The wording of the statute does not appear to offer discretion to the commissioner of the IRS to refuse Neal’s request. However, the situation amounts to “uncharted territory” given that there has not previously been an occasion where a request for tax returns under the little-used statute has been refused, according to George K. Yin, a UVA law professor who has testified on the topic before the Ways and Means Committee.
In early 2016, Kyle Kondik, an Ohio-born political analyst at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics and the managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a closely read newsletter on national politics, published a book called “The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President.” It was a dead-on, 100% correct examination of the many social, historical, demographic and ideological reasons why Ohio had been a bellwether state in presidential elections for such a long time.
Contrary to those who argue that Sanders creates fissures in Democratic ranks, UVA politics professor Larry Sabato argued that such divisions are unlikely to occur.
Over 12,000 Boy Scout members were allegedly sexually abused by troop leaders and volunteers, according to an expert who has been investigating the alleged abuse over the past five years. Dr. Janet Warren, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia’s medical school, testified as part of a January trial about child sex abuse at a Minnesota children's theater company. Her extensive investigation into the handling of sexual abuse within the Boy Scouts from 1944 through 2016 found that as many as 7,819 troop leaders and volunteers alleg...
The existence of the Boy Scout files – known as the "perversion files," listing scoutmasters or troop leaders accused of sexual abuse – has been known since a 2012 court case in the state of Oregon. But Anderson said a court case this year in Minnesota had revealed numbers of victims and perpetrators that were higher than previously known. He said the new figures came from an audit performed by Janet Warren of the University of Virginia, who has been working with the Boy Scouts of America. "She says there are over 12,000 victims identified in those files," Anderson said.
Almost 8,000 leaders in the Boy Scouts of America have been accused of sexually abusing children going back decades, according to records the organization has maintained. Janet Warren, a UVA professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences, reviewed the records and testified in January about her findings in a trial involving allegations of child sexual abuse in a separate case, Jeff Anderson, a lawyer who works with sexual abuse victims, said at a press conference on Tuesday.
A report from UVA researchers at says soft bedding caused nearly 70% of sleeping-related suffocation deaths. They say unintentional suffocation is the No. 1 cause of death in babies less than a year old.
U-Hall on the University of Virginia Grounds is being torn down, but you can still visit it and see how it looked online. The 50-year-old sports arena which opened in 1965 and closed in 2015, has been preserved through 3-D images.
After a lengthy search process, UVA has named an interim dean to lead the School of Nursing once longtime dean Dorrie Fontaine steps down. Pamela Cipriano is a research associate professor of nursing at UVA. She was also president of the American Nurses Association from 2014 until December, representing the interests of the nation’s 4 million registered nurses. She will take her new role on Aug. 1, according to UVA, and will serve until a permanent successor is named.
MGT has enlisted the help of a program within the University of Virginia to help train principals and improve district leadership. The MGT proposal calls first for identifying the schools that need the most help and creating “learning labs” on some campuses for intensive work with the university.
At the University of Virginia, a student-led campaign of petitions and contacting donors, state legislators and local school districts successfully led administrators in Charlottesville to heighten their commitment to financial aid. Dannenberg said the UVA model could be applied at Northwestern.
(Commentary by Larry J. Sabato and Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics) President Donald Trump thrives on chaos, much of it his own creation. But it would be a mistake to assume that the re-election campaign of this most un-traditional president will mirror the tumult of his 2016 effort.
People in Charlottesville will soon say goodbye to the former home of the UVA basketball team. However, its history and architecture are being preserved for generations to come.
UVA is one of two colleges in Virginia that had the highest six-year graduation rates among U.S. public institutions.
The inventor of the “front page of the internet” and Initialized Capital cofounder (and Mr. Serena Williams) takes our career questionnaire.
George Yin, a UVA professor of law, said that it is rare for the judiciary to step in and block a congressional subpoena based on lack of a legitimate legislative purpose. “In 1880, the Court refused to enforce the Congressional subpoena because the investigation related — as the court interpreted it — to a purely private matter, the influence of a bankruptcy on a private company,” he said.
U.S. death certification data show that the number of bed-related accidental suffocations nearly quadrupled with increased bed sharing, from 6 deaths per 100,000 infants in 1999 to 23 per 100,000 in 2015, the report noted. Dr. Rachel Moon, a UVA pediatrics professor not involved in the study, told the Associated Press that the study's results are not surprising. “Every day I talk to parents who have lost babies. They thought they were doing the right thing, and it seems safe and it seems OK, until you lose a baby,” Moon said.
Friday's outbreak of 15 confirmed tornadoes left several areas in Virginia with extensive damage. UVA climatologist Jerry Stenger says it was not a record tornado outbreak for the commonwealth. "The [National] Weather Service is still conducting additional investigations to see if there were other tornadoes that can be confirmed. So we don't have a final count yet," he said.
The concept of the fully autonomous vehicle is enticing – a place where you could catch up on email, check the news of the day, or even play in augmented-reality games while commuting to work, as the vehicle does all the driving. Nicola Bezzo works at the intersection of the physical and cyberworlds. An assistant professor in UVA’s Department of Systems and Information Engineering with a dual appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he researches autonomous systems and assesses the threats to them.
Accidental suffocation is a leading cause of injury deaths in U.S. infants and common scenarios involve blankets, bed-sharing with parents and other unsafe sleep practices, an analysis of government data found. These deaths "are entirely preventable. That's the most important point," said Dr. Fern Hauck, a co-author and University of Virginia expert in infant deaths.