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.
The University of Virginia is the latest public university to accept the General Assembly’s budget deal to freeze some in-state tuition increases. Tuition for most incoming and returning in-state students will remain the same during the 2019-20 school year. UVA will receive a $5.52 million increase in its base appropriations to offset the freeze.
Easter Sunday is a time of worship for Christians across the globe. Some people in Charlottesville started celebrating early Sunday morning before the sun was up. It was all thanks to a man who had a vision for people to come together on the holiday. For the past four years, dozens of people have gathered at the University of Virginia Amphitheater to help that vision become reality. Professors, athletes and students gave testimony and homily.
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.
School violence and shootings add to teachers' already high stress levels, said Patricia Jennings, a UVA professor who studies teacher stress. "It's kind of like the straw that broke the camel's back," she said.
Here comes considerable insight into the 40th president: The University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy will offer a graduate-level course titled “Lessons in Leadership: Reagan,” meant to parse the historical and political context of Ronald Reagan’s presidency – and how it translates to today’s political landscape.
In the mid-20th century, “As marijuana penetrates further into the country, more cities and states start adopting prohibitions, and [they’re] clearly related to immigration – not only from Mexico, but also from the Caribbean,” said Richard Bonnie, a drug policy expert at the University of Virginia School of Law and co-author of “The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States.”
Last spring, the Virginia men’s basketball team suffered one of the most shocking upsets in sports—becoming the first top-seeded team in the history of NCAA’s “March Madness” tournament to lose to a lowest-ranked 16 seed. This April, in the same tournament, Virginia won its first title. That the Cavaliers ascended from humiliation to celebration is a testament to Bennett’s coaching skills. Inheriting a program that attracts relatively few stars, Bennett built a contender by stressing passing and disciplined, stifling defense. And after last year’s defeat, Bennett gave his players leeway to tal...
Tony Bennett, head men’s basketball coach for the University of Virginia Cavaliers, has placed 48/50 in Fortune Magazine’s ‘World’s 50 Greatest Leaders’ article.
Attorney General William Barr launched a strident political defense of the president Thursday shortly before releasing special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report. Ken Hughes, an expert on Watergate at the University of Virginia, said Barr’s comments on Trump line up with defenses offered by the Nixon White House.
Tapes revealed that President Richard Nixon and his top advisers were involved in covering up a break-in at a Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Nixon resigned before he could be impeached, becoming the first president to step down. Several of his top advisers – including the White House lawyer, chief of staff and attorney general – did prison time. Nominated by: Barbara A. Perry, Director of Presidential Studies and Co-Chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
If former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe tries and succeeds in reaching the Executive Mansion again, he’ll be only the second governor to do so since Virginia began electing governors. Virginia’s current one, four-year term was considered progressive at the time of the passage of the 1851 constitution that put it into code, according to Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
The congressman who represents Akron and the Youngstown area is running for president, but to say Tim Ryan is a dark horse might be an understatement. Kyle Kondik, a northeast Ohio native who is the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball newsletter at UVA’s Center for Politics, talked about Ryan's candidacy.
West Virginia's population loss would likely continue for the next 20 years, according to projections from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. In the 1990s, a high immigration population and increased birth meant a younger age profile for the nation.
Ivy Tech Community College and the University of Virginia have announced a new partnership. The agreement allows Ivy Tech students who complete the Liberal Arts Associate in Arts or Associate in Science program to continue working toward an online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies through the University of Virginia.
The second-place winners of the Commonwealth Challenge and the Social Impact Challenge were awarded to two teams from the University of Virginia.
Wylie kindly took time away from teaching photography and his work as director of UVA’s Studio Art Department to share by email his creative process, and how he sees Pompeii both through the camera lens and through time. And essentially, what Pompeii means to him.
(By Mark Edmundson, University Professor of English) Though America had been a nation for nearly 80 years, it was incomplete. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution – those were political documents, pragmatic in their designs for democracy. What America lacked was what Emerson called for: an evocation of what being a democratic man or woman felt like at its best, day to day, moment to moment.