America is a nation built by immigrants, and its cities are supposed to be melting pots where people of different backgrounds, ethnicities and races interact and learn from one another. The reality, however, is that cities are oftentimes divided by race and ethnicity. This becomes strikingly apparent when using an online mapping tool devised by researchers at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
UVA School of Law Professor Richard Bonnie, who teaches and writes about the law and is well known for his work in forensic psychology, figures insanity defenses account for less than 1 percent of all cases. “It’s really a rare thing,” said Bonnie. But he added that they “are the kinds of cases that tend to get a lot of attention.”
The clashes between Donald Trump’s supporters and protesters, which have often turned violent, have become almost a staple of the billionaire businessman’s campaign and have helped galvanize his base of support. “In the general election, it will cut both ways,” said Larry Sabato, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Republicans will call for ‘law and order.’ Democrats will stress to swing voters that if they vote for Trump they’ll get four years of turmoil.”
City councilors expect to get more advice during its Monday night meeting about the future of Confederate statues. UVA history professor John Edward Mason has told the councilors there are stories from the Civil War era that are not being told.
A.E. Dick Howard, professor at the UVA School of Law, said “there is simply no question” about the governor’s authority to restore voting rights to a large group. Still, legal challenges may be forthcoming.
UVA’s Darden School of Business announces a massive open online course on Marketing Analytics – or how to make sense of and utilize the massive amounts of data available to improve marketing efforts.
(Co-written by UVA law professor Richard J. Bonnie) Over the past dozen years, the Supreme Court, drawing on psychological and brain science indicating that people under age 18 are not yet fully capable of controlling their behavior, abolished the juvenile death penalty and greatly restricted life without parole sentences for crimes by juveniles. As scientists and legal scholars who specialize in these issues, we have welcomed these changes with enthusiasm.
(By Clareen Wiencek, professor at the UVA School of Nursing, and Dorrie Fontaine, dean of the UVA School of Nursing) My brother-in-law is living with stage IV pancreatic cancer – what others call dying of cancer. Even under the promising glow of medical technology, we’re faced with a new challenge: How we should die, and how those around us – nurses and physicians among them – can and should help.
When it comes to having a stoke, the sooner a patient is treated the better. That's why the UVA Health System's Traumatic Brain Injury Quality Support and Stroke team put together the awareness education fair, so people can understand the risk, signs and symptoms of a stroke.
UVA is looking to be more sustainable. The school recently released a new comprehensive plan detailing how it plans to achieve that goal.
For a decade, volunteers working with the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences and UVA have been sowing sea grass across a wide expanse off the Eastern Shore. Professor Karen McGlathery says that area was once rich in underwater meadows, but they were wiped out by disease and storms in the 1930s.
Researchers at the UVA Health System’s Division of Asthma, Allergy & Immunology report that an era of food allergies that began with the post-millennial generation might be a response to vaccines containing the adjuvant alum, a known trigger for allergic traits.
The University of Virginia has released an ambitious plan to roll back energy use, emissions and waste. Over the next five years, the university will try to eliminate the use of coal as an energy source, increase the use of renewable energy and install building retrofits that reduce the use of lighting and the need for climate control.
"I don't think you're going to see a gender gap this fall" if indeed Clinton and Trump go on to become their party's respective nominees, adds Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. "You're going to see a gender chasm." And it's not going to be in Trump's favor, analysts say – a prediction that is backed up by early polling.
In many ways, Cruz’s California strategy in is indicative of how he’s run his national campaign: grass-roots organization and surgical behind-the-scenes deal-making, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Advocates who want to get more people registered as organ donors hosted an event at the UVA Medical Center on Thursday. Three volunteer therapy dogs at the hospital enticed people to stop by the “Donate Life” event to learn more about becoming an organ donor.
(Commentary) Virginia’s record as one of the “worst of the worst” in disenfranchising ex-felons is inextricably tied to its Confederate past. Virginia ex-felons are disproportionately black. As a 2015 article from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center documents, Virginia’s record is long, sordid, and explicitly racist.
Virginia House Speaker William Howell and Dels. David Toscano and Steve Landes got an inside look at some life-changing technology. The lawmakers visited UVA’s Focused Ultrasound Center Thursday afternoon.
(By Jack Hamilton, UVA assistant professor of American studies and media studies) Throughout his career Prince’s greatness as a guitarist was widely acknowledged, but often as a sort of curiosity, which is the product of two developments that predated Prince’s late-1970s rise.