Trump remains baffled that Mueller’s team is overturning every rock around the president to find collusion between his campaign and Russia while ignoring ties between Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party and the author of a so-called dossier of dirt on Trump from Russian sources. “Both sides got information from the Russians,” said Saikrishna Prakash of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Called the Social Sciences Replication Project, it is the latest bid by the nonprofit Center for Open Science in Charlottesville and far-flung collaborators to quality check the scientific literature. Like its predecessors, the new effort found that a large fraction of published studies don’t yield the same results when done a second time. But this time, the five independent research teams that did the replications strove to give the studies the benefit of the doubt: They increased the statistical power of the studies by enlisting, on average, five times as many participants as the originals. ...
“If we’re going to study reproducibility, we need that investment,” says Brian Nosek, head of the Center for Open Science and a psychologist at the University of Virginia. The question wasn’t just whether the original claims were replicable. It was whether would-be replicators could rule out some of the excuses for why they weren’t.
A reproducibility effort has put high-profile journals under the spotlight by trying to replicate a slew of social-science results. In the work, published Aug. 27 in Nature Human Behavior, researchers attempted to reproduce 21 social-science results reported in Science and Nature between 2010 and 2015 and were able to reproduce 62 percent of the findings. That’s about twice the rate achieved by an earlier effort that examined the psychology literature more generally, but the latest result still raises questions about two out of every five papers studied. The researchers – led by Brian Nosek of...
It's a common refrain among parents: "I wish I could send my kids to private school." The subtext, of course, is that expensive private schools give kids a better education, which leads to better career choices and a more successful life. But a new study shows that the advantages of private school disappear when controlling for socioeconomic factors. The host speaks with Robert Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education, who was part of the study.
(Commentary by Tim Cunningham, director of the Compassionate Care Initiative at the UVA School of Nursing) In the years since I moved from working in a trauma center in New York City to doing research at the University of Virginia, memories of that ER stay with me. Now, I’m studying an intervention that, while not a fix-all, may help prevent injury to patients and providers — it may even save lives. In hospitals on four continents, what we call “The Pause” has become a standard of care.
(Commentary by George Yin, Edwin S. Cohen Distinguished Professor of Law and Taxation) “According to the rules already on the books, the Senate doesn’t need a new law to see [Donald] Trump’s [tax] returns. Rather, action by a single Senate Republican may be all that is needed to initiate an immediate investigation of Trump’s tax returns and begin the process of discovery.”
Last week fellow journalists were disappointed in Liberty University for restructuring its student newspaper, "The Liberty Champion," to be censored more. UVA’s student newspaper, The Cavalier Daily, said this goes against the role of a student journalist.
The streets around UVA were busy with students moving to new dorms and apartments Saturday.
Free speech and student safety were among the issues discussed during a question and answer session with Gloria Graham, UVA’s first associate vice president for safety and security; Archie Holmes, vice provost for academic affairs; and Allen Groves, dean of students.
A team of scholars, researchers, entrepreneurs, and environmental advocates make up Project Drawdown, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing realizable solutions to reversing, or “drawing down,” global warming, and improving the national discourse around climate change science in general. UVA’s Office of Sustainability used Drawdown to structure theories of student engagement around Earth Week.
UVA has officially added 3840 men and women to the ranks of Wahoos. President James Ryan welcomed the new students Sunday night near the Rotunda.
Given Trump’s close margin in Arizona in 2016, Democrats will be devoting plenty of resources to Arizona in the 2020 presidential race, making that year’s Senate contest even more likely to be one of the election’s marquee races, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball election forecast at UVA.
“We’re all going to be striving for that counterintuitive, surprising result. That’s not a bad thing in science, because that’s how science breaks boundaries,” said Brian Nosek, the study’s lead author and a UVA professor of psychology. “The key is recognizing and embracing the uncertainty of that, and it’s OK if some turn out to be wrong.”
New research contains a message for high school students, especially low-income ones, who want to go to college: Take the SAT early and often. “There are students who would benefit from taking the SAT a second time who are not taking it,” said Sarah E. Turner, a UVA professor of economics and education.
A lawsuit from former CIA Director John Brennan challenging President Trump's revocation of his security clearance would likely be doomed, legal experts tell The Hill. “This is such an absolute discretionary, executive power and it is a power that is beyond the control of the Congress,” said Robert Turner, a professor who co-founded the Center for National Security Law at the UVA School of Law.
"The party and mainly the activists are determined to give themselves every opportunity to win and catch a wave, even in Arizona," said political scientist Larry Sabato, who directs UVA’s Center for Politics. "It's a big deal in a state like Arizona ... and the early indication is that Democrats have a reasonable shot at a U.S. Senate seat, not to mention other offices statewide. It's going to be a Democratic year, we just don't know to what degree."
Although immunotherapy and targeted agents are revolutionizing the treatment paradigm in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, chemotherapy retains a vital role for the majority of patients, according to Dr. Ryan D. Gentzler, assistant professor of hematology and oncology at the UVA Health System.
UVA is preparing to welcome nearly 4,000 new students to Charlottesville this weekend. Students begin moving into dorms Friday, which means if you live or work near Grounds, you can expect traffic delays.
Former U.S. Attorney Tim Heaphy will return to his alma mater as special counsel for the University of Virginia. Heaphy led the independent review of Charlottesville's handling of last year's Unite the Right rally.