(Commentary) Nicole Hemmer’s book, “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics,” examines the history of conservative anger at mainstream media. I asked the UVA assistant professor in presidential studies about the history of President Trump’s recent feud with Google.
Although the medical community has known for the past five to 10 years that ticks can cause an allergy to meat, case studies from Wake Forest Baptist and the University of Virginia suggest that chigger bites also may be responsible.
Started in 1982, the Chamber of Commerce-led program has trained hundreds of community leaders, including many who have gone on to start their own nonprofits or fundraising projects. Last week — the same week the chamber announced the latest members of the program — a recent LC graduate helped to launch a mini-me version, Leadership Albemarle, which is bringing the same program to Albemarle High School students in 10th through 12th grades. On Wednesday, 15 sleepy-eyed students wandered into the Albemarle High School auditorium, greeted by Dickerson, three other LC alumni and one notable Univer...
A VCU poll found more than 80 percent of residents believe mental health services are crucial to keeping schools safe. But mental health centers and services at colleges, universities and K-12 schools are chronically underfunded, said Dewey Cornell, a University of Virginia education professor. “We are not doing enough to identify and assist individuals who have serious mental health and educational support needs, including those who are at risk for violence,” he said in an email, stressing that school shootings are rare.
"The House battlefield is largely in districts that either Clinton won, or where Trump didn't really run that far ahead. There are a lot of suburban districts where they like Republicans, but maybe not a Republican like Trump," Kyle Kondik, who analyzes House races for the University of Virginia Center on Politics, told Al Jazeera. "And so, I don't think the president is an asset."
While national Democrats and analysts watching Tuesday's primary expect Capuano to successfully defend his seat, the race, in a sign of its competitiveness, has divided the Massachusetts congressional delegation, an unusual phenomenon for a primary without a scandal-plagued incumbent, according to Kyle Kondik, a political analyst and managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
The election in the fall will be competitive in part because Democrats frequently do several points better in general elections than in primaries, said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Kondik rates the district as lean Republican, consistent with other prognosticators. FiveThirtyEight’s recently released House forecast gives McMorris Rodgers a five-in-seven chance of victory.
Antimicrobial resistance is currently projected to be the No. 1 killer by 2050 — "outpacing even cancer" — according to Amy Mathers, assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Why is it, when the nation as a whole is becoming more diverse, that our pool of Supreme Court justices is so limited? There are 237 law schools in the country, yet only three of them are represented on the nation’s highest court. Is that really good for such a complex country to have a high court with such a narrow range of academic backgrounds? All this comes to mind because Virginia is home to eight law schools – at the University of Virginia, George Mason University, the College of William & Mary, the University of Richmond, Liberty University, Regent University, Washington and Lee Uni...
A handful of clinics and hospitals recently signed on to join the growing Apple Health Records beta program in an effort to improve EHR patient access by empowering patients to collect and view their own health information through iOS devices.Health care organizations including the UVA Health System now allow patients to view their information through the feature.
(Crash test video from the UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics is featured in this report) Children should stay in rear-facing car seats as long as possible to protect their developing heads, necks and spines in the event of a crash, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Schools are also being judged in how they reduced chronic absenteeism, which affects one in 10 students across the state, according to a University of Virginia study, with absence rates being worse in Virginia’s urban school districts, including Richmond.
This year’s class includes 1,310 minority students, or 34.1 percent of the class. 352 students, or 9 percent of the class, are African-American, including those who identify as multiracial.
The Virginia College Advising Corps got its start in 2005 when Nicole Hurd, then the director of UVA’s Center for Undergraduate Excellence, launched a program that placed 14 recent UVA graduates in rural communities where the number of students who went to college was below the state average. Now known as the College Advising Corps, it is part of AmeriCorps and serves rural and urban high schools in 14 states.
American audiences have had almost no exposure to a strain of aboriginal art that many consider impressive and inventive: bark painting. This will change in 2020, when a large-scale exhibition of bark paintings from UVA’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection will tour the United States.
Fiza Youivis, 5, hasn’t been able to start her kindergarten year in Fairfax because she is waiting for a heart transplant at the UVA Children’s Hospital. But she can participate in a special type of school: the Hospital Education Program, a partnership between the hospital, Charlottesville city schools and the Virginia Department of Education.
Called the Social Sciences Replication Project, it is the latest bid by the nonprofit Center for Open Science (COS) in Charlottesville, Virginia, and far-flung collaborators to quality check the scientific literature. Like its predecessors, the new effort found that a large fraction of published studies don't yield the same results when done a second time. But this time, the five independent research teams that did the replications strove to give the studies the benefit of the doubt: They increased the statistical power of the studies by enlisting, on average, five times as many participants a...
Let’s get this out of the way first: There is no basis for the charge that President Trump leveled against Google this week — that the search engine, for political reasons, favored anti-Trump news outlets in its results. None. There’s a worry now that Mr. Trump’s incorrect charges could undermine such work. “I think Trump’s complaint undid a lot of good and sophisticated thought that was starting to work its way into public consciousness about these issues,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia who has studied Google and Facebook’s influence on so...
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will help launch the University of Virginia School of Law’s new Karsh Center for Law and Democracy with an interview by financier and philanthropist David M. Rubenstein on Sept. 14.
“It appears that while so-called cool teens’ behavior might have been linked to early popularity, over time, these teens needed more and more extreme behaviors to try to appear cool,” Joseph P. Allen, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, said.