Demographers at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service have warned that the populations of the coal counties will decline even faster than they have been. Right now, the coalfields are losing about 600 people a year just through the natural process of deaths outnumbering births. People moving out simply add to that.
As confusion about political values and media literacy grows, a symposium sponsored by Common Law Grounds at the UVA School of Law hopes to shed light on the importance of democracy in the current media environment.
The University of Virginia is shining a light on slavery through a unique experience. Wednesday night, students and others spent their night sleeping outside as part of "The Slave Dwelling Project Experience on Grounds."
As tensions rise amid a North Korea nuclear threat, UVA’s Miller Center is taking a close look at the circumstances. The discussion “Assessing the North Korea Threat” is part of the Miller Center's “American Forum” public affairs program. Wednesday, a staff writer with the New Yorker magazine, Evan Osnos, joined host Douglas Blackmon in this talk.
The fourth annual Stay Healthy, Stay Happy initiative is being organized by Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, director of UVA’s Midlife Health Center. The event features women’s health professionals from the UVA Health System and the community who will present current information on healthy living and eating, mental health, addiction, heart attack prevention and menopause.
(Commentary by Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics ) While November’s political spotlight will shine brightest on the gubernatorial contest at the top of the ticket, there will also be many interesting races down-ballot in the Old Dominion on Election Day. The General Assembly’s lower house will probably look a little different after Nov. 7, but the question is, how different?
UVA is trying to help experts get a handle on the opioid crisis sweeping the commonwealth. Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources Dr. William Hazel Jr. helped break down the crisis during a talk at UVA Wednesday.
Here is what is at stake: The Founding Fathers wrote a clause into the Constitution saying U.S. officials cannot accept "any present, Emolument, Office, or Title" from foreign governments without the consent of Congress. Trump's critics say that by refusing to sell off his global businesses, the president is failing to uphold the Constitution. "I definitely have the view that no one has standing to bring an Emoluments Clause challenge," said Saikrishna Prakash, who teaches constitutional law at the University of Virginia Law School. He said emoluments are for Congress to consider.
If we want to inspire our students to believe they can achieve more, we cannot afford to praise them cheaply. “To motivate students – especially older students who are more discerning and better able to appreciate the differences between what is said and what is meant – teachers need to avoid praise that is not truthful … or has not been earned,” writes Daniel T Willingham, a UVA professor of cognitive psychology.
As far as value-based care goes, experts say, unwarranted medical assessments are a clear bust. “Despite strong evidence for the negative effects of routine daily laboratory testing on patients, there remains a need for improved implementation of this high-value measure,” says Andrew Parsons of the UVA School of Medicine and the senior author of the paper, published in JAMA Internal Medicine. “We want to do things for patients, not to patients.”
(Co-written by Larry J. Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics) The federal government’s long campaign to try to choke off rampant conspiracy theories about the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy is threatening to end this month in massive confusion, if not chaos.
Eating yogurt rich in lactobacillus a probiotic bacteria may help alleviate symptoms of depression and anxiety, a finding that could lead to new strategies for treating psychiatric conditions, researchers have found. Depression is a huge problem and the treatments are not very good, because they come with huge side effects. "The study will help us not to bother with complex drugs and side effects when we can just play with the microbiome. It would be magical just to change your diet, to change the bacteria you take, and fix your health and your mood," said lead researcher Alban Gaultier from t...
A decades-old program at the University of Virginia has been granted departmental status. The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies was granted the new status in June by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.
Two Virginia localities -- Charlottesville and the Alexandria/Arlington -- made the top 25 list of the magazine's "Happiest Cities in the United States" list. "Along the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville has ample opportunities for getting outdoors between visits to Monticello and the University of Virginia -- both listed as World Heritage sites," the article said.
Almost 200 years after his death, the University of Virginia has been working to make the hundreds of books on Thomas Jefferson’s legal reading list available to the public through an online library.
Chris Long is donating the rest of his year's salary to increase educational equality.The Philadelphia Eagles' defensive end and UVA alumnus already gave up his first six game checks to provide two scholarships for students in Charlottesville. Now, he's using the next 10 to launch the “Pledge 10 for Tomorrow” campaign.
The first time Rick Mayes offered his class on American health care at UVA, three years ago, about a dozen students signed up. This year, Mayes had to cap the number he could accept at 60.
Meanwhile, Trump has taken to answering questions during pool photo ops and while departing from the South Lawn on Marine One, a move that Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said he borrowed from Ronald Reagan -- and used to contrast his own moving figure with an unruly mob of pursuers. “We get a lot more formal news conferences from other presidents. Even recent ones tended to have more formal situations than Trump has or likes,” Sabato said. “He’s not very good in a formal setting. He doesn’t do well. He certainly doesn’t look or act very presidential. I think he’s awar...
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the Sabato's Crystal Ball publication at UVA’s Center for Politics, says there is an argument to be made that Pennsylvania makes a fairly decent microcosm of where the country stands right now in terms of who holds the power in government -- and it's a decent bellwether by which to gauge next November's midterm elections.