After a four-year battle with cancer, former Virginia Gov. Gerald Baliles has entered a palliative care program, a statement from his family says. He was hired as the director of the Miller Center, a public policy research institute at the University of Virginia, in 2006. Under his leadership, the center greatly expanded its profile with the addition of “American Forum,” a talk program featuring former and current policymakers, historians and journalists. He stepped down from that position in 2014.
The program left for dead four years ago is 4-0 for the first time since 2004 and has spent time ranked for consecutive weeks (now up to No. 18) for the first time since 2007.
“The logical thing for the average voter to say is, this has nothing to do with my life,” said Larry Sabato, a political analyst and director of UVA’s Center for Politics. Sabato suggested that Democrats proceed expeditiously by making Feb. 3, the day of the Iowa caucuses, their “informal deadline” for an impeachment vote in the lower chamber.
Daniel Willingham, a UVA professor of psychology, said people’s world views and social relationships influence what they believe. People do understand that scientists produce information “that ought to be believed,” but there are other motivations, such as social norms or fear of the unknown, that may affect their views. “They believe them for social reasons – you have been maintaining your relationships with people; holding certain beliefs is part of that,” Willingham said.
In a recent study featured in Springer's International Journal of Social Robotics, two researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Bergamo in Italy have taken a closer look at some of the current arguments and predictions about sex robots, carrying out an ethics-based and critical discourse analysis.
A University of Virginia defensive player is nominated for the award of the top football scholar-athlete in the nation. Fourth-year linebacker Jordan Mack is one of 185 nationwide – and among six in the ACC – chosen as a semifinalist for the National Football Foundation’s 2019 Walter V. Camp Award.
It wasn’t until last month that athletic director Carla Williams finally got to take her co-workers on a field trip. They wound up visiting her alma mater and former employer. Williams, who was Georgia’s deputy athletic director before she was hired away by Virginia in 2017, wanted to show those co-workers how the athletic department looks and acts at a school that wins at football.
FERC's discussion of Union Hill in its environmental analysis of the Atlantic Coast pipeline glossed over the many environmental justice concerns associated with the project, said University of Virginia anthropologist Lakshmi Fjord.
UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato says that if action were taken right now, the president would be in trouble.
The CoLAB Digital Tech Credential program focuses on data analysis, visualization and security and is currently being offered at George Mason University, Virginia Tech, University of Richmond, American University, VCU and Georgetown University for non-STEM students pursuing degrees in non-technical fields such as HR, logistics, liberal arts and finance. Other schools in the region, including Johns Hopkins, Howard University and the University of Virginia, are planning to launch versions of the program.
It’s a bit of a well-kept secret among those who love wine: You can board a train at D.C.’s Union Station (or in Alexandria or Manassas) and be in Charlottesville – home to some of Virginia’s top wineries – in less than three hours, for as little as $60 round-trip. Before heading home, consider a visit to the University of Virginia’s Academical Village, including the picturesque Lawn and Rotunda, all designed by Thomas Jefferson.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise has asked the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to start a master’s in education program by fall 2020, which could help 30 more teachers in Southwest Virginia earn advanced degrees every year.
No matter where Leah Reid goes, she’s always listening. That next great sound is out there – just waiting to be heard. Reid, who grew up in Jaffrey but now splits her time between Massachusetts and Virginia, where she is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia teaching courses in music composition and technology, is also well known in the world of acoustic and electroacoustic composition. Her work has been presented all over the world, and her ability to use everyday sounds to create something that is truly unique has been years in the making.
Michael Schwimer has an outside-the-box sports mind. From his “wild ideas” to make baseball more exciting and appeal to the younger generations to his business ventures, the former Virginia pitcher makes baseball purists cringe.
One of the best ways to get a handle on the college admissions process is to hear about it from students who have just lived through it. Garvey Goulbourne was torn between UVA and UNC, but a second tour of UVA’s Charlottesville campus, plus the school’s proximity to Washington, D.C., swayed him to stick with the place he had loved from the start.
(Editorial) “I have more than I need.” With those words, University of Virginia men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett entered an exclusive fraternity: People who turn down raises. He no doubt does have more than he needs, but it’s easy to convince yourself that you deserve more.
Use of radiofrequency identification (RFID) to tag breast cancers for surgical excision had similar success as the standard of using wires to mark lesion locations prior to surgery, researchers reported here from a small retrospective study. Dr. Margaret Moore, a pathology resident at the University of Virginia, said that "since these outcome measures are similar, and the patient’s experience is better with RFID, I think that doing it with the new procedure is reasonable."
The idea can be traced all the way back to President George Washington, who claimed it in 1792 when Congress asked him to turn over documents related to an unsuccessful military operation against Native Americans, according to Rozell’s report on the history of executive privilege for the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson once wrote that, after conferring with his cabinet members, Washington believed “that the Executive ought to communicate such papers as the public good would permit & ought to refuse those the disclosure of which would injure the public.” &...
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, said the finding is another indicator that Warren has either surpassed Sanders with the Democratic electorate, or is in a good position to do so.
"The one thing that I'm watching for is the broadsides that will inevitably be launched by the other campaigns," said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. "They're not going to sit there and let Elizabeth Warren rocket to the top and not say anything."