An author with local ties is enthusiastic about a new initiative at the University of Virginia’s Curry School. UVA graduate Ron Suskind has a 26-year-old autistic son named Owen. Suskind is glad UVA’s education school is planning a new center that can help families who are affected by autism and other neuro-developmental disorders.
The Augusta County pipeline case between landowner Hazel Palmer and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC, made its way to the Supreme Court of Virginia last Wednesday, where the court heard oral arguments. What happens from here with the court's ruling could be very important in resolving important issues surrounding Virginia's eminent domain law, said professor Molly Brady, a property law expert at the University of Virginia School of Law.
We’ve known for a long time that the Human Papilloma Virus can cause cervical cancer in women. But increasingly, HPV is causing cancers further up the body, in the throats of people infected with the virus. And the largest group of patients? Middle aged men. Emily Richardson-Lorente has the story of one Virginia man dealing with the consequences. “Of the cancers of the tonsil and tongue base that we deal with now, close to 80% of those cancers are HPV related. And while they have a reasonably good prognosis, people go through hell and high water to get treated,” said Dr. Mark Jameson, a head a...
President Trump came to office intent on shaking up Washington. While he's run into obstacles in Congress and the courts, there have been clear victories. John Yang offers a recap of the president’s domestic moves, and presidential historian Michael Beschloss and Barbara Perry of the University of Virginia Miller Center sit down with Judy Woodruff to discuss how he compares to his predecessors.
A large majority of voters who supported President Trump in the 2016 presidential election approves of the job he is doing in office, according to a new survey. A University of Virginia Center of Politics poll finds the president's approval rating among those who supported him in last year's election is at 93 percent.
A poll out this morning for the University of Virginia's Center for Politics surveyed 1,000 Trump voters online and in part concludes, "Respondents were deeply suspicious and distrusting of media. Nearly nine in 10 respondents (88%) said that media criticism of Trump reinforces that the president is on the right track, and the same percentage agreed with Trump’s assertion that the press is 'the enemy of the American people.'"
The University of Virginia has plans to open a new interdisciplinary autism research center in the next five years. The purpose of the center will be to bring together the work of autism researchers and clinicians across schools — the Curry School of Education, the School of Medicine and the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences all have different projects focusing on autism.
Kathleen Flake, who teaches religious studies at the University of Virginia and signed the brief, said the “Mormon ban” showed the lasting, negative impact such measures have on target groups.
Geoffrey Skelley, an elections analyst with UVA, said that while Sessions is “more vulnerable” than Kind, thanks to the potential of a midterm wave against the president’s party, it would take a massive effort to dislodge him."
The $15 million grant will support research, faculty recruitment, and clinical trials over the next five years as UVA strives to reach a higher level designation as a comprehensive cancer center.
A team of scientists, including some from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, has determined the atomic structures of various proteins that may help combat infectious diseases. The team was led by Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and created 3-D structures of more than 1,000 proteins that may be targeted by drugs or vaccines to fight dangerous emerging and re-emerging diseases.
On Tuesday afternoon, University of Virginia students and Charlottesville residents were given a free lecture by Anne Anderson, Ireland's ambassador to the United States. Anderson spoke about a variety of topics, including the state of current U.S. and Ireland relations, as well as the impact and legacy of John F. Kennedy.
The University of Virginia P-12 Engineering Education outreach program supported the “Money Floats Challenge,” as well as one that had students build a small solar oven for nachos with a card-board pizza box.
UVA’s Belisa Pang has emerged as a force of nature, a master of five languages — not to mention the violin. She has accomplished all of this despite suffering incurable hearing loss that had sapped 80% of her auditory abilities in her teens.
Rolls-Royce, after establishing its “largest and newest” advanced manufacturing and research campus in North America, near Richmond, established Rolls-Royce University Technology Centers at Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia.
USA TODAY's Capital Download convened a roundtable of White House veterans and scholars Monday to assess President Trump's first 100 days — a milestone he reaches Saturday — and to put his successes and setbacks in perspective. Among the participants was Nicole Hemmer, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
Fusion GPS is Washington-based research firm started in 2009 by former reporter Glenn R. Simpson. According to his LinkedIn profile, Mr. Simpson graduated from George Washington University and worked five years at Roll Call newspaper. He then served as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal for almost 14 years. In 1996, he joined forces with University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato to write the book “Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics.” The 430-page book explores voter disgust with the American political system. A New York Times review ca...
He doesn’t even qualify as an “entry-level president”: Historians weigh in on Trump’s first 100 days
Robert Dallek, who has written about presidents from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, told NPR that “this man is without experience, and it’s showing. Particularly in his dealings with Congress, he’s been an utter failure in the sense that he’s gotten nothing passed. He’s issuing all sorts of executive orders, like immigration limits; they’re failing. The attempt to get health care reform failed. I’d give him failing marks for his 100 days.” Similarly, Barbara Perry — who is director of presidential studies at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia — told NPR that Trump doesn’t even qua...
Kirk von Daacke, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean Department of History at the University of Virginia, agrees that, as a society, we benefit from learning about our own past in all its complexity. Nonetheless, he believes that removing Confederate statues and memorials, often erected several decades after the Civil War is a way to reject a history of Lost Cause glorification of the Confederate cause and the history of muscular white supremacy that went hand in hand with the Lost Cause.
New research offers a checklist that helps determine whether it is safe for patients with type 1 diabetes to drive.