Free speech is important. It guards against governments’ dangerous tendency to repress certain kinds of communication, including protest, journalism, whistleblowing, academic research, and critical work in the arts. On the other hand, think of a doctor dispensing bogus medical advice, or someone making a contract that she plans to breach, or a defendant lying under oath in court. These all involve written or spoken statements, but they don’t seem to fall within the domain of free speech. They are what UVA legal theorist Frederick Schauer calls “patently uncovered speech”: communication that wa...
David Martin, a UVA immigration law professor, points to a November 2014 memo by former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson that curtailed deportations by not removing people who have been in the country for a long time. Violent criminals are the highest priority, as has always been the case. Next are those who have been convicted of misdemeanors other than minor traffic offenses. The third are those who were issued final deportation orders on or after Jan. 1, 2014.
“Both in terms of the use of the filibuster and changes in terms of rules to cut off the filibuster, this is not unprecedented, but exceptional, and I would say the same for the degree of partisan rancor that exists today. I would say this is the highest degree of partisanship in the history of the post-World War II era. But it is not unprecedented across the longer span of American history,” said Brian Balogh, co-host of the “BackStory With the American History Guys” podcast and a professor of history at the University of Virginia.
Rep. Tom Garrett, R-5th, held his first in-person forum with his congressional constituents last Friday at the University of Virginia, well attended by both supporters and opponents. The forum at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy was preceded by a tense demonstration outside the entrance of the building, with supporters and protesters shouting over one another in the rain, while several dozen police officers monitored the area.
The retail industry has been captivated by Amazon Go’s technology since the company unveiled the store late last year. The store uses a combination of sensors and artificial intelligence to automatically detect the food items shoppers remove from shelves, so they can leave the store without visiting a cashier – the way customers do when they bolt from an Uber. “Amazon is wonderful at frictionless commerce,” said Timothy Laseter, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
A fledgling Clarence company thinks it has discovered a way to turn a closely regulated cousin of the marijuana plant into the next big agricultural crop. 22nd Century is working with UVA researchers to plant up to 40 acres of industrial hemp as part of the state's industrial hemp pilot project.
(Co-written by UVA sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project) The past year has served as a bracing reminder that history does not always head in a progressive direction, and that important constituencies of the progressive coalition do not always push history in a leftward direction. Now there are new signs that another prized progressive value, gender equality, may be in trouble – partly thanks to key members of the progressive coalition.
Virginia insiders expected Sanders to get in the race on behalf of Perriello. The campaign announced it hired several former Sanders staffers in February, including Julia Barnes, who served as Sanders’ national field director. Geoff Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics tried to temper comparisons between Perriello and Sanders during a January interview.
It’s never going to happen to you – until it does. And suddenly, your vacation is derailed, through no fault of your own. “You can be in a taxi and get in an accident,” notes Dr. William Brady, a professor of emergency medicine at the UVA Medical School, who also serves as the medical director for Allianz, one of the largest travel providers in the world.
The audit rate already is at a historic low, experts point out. "If they cut into that any further, it's pretty obvious what the impact would be on compliance," said George Yin, a UVA professor of law and taxation.
Scientists have started conducting experiments in a new, innovative wind tunnel recently built at Stanford University. The idea is to study how birds fly so well in both calm and turbulent air – and to use that knowledge to make better drones. Daniel Quinn, an aerospace engineer at the University of Virginia and one of the researchers who worked on the tunnel, says that birds are far more maneuverable and stable in wind gusts than even the best flying robots.
A new artificial pancreas trial in the U.S. has shown the device to be safe and effective for use in children with type 1 diabetes aged 5-8 years. This artificial pancreas has been developed by scientists at the University of Virginia and works by automatically delivering insulin to keep blood glucose levels well controlled.
Lactobacilli, beneficial bacteria commonly found in probiotics, proves to be a potential treatment for depression, according to researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Ranked No. 9, Charlottesville, Va. is rich with U.S. history. Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia and his Monticello home is only a few miles away. Charlottesville ranks quite high for economic and social opportunities, thanks to its entertainment and sports notoriety.
UVA biologist T’ai Roulston had never actually seen one with his own eyes, but the minute he saw the corpse he knew what it was. When Roulston found this bumblebee in Sky Meadows State Park back in 2014, he knew it had been 20 years since this species had been spotted in the region.
While the male birth control pill is still a fiction, a new company called Contraline is working to make at least one non-surgical, reversible birth control procedure a reality. Contraline is the culmination of four years of research conducted by the company’s chief executive, Kevin Eisenfrats, at the University of Virginia.
More than 100 girls from high schools across Virginia spent Saturday at UVA learning about careers in science from the Society of Women Engineers.
While Federal Way was confronting its advanced-learning gaps, UVA professor Carolyn Callahan, an expert in gifted education, was invited to Seattle to assess its program. Her report, released in 2007, was scathing.
“It’s a real problem to have a president that has that kind of obsession,” said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at UVA’s Miller Center. “The most valuable commodity in Washington is the president’s time, bar nothing. A president who elects to invest a lot of his time in tracking his own media coverage is, to some extent, debasing his own currency.”
Kushner's appearance in Baghdad – a diplomatic tour that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has yet to make – suggested that he might be adding some of the secretary's responsibilities to his ever-expanding portfolio. It can't have been a good sign from Tillerson's perspective, Ken Hughes, a governance expert with UVA's Miller Center of Public Affairs, said Monday. "If I were the secretary of state, I would not be happy about that. I would consider that a sign of my relative unimportance."