Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro also start the race in very different places, said Larry Sabato, Director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. Sabato said O’Rourke starts with a big fundraising network, more name recognition and is clearly one a top-tier candidate — as evidenced by the $80 million that O’Rourke raised in the U.S. Senate race he lost to Republican Ted Cruz.
In 2017 Facebook said it would hire 3,000 people to review videos and other posts, on top of the 4,500 people Facebook already tasks with identifying criminal and other questionable material for removal. But that's just a drop in the bucket of what is needed to police the social media platform, said Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy." If Facebook wanted to monitor every livestream to prevent disturbing content from making it out in the first place, "they would have to hire millions of people," something it's not willing to do,...
It’s not known why no attorney general has ever petitioned the court to have a suspected alien terrorist removed, despite reports of alien terrorists in the U.S. over the years. “I honestly don’t know why it has not decided any cases, but there has been speculation that concerns about its constitutionality may have played a part,” said Robert F. Turner, a professor at the University of Virginia who is familiar with the court.
One of the grants enabled the schools to bring in a consultant, Dr. Julia Taylor of the University of Virginia, who is an assistant professor in the counselor education program at the Curry School of Education & Human Development. A former school counselor and dean of an all-girls’ school in Raleigh, Taylor is an expert on helping school staff work with traumatized children. Last August she met with Orange County Public Schools school psychologists, counselors and social workers. She also met with school administrators and held training sessions for teachers at every school.
Beyond her research accomplishments, Low is remembered at Columbia for championing diversity as an advocate for women and a member of the university’s affirmative action committee. “She was leading a charge that really improved the situation for women in science, and she suffered a lot of bruises for it,” says Philip Bourne, a former postdoc of Low and now a professor at the University of Virginia, in the Columbia memorial.
William Brady, a professor for Emergency Medicine at UVA urged people to use good judgment when deciding what mode of transportation to get to the hospital. "Things like chest pain, shortness of breath, a heart attack, a stroke or a severe asthma attack are just the beginning of the list of emergencies and without a doubt, those patients should call 911," said Brady. "One of the worst things that could happen, an Uber driver is driving you in and you could have a worsening of your condition that's going to distract the driver and could cause an accident."
(Commentary by by Elizabeth Varon, Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History) "Ever since the Lee unveiling," Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Virginia wrote to a Massachusetts friend in 1891, "I have felt that this was no place for me." This was a remarkable and revealing confession. Van Lew had long been at odds with the majority of her fellow white Richmonders: while they supported the Confederacy, she had stayed loyal to the Union and played a heroic role during the Civil War as the head of an interracial Federal espionage network in the rebel capital.
(Co-written by W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia) Has the rise of screen culture—smartphones, gaming, and tablets—hurt relationships? It’s an important question as research shows that the current cohort of young adults (i.e., Millenials and iGen) are dating less, marrying less, and having sex less than older cohorts did when they were the same age. These studies, which have focused on unmarried individuals, have speculated that these relationship trends are due—in part—to the contemporary experience of omnipresent interactive technology...
People working on a project at the University of Virginia are working to rediscover the hidden stories of black nurses from the 1950s to the 1980s. Though UVA didn’t train black nurses in the ’50s and ’60s, it had an affiliated program that did. Now, the Hidden Nurses Project aims to rebuild that history into awareness and recognition.
Frequent snoring can lead to more serious problems, but research at the University of Virginia may have found the cure to those sleepless nights.
Webster Santos, professor of chemistry and the Cliff and Agnes Lilly Faculty Fellow in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, has received a $2.8 million award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to discover drugs to inhibit a small molecule transporter. Blocking this transporter modulates the immune system and has implications both in treating autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, and in immune-oncology. Santos received this research grant in collaboration with Kevin Lynch, a professor of pharmacology at the University of Virginia. Lynch will oversee th...
Home to the University of Virginia’s Fontaine Research Park, restaurants and residences, including those of many students, the Fontaine Avenue project was awarded $11.7 million in Smart Scale funding from the Commonwealth Transportation Board in 2016.
Pennsylvania state representative James R. Roebuck, the first African-American president of the University of Virginia Student Council, will speak at a symposium on education, equity and engagement. The symposium will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at the Rotunda. “Engagement through Experience: A Fifty-Year Look” is the first of a series of events that revisits and reimagines education and equity through the lens of important events in the life of Charlottesville and UVA.
The University of Virginia’s Center for Survey Research is recruiting residents in Central Virginia to be part of a standing survey pool in an effort to more easily and affordably conduct representative surveys.
The University of Virginia is launching an online survey that is intended to get advice and ideas from people in the Charlottesville community. The survey panel is called BeHeardCVA, and it will be conducted by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. It's the first survey of its kind in the state. People who sign up for BeHeardCVA will be sent a series of surveys.
A program at the University of Virginia has launched a new resource tool to help people in the Charlottesville area search for jobs.
Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia was created in 1954 to improve higher education access and opportunities for Southwest Virginia. More than six decades later and now named the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, the school still focuses on that mission, even with a wider scope of responsibilities and opportunities.
(By Rajesh Balkrishnan, professor of public health sciences, and Randy A. Jones, professor of nursing) African-American men have the highest risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer as well as dying from it compared to any other ethnic group in the U.S. Although research has focused on identifying the biological differences that may lead to this difference, there’s growing evidence that distinct racial and ethnic disparities in prostate cancer treatment, and the quality of medical care in African-American men, contribute to this disparity.
Amy White and 14 of her UVA classmates piled into cars and headed south for spring break last weekend. They weren’t headed to the beach or a Caribbean cruise. Their destination was Greensboro. Their goal: to roof houses and build a handicap ramp for people in need.
As one of four teams with a double bye in the ACC basketball tournament, Virginia knows that seven games will be played before it steps onto the floor at the Spectrum Center. Seven conference teams already will be eliminated.