“It’s disappointing the SEC did not act earlier, and the correspondence raises serious questions about why the SEC did not act earlier,” said Andrew Vollmer, a UVA law professor and a former deputy general counsel of the SEC.
One particular inquiry back in 1979 seems to have predicted the current state of presidential politics. That year, UVA professor James Ceaser published his dissertation in a book entitled “Presidential Selection.” In a recent interview published in The Atlantic, Ceaser, who has taught politics at UVA since 1976, summarized his argument about how changing the presidential selection process in the U.S. changed the field of candidates for the nation’s highest office.
Since 1982, the drug overdose mortality rate has risen by 425 percent, adjusting for population. They have eclipsed motor vehicle fatalities as a leading cause of death in the United States, according to a new working paper from Christopher J. Ruhm of the University of Virginia.
Ban-the-box policies have received mixed reviews. Two studies – including one from the University of Virginia's Jennifer Doleac and the University of Oregon's Benjamin Hansen – suggested banning the box led to less hiring of young African-American men without criminal records because it made employers more likely to profile applicants by race and gender.
“Another unflattering episode is always just around the corner,” Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said. “The e-mail matter is a persistent, low-grade fever that won’t kill her candidacy, but will weaken public trust in her during the remainder of her public career.”
Deans of Virginia University Libraries to Chairman Goodlatte: First Do No Harm in Copyright Revision
(Commentary by Brandon Butler, UVA Library’s director of information policy) John Unsworth, the dean and director of the UVA Library, joined with his colleagues at William & Mary, Virginia Tech, George Mason and VCU to send an important letter to House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte this morning.
A new study involving the University of Virginia finds that older, frail Americans – up to 4 million of them – live at home, but are not getting the health care they need. Aaron Yao, an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences in UVA’s School of Medicine, said bringing back the house call can greatly help this population.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine have discovered a flaw in the armor of the most aggressive form of lung cancer, a weakness that doctors may be able to exploit to slow or even stop the disease. Remarkably, this vulnerability stems from the very aggressiveness that makes the cancer so deadly.
On Nov. 18 and Nov. 19, UVA will hold a symposium on the legacy urban planner Jane Jacobs. Jacobs, who died in 2006, is best known for her 1961 work “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” “Her connection to UVA is that she received the Thomas Jefferson Medal in 1996,” Charlottesville City Councilor Kathy Galvin said.
The UVA Global Greeters are a group of students with a mission to help international newcomers adjust to the American lifestyle. With the number of international students continuing to grow each year, the program has become a necessity.
(By Jack Hamilton, UVA assistant professor of American studies and media studies) What “The Get Down” is not is “a mythic saga that chronicles the rise of hip-hop and the last days of disco,” as its press materials claim, unless “mythic” is meant in the way that, say, unicorns or Jedis are mythic: a cool idea uncorroborated by reality.
In 2014, UVA’s Amalia Miller and Carmit Segal of the University of Zurich found that more women police officers reduce violence against women – especially rape, sexual assault and homicide. It helps men, too: Fewer husbands are killed by their wives.
When Bronco Mendenhall accepted the Virginia job in December, it came as a surprise to many. Maybe Thomas Jefferson did the recruiting? UVA’s founder had some philosophies that seem to have resonance with Mendenhall.
(Commentary) Thomas Jefferson, writing about the University of Virginia he created, understood the aims of a university well. “This institution,” noted Jefferson, “will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” Can we follow the truth wherever it may lead when there is a pervasive fear that someone might be carrying a weapon?
Jack W. Gravely, a Virginia civil rights icon and radio talk show host died Monday at a Richmond hospital. He received his undergraduate degree from Fayetteville State University in North Carolina and his Juris Doctor in Law from the UVA School of Law.
Meanwhile, UVA’s Crystal Ball Director Larry Sabato and team predict Clinton will win 347 Electoral College votes.
“Just about everybody has recognized that the Republican Party is deeply divided, and really, it’s in a mess,” said Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics.
David Martin, a former Homeland Security official now at the UVA School of Law, said that while Trump’s proposal is probably legal, it is “inconsistent with our constitutional values.”
UVA Rector William H. Goodwin appointed an ad hoc committee Monday to take “a fresh and objective” look at the school’s disputed $2.2 billion Strategic Investment Fund. Goodwin asked for a report back by the Board of Visitors’ September meeting but made clear he believes a second look will vindicate the fund as a model others soon will follow.
Quite a bit of John F. Kennedy’s public persona was privately molded by his wife, according to a new documentary, “JFK: Fact and Fable,” that combines archival footage and stills of JFK and his young family with commentary by historian and author Thurston Clarke and Kennedy biographer Larry Sabato, who directs UVA’s Center for Politics.