Stewart’s Republican opponent, the front-runner in early polling, is Ed Gillespie, a longtime fixture in Washington, including stints running the Republican National Committee and serving as a counselor to President George W. Bush. “If Gillespie does win the nomination and the governorship, it’d probably be in spite of Trump, not because of him,” said Kyle Kondik, of UVA’s Center for Politics.
The executive order is “remarkably broad,” said David Martin, a UVA law professor who specializes in immigration, constitutional law and international law. “This order takes that notion of ‘criminal alien’ to its farthest reaches.”
The executive order is “remarkably broad,” said David Martin, a UVA law professor who specializes in immigration, constitutional law and international law. “This order takes that notion of ‘criminal alien’ to its farthest reaches.”
“Even for an inmate who has powerful new evidence of innocence, it is incredibly difficult to get even a hearing in front of a judge to even present the evidence,” says Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor and author of “Convicting the Innocent,” a book examining the cases of the first 250 people exonerated by DNA testing.
(By Robert C. Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia) As an academic, dean of a school of education, and educator who has advocated for good charter schools, who can see the value of empowering parents through school choice and the promise of vouchers to enable that empowerment, and who believes our education system is still deeply in need of reform, I had initially approached the nomination of Betsy DeVos with an open mind. But I was deeply dismayed by her performance in her confirmation hearing. It was, in a word, disqualifying.
Unlike doctors, there’s no limit on the number of new nurse practitioners certified each year. Accordingly, nurse practitioners are a great demographic to care for the rising number of American seniors, according to researcher Nengliang Yao of the UVA School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences.
Doctors at the UVA Medical Center were able to reduce surgical patients’ pain while cutting back on opioid prescriptions over a four-year period, according to a recent internal study.
The Overdeck Family Foundation and the Simons Foundation have launched a new competition designed to inspire math and science learning outside of K–12 classroom. Projects funded through the Science Everywhere Innovation Challenge will be shared with classrooms across the country and also used as part of a University of Virginia research study.
At least five other elite educational institutions have released reports of their own on the topic, including the University of Virginia.
One of the people hoping to be in the running for Virginia's next governor came to the University of Virginia. College Republicans at UVA hosted Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie.
The Instant Pot, a high-tech kitchen appliance created by former Nortel engineers in Ottawa, was not an instant success. "My guess is that somebody bought it and they told all their neighbors about it," said Kim Whitler, an assistant marketing professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business. "They buy it and they're really wowed by the product. That then motivates them to go online and share their experience with others."
Obama might find a rival in wife Michelle, whom an expert predicts will "easily" surpass the $8 million Hillary Clinton got in 2000 for her memoir. Says UVA’s Brian Balogh, who co-hosts the popular history podcast “Backstory,” "We haven't heard as much from [Michelle], and he won't be running for president, whereas she …"
A new study released this week by SoFi shows there are attractive options other than the familiar high-end law schools. UVA is listed among other well-known schools with favorable salary-to-debt ratios.
UVA musicologist Karl Hagstrom Miller said he sees Twenty One Pilots as a perfect example of how bands are changing from the rock/punk, guitar-bass-drums model to “other configurations of musical collaboration.”
FiveThirtyEight’s Ben Casselman had asserted that more young adults were now moving from cities to suburbs than vice versa, claiming, “Whether by choice or economic circumstance, young Americans are still more likely to leave the city for the suburbs than the other way around.” UVA’s Luke Juday pointed out that the data that Casselman used effectively missed millions of young adults, disproportionately those living in cities. Juday’s analysis shows that actually the reverse is true – young adults are increasingly moving to cities.
Miniature galaxies have been discovered with the help of theoretical and computer models. The sizes of these galaxies are 10 to 1,000 times tinier than the Milky Way. Sabrina Stierwalt from the University of Virginia said that the Lambda Cold Dark Matter paradigm is predicted to be an outcome of smaller matter fusing together to form the bigger matter, Seeker reported.
(By Aditya Bamzai, UVA associate professor of law, and Saikrishna Prakash, UVA professor of law) Now that Donald Trump has been sworn in as president, one vital question is whether he will fire the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray. As director, Cordray wields vast authority over the economy via regulation of mortgages, credit cards, and student loans.
For its UVA residency, the quartet’s working through a raft of graduate students’ compositions and exhibiting the pieces Friday. Greenberg said members of the group already have given the works an initial perusal, noting that the music touches on a broad array of styles and includes some theatrical elements.
For people with insomnia, help falling asleep may soon be available online: A recent clinical trial found that a web-based course of treatment for insomnia was effective at helping people get more sleep. The findings suggest that internet-based CBT-I "could reach previously unimaginable numbers of people," according to the study authors, led by Lee Ritterband, a professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral science at the UVA School of Medicine.