Donald Trump “will have six weeks to do deals with unpledged delegates – and Cruz will have six weeks to stop him,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
UVA announced that John M. Unsworth has been appointed university librarian and dean of libraries. Currently vice provost, university librarian, chief information officer and professor of English at Brandeis University, he will assume the new role June 25.
Proceeds from the tour will help the Garden Club of Virginia with more than 50 current restoration projects, including one at UVA’s Pavilion Gardens.
Despite the reliance on income taxes for most of the state revenues, Virginia has one of the lowest tax rates. Luke Juday of UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service says the commonwealth is able to pull this off for two reasons: the size of its government and the wealth of its citizens.
UVA pediatrician Mark DeBoer has studied the connection between dairy fat and children's body weight. And he published a surprising finding. "It appears that children who have a higher intake of whole milk or 2 percent milk gain less weight over time," compared with kids who consume skim or nonfat dairy products.
Unless you went to law school, the workings of American courts may be something of a mystery. To help students and the public get a handle on how courts do business, two UVA professors have written a concise guide to our judicial system.
Arguably the greatest, most expansively learned leader the world has ever seen is America’s third president, Thomas Jefferson. As a student of William & Mary College, he studied math, philosophy, history, and the languages (gaining proficiency in French, Latin and Greek). He would go on to become a lawyer, writer, inventor, horticulturist, ornithologist, paleontologist, and archaeologist. He was also an accomplished musician who could play the violin, cello, and the clavichord. He even went on to become an architect, designing the University of Virginia that he founded.
Carolyn Callahan, a UVA education professor who served on the NCAA committee that drew up the rules, said they replace academic misconduct regulations that are vague and difficult to enforce. “There was nowhere that people could really find a clear consolidated place for academic issues,” said Callahan, who is also UVA’s faculty athletic representative.
(Commentary by Bob Gibson, executive director of UVA’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership) William H. Lucy was a UVA professor of architecture whose research influenced local planning decisions and the national conversation about urban planning.
Taiwan’s newly elected president has named UVA alumnus David Lee as the country’s foreign minister.
Hackers use Congressman’s iPhone to demo ability to listen into calls, monitor texts, track location
Karsten Nohl, a German hacker with a doctorate in computer engineering from UVA, carried out the demonstration from a hacking conference in Berlin. In addition to recording calls and texts, he also demonstrated that he was able to track the Congressman’s location, even with the iPhone’s GPS turned off, using cellphone tower triangulation.
We heard we could find some of the world’s best hackers in Germany. So we headed for Berlin. Just off a trendy street and through this alley we rang the bell at the door of a former factory. That’s where we met Karsten Nohl, a German hacker, with a doctorate in computer engineering from UVA.
Kerry Abrams, a UVA law professor, says full recognition of polygamy is politically unlikely. She asks if partial recognition, in which the law recognizes polygamy in some settings and not others, is possible, particularly in providing government benefits.
“The conditions are ripe for one or more third-party or independent candidates to flourish. The GOP could be headed for a crackup in Cleveland, whoever is nominated,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
As a response to ethnic and racial divisions in the U.S., W. Bradford Wilcox, an UVA associate professor of sociology, co-wrote “Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love & Marriage among African-Americans and Latinos” with Nicholas H. Wolfinger, highlighting marital and religious values of Latino and black families living in the United States.
In “‘Most Blessed of the Patriarchs’: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination,’’ Annette Gordon-Reed and coauthor, Peter S. Onuf, a UVA professor emeritus of history, seek to reassess Jefferson’s legacy, given all the recent discoveries about his long-buried private life.
“I have a soft spot in my heart for presidents who attended some of the lesser-known schools,” says Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, a nonpartisan institute that studies the presidency, policy and political history. Schools like Whittier College (Nixon), Eureka College (Reagan) and Ohio Central College (Harding) show that not all presidents came from well-heeled backgrounds.
“You cannot find a way to please those who find these symbols terribly repellant and want them gone and those who argue that they have nothing to do with Jim Crow and they’re really all about Confederate valor,” Professor Gary Gallagher of the UVA history department said.
The wisdom of Dr. Dewey Cornell bears repeating on the issue. Cornell is a forensic clinical psychologist and professor of education in UVA’s Curry School of Education, where he also is the director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project. He developed threat assessment guidelines for Virginia colleges and is also the author of “School Violence: Fears Versus Facts” and “Guidelines for Responding to Student Threats of Violence.”
(By Boris Heersink, a Ph.D. student in UVA’s Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics and a national fellow at the Miller Center, and Jeffery A. Jenkins, a UVA politics professor) Sanders’s criticism raises a question: If a political party is not really competitive in a state, why would that party give that state a role in selecting its presidential nominee? A little history tells us why.