(Commentary by Michael Livermore, an associate professor of law) “Consistency and transparency are, in my view, generally good things. So is rational consideration of costs and benefits. Environmentalists, however, have every right to be deeply skeptical of any proposal made by this Administration.”
This year’s Virginia Film Festival will include the national premiere of the documentary “Charlottesville,” which will be followed by an address by Martin Luther King III. After his address, King, son of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will take part in a conversation moderated by Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. King’s event is being presented as part of a partnership with the UVa Center for Politics, Community Idea Stations and the Frank D. Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.
Dozens of people came out to get a sneak peek of the 31st annual Virginia Film Festival at the Downtown Grill on Tuesday night. Jody Kielbasa, director of the VFF, announced that Martin Luther King III, son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, will be a guest speaker at the festival.
Brian Nosek, a psychology researcher at the University of Virginia and the executive director of the Center for Open Science, decided to focus on social science studies published in the most prominent journals, Science and Nature. "Some people have hypothesized that, because they're the most prominent outlets they'd have the highest rigor," Nosek says. "Others have hypothesized that the most prestigious outlets are also the ones that are most likely to select for very 'sexy' findings, and so may be actually less reproducible."
A new online resource will feature expert race ratings, poll-based election forecasts, and social media trends ahead of the 2018 midterms. The University of Virginia Center for Politics and Ipsos launched the Political Atlas on Tuesday.
UVA’s Center for Politics rolled out a brand new polling tool in conjunction with Reuters IPSOS Polling. The new website “Political Atlas” was unveiled on Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
At its meeting Tuesday, the board of directors of the Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority approved funding for a portion of a water pipeline — going from the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir to the Ragged Mountain Reservoir — that will traverse the eastern side of the Birdwood Golf Course property while the course undergoes construction. The property is owned by the University of Virginia Foundation. According to RWSA staff, approximately 6,000 feet of the water pipeline will be buried alongside the course.
"User attention is divided basically more than ever before. There are apps for networking, dating ... news, shopping and entertainment," said Lalin Anik, a marketing expert at UVA’s Darden School of Business who studies the impact of social connection on consumer behavior. "Social media giants are seeking novel ways to attract youth and keep the existing base."
Trump's tweets Tuesday marked a dramatic change in tone from last month when the president described Google as "one of our great companies." "Trump is doing this because he gets to define an enemy and churn up reaction," said UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan, the author of books on Facebook and Google.
About 3,840 UVA first-year students have headed into their first college courses. UVA says this first-year class is the largest and most diverse in its history.
Zeroing in on college students makes sense for Instagram and Tinder, experts say. Both platforms enjoy tremendous popularity among young adults and these features could help them expand their user bases — and keep people from moving on to competing platforms. “User attention is divided basically more than ever before. There are apps for networking, dating … news, shopping and entertainment,” said Lalin Anik, a marketing expert at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business who studies the impact of social connection on consumer behavior. “Social media giants are seeking novel ways to at...
With images of the torch-bearing white nationalists who rallied in Charlottesville last year, a flyer distributed by the Republican Party of Virginia accuses a Democrat running for Congress of being anti-Semitic. Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, saw the GOP mailer as an effort to help down-ticket Republican candidates such as Riggleman distinguish themselves from the party's U.S. Senate nominee, Corey Stewart.
Over the years, public response to these types of attacks on candidates have shifted, especially in the wake of the #MeToo movement, said Jennifer Lawless, a professor at the University of Virginia who has spent years studying the intersection of gender and politics. Research shows women who push back and call out the behavior are often rewarded. But the threat of such harassment can still deter women from running.
(Video) The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics is remembering the life and legacy of John McCain.
According to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, which conducted an economic impact analysis for the county, the construction project alone will generate 93 jobs and $6.6 million of “value added” economic activity.
A 2016 working paper by researchers at the University of Michigan, the Urban Institute, the University of California, San Diego and the University of Virginia estimated that a 10 percent reduction in state funding is associated with a 12 percent bump in enrollment of international students at public research universities, suggesting that colleges are seeking out foreign students to fill the budget gap.
A study published Aug. 27 in Nature Human Behaviour showed that scientists are skilled in detecting questionable and/or unreliable results. Corresponding author Brian Nosek, with the University of Virginia and colleagues tested 21 studies from Science and Nature, two highly regarded journals. Most were psychological studies with student subjects. Experimenters were able to reproduce results of 13 studies, results that were better than previous research.
(Video) Many UVA students may be spending their final days of summer relaxing before classes ramp up, but one group of students spent Monday volunteering around the Charlottesville community. Students from UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy spent the day helping out the community.
A new ranking puts University of Virginia as the No. 2 public university in the United States. The national assessment organization Niche released its 2019 rankings on Monday.
(Video) Aug. 28 marks the first day of classes for students at the University of Virginia, and for more than 3,000 of them, this is their first day of college.