Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media-studies professor at the University of Virginia, said he thinks flop accounts are a good thing. “You have people engaging directly with claims about the world and arguing about truthfulness and relevance in the comments. It’s good that that’s happening,” he said. “If young people are getting more politically engaged because of it, all the better.”
“Following Watergate, Congress changed the law to eliminate the president’s ability to order a disclosure [of other people’s tax returns],” George Yin, a University of Virginia law professor who previously worked for Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation, wrote in February. “But it retained the right of its tax committees to do so as long as a disclosure served a legitimate committee purpose. Such a disclosure must be in the public’s interest, and today’s understandable concerns about Trump’s potential conflicts of interest would seem clearly to justify a congressional effort to obtain, inves...
Anita Clayton M.D., from the University of Virginia, has estimated that there is a connection between menopause and the risk of developing depression. Also, she came up with some recommendations for women during this period.
The primary proponent of the hypothesis — that human impacts on climate are as old as civilization — has been Dr. William Ruddiman, a retired professor at the University of Virginia. The theory is often called Ruddiman’s Hypothesis, or, alternately, the Early Anthropocene Hypothesis.
Most panelists expressed how it important it was for physicians on the other end of the line to have the maximum information possible when evaluating a patient. David Catell-Gordon, director of telemedicine at the Karen S. Rheuban Center for Telehealth in the UVA Health System, said the answer is in getting diagnostic tools into the hands of patients and then getting that data transmitted to doctors. It's important "being able to see the patient, see the images; having diagnostic peripherals in the home that provide this kind of information, because I don't believe you can prescribe antibiotic...
In Virginia, state law prohibits public employees from striking, but frustration among teachers is growing. School employees “see the buildings that are literally crumbling around them,” says Livingston. “They see the lack of resources.” The resulting problems are defying textbook solutions. “Our teachers are browbeat,” says Robert C. Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. The Curry School is working with the state Department of Education to “heat-map” teacher shortages across the state, using data to refine possible solutions for various regions or even ...
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia and author of the new book, "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy," dismissed the significance of the stock plunge. "Mark Zuckerberg isn't panicking," he said. "The Facebook board isn't panicking. Most of its large institutional investors aren't panicking. They know they're in it for the long game."
Organizers with Charlottesville Community Health Fair are urging people to register for screenings and physicals ahead of an event planned for Saturday. “I hope people will leave with a renewed enthusiasm to take care of themselves as best they can,” says Dr. Marcus Martin, the vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity and professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia. “If there is a need for behavioral change related to what they eat, how much they eat, exercising, that will be very important.”
Many high-paying law firms recruit recent J.D. grads from top-ranked law schools. In U.S. News' 2019 Best Law Schools ranking, law school degree grads from the class of 2016 who completed their degree at an institution ranked among the top 15 earned $180,000 on average in the private sector, according to data submitted to U.S. News by 179 ranked law schools in an annual survey. The top-15 list includes four public law schools: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Texas-Austin, University of Virginia and University of California-Berkeley.
UVA’s program, funded primarily by alumni donations, has run for nearly two decades. Law graduates who take public-service jobs – as public defenders, prosecutors, government attorneys or at legal aid offices or other nonprofits – that pay less than $75,000 per year are eligible for loan assistance.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies) Imagine running a business that generated $13.2 billion in revenue in one quarter – a 42 percent increase over the same quarter a year before. And imagine that it reported a 31 percent jump in profits over the same quarter last year. Now watch as many allegedly smart people dump your stock because they think the future of your company looks bleak.
No, Private Schools Aren’t Better at Educating Kids Than Public Schools. Why This New Study Matters.
It remains conventional wisdom in many parts of the education world that private schools do a better job of educating students. It is one of the claims that some supporters of school choice make in arguing that the public should pay for private school education. The only problem? It isn’t true, a new UVA study confirms.
Utah author James McLaughlin’s new, critically acclaimed debut novel almost never got published. McLaughlin, a Virginia native and UVA alumnus who lives in Utah full time, spent 20 years crafting his book, "Bearskin," which tells the story of a man named Rice living on a nature reserve in Virginia's backwoods. There he tries to protect the area from bear poachers — especially a group of locals who want nothing more than to hunt bears on the reserve. Rice's desire to catch the poachers becomes an obsessive passion, one that forces him to confront his dark past dealing with a Mexican drug cartel...
As he discusses experiences in his life that contributed to his success as a legal scholar and dean of the George Washington University Law School, UVA alumnus Blake D. Morant doesn’t mention receiving awards and degrees, or even being appointed to two distinguished deanships. Instead, he immediately recalls his years as an Eagle Scout and his upbringing by a mother who encouraged him to develop all of his talents to take advantage of opportunities for advancement.
An independent political analyst has shifted Ohio’s first congressional district from “leans Republican” to “toss up” after U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Cincinnati, was outraised last quarter by Democrat Aftab Pureval. “Pureval raised more than double what Chabot raised last quarter and is approaching the long-time incumbent’s cash-on-hand total,” the analysis said. Sabato’s Crystal Ball is a service of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, said Balderson has led every poll that he has seen by 5 to 10 percentage points. But he said the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s decision to place a $238,000 ad buy last week — a particularly dicey one for Trump — is telling, given the party has dozens of other districts across the country that are potentially a better investment.
Larry Sabato, a UVA expert who analyzes federal races, described O’Rourke as alone among Democratic candidates in "somewhat-to-very competitive Senate races" to call for impeachment. "However," Sabato wrote, "we do not keep up with uncompetitive Senate states. Sometimes long-shot candidates will take positions that more cautious nominees who have a real chance to win will avoid."
While survival rates among patients with ovarian cancer have increased in recent years thanks to newer and more personalized treatment approaches, one major question still remains: How can the disease be detected in its earlier stages? “This has been the ‘Holy Grail’ of ovarian cancer for as long as I’ve been alive,” Dr. Susan C. Modesitt, director of the Gynecologic Oncology Division and the High-Risk Breast/Ovarian Cancer Clinic at the University of Virginia, said during an Ask the Experts session at the OCRFA Ovarian Cancer National Conference. “If we found everyone in stage 1, then we woul...
The University of Virginia will close the core of Grounds the weekend of Aug. 11 and 12 amid fears that white supremacists and counter-protesters may clash.
The language and claims at the hearing stunned legal scholars and activists. “It’s just breathtaking in its cruelty,” UVA law professor Anne Coughlin said. “It feels like a juvenile, adolescent joke that utterly denies the extent of the injury that was proved at the trial. It’s just awful.”