Several major fundraising shifts and personnel changes within the past week show the Democratic establishment, long thought to be a centrally controlled power, is uncertain which of the two candidates to support: former Rep. Tom Perriello or current Lieutenant Gov. Ralph Northam. “Northam already has overwhelming backing from the party establishment in Virginia,” said Geoff Skelley, media relations manager with UVA’s Center For Politics. “Therefore, if you want to make a comparison to the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, it would be Northam as the establishment candidate and Perriello as ...
When we looked into Trump’s claim in July 2015, all the experts we spoke with said Trump’s accusation is off base. A year and half later, there’s still no evidence that Christians have a higher bar to clear for entry. UVA law professor David Martin, an immigration law expert who previously held posts at the Departments of State, Justice and Homeland Security, acknowledged that Christian Syrians make up a smaller number of admissions than they do the overall population.
“Unlike the previous president, I don’t think this president is interested in the legal questions,” UVA law professor Saikrishna Prakash said during a panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. “This president came to office as a businessman . . . (who) is going to rely on his lawyers” on certain crucial legal issues.
Researchers with UVA’s Center for Politics have found that the traditional Democratic stronghold of Northern Virginia has proven especially consequential for leftward-leaning candidates, with the region accounting for at least 37 percent of all votes for Democratic candidates in each statewide race since 2013.
Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia and George Washington University are among several schools telling students and scholars affected by the ban to refrain from traveling outside the United States because of worries they may not be allowed to re-enter.
College campuses were also spurred to action Sunday. At the University of Virginia, hundreds of students and community members flocked to the Rotunda, the esteemed centerpiece of Thomas Jefferson's university.
Timothy Beatley, who runs UVA’s Biophilic Cities Project, promotes what he calls the “nature pyramid,” a way of visualizing the recommended amounts of time in different natural environments. Like the famous food pyramid, the nature pyramid can help us to apportion the amount of nature we need.
Money plays a role in the vast majority of relationships, says UVA sociologist Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project.
The hot-button question is what effect NAFTA has had on the American workforce – measured by jobs lost and the damping effect on wages as production has shifted to a lower-paid workforce. “For the average worker, there is not much of an impact, but for certain important pockets of workers, the lowered import barriers resulting from NAFTA do seem to have lowered wage growth well below what it would have been,” John McLaren, a UVA economist said. “This is particularly true for blue-collar workers.”
Author and Darden professor Edward Hess discusses his new book, “Humility is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age.”
The second order is designed to enhance the enforcement of immigration laws within the United States. The language is “remarkably broad” and “takes that notion of ‘criminal alien’ to its farthest reaches,” UVA professor and immigration scholar David Martin says.
“Other presidents have probably watched TV coverage more than they admitted, but this is unprecedented,” said political science professor Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “This is how Trump has been trained. He has been trained to live and die by what is said about him on TV and what the press writes about him for most of his lifetime. This is simply the norm for him – what he has done since he became a public figure. Nothing’s changed.”
For the first time since the Census Bureau has kept records, more people are moving out of Virginia than they are coming in. UVA’s Demographic Research Group has compiled the figures from the Census Bureau. “Virginia grew by a little over 44,000, which is the smallest gain since the 1970s,” said Hamilton Lombard, co-author of the report.
New funding from the National Institutes of Health is going toward research at the UVA School of Medicine. The university received an additional 25 percent in overall funding this year from NIH. As a result, the School of Medicine has more than $125 million to use on research.
UVA’s Center for Politics is hosting 30 young professionals from across Mongolia. As part of a two-week stay in Charlottesville, the group is taking part in various leadership training activities.
Virginians would be able to buy liquor with almost 50 percent more alcohol than is currently available under a bill passed Wednesday by the House of Delegates. College and health officials say the bill would endanger college campuses already dealing with underage alcohol abuse, binge drinking and sexual assault. Teresa Sullivan, the president of the University of Virginia, has compared highly potent liquor to a "date rape" drug.
On the day the United States installed a new president, the University of Virginia learned it will be searching for a new one. Teresa Sullivan announced she will retire as school president when her contract expires in 2018. Her decision gives the university ample time to select a successor. UVA ought to attract the cream of the academic crop.
Various researchers and companies are betting light waves from LED lamps and overheads can stream data and connect people to the internet. Among the innovators profiled are UVA engineering professor Maite Brandt-Pearce and her former student, Mohammad Noshad, co-founders of VLNComm.
Walking is one of the best ways to lose that stubborn belly fat – but you’ve got to vary your pace. UVA researchers found that women who did three shorter, fast-paced walks a week (plus two longer, moderate-paced ones) lost five times more belly fat than those who simply strolled at a moderate speed five days a week, even though both groups burned exactly the same number of calories.
From a record-high pool of applicants, UVA sent acceptance letters to more than 5,900 applicants Wednesday. All of the students had applied through the University’s “early action” program allowing people to apply and learn their status before the regular admissions deadline in late March.