The U.S. Census Bureau has recorded a steady population increase for the city every year since 2012, according to an email from Public Affairs Specialist Amy Newcomb. This was also the first time the U.S. Census Bureau has reported that Suffolk’s population crossed the 90,000 threshold. UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, however, estimated that Suffolk crossed that mark in 2015.
UVA’s Darden School of Business has partnered with the Boston Consulting Group to create a four-week online course on digital transformation. The course is slated to begin on March 26, and this launch follows last year’s successful collaboration on the Pricing Strategy Optimization Specialization.
The country is undercounting opioid-related overdoses by 20 to 35 percent, according to a UVA study published in February in the journal Addiction.
Both the Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law and the Virginia Attorney General's office are asking the Virginia Court of Appeals to grant Bush a writ of actual innocence. "I think it raises really profound questions about the nature of punishment," said Richard Bonnie, professor of medicine and law at UVA and director of UVA's Institute of Law, Psychiatry & Public Policy.
UVA students and staff from Virginia Humanities watch as a stencil with a quote is placed on the sidewalk near a busy downtown bus stop, mere feet from the pedestrian mall and the federal courthouse. The quote reads: “You can’t tiptoe towards justice.”
Traveling with security staff even on official business is “incredibly expensive,” although the actual cost would depend on the nature of the trip and which department supplied the detail, said Chris Lu, a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center who was a White House Cabinet administrator during the Obama administration.
The U.S. does not currently collect basic gun ownership data, said Dewey Cornell, a UVA forensic clinical psychologist who studies how to prevent youth violence and bullying. What the country needs for guns is “something like we have to register and track motor vehicles,” he said via email.
Dayna Bowen Matthew, a UVA law professor who focuses on equity in health care, says the president's opioid plan is timely with a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control that counts a record number of opioid overdose deaths in 2016.
A 2015 study by Caroline Hoxby and Sarah Turner, professors of economics at Stanford University and UVA, respectively, found that low-income, academically talented students weren’t applying to liberal arts institutions because they didn’t know what they were, or identified themselves as “not liberal.”
The Ohio district encompasses the northeast suburbs of Columbus, as well as more rural areas to the east. That’s a demographic composition that boosts Democratic hopes that the race will be the latest where Democrats outperform Hillary Clinton’s 2016 showing. Trump won the district by 11 points in 2016, a closer margin than the district Lamb won. On the surface, the district looks like an attractive target – albeit a distant one – for Democrats. But Kyle Kondik, a UVA elections analyst, believes it’s more complicated. “Pennsylvania’s 18th ...
(By Daniel T. Willingham, UVA psychology professor) I'm the father of a child who has a rare chromosomal disorder, trisomy-18. It affects about one in 5,000 births and leaves children with profound mental and physical disabilities. Life expectancy is harrowingly brief; some 90 percent of affected infants don't see their first birthday. There are many reasons why it's important for people to know about this syndrome – to encourage more research, advance better policies for families coping with it, to "raise awareness." But when I consider my daughter Esprit, I'm interested in a specific ki...
Snow is playing havoc with today’s schedule for the first day of Virginia’s Festival of the Book. Festival director Jane Kulow says if the venues are accessible and the authors can get there, then the event will go on. Even though it was snowing heavily, the 11:45 a.m. event at the Omni with former astronaut Leland Melvin went on.
It's spring break, but instead of getting their sun on a beach, 11 UVA college students are getting their sun on a roof in High Point. “We`re with an organization called Chi Alpha,” said Val Hornsby, a freshman. “It's a Christian organization on the grounds and we just really wanted to help people out.” They're volunteering with Community Housing Solutions, a small non-profit that serves Guilford County with home repairs at a reduced cost to keep people -- many of whom are elderly or disabled -- in their homes.
On Wednesday, HackCville, which helps students develop skills and network with others, announced a fellowship that will help UVA graduates who are trying to start their own businesses.
A conference at UVA this week gathered historians, anthropologists and experts from countries affected by the Atlantic slave trade to discuss ways to acknowledge participation in slavery, memorialize enslaved laborers and explain history to the public.
NPR's Michel Martin talks with UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan about whether this is a watershed moment for Facebook users.
A UVA law student says county sheriff's offices across the United States need to go. His argument stems from his research that sheriffs’ deputies are more likely to be corrupt than police officers. UVA student James Tomberlin says sheriffs are often protected from the checks and balances processes that police officers go through, which he says often leave the office unaccountable.
If the affair did happen, Trump and Cohen's denials could be used by Mueller to cast into doubt the reliability of their claims about other areas of his investigation. "This information would go generally to both of their credibilities and, more specifically, to both of their potential modus operandi for trying to control information that might be adverse to the president's interests," said Stephen Braga, a white-collar criminal defense professor at the UVA law school.
It’s easy to see how ShotSpotter could save victims by providing paramedics with faster and more accurate location reports. But how – and even whether – ShotSpotter also reduces shootings hasn’t been proved. “There haven’t been any rigorous studies of the impact of ShotSpotter,” said Jennifer Doleac, a UVA assistant professor of public policy and economics. One reason is the company goes to extraordinary lengths to keep cities from releasing their ShotSpotter data.
Within Christian circles, Hollywood, rock ’n’ roll and anything that sounded “liberal” were now the enemy in the minds of the televangelists and their legions of followers. The culture wars proceeded apace, and they kept the faithful mobilized. Increasingly evangelicals doubled down on building their own record companies, publishing houses, and increasingly, their own subculture. And the only time they poked their heads above their own wall was to hand out a voter’s guide or endorse a political candidate. By the time UVA sociologist James Davison Hunter coined the term “culture wars” in 1991, ...