(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.
“Between 2010 and 2040, we predict the nation’s 65-plus population will grow by roughly 90 percent,” Hamilton Lombard, a UVA demographics researcher, said. “In some areas of the country, most of the population growth will come from retirees.”
On Monday, Democrats Kathy Galvin and Sally Hudson squared off in a debate at the University of Virginia. These two women are hoping to win the 57th District seat that’s currently held by outgoing Del. David Toscano. Among the people represented in that district are UVA students, so Hudson and Galvin attempted to show these young voters why they are the best choice for the job Monday night.
The University of Virginia is reversing course on a planned increase in in-state tuition for undergraduates. The University’s Board of Visitors said Friday that it would roll back the previously approved 2.9% increase for 2019-20 and hold base tuition for all in-state undergraduate students at the 2018-19 level for another year.
In a debate at the University of Virginia, state delegate candidates Kathy Galvin and Sally Hudson leaned into themes of equity and encouraged the students present to participate in the election process.
It started with Amazon’s announcement of HQ2 in Northern Virginia. Virginia Tech announced it would build a $1 billion innovation campus next door, then the University of Virginia and George Mason University announced investments in computer science schools. At this point, universities across the region are joining the race to train the next generation of computer scientists.
Bill Ruddiman, an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia, believes the Anthropocene began thousands of years ago, when humans first cleared land for agriculture. This, he argues, reduced the extent of ice cover globally by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, thereby warming the planet.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Sanders was “sending a very clear signal to the party that, ‘If you want me to play ball – whether I win or lose the nomination – then don’t intervene in any way in the nomination process.’”
“If I am going to a brain surgeon, I want someone who has trained to do brain surgery,” said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. “For someone with virtually no knowledge of government and really no knowledge of politics to sweep into power still dumbfounds me.”
A big question is whether a court case would be over before the 2020 presidential election, when voters will be deciding whether to give Trump a second term. A lawsuit would likely be filed in federal district court in D.C., and some legal experts argue that at a minimum a district court judge could make a ruling on a case before the election because many of the facts are fairly straightforward. “My reading of it is [a court case] could be very fast,” said University of Virginia law professor George Yin.
The new findings fit well with this emerging story of genetics driving social behaviors, says Kevin Pelphrey, Harrison-Wood Professor of Neurology at the University of Virginia, who was not involved with the study. “This new paper points to the importance of examining the genes that drive individual differences,” he says.
Many parents think what they're doing is safe and OK, until they lose their baby. “It is very, very distressing that in the U.S. we’re just seeing this resistance, or persistence of these high numbers,” said Dr. Fern Hauck, a University of Virginia expert in infant deaths.