As the hills of Charlottesville flash their autumn colors, another rite of the season will be taking place: the 29th Virginia Film Festival, with more than 120 movies, from regional premieres to likely Oscar candidates, and a handful of stars. It is a four-day happening next week, Thursday through Sunday, at sites around the city, including UVA.
The idea of a driverless fleet of electric cars powering an autonomous ride-hailing service is a popular one right now – especially since Tesla announced that all its new vehicles are now equipped with the necessary hardware to achieve full autonomy through software updates. I think it could be a good opportunity to revisit a study from earlier this year that tried to estimates the cost of what we know now as a “Tesla Network ride” in a Model 3. The study, published in April by T. Donna Chen of the University of Virginia, Kara Kockelman and Josiah P. ...
The Albemarle County, Charlottesville and UVA police departments are working with the Shelter for Help in Emergency to help identify victims of domestic violence.
The State Council of Higher Education’s declaration that private gifts ought not affect public support is right on the money. The statement follows last summer’s revelations that UVA had amassed a Strategic Investment Fund worth more than $2 billion.
As many as 10 million Americans have a disorder that affects their everyday lives, uncontrollable shaking called essential tremor. Doctors are finding new ways to use focused ultrasound on the brain to treat it. UVA researchers just finished up a clinical trial and one young man’s life is changed forever because of it.
UVA research psychologists Jessica Witt and Dennis Proffitt set up a table beside a softball game. For a free sports drink, ballplayers – 47 in all – were asked to partake in a brief psychology experiment.
A recession – or even a decline in economic momentum – could rapidly expose the new president to criticism and change the ability of the new administration to accomplish its goals. “When the economy goes south in the first term, it’s a treacherous situation for a president hoping for re-election,” said Nicole Hemmer, a UVA presidential historian.
A small study out of the University of Virginia found that seasonal depression may be linked to a genetic mutation in the eye that makes SAD patients less sensitive to light.
A growing body of research suggests that “ban the box” – a popular progressive policy meant to help people with criminal records get jobs – should be nixed. In a working paper, Benjamin Hansen, an economics professor at University of Oregon, and Jennifer Doleac, a public policy and economics professor at University of Virginia, wrote, “These findings support the hypothesis that when an applicant’s criminal history is unavailable, employers statistically discriminate against demographic groups that include more ex-offenders.”
Leaders from Oman visited UVA on Wednesday to host a forum on health. The Minister of Health of Oman, Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Al-Saidi, has seen his country's lifespan double over the past 40 years. Today, it is almost comparable to countries in the Western world.
More than 3,600 people live in Staunton, Waynesboro or Augusta County and commute to Charlottesville or Albemarle County for work. A survey found 96 percent support for bus service between Harrisonburg and Charlottesville, with the University of Virginia, UVA Medical Center, downtown Charlottesville and James Madison University as top destinations.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce has selected UVA business professor William J. Kehoe to receive the prestigious Chamber Paul Goodloe McIntire Citizenship Award.
The drone industry likely will absorb some coal workers as part of a new grant package announced Wednesday by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. A $1.42 million portion of the grant will help three schools, including the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, in cyber security education.
(Commentary by Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics) Another week has passed in the presidential race and it appears that Donald Trump is not making up much, if any, ground on Hillary Clinton.
Even if it were accurate to say that Trump supports a change in birthright citizenship – something he has not been consistent about – he would still need to strip citizenship from those who already have it, and then deport them. And that would invite even more legal challenges than trying to remove or alter the 14th Amendment. "Such a retroactive statute would clearly be far more controversial than merely changing the rules prospectively," David A. Martin, an immigration, constitutional law and international law scholar and professor emeritus at the UVA School of Law, pre...
Although Ohio is more ethnically diverse than Iowa, it’s large white working-class population could also be responsible for Trump holding Clinton in at least a statistical dead heat there. UVA’s Kyle Kondik wrote in a recent article that the “growing educational difference in white voter preference – with Trump over-performing with non-college graduates and underperforming with college graduates – probably works more to Trump’s advantage in Ohio than it might in some other states.”
While the UVA team behind the popular political newsletter Sabato's Crystal Ball doesn't provide a probability prediction, its analysis of polling currently has the Democrat winning a landslide-esque 352 electoral college votes out of 538.
Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says the race is no longer considered a likely Republican win. “The fundraising data and Trump’s situation in Virginia has given us pause, and so we’ve moved the race to leans Republican."
A sign or sticker for a candidate supported by a majority of locals could help to sell your house to someone of similar beliefs, says Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics. "If a buyer is looking for a place that fits their views, a sign or sticker for a candidate who is supported by a majority of locals could conceivably help the seller," Skelley says. "But evidence of support for a candidate who is backed only by a minority of locals might hinder efforts to sell."
A recession – or even a decline in economic momentum – could rapidly expose the new president to criticism and change the ability of the new administration to accomplish its goals. “When the economy goes south in the first term, it’s a treacherous situation for a president hoping for reelection,” said Nicole Hemmer, a UVA presidential historian.