Cynthia Nicoletti, professor of history at the UVA School of Law, said that while she was unaware of the Oregon-Idaho case, the U.S. Constitution (Article IV, section 3) allows for states to be subdivided if the affected states’ legislatures consent and U.S. Congress approves, while the Supreme Court has also gotten involved in border cases.
Dozens of constitutional experts are sending a letter telling congressional leaders they have the authority to make the nation’s capital the 51st state. “As scholars of the United States Constitution, we write to correct claims that the D.C. Admission Act is vulnerable to a constitutional challenge in the courts,” write the 39 signatories, who include Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia.
“Dante’s imaginative comparisons and vivid descriptions of the afterlife have sparked the imaginations of innumerable artists,” Deborah Parker, professor of Italian at the University of Virginia, said. “Many artists introduce changes, some subtle, others more striking,” she continued. Gustave Doré and Sandro Botticelli–she cites as examples–while generally faithful to Dante’s text, also introduced changes to their works. Doré, for example, added more women among the damned. “Artists don’t just depict, they interpret,” she said.
In 1880 the census showed six people of Asian heritage living in just two Virginia counties – Princess Anne (now Virginia Beach) and Henrico – but by 1890 there were small Asian communities in Hampton Roads, Richmond, Southside (Pittsylvania and Campbell County), Roanoke and as far southwest as Washington County. Hamilton Lombard, a demographer with UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, helped us dig up that data and offered this analysis. The list of localities above might seem random but they’re not. They are all along railroads. That’s where the jobs were. Lombard tells us: “Just a...
529 plans can generate conflicts of interest. UVA law professor Quinn Curtis argues that since states reap revenue from 529 plan fees to support activities that don’t necessarily help students, state administrators may not have incentives to lower costs.
The evidence convinced many pediatrics experts that monitoring respiration for signs of SIDS probably wasn’t worth it. Among them was Dr. Rachel Moon, a pediatrician and SIDS expert at UVA Health who oversaw the AAP guidelines. “There’s no technology that’s going to tell you if a baby’s going to die,” she said. “Because there’s no warning signs that we know of.”
UVA professor Brian Nosek, who runs the Open Science Collaboration to assess reproducibility in psychology research, urged caution. “We presume that science is self-correcting. By that we mean that errors will happen regularly, but science roots out and removes those errors in the ongoing dialogue among scientists conducting, reporting, and citing each others’ research. If more replicable findings are less likely to be cited, it could suggest that science isn’t just failing to self-correct; it might be going in the wrong direction.’
Social science papers that failed to replicate racked up 153 more citations, on average, than papers that replicated successfully. “The finding is catnip for [research] culture change advocates like me,” says Brian Nosek, a UVA psychologist who has spearheaded a number of replication efforts. But before taking it too seriously, it’s worth seeing whether this finding itself can be replicated using different samples of papers, he says.
(Blog) Danielle Citron, a University of Virginia law professor, a MacArthur Fellow and author of “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace,” addressed a wide spectrum of privacy concerns such as cyber surveillance and the unauthorized sharing of intimate information on digital platforms. “We’ve always been under surveillance by companies in ways that we can’t even fathom,” contends Citron. “We can’t feel data when we give it up – it doesn’t ping.”
Margaret Riley, a professor of health law at the UVA School of Law, breaks down some of what people may see going forward. “A business can ask for any information from any people who wish to be on the premises of the business that helps them keep both their employees and other people who are accessing the business safe,” she said.
Margaret Foster Riley, a health law expert at the UVA School of Law, said businesses can undertake precautions to protect employees and customers, as long as those precautions aren’t discriminatory. “In effect, there’s a quid pro quo–if they want to come into the business, they must adhere to the business’s requirements to keep everyone there safe–and someone who is not vaccinated will pose fewer risks to the other people if they then instead wear a mask,” Riley said.
Yet many epidemiologists, doctors and scientists have been surprised by the quick turnabout, concerned that removing masks now, with the virus spreading through more contagious variants, will lead to a resurgence of infections. “What I hope will happen is that a bunch of people will decide to go out and get vaccinated who were a little bit hesitant before,” said Dr. Patrick Jackson, UVA assistant professor of infectious diseases and international health. “What I fear might potentially happen is that, in communities where the rate of vaccination is particularly low, and where the rate of mask-w...
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics and the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball) Our hypothetical ratings of House 2022, if no district lines changed.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies) Tenure at American universities is not given. It’s earned. Those of us fortunate enough to have had a shot at earning it understand all too well the effort it takes to earn tenure, the costs of failing, and privilege it conveys.
Albemarle County is now leading the state in the rate of people who are fully vaccinated. It was the first county in Virginia to have more than half fully vaccinated. Doctors also shared more than 1,323 children aged 12-15 have gotten their shot with UVA Health already. “Now it’s really an all hands on deck approach, we’re doing to go clinics that are on the downtown mall, we’ve gone door to door in some locations, some of our vaccine team have walked down the street, looking for people to be vaccinated,” UVA Health epidemiologist Dr. Costi Sifri said.
Albemarle County is now leading the state in the rate of people who are fully vaccinated. It was the first county in Virginia to have more than half fully vaccinated. Doctors also shared more than 1,323 children aged 12-15 have gotten their shot with UVA Health already. “Now it’s really an all hands on deck approach, we’re doing to go clinics that are on the downtown mall, we’ve gone door to door in some locations, some of our vaccine team have walked down the street, looking for people to be vaccinated,” UVA Health epidemiologist Dr. Costi Sifri said.
The popular image of the atomic nucleus tends to depict protons and neutrons being packed together randomly inside a sphere – like gumballs in an old-fashioned glass dispenser. But in reality, heavier elements tend to distribute their building blocks more unevenly, with some neutrons nudged outward to form a thin “skin” that encloses the core of mixed neutrons and protons. “The protons in a lead nucleus are in a sphere, and we have found that the neutrons are in a larger sphere around them, and we call that the neutron skin,” study co-author Kent Paschke, a professor of experimental nuclear an...
For months UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute has forecast – among the worst-case situation – a peak of virus cases in the coming months that could rival or exceed levels in January. Last week, after introducing new formulas to the modeling mixture, researchers pulled back on that assessment. While the path exists for caseloads to grow, the dramatic numbers are no longer in the picture.
Worried brains can be retrained to respond to everyday situations in a less threatening way to reduce anxiety levels, according to new research published by researchers from The University of Western Australia and the University of Virginia.
Fifth year men’s tennis player Carl Söderlund was the ACC’s automatic qualifier for the NCAA Singles Championship beginning Sunday, but he has withdrawn due to injury, per release. Söderlund was named the ACC Player of the Year for the second straight year, as well as the Male Athlete of the Year at the University of Virginia for the second straight year.