“The worst part is that Flynn’s vulnerability – his coziness with Putin and Russia – was well known to Trump before his appointment,” said Larry Sabato, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia. “So it’s a self-inflicted wound that underlines again the suspicions about Russia’s influence in Trump’s election and administration.”
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, believes the program has become a bonfire for viewers upset or agitated over the chaotic and polarizing opening weeks of the Trump presidency. “People who hate Trump need to gather together and sometimes it’s in the streets and sometimes it’s watching a show like ‘Saturday Night Live,’” he said.
The judge wrote that Virginia has produced evidence that the president’s executive order has been disruptive to the operation of its public colleges and universities, affecting international travel of at least 350 students attending Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Tech, George Mason University, the University of Virginia or the College of William & Mary.
FutureLearn, a MOOC platform owned by the UK’s Open University, has announced that five U.S. universities – including UVA’s Darden School of Business – will be offering courses through its system, marking the first time it has partnered with educational institutions in the U.S.
Population estimates from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service show that Virginia continued to add residents in 2016, but at declining levels, a backslide that began in the 1980s. The data also accentuates the growth disparity between communities in the state’s metropolitan and rural areas.
According to new research out of the University of Virginia, cancer incidence has declined in much of the country since 1969 – but not in rural Appalachia.
The GO Virginia Region 9 Council met Monday at the University of Virginia Research Park to discuss the council’s makeup, purpose and governing documents. The 23-member council includes government officials and businesspeople from Central Virginia, as well as UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan.
Five ACC teams – North Carolina, Florida State, Louisville, Virginia and Duke – were among the 16 preliminary tournament seeds the panel revealed during a made-for-television bracket preview. Virginia was the 10th overall seed and placed in the West Region.
“There’s a moral panic in America that free speech is under assault at universities, but it’s absolutely not true,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of modern media studies at the University of Virginia.
The supersmart, know-it-all entrepreneur. They say they know what the market wants, what the market is, who is the customer, what she wants, and how much she will pay for it. All this, when they haven’t yet got one paying customer – and many a time, the product is nonexistent. In predicting the future, these entrepreneurs are nailing the first, fat nail into their startups’ coffins. Darden School Professor Saras Sarasvathy is sitting on enough data to tell me this.
Charlottesville police are looking for a masked man who attempted – but failed – to rob someone at about 9 p.m. Sunday, in the 2400 block of Arlington Boulevard.
Patrice Grimes, an associate professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education, lent her expertise and understanding of education for African-American students in the country prior to Brown v. Board of Education to a new documentary film project.
Senior Goldman Sachs banker Jim Donovan is under strong consideration for deputy Treasury secretary and could serve as Mnuchin’s No. 2 if confirmed by the Senate, people familiar with the matter said. For the last eight years, Donovan has also served as a professor of corporate strategy at the University of Virginia law school.
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.