Most government investigations into potential wrongdoing at large, publicly traded companies are resolved with agreements that involve fines but no criminal charges, said Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor who has studied corporate prosecutions.
(Commentary By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics) Our own sources in and around Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana have told us what everyone else has been reporting: He appears to be Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick.
Many website-related hacks use malvertising, a hacking technique that takes advantage of ad delivery networks and leverages vulnerabilities on client machines such as bugs in Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. A team from software security firm GrammaTech and UVA are developing an AI-powered task master that can determine which parts of software are more likely to have security bugs and optimize computation resources to analyze those sections.
A team of scientists based at the UVA Health System established just a year ago that meningeal vessels directly link the brain with the lymphatic system. Following up on this discovery, which opened the door for entirely new ways of thinking about how the brain and the immune system interact, the UVA researchers investigated how meningeal immunity could influence behavior.
A study published last year by UVA’s Center for Politics showed a high correlation between presidential and Senate results historically. In 2012, the correlation was 0.78; a perfect correlation is 1.
Correspondence between Martha Washington and her sister, Nancy, reveals that America’s founding mother was acutely aware of her husband’s work. “It speaks volumes about their relationship,” says Lynn Price, assistant editor of the Washington Papers project at UVA, which has published comprehensive editions of the first president’s letters.
According to UVA Career Services, 97 percent of graduates from the UVA’s Darden School of Business have jobs right now. Placement is also high for students in architecture, nursing, and teaching.
It is a pool of money, an investment reserve fund – substantial, to be sure – subject to public audit and a public process for its use. It is entirely open and transparent. It will help protect UVA’s future from the vagaries of legislative whim. Less than 5 percent of the fund may be drawn down and allocated each year.
“Studying sex differences is too important to just tack on to every other research project,” says Douglas Fields, a neuroscientist in Bethesda, Maryland. Fields thinks that requiring all researchers to simultaneously study sex differences and their original scientific question will be quite costly, requiring more time and more animals. And it might not even work. Ani Manichaikul agrees with Fields’ first point. “If there is a difference, you’ll only find it by analyzing the two sexes separately. It’s basically asking researchers to double their sample size,&...
Some are simply uncomfortable saying racism still exists, Doug Meyer said. Meyer, a UVA professor who’s written about racism against queer people, said “all lives matter” is a part of bigger conversation about how some think “talking about race is a form of racism.”
UVA nurses are helping health professionals become better prepared to save a life by taking part in a mock code training course at UVA’s Life Support Learning Center. The session shows nurses how to run their own mock code so that they can teach other hospital employees how to do the same.
A fiery Gov. Mike Pence praised Donald Trump and slammed Hillary Clinton during a rally in Westfield on Tuesday that was widely seen as an audition to become Trump’s running mate. Kyle Kondik, an election analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, said Trump’s appearances with Pence “might be a way to test out whether they complement each other well and are comfortable with each other.”
As current director of the Digital Library Federation at the Council on Library and Information Resources and a research associate professor of digital humanities at the University of Virginia, Bethany Nowviskie brings a unique perspective to this series that is informed by years of work within the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and the library.
New research has found evidence that our behavior, and maybe even our personalities, could be influenced by something totally unexpected: our immune systems. UVA School of Medicine researchers were able to show that by simply changing the way the immune system responds to pathogens, they could trigger antisocial behavior in mice.
Were you led blindfolded to the set of Drury Lane Theatre's murderous thriller "Deathtrap," you'd swear on the ghost of playwright Ira Levin that you'd stumbled back to the 1970s. The massive, intricately detailed luxe-hunting-lodge-meets-repurposed-barn abode is so realistic it will make you want to move in. Since finishing his MFA in scenic design from UVA, Jeff Kmiec has been amassing an impressive roster of credits and he earned a Joseph Jefferson nomination this year for his design of "A Loss of Roses" for Raven Theatre in Rogers Park.
The Wisconsin and Illinois Senate seats are the likeliest pickups for Democrats this year, according to Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the Crystal Ball, a website run by UVA’s Center for Politics. Kondik said Indiana’s seat would be Democrats’ next-best chance if Bayh is the nominee.
State leaders from across the commonwealth will convene in Richmond later this week to hammer out the details about the future of short-term property rentals through Airbnb. Geoff Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics says following the issue is a matter of following the money. “For example, Tommy Norment has gotten a lot of money from the hotel industry."
Reinforcements may be riding in to aid the Democratic candidate for the right-leaning 5th Congressional District after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee named the contest to its “Emerging Races” list Tuesday. Skelley, associate editor of a UVA political science newsletter, said the Center for Politics has it listed as going “likely Republican” on Nov. 8.
Sanders’ backing of a candidate who holds such contempt for many Sanders supporters was still difficult to accept. "Clinton beat him decisively, but he still did a lot better than he would have expected," said Kyle Kondik, of UVA’s Center for Politics. "He became her chief rival quickly in the campaign."