Filming is taking place in Richmond for “Permanent,” a new feature film starring Patricia Arquette and Rainn Wilson. The writer and director is UVA alumna Colette Burson, co-creator and executive producer of the HBO series “Hung.”
UVA football player Eric Smith is working with Albemarle County police to help at-risk youth get on the right track.
Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton of the University of Virginia, the executive director of The North American Menopause Society, agrees that lifestyle factors and genetics are likely behind the link between later reproductive milestones and longevity.
Just like he did at BYU, new Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall is pushing for his team to wear throwback style uniforms, though Mendenhall said the concept hasn’t been approved by the university yet.
The voter registrations for more than 100 Charlottesville-area residents are in limbo after the Supreme Court of Virginia threw out Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s order restoring voting rights for convicted felons across Virginia. A.E. Dick Howard, a UVA legal scholar who supported McAuliffe’s decision, said Monday that he disagrees with Lemons’ ruling.
Several law professors noted that cases typically rise and fall on the facts, not the prowess of the lawyers involved. Kimberly Ferzan, a professor at the UVA School of Law, added that youth can be a positive when it comes to trial work. “It can bring energy to a case,” she said.
“By the time Roger Ailes comes along, there’s already a generation of conservatives who are used to seeking out alternative sources of media,” says Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at UVA’s Miller Center. “The kind of media that these conservative activists developed are focused on ideas and ideology and didn’t necessarily have to grapple with the pragmatics of politics.”
The Clinton campaign has been careful not to criticize Sanders or his supporters so as not to inflame passions that are already running hot. “The more they press against the Sanders delegates, the more they’ll come dressed in Hillary outfits and then take it off and pull out the Bernie banners and all the rest of it,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Siva Vaidhyanathan is known as a scholarly expert on privacy. This summer, that knowledge is being showcased in a highly public setting. Vaidhyanathan, UVA’s Robertson Professor of Modern Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship, is being portrayed by an actor in an off-Broadway hit production of “Privacy” at the Public Theater in New York City.
What exactly does it mean to be a global leader? It’s part of the learning leader’s job to figure that out. But jotting down a list of key competencies they should possess oversimplifies the issue, said Scott Beardsley, dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business. A global leader’s functional role will drive the skills required for success. Darden’s James Clawson laid out 11 key characteristics for a global business leader.
"In terms of the management of insanity acquittees, generally, it is common to have this very carefully titrated doses of liberty approach, with gradual doses of freedom and a fairly tight monitoring system," explained UVA law professor Richard Bonnie, who specializes in mental health and criminal law. "That is the model."
The first substantive time Bill Clinton got up on a national stage, as the keynote speaker at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, he utterly bombed. "There was some concern at the time ... that he might have put himself out of contention for any political future," recalls Russell Riley, a professor at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and author of two forthcoming books on Clinton.
As TV dramas get better and better, book publishers are hoping to convert binge TV watchers into binge readers. "I don't think that people really consume books in the same way that they consume TV shows," says Jane Friedman, who teaches digital media and publishing at UVA.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics) After Donald Trump picked Mike Pence to be his running mate two weeks ago, we suggested that Trump could end up taking at least a temporary lead because of the convention bounce that presidential candidates typically get after their conventions. It appears that Trump has in fact gotten a bounce, at least in some polls.
The Democratic platform states, “We oppose … the use of student test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, a practice which has been repeatedly rejected by researchers.” Several researchers who study teacher evaluation, including UVA’s Jim Wyckoff, say the suggestion that there is a scholarly consensus against using test scores in teacher evaluation is misleading.
In the wake of Kaine's selection, Sabato's Crystal Ball, a non-partisan newsletter produced by UVA’s Center for Politics, moved Virginia from "leans Democratic" to "likely Democratic." It cited a recent study finding that "vice presidential candidates increased a ticket’s performance in their home state by 2.67 points on average from 1884-2012. In a competitive state, that’s not nothing."
The research firm put several key swing states within Trump’s grasp based on recent statewide polls that show Donald Trump making significant gains in Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. UVA’s Center for Politics awarded all of those swing states to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton based on voter demographics.
UVA’s Center for Politics aggregated 22 national polls and found that the gender gap between Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is a record 24 points.
Newly released data from the U.S. Department of Education shows 65 percent of school districts in Virginia reported zero incidents of sexual harassment in 2014, but the data is at odds with a recent UVA study that showed approximately 30 percent of high school students claim they experienced some form of sexual harassment last school year.
For professional athletes and weekend warriors alike, it appeared to be welcome news: the discovery by researchers of a new knee ligament that, if repaired, might help tens of thousands of people with an injury from sports or an accident. “Even if you think this ligament exists, the big leap of faith is, Why are you trying to reconstruct it?” said Dr. Mark Miller, a UVA orthopedic expert.