“I make jokes about, ‘Oh, another mattress sale, it must be Presidents’ Day.’ But, in fact, these holidays do generate stories and get some people thinking about presidents or Columbus or whatever the case may be,” UVA history professor Brian Balogh said. “I understand why people fight hard to have certain days remembered.”
Lightly populated and wide-open spaces will be needed for the new turbines being designed by UVA researchers, three other partner universities and two U.S. national labs. The new turbines would rise more than 1,500 feet in the air and have blades more than 650 feet long.
UVA students are using artwork to raise awareness about cultural diversity. The Global Student Council is putting on this exhibit for the spring semester.
Larry Sabato, a UVA politics professor, says television networks “have a lot to answer for.” “We all know it’s about ratings, and Trump delivers,” Sabato says. “You can’t take your eyes off him. When Trump is on, I stop what I’m doing and wait for the car crash.”
At UVA, players are getting to know their new coach, who can seem a bit of a contradiction: a public man fiercely protective of his privacy, a tightly wound and rigidly scheduled sort who also makes time to be a free spirit and a football coach who believes you should be able to have it all.
Anti-aging treatments such as hormone therapy can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars per month, and are rarely covered by insurance. “It’s a business, not a medical specialty,” said Alan Rogol, a UVA pediatric endocrinologist. “They make a ton of money from people who think age is such a bad deal in their life, that they will do anything to anti-age.”
When it comes to Donald Trump, even bad press seems to be good press. "Negative coverage can keep a candidate from expanding his or her coalition, but it rarely affects the core backers ­– especially when the support is intense, as it is for Trump," said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Doctors, community leaders, and health care providers are joining forces to improve the overall health of people all across Virginia. The second annual Population Health Summit of Virginia was held at the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville Wednesday. "It's basically taking care of not only the people who are in front of you today, but the people who are out in the community,” said Dr. Dan McCarter of UVA Family Medicine.
The Unites States Supreme Court on Wednesday became the theater for a debate over religious freedom that could have far-reaching consequences for America’s religious communities. At issue Wednesday was the question of how far the government has to go to accommodate the desires of a religious nonprofit – and at what point an accommodation goes too far. Accommodations could become so hard to write that lawmakers will stop attempting to do it. Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, agrees. He sided against the government in the 2013 case, but now is ...
More than two decades ago, Tony Bennett played like he now coaches. He was no-nonsense, and he liked entering a game with a plan – and, most times, sticking to it. His career was brief and mostly unmemorable: seven starts in three NBA seasons, interrupted often by recurring foot problems. But those who knew him then believe that without those experiences, Bennett wouldn’t be leading UVA into the Sweet 16 tonight at the United Center, the Chicago arena where Bennett made his final NBA basket in 1995.
Seasoned political scientists have proven no better at predicting the outcome of the race. "If Trump is nominated, then everything we think we know about presidential nominations is wrong," wrote Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist.
From 1995 to 2007, Bernie Sanders passed 17 amendments by a recorded roll call vote – more than any other member in the House. New Jersey Republican Chris Smith, who served in the same time period as Sanders, finished third with 14 roll call amendments (and 32 overall amendments). Craig Volden, an expert on the legislative process at UVA, told PolitiFact that records like these are rather unusual in the House. "There are so few members with large numbers of substantive and successful amendments," he said. "Sanders and Traficant were exceptions to that rule."
Deborah Hellman, a UVA law professor who specializes in discrimination and equality, said the North Carolina law may be interpreted as violating the U.S. Constitution's equal protection clause.
On the heels of North Carolina passing its own sweeping anti-LGBTQ law, Georgia is facing increasing scrutiny for a religious freedom measure – one that critics argue could allow the same kind of discrimination as North Carolina's law. Religious liberty expert Douglas Laycock, a UVA law professor, gives an analysis of what Georgia's bill does.
Bernie Sanders has performed better in states with caucuses than primaries, which tend to have larger populations of liberal whites, and "the fact that his supporters are more energized is a huge factor," said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. "The real problem is the math," he added.
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia will be losing its director, Bruce Boucher, who’s held the post for about seven years. In May, Boucher’s set to leave the Fralin to become director of the Sir John Soane Museum in London.
Dozens of children with special needs and their families hunted for eggs in McIntire Park Thursday to ring in Easter weekend. The Charlottesville Firefighters Association, Blue Ridge Care Connection, and the UVA Children's Hospital hosted the hunt.
Gov. Jack Markell is traveling to Virginia to talk about his time in office in Delaware. Markell has been invited to speak Friday afternoon at the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society Distinguished Speaker Series at the University of Virginia.
The 2016 presidential campaign has seemed like a race to the bottom, but it's by no means the most vicious ever waged. "We can think of lots of family members of presidential candidates being attacked," says Barbara Perry, senior fellow and associate professor at UVA’s Miller Center's Presidential Oral History Program.
Andrew Traver, director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, spoke at UVA Thursday about terrorism and national security. “Television shows are great and entertaining, but they have nothing to do with what we do,” he said.