“If Republicans tinker with the [Affordable Care Act] and/or Medicare, they may have to pay a political price,” said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. “Any changes to the ACA and/or Medicare that reduce coverage will generate tons of criticism and attack ads from Democrats – criticisms that very well could be effective in the 2018 midterm (elections) and beyond.”
Robert Fatton, a Haitian-born UVA politics professor, said he wasn't surprised that losing political factions are claiming vote-rigging again. “This is the traditional way of dealing with defeat in Haiti,'' he said.
Projections for enrollment at a public school system are conducted by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
(Commentary by Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) “How much are you reminded of Germany in the 1930s?” It’s a question I get a lot these days. But in order to fully understand the danger of this political moment, we need to look not overseas, but to our own history.
From being a dominant player on the parquet court at the University of Virginia to now overseeing one of the nation’s preeminent intercollegiate athletic conferences, Val Ackerman truly has risen to the pinnacle at every level of sports.
A multi-university study underway examines how “smart homes” might be used to help seniors age in place. A software system developed by the University of Virginia, called Piloteur, will collect data from the homes.
In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last week, Pieter Dorrestein, a biochemist at the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues asked: Can scientists — or maybe one day police investigators — profile a person chemically, based on the objects he or she possesses? They started with your phone, which you touch on average, about 2,617 times a day. “This is not different in kind from what happens all the time in criminal investigation, except that it purports to do it more systematically, more scientifically, and potentially more r...
Larry Sabato, director of the Institute for Politics at the University of Virginia, said "the chances of this election being overturned are near zero, if not zero." "The Greens have obvious motives," Sabato said. "They are raising big money and getting a golden mail list of donors, too. Maybe this enables the Greens from getting a share of the blame for Clinton's defeat; Stein cost Clinton Michigan, and maybe Wisconsin."
“Liners with components of natural clay are costly and time-consuming to process and install,” says Craig Benson, dean of engineering at the University of Virginia. “But with a prefabricated geosynthetic liner, you roll it out and it’s in place. Its performance is predictable, as the manufacturing process provides more control, where with natural clay there is moistening, compacting and other processes that contribute to variability.”
"Trump is utterly incorrect regarding claims that there are ... millions of illegal votes and that there's massive voter fraud," says Geoffrey Skelley, who edits the political newsletter Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
As of January 2009, no mentions were made of any deaths due to the use of Vicks VapoRub (though opinions were mixed on its safety). According to Dr. Diane Pappas, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, this study confirms that Vicks VapoRub, too, "should not be used in children under the age of two."
The Danish National Research Foundation had awarded roughly $4.2 million to a literary-studies project led by an English professor at University of Virginia, Rita Felski. This money would help Felski assemble a team of scholars to investigate the social uses of literature. For Felski, the windfall validates a nearly decade-long push to change the way literature and other art forms are studied.
Lauren C. Jackson, a 2013 graduate of Pulaski Academy in Little Rock and a senior at the University of Virginia, is one of 32 American students to be named last weekend as a 2017 Rhodes Scholar to the University of Oxford in England.
Election officials in Virginia say there’s no evidence that any votes cast on Election Day were fraudulent. But that’s not stopping Donald Trump, who went on a Twitter tirade over the weekend saying he would have won the popular vote if the fraudulent votes in Virginia and several other states were thrown out. Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says there’s nothing to the claim.
Richard Bonnie of the UVA School of Law said that defendants sometimes choose to represent themselves because of a fundamental disagreement with their lawyers about the essence of the defense strategy, including their feelings about receiving the death penalty.
(By Jeff Chidester and Tony Lucadamo of UVA’s Miller Center) The 2016 election, like four others before it, saw one candidate, Hillary Clinton, win a majority of the popular vote and a different candidate, President-elect Donald Trump, garner a majority in the Electoral College. Despite this incongruity, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and other Republicans began claiming, in the election’s immediate aftermath, that Trump had earned a mandate from the voters to work with Congress and adopt the agenda on which he campaigned. Indeed, this kind of mandate rhetoric is com...
“In the case of the alt-right, I think that the tendency has been to want to simply do away with the term and use the term ‘white nationalist,’ but I don’t think that captures the stew of hate,” said Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at UVA’s Miller Center who studies conservatism and the media.
Changes at the cellular level lead to neuron death in Alzheimer’s disease. UVA professor George Bloom seeks to understand these cellular mechanisms.
Amidst a proliferation of non-governmental organizations, charities and UN initiatives, the search for truly sustainable solutions to water access and cleanliness has intensified. UVA civil and environmental engineer Jim Smith may have found a solution.
Last year, Virginia farmers sold more than $63 million worth of apples, grapes, peaches and melons. That makes us a magnet for hungry bugs and a major user of pesticides, but a team of UVA students may have a new method for preventing the problems those chemicals can cause.