The other key question is whether voters will forgive the execution of the withdrawal to reward the larger goal of ending a 20-year war. “We’re getting out of an unpopular war abroad,” says Larry Sabato, founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “We’re getting out of it in a messy fashion, but we’re getting out of it. … I’m not saying Biden will be boosted by it,but I am saying, if he is hurt by it, it will be temporary and this will be replaced by other issues that go to the heart of American life, like the pandemic [and] the economy.”
Robert J. Orth, a professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at the College of William and Mary, had been working since the 1970s in nearby Chesapeake Bay, where seagrass still survived. Together with researchers from the University of Virginia, Orth started planting back eelgrass seeds from Chesapeake Bay into the smaller bays. “We have about four times more fish in the seagrass meadows than outside [them] or before the seagrass meadows were restored,” says Karen McGlathery, a professor at the University of Virginia, whose role in the project is to understand the benefits of seagra...
Increasing burdens of disclosure and governance regulations are often cited as the reason that the number of public firms in the U.S. has been declining in recent decades. Using the fact that many public firm regulations apply only to firms whose float (the value of shares held by public investors) exceeds a certain threshold, Michael Ewens of the California Institute of Technology, Ting Xu of the University of Virginia and Kairong Xiao of Columbia University examine the bunching of firms around these thresholds to infer the costs of regulation. Their findings suggest that non-regulatory facto...
This drive to add things to our lives is well researched, particularly by Dr. Leidy Klotz, a UVA associate professor of engineering systems and environment, whose research focuses on behavioral science, design, and sustainable engineering. In his recent book, “Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less,” Klotz asserts that subtracting from a situation is less intuitive when it comes to problem-solving, which tends to make implementing solutions that involve removing elements – or simplifying circumstances – harder to practice when compared to adding elements.
Research shows that having a childhood best friend can play a significant role in improving our mental health well into adulthood. UVA researchers tracked the mental health of 169 participants at the age of 15, 16, and 25. By age 25, they found those who had had higher-quality close friendships as a teenager tended to have lower social anxiety, an increased sense of self-worth and fewer symptoms of depression.
UVA’s Darden School of Business ranked 19th, with 91.1% of job-seeking students finding work within three months of graduation.
There will be some COVID-19-dictated limitations on the University Transit Service. “The bottom line is that transit operations are still being impacted by COVID-19,” said Rebecca White, director of UVA’s Department of Parking and Transportation. “It still affects our protocols. Academic routes were adjusted to emphasize connections from endpoints to Grounds.”
Friedman worked with the University of Virginia to turn a donor’s $5 million gift into a $9.5 million scholarship for students transferring from PVCC and the creation of an inter-college liaison to help shepherd students wanting to transfer. The Piedmont Scholars program will provide scholarships to 25 PVCC students who graduate with associate’s degrees and transfer to UVA. The scholarships are part of the University Achievement Award program.
(Commentary) UVA law professors Joshua Fischman and Michael A. Livermore study the potential impact of U.S. News & World Report’s proposal to include the number of times a professor’s work was cited in its methodology for ranking law schools. They say it would result in less intellectually diverse law school faculties and law students who are less prepared for complex social and economic realities of practice.
Much of the census data released last week paints portraits of certain communities that simply make no sense, according to analysts with UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. It’s the result of a new methodology the Census Bureau used to protect people’s privacy against sophisticated data attacks. And though it sounds wonky, it could have serious implications for the commonwealth’s decision-making. “It can’t be accepted as fact,” said Hamilton Lombard, a research and policy analyst.
The University of Virginia says it will launch a legal initiative early next year – a program that could keep more innocent people out of local jails, state and national prisons.
“The numbers just reflect what’s already been happening in the state,” said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “The political shifts in the state have been benefiting Democrats, as they have gained in the growing suburban places while Republicans have gained in the sparsely populated rural parts of the state. This is something the census figures help confirm, but this has already been clear from the state’s recent voting patterns.”
Other analysts note that in some states, conservative suburbs are maintaining their Republican bent as they grow. In North Carolina, for instance, “in addition to the state’s deep red rural component there are several large suburban counties that are 60% Republican and that hasn’t budged much over the last decade,” said J. Miles Coleman, co-author of a recent University of Virginia Center for Politics analysis. The study predicts that redistricting could give Republicans at least six additional U.S. House seats in the South.
(Podcast) Co-hosts Cara Candal and Gerard Robinson talk with professor E.D. Hirsch Jr., founder and chairman of the Core Knowledge Foundation, UVA professor emeritus and acclaimed author. They discuss his newest book on how policymakers, teachers, and students can use our country’s complicated, shared past to educate for common civic purposes.
Books in digital format lose a lot more than you might think. For one, according to Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, reading a physical book is much better in terms of understanding the narrative. It’s also much better for the brain when it comes to narrative orientation. This is simply an understanding of where you are in the book. When you go digital or audio, you lose that. When it comes to traditional print, we also seem to remember it better. This is likely due to the fact that the text is in a specific place and will not move. Your brain is thus...
As the number of coronavirus cases in Virginia go up, more people are doing research on vaccines. Data from Google shows searches for vaccines, their possible side effects, and how to get a shot are on the rise. Over the last month, vaccine searches in Charlottesville and Albemarle County have doubled. “As folks are seeing friends and loved ones become sick, and realizing what the pandemic is – you know, that what the delta variant is doing into the communities – there’s more interest in vaccination, and you’re seeing more searches for that reason,” Dr. Taison Bell with the UVA Medical Center ...
Some immunocompromised people can now get a third COVID-19 vaccination shot, but it can be confusing to figure out if you fall into this category or how soon you can make an appointment. The Blue Ridge Health District says this third dose applies to people who are recipients of organ or stem cell transplants, people with advanced or untreated HIV infection, and active recipients of treatment for cancer, or people who are taking certain medications that weaken the immune system. “CVS, for example, is giving booster doses today and so you should go ahead and contact CVS, contact the health depar...
Margaret Foster Riley, a public health sciences and UVA law professor, said: “Often these disputes with police and fire unions are more about their insistence that such terms be negotiated with the unions as employment issues as much as they are substantive objections to the policies. That said, I don’t think the objecting city employees have a strong case.”
Dr. Cameron Webb spent the first part of the pandemic on the front line treating patients at the University of Virginia hospital. He now serves as a senior policy adviser on the White House COVID-19 Response Team. The Wake Forest School of Medicine graduate says more than 95-percent of new cases are tied to the highly contagious Delta variant, that it spreads faster, and is more unforgiving. And according to Dr. Webb, people who haven’t been vaccinated make up the overwhelming majority of new and severe cases.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at UVA’s Darden School of Business) With the U.S. economy in the throes of a powerful expansion, the main uncertainty is whether the pickup in inflation this year will prove temporary or ongoing. Amid the debate, economists are questioning how to interpret incoming data and the macro framework for assessing the inflation outlook.