State leaders are teaming up to find out how they can change the lives of low-income families. Hundreds gathered Friday at UVA’s Darden School of Business for the second annual “Pay for Success” seminar. Pay for Success is a field of public policy that focuses on paying for the outcome of a community program, rather than the program itself.
Nobody’s perfect, and everyone makes mistakes – including eyewitnesses to crimes. The difference for eyewitnesses is that those mistakes could cost an innocent person their freedom. That’s one of the reasons why the Laura and John Arnold Foundation awarded a nearly $1.4 million grant to three UVA researchers and one from the University of Utah to seek improvements in eyewitness identification procedures.
Paul Saunier Jr., who helped lead the charge to desegregate the University of Virginia in the late 1960s, has died. Saunier, a former Richmond Times-Dispatch writer who went on to become an administrator at UVA, died of natural causes on Wednesday afternoon, according to family members. He was 97 years old.
Though the tweet may not have been hard to believe coming from Trump, his approach to potential conflicts of interest is unprecedented, according to Russell Riley, a presidential historian and professor at UVA’s Miller Center. "I genuinely can’t think of anything that comes close to this particular intervention in relation to the question of conflicts of interest," Riley said.
A UVA professor and a local biotechnology company have been recognized with Outstanding STEM Awards. Dr. William Petri, Jr., Wade Hampton Frost Professor of Medicine, is one of three people recognized as a Virginia Outstanding Scientist, who have made globally significant contributions to their fields.
A UVA doctor and a Charlottesville biotech company have received 2017 Outstanding STEM Awards from Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s office. Dr. William Petri is the chief of UVA’s Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health and has conducted pioneering research in the field of gastrointestinal infections and their consequences in children in the developing world.
The International Diabetes Closed Loop trial at the University of Virginia aims to enroll 240 adults with type 1 diabetes. The participants will come from 10 different clinical sites throughout the world – including Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, Stanford University Hospital and the Mayo Clinic in the United States, as well as medical centers in France, Italy and the Netherlands.
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has announced the winners of Writer’s Eye 2016, the 30th-anniversary edition of the museum’s annual literary competition.
UVA’s Miller Center, says Trump is sending a message with his overly long ties and his “devil-may-care” attitude about style. “He’s saying, ‘I don’t give a damn how I look or how I act. That’s what the American people wanted, and it’s what Washington needs,’” Perry said.
UVA’s new lacrosse coach jogged out of University Hall to meet a group of reporters for his first news conference of the coming season, sweat seeping through his gray T-shirt.
Virginia’s Innocence Project at the University of Virginia is still waiting to hear if a California lab can find DNA in evidence from a 1990 Virginia Beach rape. Attorneys from the project, who look at potential wrongful convictions, believe the wrong man has been behind bars all this time.
A Charlottesville committee charged with reviewing designs for public spaces learned more Thursday about UVA’s plans to redevelop land in the Ivy Road corridor.
The House of Delegates Education Committee on Wednesday rejected a Senate attempt to weaken legislation requiring Virginia residents to fill the top leadership positions on university governing boards. House Bill 1402 by Del. R. Steven Landes, R-Augusta, requires both the rector and vice rector, or chair and vice chair, to be residents of the state. The change is necessary to increase accountability of boards, Landes said.
Since the 1960s, first ladies have taken “an active if subordinate role in their husbands’ administrations,” said Dr. Nicole Hemmer, an expert in Presidential Studies at UVA’s Miller Center and the U.S. Studies Centre in Sydney. “Typically they scale back any professional activities during the campaign, then set up an office in the East Wing of the White House after inauguration,” she said.
A Trump tweet can move markets. But Nordstrom, Trump's latest Twitter target, seems largely immune to the president’s public bashing. On Wednesday morning, he criticized the retailer for dropping Ivanka Trump products – and its stock value climbed. So, is the Trump tweet losing its power? Not necessarily, said Kimberly Whitler, a UVA marketing professor.
The hearing prompted Robert Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education, to write that he was “was deeply dismayed by her performance” in the hearing. “It was, in a word, disqualifying,” he wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post late last month. In an interview, Pianta on Wednesday said he fears that DeVos could use Congress’ upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act to loosen teacher preparation regulations.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, suggested that McConnell in Machiavellian fashion had intentionally helped Warren reap a media bonanza because he thinks she would be relatively easy for Trump to beat if he faces her in the 2020 general election. “This is a strategic player,” he said of McConnell. “It could not have possibly escaped him that telling the most prominent woman senator [to] sit down and shut up while reading a letter from Coretta Scott King would promote her among Democrats.”
An anti-Trump resistance has rallied the Democratic base and dominated media coverage, but it could easily backfire with the crucial independent voters it lost in November if the onslaught of obstruction and protest devolves into grandstanding and futility, political strategists said. “Democrats need to be strategic in choosing their targets, and even then they may be defeated in a large majority of their efforts,” said Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor. “Opposing everything actually means effectively opposing nothing.”
“Deutsche poses the biggest conflict that we know about in terms of dollar amounts and the scale of legal exposures,” says UVA law professor Brandon Garrett. In trying to clear up its outstanding regulatory troubles, the bank “may have tried to do its best to avoid the appearance of impropriety, but it may be impossible for them to do so.”
Supervisors learned how area transit agencies are funded in advance of a joint meeting with City Council on the topic scheduled for 10 a.m. Feb. 16 at CitySpace. At that meeting, the executive director of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission will present the results of a study of how Charlottesville Area Transit, JAUNT and the University of Virginia’s transit system can work together. The University Transit Service has no federal or state funding and is paid for entirely through UVA’s budget. They also provide six routes around the University that are open to the public.