House Democrats will vote on two articles of impeachment early next week, charging President Donald Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress – two offenses they say should remove him from office under the standards laid down by the U.S. Constitution. "He really had no say constitutionally on whether it should be given to Ukraine. Right there, he's in violation of constitutional norms and practices and the law," said Barbara Ann Perry, presidential studies director at UVA’s Miller Center. Perry said Trump further abused the power of the presidency by tying the holdup...
“Ocean acidification makes it more difficult for many marine organisms to construct their shells and skeletons,” said Scott Doney, study co-author and the Kington Professor of Environmental Change at the University of Virginia. “The organisms at risk from acidification form the foundation of the marine ecosystem food chain—including some types of plankton, algae, shellfish, and coral that may struggle to grow and survive in a future warmer, more acidic ocean.”
The point of this endeavor was, in part, to gain a sense of what the world would look like today had these major emitters had acted on what some began to understand in the 1960s, said author Scott Christopher Doney, a UVA professor of environmental sciences. Corporations like Exxon and even the coal industry knew back then that peddling and burning fossil fuels were detrimental to the planet. And yet instead of alerting the world and producing less, they invested in climate denial to keep profits flowing.
Mildred Robinson, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, plans to retire after more than 30 years as a member of the faculty. She was the first African American woman to become a tenured professor at the university's School of Law.
UVA Health is testing a new way to battle cancer. Clinical trials are now open for a focused ultrasound to treat advanced solid tumors. The technology has also been used for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. UVA researchers may use that alone or in conjunction with a cancer immunotherapy drug.
Two new papers find evidence that lower-performing teachers are substantially more likely to voluntarily leave the D.C. school system than their higher-performing counterparts, and those lower-performing teachers are also more likely to improve. When struggling teachers leave, student achievement improves. “We found that in many respects, teacher-evaluation practices in seem to be working to the advantage of students,” said James Wyckoff, a UVA professor of education and one of the authors of the studies.
A clinical study is underway to see how focused ultrasound may be used to treat certain metastatic cancers. UVA has opened the trial to assess the safety of the treatment of advanced solid tumors within the body.
Five football programs in the Football Bowl Subdivision represent schools that are ranked among the Top 10 of public universities and are playing in bowl games this year. Of those five, the Orange Bowl is the only matchup between two of them. That is something that both Florida head coach Dan Mullen and Virginia head coach Bronco Mendenhall are proud of as they are set to square off on Dec. 30.
One of Stokes County’s most successful sports figures is being remembered for his impact on many young people. Francisco native (and UVA alumnus) Charles Moir, who had a long and successful career coaching high school and college basketball, died recently at his home in Virginia at age 88.
(Commentary) The VMFA’s decision to place Wiley’s statue within walking distance of a road famous for its assembly of Confederate monuments touches on a common compromise posited in the monuments debate. Instead of tearing down statues, proponents argue, communities should commission memorials celebrating figures who fought for the Union and slavery’s demise. This argument has received backing from some historians, notably leading Civil War scholar and University of Virginia professor Gary Gallagher. In “Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict Through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians,” publish...
(Audio) Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at University of Virginia Center for Politics, discusses impeachment, USMCA and former vice president Joe Biden.
Lawmakers of both the Democratic and Republican parties predict Trump will be impeached in the House but not found guilty in a trial by the Senate, which is controlled by the president's party. "Those members of the Republican Party who are up for re-election don't want to violate the sensibilities of their own constituents if they are highly in favor of the president and do not want him removed," Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia, said. "Whether they think the president has engaged in impeachable offenses or should be convicted in their heart of hea...
So many findings in social priming have been disputed that some say the field is close to being entirely discredited. “I don’t know a replicable finding. It’s not that there isn’t one, but I can’t name it,” says Brian Nosek, a psychologist at the University of Virginia who has led big replication studies.
Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia said “there is a tendency to fixate on greater Philadelphia when analyzing Pennsylvania, but Trump carried the state by performing pretty well in many places outside of southeast Pennsylvania — and Pittsburgh.”
“There is accumulating evidence that neurodevelopment is altered” in Huntington’s, said neuroscientist Scott Zeitlin of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and an expert on the disease. “But we don’t know yet if this causes any clinically relevant symptoms in people” or if the altered neurodevelopment somehow sets the stage for eventual neurodegeneration.
A wave of counties and towns in Virginia are declaring themselves "sanctuaries" for the Second Amendment, but the resolutions are largely symbolic, legal experts say. "It's mostly a political statement," said Richard Schragger, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, who focuses on the intersection of the Constitution and local law. Rather than challenging an existing statute, the resolutions are "mostly expressive and symbolic" declarations, he said. "In Virginia, state law supersedes local law. Citizens and local officials have to comply with state law even if a county decla...
Even some of Facebook’s most vocal critics said the suits appear to target legitimate swindlers, though the emphasize that this type of enforcement is overdue. “It was Facebook's own negligence that allowed these situations to occur. In a sense, it's nice that they're closing the barn door and suing people for taking livestock out of the barn. But it doesn't erase a decade of bad decisions by Facebook,” Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of “Antisocial Media” and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, told BuzzFeed News. “If they actually cared about people’s d...
If you consider all the successful companies around us, none of them is successful for just one reason. Successful strategic execution depends on a system of interrelated and interdependent factors, according to Scott A. Snell, E. Thayer Bigelow Research professor in business administration, at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
(Book review by Daniel A. Reifsnyder, scholar at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) In “Building a Resilient Tomorrow,” Alice Hill and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz have put together a superb primer on responding to the impacts of climate change. The writing is simple and tight and should appeal to anyone interested in how to prepare for the future of our physical world.
The University of Virginia Cavaliers are headed to the Orange Bowl, and Mincer’s is getting ready for the big game. The apparel store on the UVA Corner is hoping to release four new T-shirts fans can buy to support the team. Two Nike Orange Bowl shirts are available now on Mincer's website, and they plan to have two of their own designs available by the end of week.