Lyndon Johnson benefited tremendously from longtime relationships on Capitol Hill, where he had been Senate Majority Leader, but aide Walter Jenkins "was like a son to him," and would sit outside LBJ's room at night in case the president wanted to talk, notes Barbara Perry, co-chair of the presidential oral history program at UVA’s Miller Center.
Christopher Ruhm, an economist and UVA professor, is researching the opioid crisis. He discovered most death certificates just say 'drug poisoning' as cause of death, not the actual type of drug. "If we want to come up with policies we need to understand what's going on," he said. "If we're going to design treatment programs, if we're going to have doctors being aware of risk factors, we need to have an accurate picture."
Belbase and Sanzenbacher point to 2012 study from Timothy Salthouse, director of UVA’s Cognitive Aging Laboratory, which found that the cognitive abilities that decline with age don’t necessarily impair real-world functioning.
A nonprofit organization at UVA is spreading some holiday cheer thanks to donations from students and the community. UVA's Madison House collected over $40,000 in donations for 150 families in the Charlottesville-Albemarle area.
Richmond-based Dominion Virginia Power unveiled the first phase of a 452-kilowatt solar array at the University of Virginia on Tuesday morning. When complete, the array on a sunny day will generate enough electricity to power 91 homes.
A new study released Thursday shows UVA as a big contributor to local, regional and state economies.
The latest economic impact study conducted on the subject shows the University of Virginia's College at Wise pumped $84 million annually into Virginia's economy and a $64 million economic impact on the seven coal-producing county region and City of Norton during the 2015 fiscal year.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise pumped $84 million into the state’s economy and had a $64 million overall economic impact in Southwest Virginia in 2015, according to a new economic impact study.
UVA contributed about $5.9 billion to the state economy in fiscal year 2015, according to a report from an outside consulting firm.
Local offices in Virginia are nonpartisan, at least in theory. Republicans are challenging that in the courts, saying that voters should not be denied important information about the candidates on the ballot. Geoff Skelley, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, weighs in.
UVA swimmer and Olympic gold medalist Leah Smith won the 800-meter freestyle at the 2016 FINA Short Course World Championships Thursday in Windsor, Ontario.
A study conducted by UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and released in August provides the strongest evidence of the presence of feelings of involuntary subordination among Trump supporters.
Better classroom instruction is one answer to reducing the racial discipline gap, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Virginia, Rutgers University and University of British Columbia.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said it’s good for the country. “Maybe they are both just making nice the way they are supposed to do during the transition. Even if they are pretending, it’s a good thing, since the country is so divided,” he said. “Imagine if Trump and Obama were feuding. The situation would be so much worse.”
What is older than the Civil War, grows on the grounds of one of the finest universities in the nation, and displays golden foliage into the first week of meteorological winter? The answer is the University of Virginia’s Pratt Ginkgo tree.
Under the Bayou State’s unique system, all 24 Senate candidates appeared on the Nov. 8 general election ballot. None received a majority, so on Saturday the top two vote-getters will face off: Republican John Kennedy, the state’s treasurer since 2000, and Democrat Foster Campbell, a Louisiana public service commissioner. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an election predictor at UVA’s Center for Politics, argued that Campbell could be benefiting from Democrats being thwarted at the presidential level.
A school-based intervention that promotes warm and caring interactions between a teacher and child can reduce the child's stress in the classroom, a new UVA study found.
The National Science Foundation is pumping $76 million in research grants into academic cybersecurity programs aimed at “human-centered” security for the Internet of Things and computer chips that prove their own trustworthiness, among other projects. The largest new projects include “Verifiable Hardware: Chips That Prove Their Own Correctness,” at UVA, New York University, the University of California-San Diego, Yale University and CUNY’s City College.
UVA is moving forward with its push for renewable energy across the University. The installation of a new solar panel system is only the beginning for students, faculty, and staff.
UVA has partnered with Dominion Virginia Power to expand an effort to use renewable energy. It's part of Dominion Solar Partnership Program, which leases space on commercial buildings for the installation of solar panels.