Kyle Kondik, an Ohio native who is a political analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics, worked for Cordray for a time in the attorney general's office. He is not sure that Cordray's candidacy is a slam dunk. "He's getting in a little too late to win this by acclamation,'' said Kondik, who is managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a weekly political newsletter published by Larry J. Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics.
Stabenow is one of 10 Senate Democrats up for re-election next year in a state that GOP President Donald Trump won in 2016. But it is unclear whether national Republican groups will spend heavily in the general election now that Upton has opted out. “Given how many other Senate races are out there, I don’t know if Michigan is ever going to fully activate as a top-tier race,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
According to Professor Brandon L. Garrett from the UVA School of Law, 2015 saw 80 banks finalize criminal settlements with U.S. prosecutors.
Other studies had turned up genetic changes that help frogs resist the toxic effects of certain toxins. But this study “lets you look under the hood,” says Butch Brodie, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Virginia who wasn’t involved in the research.
A conversation on cultural humility will be held Dec. 4 at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center as part of a series of discussions aimed at helping community members understand cultural humility and recognize implicit bias. The community education session will be presented by Eboni Bugg as part of a partnership between Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital and the UVA Health System.
UVA professor of medicine Dr. Robert Carey, who served as vice chairman of the committee that wrote the new guidelines, said the new rules should help catch warning signs of heart and kidney disease and encourage early treatment.
A UVA doctor is at the forefront of a study that may change your lifestyle. Dr. Robert Carey and other medical experts recently changed the guidelines for blood pressure, and he is now warning patients to get checked right away.
On Friday and Saturday, you'll see a group of UVA and Virginia Tech students pounding pavement -- all to support cancer research. The 15th annual FIJI Run kicks off on Friday.
Monday marks an international day of remembrance for transgender lives lost each year. On Sunday, UVA’s Queer Student Union paid tribute to those who died across the country and in the Charlottesville community by holding a vigil.
“Zero tolerance” school discipline policies, which gained prominence after the 1999 school shooting in Columbine, Colorado, also resulted in more frequent suspensions, especially for students of color, said Dewey Cornell, a UVA school safety expert.
UVA lecturer Deborah Lawrence has devoted a lifetime to studying forests. She insists there is no fighting climate change without safeguarding forests, as they absorb 30 percent of the CO2 humans emit every year.
Beyond EatStreet, the only other competitor stepping up to Grubhub is Foodio, a Charlottesville-based startup founded by UVA undergraduates.
UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato on Thursday said GOP leaders may not be able to trigger a new election, but could still in fact get Moore removed if elected. “I don’t think it will ever happen and Sen. Strange has already said he won’t do it and the governor, Kay Ivey, has already indicated she won’t play along. That’s kind of all the key people. The Alabama election laws are unusual, but they are the law,” he said.
On Thursday, UVA’s Center for Politics hosted its 19th Annual Democracy Conference. Panelists discussed President Trump's first year in office, the 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 presidential election.
Under the new standards, students will no longer have to take state an exam in social studies to graduate. They will still have to take tests in English, math and science. Those changes, coupled with a greater focus on career and technical or advanced training, represent “an important shift away from testing toward opportunities,” Robert C. Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education, said in an email.
A study looking at how constitutions around the world have evolved has revealed patterns that could help people predict the best moment to introduce such changes. The study validates computational techniques that could be applied to pressing questions about how constitutions reflect and affect societies, says Mila Versteeg, a legal scholar at the University of Virginia. “These methods might be able to move the ball if applied to the right questions,” she says.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship, listed computer science and engineering schools “that take this very seriously,” and noted that “others all have faculty and programs devoted to critical and ethical examination of data and algorithms.”
The demographers at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service recently crunched some numbers and came to this sobering conclusion: Even if nobody moved out of the coal counties, their populations will still shrink by 1,300 to 1,800 people a year — because that’s how much deaths will outnumber births. Since people will move out, the population collapse is going to be even steeper. This is a death spiral.
UVA’s Larry Sabato has characterized 2017 as the most volatile political year he’s seen since the late 1960s or early 1970s. The founder of UVA’s Center for Politics offered that assessment during the 19th annual “American Democracy Conference” at Alumni Hall.
Charlottesville Area Transit and Bus Lines are encouraging area writers to use their imagination with the latest Bus Lines poetry contest. Through a special partnership with Special Collections at the University of Virginia Library, all winning Bus Lines poems are deposited into UVA's permanent collections.