Obama Labor Secretary and Hillary Clinton-backer Tom Perez narrowly won the race to become Democratic National Committee chairman. Almost immediately after taking the podium, Perez named Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, a Bernie Sanders supporter in the Democratic presidential primary, as deputy chair. Dr. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, spoke to CBSN about the Democrats' moment of unity.
In Charlottesville, for instance, even though Lee may be “America’s Most Honored Traitor,” according to UVA research archivist Ervin L. Jordan Jr. He balked at the $700,000 estimated cost of moving the statues of Lee and Stonewall Jackson. “That money could be better serving us, in these tax-starved times, for more beneficial purposes,” Jordan said.
Over the next few months, Gardner will have to decide when the party will embrace Trump – and when it won’t. “His charge over the next two years is to put Republicans in the Senate first,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “When that means supporting Trump, he will support Trump. When that means opposing Trump, he will oppose Trump.”
While some children of divorced couples do have difficulty understanding why two people who get along well couldn’t simply have remained married, the alternative is much worse. Robert E. Emery, the director of UVA’s Center for Children, Families, and the Law, notes that while Paltrow’s term “conscious uncoupling” is “awkward … I think of her and her ex as setting a positive example for other parents. I have great respect for anyone who puts their kids first in divorce.”
George Rutherglen, a UVA professor of law for the past 40 years, said he found it “baffling” that Wood asked for court approval to assist the partnership without Lindenburg having signed off on it. When told that Wood actually worked on the Lindenburg matter, Rutherglen said: “I think this is very dubious. It’s very dubious to switch sides without the consent of the former client. It’s very dubious to keep the money. You keep pushing the envelope on ethical violations, you expose yourself,” he said. “I don’t know why the state is doing it. I don’t know why the attorney is doing it.”
A film agreement between the U.S. and China expires today, paving the way for a new round of talks that could mark the first major deal between the two economic giants under the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. “There is a lot of interest on the Chinese side to potentially increase the number of Hollywood films that are represented in the market," Aynne Kokas, UVA assistant professor of media studies, said.
Keeping blood sugar at healthy levels may soon get easier. UVA researchers have made an artificial pancreas, essentially a smart insulin pump connected to a continuous blood sugar monitor and a smartphone app.
Drug-resistant bacteria can lurk in the pipes of hospital sinks, and a new study shows that these dangerous bacteria can also make their way out of sinks and continue on to reach patients. To trace the path from pipe to patient, the researchers built a lab with five identical hospital sinks that were all connected via plumbing. It was "the only sink lab we are aware of in the U.S.," senior study author Dr. Amy Mathers, an associate professor of medicine and pathology at the UVA School of Medicine, said in a statement.
Antibiotic-resistant superbug bacteria grow up hospital drains and can splash out into sinks and onto counters, researchers reported Friday. "There has recently been an alarming increase in sink-related outbreaks worldwide," Dr. Amy Mathers of the UVA Health System and colleagues reported.
As BBC News Science Correspondent Tom Feilden noted last week, "Science is facing a 'reproducibility crisis' where more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, research suggests." This isn't just his journalistic opinion, but the conclusion of UVA’s Center for Open Science, which estimates that roughly 70 percent of all studies can't be reproduced. And this includes the field of climate change, by the way. It's a disaster.
The number of positive lymph nodes can help guide treatment for locally advanced head and neck cancer, according to a recent study. In the analysis, the use of chemoradiotherapy was associated with a statistically significant improvement in overall survival compared with radiotherapy alone. Additionally, “Survival benefits of CRT versus RT alone increased in patients with multiple positive lymph nodes,” lead author Dr. Daniel Trifiletti, UVA School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote.
The University of Virginia is challenging college students around the world to come up with ways to eliminate hunger.http://www.nbc29.com/clip/13133623/uva-hosts-competition-to-simulate-elimination-of-world-hunger
University of Virginia students are fighting President Donald Trump's decision to remove protections for transgender students using bathrooms of their gender identity. UVA's Queer Student Union organized a last-minute march in response to Trump's decision.
The University of Virginia estimates it spends $20 million a year complying with unfunded federal mandates just for its academic division. The state’s public universities last month submitted reports on how much they spend on the bureaucracy of federal regulations as part of a congressional review of unfunded mandates.
UVA media studies professor Aynne Kokas, author of the new book "Hollywood: Made in China," breaks down how the movie market in China is exploding.
After almost 20 years of distinctive coverage of religion on mainstream television, this is the final episode of Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. UVA Professor Vanessa Ochs reflects on some of the many religious practices and rituals the series has spotlighted.
(Commentary) Late last year, Inova inked a $112 million deal with the UVA School of Medicine allowing medical students to participate in the discovery and commercialization of treatments for cancer and other diseases. Stottlemeyer sees the launch of a new center of research and innovation as a booster shot for Northern Virginia’s economy.
You might think Thomas Jefferson built the University of Virginia. But a group at UVA is trying to change that perception. A team of designers are set to unveil their latest proposals for a memorial to the enslaved men and women who built and operated the University for much of the 19th century.
Rank-and-file Republicans are more concerned about leaks to the media of conversations between Trump advisers and the Russian government than they are about the conversations themselves, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released Wednesday. The poll shows how President Trump has shifted opinions within the party of Ronald Reagan, where national security has been a top issue since the Cold War, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Frank Dukes, the former director of and a current fellow at UVA’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation, said Monday that a number of people were involved in the creation of the petition, which seeks to name the building after someone who adheres to the city’s latest efforts to bring wider recognition of “Charlottesville’s racial history.”