Shilpa Davé, a UVA assistant professor of media studies and American studies, says another reason for stereotyping may be that “south Asians have always been in an ambiguous racialised space in the United States.” In the early 20th century, south Asians were thought of as white in the U.S. This changed in 1923 when a court ruled that they were “Asian others” and aliens – something that had huge ramifications, as it meant they were unable to become naturalised citizens. “So, they’re one of the only groups who had citizenship and then had it taken away,” Davé notes.
"What astounds me is how easily Trump smashes or ignores traditions that have served us well over many decades," wrote Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. "From refusing to release his tax returns to careless statements in person and on Twitter to outright contempt for the truth in so many instances, Trump isn't just an unconventional president, he is outside the mainstream of our modern experience."
Two years ago, researchers took advantage of a rare astronomical event to create a detailed map of this king of volcanoes, finding a wave of fresh magma bleeding up onto the moon's surface. "There was so much infrared light available that we could slice the observations into one-eighth-second intervals during which the edge of Europa advanced only a few kilometres across Io's surface," said researcher and developer of the infrared camera technology, Michael Skrutskie of the University of Virginia.
The president's past statements promising to implement a Muslim immigration ban are likely to play into the hands of the plaintiffs seeking to overturn Trump's executive order. According to UVA law professor David Martin, former deputy general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security under President Obama, the judges on the 4th Circuit are "on solid footing" in deciding to look at previous statements made by President Trump and his surrogates relating to a Muslim ban.
President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James B. Comey was both highly unusual for a president and highly consequential, according to a panel of governance experts surveyed. … Saikrishna Prakash, a UVA professor of law, said it was no surprise, but what made it unusual was that he waited so long.
In an editorial accompanying the study, Dr. Vishal Madaan and Daniel Cox, of the UVA Health System, remind clinicians treating ADHD patients that inattention and impulsivity symptoms may persist into adulthood. The need to manage ADHD extends beyond the needs of school and workplace, and crashes often happen later in the evening when medication wears off.
If you have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, a new study suggests you would be wise to take your medication if you want to lower your chances of getting into a car accident. Patients may also make errors "of commission, [such as] running through red lights, fiddling with the phone or radio, risky overtake maneuvers, or switching lanes haphazardly," said Dr. Vishal Madaan, an associate professor of child and family psychiatry in UVA’s department of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences.
Jennifer Doleac and Benjamin Castleman of the University of Virginia are testing a tablet-based reentry module in two county jails that aims to strengthen inmates' transition back into society.
Four seasons, three major injuries, one harrowing heart disorder. Suffice to say, Malcolm Cook has endured considerable hardship during his time with Virginia's football program.
Car accidents occur at dramatically lower rates among medicated ADHD patients than among those not taking medicine, according to a study of more than 2.3 million people published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry. According to Dr. Vishal Madaan and Daniel J. Cox, both of UVA’s Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, driving "represents a complex neurobehavioral task involving an interplay of cognitive, motor, perceptual and visuospatial skills."
Middlesex County student Zakara Blanding, 15, finished four years of high school and two years of community college – all in two years. This fall, she will enroll at the University of Virginia.
A research team led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital immunologists has revealed a previously unknown immune machinery that goes awry to trigger the inflammatory disease neutrophilic dermatosis. The other authors were John Lukens of the University of Virginia, Peter Vogel of St. Jude and Nicholas Tonks of Cold Spring Harbor.
Enacted into law in 1954, the Johnson Amendment prohibits churches and other nonprofit organizations from taking part in political campaigns, on pain of losing their federal tax exemption. “It doesn’t evade campaign finance regulation, it doesn’t create a path for deductible campaign spending, and it ought to be protected,” UVA law professor Douglas Laycock said.
From a campaign perspective, Democrats are happy that Republicans such as Yoder voted yes on the health care bill because they can weaponize it in ads and fundraising appeals, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan newsletter at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Caution: If you attend a campus commencement address this spring, you could be entering a no-Trump zone. “If they invited a politician to speak, they’d get what they expected. Since they didn’t, I’ll take that as a direction” and avoid the subject, said UVA professor and former NASA astronaut Kathryn Thornton, who may speak about space exploration at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
You may think that if gardening counts as an exercise, that it barely counts. That's only true if you stick solely to mechanized help such as a chipper shredder or riding lawn mower. A lot of work can be done manually and can be enjoyable. According to the University of Virginia, gardening as an exercise is similar to walking or bicycling.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine were looking into kidneys and learned more about the formation of the heart. They also identified a gene that is responsible for a deadly cardiac condition.
A UVA research team has found that a type of yogurt bacteria may alleviate some symptoms of depression. Although the research so far has only been performed on mice, if the study is substantiated, live-culture yogurt bacteria could become a drug-free way to treat those suffering from depression.
About 30 people gathered at Carver Recreation Center on Monday for the first of several workshops designed to get input about the future of the city. There are roughly 49,000 people in the city, according to a January estimate released by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. Demographers with the center project that the population will increase to at least 55,000 by 2040.