On Sept. 13, the Virginia men’s basketball team will celebrate the first national championship in program history by raising the new national championship banner and giving members of the program their championship rings during “A Night With the National Champions” event at John Paul Jones Arena.
(Commentary by Anya Karaman, English and history major) At a juvenile detention center in Fes, it feels like summer camp all year round. There, “maximum security” is an open, white building complex; “delinquents” are watering plants and planting seeds; and the only guard in sight, if you’re lucky, is a wild peacock patrolling the grounds. For many of us, the term “juvenile detention center” does not strike summertime sentiments. But in Fes, the all-boys Center for the Protection of Children deviates from the norm in more ways than one.
Toby Heytens: The 1993 SSHS graduate was salutatorian of his class. He is also a 1997 graduate of Macalester College (St. Paul), where he majored in history and communications. At Macalester, he helped found and captain the mock trial team. In 2000, he graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he held the highest grade-point average in the law school's history for a decade. Heytons is credited with writing several legal documents that are often cited. His employment history includes law clerk in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.; professor at the University of Virginia Sch...
Political experts did not expect the Mueller testimony to move the needle much in terms of public opinion, pointing to polling data that show previous revelations from the Mueller investigation have not had an impact on Trump’s approval ratings. “I think Democrats are trying to use the Mueller report to keep it in the public’s mind,” said Kyle Kondik, communications director for the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Colorado and Maine, the only two states Trump lost in 2016 where Republicans are defending Senate seats, are top targets. But Democrats are still looking for candidates in Republican-leaning Georgia, Montana, and Kansas. “I still think the Republicans are better than 50-50 to hold the Senate, but I also think the Democrats’ prospects look better now than they did a few months ago,” Kyle Kondik, the managing editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, said in an email.
(Commentary) “For decades, Biden’s schtick has sort of been he says whatever he wants and then says he’s just a straight talker,” said Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia. People just shrug it off as Joe being Joe.
As the District of Columbia and parts of Northern Virginia gentrify, lower-income families must look for less expensive homes in older suburban areas, such as the neighborhoods around Stonewall, said Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
(Commentary) These debates happen all the time, and pastors know that many young people in their pews have made their own compromises between centuries of doctrine and premarital sex, said sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. "What's striking about what we see here is how naive so many young people are about life and love and marriage," said Wilcox, referring to "The Bachelorette" clash. "They don't seem to understand how important it is to develop self-control as they try to move seriously into emotional, physical and spiritu...
(Commentary by Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) When Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, had his turn to quiz former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III during a hearing Wednesday morning, he came armed with what he seemed to think was a smoking gun: that neither Glenn Simpson nor Fusion GPS were mentioned in the Mueller report. Most Americans no doubt shared Mueller's apparent confusion about the line of questioning.
(Commentary co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology) According to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2018, the U.S. fertility rate hit a new low of 1.73. Once a country known for its high birthrates, the United States has today joined the ranks of many European nations with well below replacement-rate fertility. This is cause for concern, because low rates, as the political economists Nicholas Eberstadt and Hans Groth have pointed out, often “portend ominous change in economic prospects [for countries]: major increases in public debt burdens,...
The recent population projections put out by the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia are not kind to the future of Danville. The projection says in the next twenty years, Danville will lose 25 percent of their current population, which is estimated to be slightly over 40,000 residents.
When Kevin McDonald arrived on a University of Missouri campus roiled by racial protest, he thought he was in for a challenge that would keep him here at least a little longer than his last job at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he served 6½ years. Three years later, the university’s first chief diversity officer is packing his bags for the University of Virginia. He is leaving with a sense of satisfaction and a remarkable outpouring of love and respect from students and colleagues with whom he's worked.
For a second year in a row, a team of students from the University of Virginia won the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Just as important, the cyber defense competition is opening the door a bit wider for how to attract cyber workers of the future.
A vicious cycle can begin with one little white lie from a co-worker, diminishing the ability of other employees to read others and then even undermining the entire workplace or business, finds a new study from researchers at UVA and elsewhere.
In a study published Wednesday in Nature, researchers show that there is a hot spot of meningeal lymphatic vessels at the base of the rodent skull that is specialized to drain CSF and allow proteins and other large molecules to leave the brain. “What they showed very nicely is that the system of meningeal lymphatics is the drainage system of the CSF of the central nervous system,” says Jonathan Kipnis, a neuroscientist at the University of Virginia who did not participate in the new study, but coauthored the first 2015 study. “We’re just scratching really the surface of understanding what...
Following this clue, the journalist Jiang Baojun made further investigations, concluding that Huang Ding is most likely the same person as Huang Zuoting, the first student from China to attend University of Virginia, where he went by the name Theodore Wong. This was confirmed by Justin O’Jack, chief representative of the University of Virginia’s China Office: “There are several primary sources that show Huang Ding (or Theodore Ting Wong) and Huang Zuoting (or Tso-ting Wong) are one and the same.
"While the $5 billion fine is a record for the FTC, that speaks more to the lightness of the FTC's traditional penalties than it does to the effect on Facebook," said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies and author of “Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy.” "Facebook makes that much money in a couple of weeks."
(Commentary by Michael Williams, associate chief medical officer for clinical integration; associate professor of surgery and director of UVA’s Center for Health Policy) As I spoke recently with colleagues at a conference in Florence, Italy about health care innovation, a fundamental truth resurfaced in my mind: the U.S. health care industry is just that. An industry, an economic force, Big Business, first and foremost. It is a vehicle for returns on investment first and the success of our society second. This is critical to consider as presidential candidates unveil their health care plans.
The University of Virginia has more than just a stellar men's basketball team going for it. UVA cracks the top 10 again in our best values in public colleges thanks to its strong academics and exemplary four-year graduation rate.
Facebook survived its latest brush with U.S. privacy regulators, at the cost of a record $5 billion fine and other restrictions imposed by the Federal Trade Commission. But it's far from home free. "Facebook makes that much money in a couple of weeks," said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor and author of "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy."