Professor Douglas Laycock joins the program to discuss ramifications of the Supreme Court legalizing sports gambling on a state to state basis.
UVA announced Wednesday a $10 million gift from Jane Batten to the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. The gift will be matched by the university’s Bicentennial Scholars Fund. The $20 million gift will support the new Batten Family Bicentennial Scholars Fund, which benefits graduate students in the Batten School’s master of public policy program.
The Cavalier Inn is at occupancy for its final UVA graduation weekend. The hotel, built in 1965 and bought by the UVA Foundation in 1998, will check out its final guest on Monday before being demolished this summer.
Boston Public Schools is working with UVA in a new three-year partnership to improve achievement at five elementary schools. The changes are part of the district’s reorganization efforts to create networks of elementary and secondary schools with the goal to support schools on the brink of failure.
Trials are about to get under way for the first ever blood test that could confirm whether a person has had a concussion. Scientists at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and UVA are teaming up with a Virginia-based biotechnology company, known as the Virginia Catalyst, to test it.
Being married combines “sex, parenthood, economic cooperation and emotional intimacy into a permanent union,” observes Bradford Wilcox, a UVA sociologist and co-author of the above report. It also makes you happy.
While the annual crowds for UVA Finals Weekend are something the Charlottesville area sees each year, those in charge of tracking occupancy rates say yearly numbers are on the rise.
The NCAA’s “Don’t Bet on It” slogan is still the law of the land in college athletics, but could that be changing? “We’ve talked about it as athletic directors and knew this was on the radar,” UVA athletic director Carla Williams said. “I think it’s too early to make any definitive comments about it, but it’s definitely something I know we’ll talk about. The concerns that typically come along with gambling – we know what those are.”
More research – some of it going back almost a decade – has shown that “media multitasking” and other smartphone-facilitated behaviors may impair memory. It may even zap face-to-face human interaction of its meaning. “Our research found that when parents maximized their phone use around their children, they felt less connected with their children, and they also reported less meaning from those interactions,” says Kostadin Kushlev, a UVA post-doctoral research associate. A sense of meaning – not fun or affection, but feeling like a relationship matters – is one of the major established benefits...
A UVA-based dementia program has won a state award. The Dementia Care Coordination Program received third place for best practices in the state from the Commonwealth Council on Aging.
Clinics provide an excellent opportunity for law students to gain hands-on experience in casework and client advocacy in particular areas of law. The UVA School of Law has a Family Law Clinic that focuses on mediation, negotiation and creative problem-solving as alternative dispute resolution methods to resolve conflicts in families.
Some GOP candidates are not only trying to appear ideologically tight with Trump, but they’re also jockeying to mirror the president’s rhetoric. The results are candidates “going out of their way to be pro-Trump in almost cartoonish fashion,” Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, said.
There's a new and novel way to snoop on Google Home and Amazon Echo devices, said a group of researchers from UVA, Indiana University-Bloomington and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
University of Virginia history professor William Hitchcock will discuss his book, “The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s,” airing Sunday at 8 p.m.
As America has grown more diverse, more secular and more polarized, its moral compass is harder to tune to a true north, with no particular voice emerging as an authority. Some experts say these trends have created a moral vacuum. "Society used to be more unified in the people they saw as moral leaders," said Barbara Perry, a historian at UVA’s Miller Center, which specializes in presidential scholarship.
Since Robert Mueller’s investigation started, conservative media outlets have worked tirelessly to raise doubts about the special counsel’s credibility, depict the FBI as corrupt and biased, and downplay the seriousness of the allegations against the White House. And in a fractured media landscape, where Republican voters largely get their news from right-leaning publications, experts like UVA professor Nicole Hemmer worry that those messages will have a big impact on Republicans in Congress.
Analysts who track House races aren’t ruling out the possibility of a wave. They’re also not predicting one. "The range of possible outcomes is still pretty wide," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a campaign-tracking project of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Census data show that from 2010 to 2017, net migration to retirement-destination counties in Appalachian regions of Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee increased 169 percent, the same percentage of growth for retirement destinations in Florida, according to Hamilton Lombard, a UVA demographer who has tracked the halfback phenomenon. During the same period, net migration to all U.S. retirement-destination counties increased 67 percent.
Penn’s lukewarm feelings toward the president are not, apparently, reciprocated. Trump regularly talks up his connection to Wharton: By the Daily Pennsylvanian’s count, he publicly mentioned the business school more than 50 times between the beginning of his campaign and January 2018. As Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, told me, Wharton’s prestige is useful to Trump, as it supports the narrative that he is intelligent and only settles for the best. Perry says that she’ll be interested to see, years down the line, if Penn adjusts its stance toward Trum...
According to UVA’s Jennifer Doleac and the University of Oregon's Benjamin Hansen, BTB has backfired on black and Hispanic men, aged 25 to 34, who lack a college degree. This cohort was, according to Doleac and Hansen, actually "less likely to be employed under BTB policies." Doleac and Hansen speculate this is because employers who know they cannot check criminal histories will "guess who the offenders are" (probably by making assumptions about their names) and choose not to interview them.