Matthew Crawford, a senior fellow UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, sees good sense at work among those who leave office jobs for something more concrete-seeming. The reason? Much white-collar work has become similar to assembly-line work, comprising a series of mindless tasks.
An in-depth look at the financial relationship between the commonwealth and UVA and other Virginia public colleges and universities.
Lamar Jackson hadn’t been himself all day, and Virginia’s defense had been good enough to lay the groundwork for an upset over No. 5 Louisville at Scott Stadium. But Virginia’s final touchdown and daring two-point conversion to take the lead left the Heisman Trophy front-runner too much time – 1 minute 57 seconds – to squeeze out a win.
Larry Sabato, the noted political prognosticator at UVA’s Center for Politics, predicts Democrats will pick up Senate seats in Wisconsin and Illinois, with six seats, including four GOP incumbents, rated as toss-ups.
For the Charlottesville-based Focused Ultrasound Foundation, this is a big win. In July, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave its approval to a focused ultrasound device to treat essential tremor, a condition that affects several million people in the U.S. The expanded use of focused ultrasound is an important development. “It opens the door for [treating] Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy and all those other” conditions related to brain function, says Dr. Neal Kassell, the founder and chairman of the foundation and a UVA professor of neurosurgery.
The FBI did not announce a "criminal investigation" – and most polls still give Clinton a lead – but FBI Director James Comey's letter to congressional leaders about a review of new information has roiled the election in ways that campaigns, pollsters and analysts are still trying to assess. Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor in presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, said Comey's letter is so vague that Trump and his aides can read anything they want into it.
Many of the state’s biggest GOP donors appear not to have given to Trump during 2016, according to a review of financial reports. “I would imagine the moneyed Republican donor crowd would like a candidate like Romney more than a candidate like Trump,” said Kyle Kondik, director of communications for UVA’s Center for Politics.
The plans instead are regulated at the federal level through the U.S. Department of Labor, which does step in and help consumers if the plans are being mismanaged. But the Labor Department is limited in what it can do, experts say. It cannot make a factual judgment as to whether a surgery or a procedure is truly considered experimental, for example. It focuses mostly on how plans are administered. “(The Labor Department) doesn’t have the resources to investigate complaints about disputes,” said Carolyn Engelhard, the director of the UVA School of Medicine’s health polic...
The Paramount Theater in downtown Charlottesville is getting people into the Halloween spirit with a special screening of the movie “Nosferatu.” The 1920s horror film is based off the story of Dracula. The silent movie is accompanied by live music written by local composer and UVA media studies professor Matthew Marshall.
Women are becoming more aware of the term "breast density," but they aren't as familiar with its relation to breast cancer risk or mammograms, according to a small U.S. study. "There's a national movement to increase women's awareness of breast density and help them make better health care decisions," said Jennifer Harvey, study author and co-director of the UVA Breast Care Program.
The UVA Women’s Center is offering students a safe place to talk about body image concerns. Students get together periodically throughout the semester for what's called The Body Project.
A UVA student has turned her favorite coffee spot into more than just a place to get some caffeine. Jacqueline O'Reilly saw unused space in the back of Grit Coffee Bar & Cafe on Elliewood Avenue and asked if it could be put to better use.
UVA senior swimmer and Olympic gold medalist Leah Smith was at Martinsville on Sunday for the Goody's Fast Relief 500, where she served as an honorary official at the NASCAR race.
(By Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor of Media Studies) Are we hurtling toward a point of peak advertising? Our attention is becoming so completely harvested that there may be little more of ourselves to give. The implications for newspapers, television networks and Internet companies could be dire.
The contribution of senescent cells to atherosclerosis has remained murky, but the new study provides “the best evidence that they are important,” says cardiovascular pathologist Gary Owens of the UVA School of Medicine, who wasn’t connected to the research.
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, says lawn signs really don't matter in the grand scheme of the campaign.
(By John M. Owen, professor of politics and faculty fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) At a Berlin conference of diplomats, academics, journalists and activists last March, a British colleague asked me how the same country that elected Barack Obama twice could be so close to replacing him with a man who is his diametrical opposite.
"All of these states are ones where Democrats have outperformed the top of the ticket in recent key Senate and/or gubernatorial races," said Kyle Kondik, who follows gubernatorial elections for The Crystal Ball, a UVA political newsletter.
The latest Crystal Ball Electoral College map from Larry Sabato reflects Republican Donald Trump’s sagging poll numbers and predicts a loss for Trump that will be worse than the drubbing Mitt Romney suffered in 2012 (and possibly as bad as the slaughter John McCain suffered in 2008).
The three counties around Cincinnati typically provide 2-to-1 margins and strong turnouts for the Republican nominees, and were credited with delivering the votes George W. Bush needed to clinch his 2004 re-election. In his book “The Bellwether,” Ohio native Kyle Kondik, of UVA’s Center for Politics, describes Butler, Warren and Clermont as a Republican “super-county.”