UVA researchers found an unexpected link between two main forms of macular degeneration that they think have the potential to better treat both forms.
The Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization approved shifting money around to fund passenger count systems during its meeting on Wednesday. The MPO is a federally mandated planning group comprised of officials from Charlottesville, Albemarle County, UVA and state and federal transportation agencies. It covers the city and urbanized parts of the county, including Crozet.
The 21st annual American Democracy Conference at UVA’s Center for Politics hosted prominent women in politics from across the political spectrum on Wednesday. They tackled topics like the politics of division and the Trump administration, as well as looking forward to the 2020 election.
The forthcoming papers in the replication study were likely to be a “wake-up call” to science “given that so much information is missing” from published papers, said UVA psychology professor Brian Nosek, director and co-founder of the Center for Open Science.
On Wednesday, UVA’s Center for Politics hosted the American Democracy Conference. The event honored the centennial of women getting the right to vote.
Shayla Clark and Christopher Deppmann, researchers from UVA’s graduate neuroscience program, who were not involved in the study, said it was interesting to consider what possible evolutionary advantage might be conferred by stress-induced graying. “Because grey hair is most often linked to age, it could be associated with experience, leadership and trust,” they wrote.
The 2019-20 flu season has been atypical in one significant way. Until now, Influenza B/Victoria – the season's less severe version of the flu compared to Influenza A(H1N1) – has been the more impactful strain of the flu virus. "That's quite unusual," Dr. Bryan Lewis, a professor at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, told AccuWeather. Lewis works with a team in a research partnership with AccuWeather. "This is likely the most cases caused by Influenza B in any season in the last 20 years."
(Video) The number of reported flu cases is starting to drop, but experts at the University of Virginia's Biocomplexity Institute warn that flu season is far from over.
On this first day of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, a nonpartisan group out of the University of Virginia is weighing in. On Tuesday, the Senate got to work setting rules for the proceedings. The Miller Center’s CEO and president, Bill Antholis, is studying the ways this impeachment process is similar and different from those of former presidents Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and Andrew Johnson.
Charlottesville-based SaaS security platform provider SafeGuard Cyber has hired Thomas A. Dukes Jr. as its senior vice president for information security and corporate affairs, the company announced Tuesday. In his new role, he will manage data security and work with product and operations teams on quality and security standards. He will also continue his roles as a U.S. Air Force Reserve brigadier general and adjunct professor of cyber law and policy at the University of Virginia.
History professor Elizabeth Varon writes for the Miller Center at the University of Virginia – which studies the American presidency – that “Andrew Johnson gives truth to the saying that in America, anyone can grow up to become President.”
Yet the amendment has strong critics, including some conservatives who have long argued that it would provide a new constitutionally guaranteed right to abortion access. And ERA skeptics span the political spectrum: Kim Forde-Mazrui, a UVA law professor and constitutional law scholar who calls himself “a liberal supporter of women’s equality,” argues that the amendment would do nothing and even potentially be harmful.
But the general reception toward ugly, racist humor is changing, sure enough. “There’s been a raising of consciousness about what we laugh at,” says Shilpa Davé, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and author of “Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film.” “Humor reveals something about institutionalized inequality and prejudice and discrimination – racism, sexism, and classism – that’s ingrained in our culture.”
A not insignificant number of "Bernie Bros" can be obnoxious sexist bullies online, but they are not representative of the majority of his supporters. But Robert Wheel wrote in a thorough data-driven study for UVA’s Center for Politics that the reason the toxic Bernie Bro online phenomenon was "so prominent is that men in their 20s spend the most time online and, I speak as a former man in his 20s, are the most strident people online." He implored Clinton diehards to understand "the election was not your Twitter mentions."
According to the University of Virginia Center of Politics, 88% of Virginia adults support universal background checks.
Famous writer, poet and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe was born on Jan. 19, 1809 into a Scots-Irish family in Boston, Massachusetts to David Poe Jr and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe. He was taken in by John Allan, a successful tobacco merchant, after being abandoned by his father and losing his mother to tuberculosis. Poe registered at the University of Virginia in 1826, but dropped out after a year after being estranged from his foster father due to his gambling debts and registered with the U.S. Military Academy.
“The message that schools need to get is that the almost-exclusive emphasis on improving math and reading instruction as the way to improve long-term effects is a flawed model,” said UVA research professor David Grissmer, who conducted the Wings study.
While it’s a smaller environmental danger than carbon, scientists say fertilizer is an underrated and growing threat – one that’s more complicated to solve. UVA environmental scientist James Galloway said, “You need to have that nitrogen to grow the food, and the more people there are and the higher they’re eating up the food chain, the more nitrogen you need.”
Any action by the president after a removal vote would likely be challenged in court and even as bitterly divided as Washington seems, there’s likely little appetite for a constitutional showdown in the White House’s West Wing. “If the ex-president refused to go, he would be escorted out once Pence became commander-in-chief,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Harris is part of Hoops2O Hoops, aka “The Water Boys,” founded by professional athletes many of whose roots go back to the University of Virginia, Harris’ alma mater. Malcolm Brogdon, the Pacers’ point guard, initiated the program along with former NFL defensive end Chris Long, a two-time Super Bowl champ.