring more promising new technologies than ever before. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re more promising. No number of flashy new disruptors can fix cancer research’s real problem: much of its data can’t be trusted, because it was never validated. Brian Nosek saw this as a challenge. A UVA psychologist, Nosek founded the Center for Open Science in 2011 to investigate the reproducibility of canonical psychology studies. But a few years later he turned his attention to cancer biology, and with $2 million from replication advocates John and Laura Arnold he assembl...
A penny dropped from the top of the Eiffel Tower could kill someone: The building used as the basis of this myth varies. Much more constant is the terminal velocity of a penny, which is around 44 km/h (27 mph). The penny reaches that speed after it has been falling for about 15 meters. Once the penny has reached its terminal velocity, it will not accelerate any further. UVA physicist Louis Bloomfield used this calculation to replicate the fall of pennies from tall buildings. He found that pennies at that speed would not break the skin – at most, they would just sting a little.
“Companies themselves know that the transition may take months, and if they want a prompt settlement to put a major case behind them, they should do so now,” said Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor who studies white-collar crime. “They may also be worried about the policies of the new administration. Companies want certainty, not disruption.”
Roughly 60 House Democrats, or nearly one-third of the 194-member caucus, plan to be elsewhere when Trump takes the oath of office, citing objections from Russian hacking to his feud with Rep. John Lewis of Georgia. “It seems fairly unprecedented this number of people would boycott and in such a formalized manner,” said Barbara Perry, presidential studies director of UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Then came John F. Kennedy and a generational change. In his inaugural address, he offered a chilling vision of a nation and a civilization on the eve of destruction. Nuclear holocaust now seemed a plausible fate. His point, says Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, was that he would be just as tough on communism as any Republican.
As long as the technology makes care more efficient for patients and is easy to use in clinical practice, physicians are willing to adopt. At the UVA Health System, stroke victims who lived in the rural areas that the health system serves were at greater risk of brain damage and disability.
Brian Nosek, who spearheaded this research of work from cancer biology labs at the Center for Open Science, is also a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. A few years ago, he organized a similar effort to examine research in his field. And his results garnered worldwide attention when two-thirds of the original findings in psychology couldn't be reproduced.