If the affair did happen, Trump and Cohen's denials could be used by Mueller to cast into doubt the reliability of their claims about other areas of his investigation. "This information would go generally to both of their credibilities and, more specifically, to both of their potential modus operandi for trying to control information that might be adverse to the president's interests," said Stephen Braga, a white-collar criminal defense professor at the UVA law school.
It’s easy to see how ShotSpotter could save victims by providing paramedics with faster and more accurate location reports. But how – and even whether – ShotSpotter also reduces shootings hasn’t been proved. “There haven’t been any rigorous studies of the impact of ShotSpotter,” said Jennifer Doleac, a UVA assistant professor of public policy and economics. One reason is the company goes to extraordinary lengths to keep cities from releasing their ShotSpotter data.
Within Christian circles, Hollywood, rock ’n’ roll and anything that sounded “liberal” were now the enemy in the minds of the televangelists and their legions of followers. The culture wars proceeded apace, and they kept the faithful mobilized. Increasingly evangelicals doubled down on building their own record companies, publishing houses, and increasingly, their own subculture. And the only time they poked their heads above their own wall was to hand out a voter’s guide or endorse a political candidate. By the time UVA sociologist James Davison Hunter coined the term “culture wars” in 1991, ...
Dozens of UVA students are continuing their discussion on how to prevent gun violence. On Monday, speakers at a gun sense forum delved into the topics of race and gender. Attendees also reflected on past events and focused on informing themselves on current legislation and policy.
There's a spotlight on slavery at UVA and Monticello during March 19-21. A first-of-its-kind international conference is taking place, where people have plenty of history to discuss. Museum and historic site officials are comparing the narratives and stories of slavery, and how the institution controlled the world for centuries.
The Rutherford Institute in Albemarle County is hosting a public conversation on free speech following last summer's Unite the Right Rally. On Wednesday, First Amendment lawyers John Whitehead and Nadine Strossen will debate the tensions surrounding the First Amendment. The event will be held in UVA’s Rotunda.
A few years ago, researchers in Germany set out to plumb the moral consciences of small children. Their actions, according to Amrisha Vaish, the UVA psychology researcher who led the study, demonstrate “the beginnings of real guilt and real conscience.”
Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA professor of media studies and author of the upcoming book on Facebook “Antisocial Media,” says Facebook's policies betrayed users. "This was not a data breach. This was Facebook being Facebook," he said.
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society honored outgoing UVA President Teresa Sullivan on Monday. Sullivan was presented with the Silver Hope Award, given to someone who has maintained an exceptional leadership role in the community.
High school students from Argentina and Chile had a warm welcome at UVA on Sunday with a mini-a capella concert on the Rotunda steps. They are in Charlottesville as part of the UVA Center for Politics’ Youth Ambassadors program, to learn about civic engagement and develop their leadership skills.
UVA’s Darden School of Business has received a $30 million endowment dedicated to providing international study opportunities to every full-time MBA student at the school, at no additional cost to the student.
Single-parent households have less money and less time for children. To be sure, many single parents are heroic, but it’s a struggle. Studies tell us “that children raised by single parents are significantly more likely to have children young, to drop out of high school, and to work less as young adults,” write UVA sociologist W. Bradford and Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution.
In January 2017, Dr. David Wilkes, dean of UVA’s School of Medicine, sat in the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center and watched a young black doctor speak about the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “I thought he needed to be at UVA,” Wilkes said.
With an undergraduate degree in history and a master’s degree from UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Malcolm Brogdon has known for some time he would expand his contributions to this world beyond the borders of a basketball court.
In his place, freshman guard Marco Anthony has been taken off the scout team and joined the starters in practice. And though he hasn’t been explicitly told if that will translate to playing time in Friday night’s NCAA Tournament opener against UMBC, Anthony thinks it’s a decent indicator that it will.
How will Virginia make up for the absence of De’Andre Hunter, the ACC’s sixth man of the year who suffered a season-ending broken wrist during the league tournament? The Cavaliers have options, and matchups in this NCAA tournament may determine how coach Tony Bennett answers that question.
Because people sometimes have hyperkalemia with a normal ECG, the KardiaBand won’t catch hyperkalemia for everyone, says William J. Brady, a professor of internal medicine at the UVA School of Medicine.
Experts said Sen. Jeff Flake’s trip to the first-in-the-nation primary state could mean he is testing the presidential waters, but that his chance of winning such a race would be “infinitesimal” in the words of one analyst. Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, agreed that if Flake is “visiting New Hampshire, obviously he’s at least considering the idea” of a presidential run.
Prevention over preparation was the focus of a community forum on school safety held Thursday at Charlottesville High School. A presentation led by Dewey Cornell, a UVA professor of education, laid out the higher likelihood children would face violence outside of schools. “School not being safe is a misperception,” Cornell said. “Our young people are 70 percent more likely to die outside a school than inside a school.”
(Commentary) UVA law professor Michael Gilbert argues correctly in his February essay, “Transparency and Corruption: A General Analysis”: “We should not abandon transparency, but we need alternative reasons to support it.” Without new justifications, disclosure laws may soon fall to the relentless attacks from campaign-finance deregulation zealots.