The Porteus Maze test, created by an Australian psychology professor, was used to establish the superiority of white Australians over their aboriginal counterparts. That maze, and the dark story behind it, proves the point at the heart of UVA historian Erik Linstrum’s new book: Science is frequently used to justify preexisting belief systems and power relationships.
Health care-sharing ministries have been growing in number and popularity, but not every observer thinks they're safe. In an article for The Hill, Carolyn Long Engelhard, director of the health policy program at the Department of Public Health Sciences for the UVA School of Medicine, acknowledges the rise of health care-sharing ministries. But Engelhard writes, "there have been problems with these types of health ministries in the past." Engelhard points to an embezzlement situation with an Ohio ministry in 2004, adding "other states have also reported similar infractio...
If Trump does decide to back out of the pledge, there would likely be no legal repercussions. As UVA Center for Politics political analyst Kyle Kondik explained to ThinkProgress back in September, the pledge was not a legally enforceable contract.
Ralph Allen, a retired professor of chemistry at UVA, said, “It is a real concern about what they were burning. But what was even more concerning is the fact it is possible that a heavy bombardment of a chemical weapons facility could have contaminated the ground, and those contaminants could have become airborne while the burn pits were operational.”
UVA School of Medicine researchers have identified and mapped a series of gene sites thought to control immune cell responses. Importantly, researchers found that similar genes with similar genetic mapping positions seem to control both body weight and immune cells’ behavior after infection.
UVA continued its impressive showing on national “best value” rankings by moving up two spots on the Princeton Review’s 2016 list of top 50 schools providing the highest return on the cost of tuition.
Cumberland University will play a major role in efforts to transcribe and digitize documents of the former U.S. president considered at the forefront of the country’s two-party political system. The project will make Martin Van Buren’s letters, speeches, notes and other material available in three formats, including a subscription-based digital edition published through UVA’s Rotunda platform, of all 13,000 documents transcribed and annotated.
Q&A with Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, a professor and menopause credentialed specialist at the UVA Health System’s Midlife Health Center.
(By Nicole Hemmer and Tony Lucadamo of UVA’s Miller Center) The narrative is simple for businessman Donald Trump. He won in New Hampshire. He leads the delegate count. And yet his competition sounds surprisingly optimistic.
(By Risa Goluboff, UVA School of Law) As we debate police misconduct, and especially the rampant practice of stopping and frisking, we should remember that these debates are not new. We need to remember what police did before stop-and-frisk, for it gives us three important lessons for today.
Justice Antonin Scalia practiced law for six years in Cleveland before accepting a position teaching law at the University of Virginia in 1967.
A UVA law student running for student government has adopted a Donald Trump theme for his campaign, fully appropriating the GOP frontrunner's signature style for the campus environment. Wearing a red hat that reads "Make UVA Great Again," second-year law student Erich Reimer says he'll build a wall protecting UVA's law school from the riffraff on other parts of campus.
Nationwide poll data suggests Clinton can still hope for solid support from the female constituency as the primary race intensifies, heading next to Nevada and South Carolina. “I think she’s still in a position to get plenty of support from women in this contest, especially relative to men,” said Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Clinton, who lost Virginia to then-Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential primary by a 2-to-1 margin, has built a strong base. Clinton has more at stake in the commonwealth, UVA political science professor Larry Sabato said. "It would be a major embarrassment were she to lose Virginia. ... The burden is on her."
Some would say Obama isn’t a lame duck until after Election Day in November when his successor is chosen. Others might say all second-term presidents are lame ducks because they know they won’t serve again. "The definition has evolved," said Larry J. Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for. Decades ago, the lame-duck label was applied to a president after an election, but the term has changed over time to include any officeholder in his or her last term.
A Trump win in South Carolina on Feb. 20 would be “huge,” says UVA Center for Politics analyst Geoffrey Skelley. “As long as the field is crowded, that’s great news for Trump,” he said.
(Commentary) “One of the things that I always stress in my classes… is that African-American history is American history,” Asst. Prof. Andrew W. Kahrl, who teaches African-American studies and history at the University of Virginia, told the Cavalier Daily. “This is not something that is some sort of an addendum or something that is separate and apart from what we traditionally think of as so called ‘American history.’”
Experts say the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia could have an impact on a Republican challenge to a newly imposed congressional redistricting map for Virginia. Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of “Sabato’s Crystal Ball” at UVA’s Center for Politics, said, “I’ll leave it to legal experts to determine how the court might have acted with Scalia’s participation, but his passing means there is a very good chance that the new congressional map in Virginia will be upheld.”
The death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia greatly decreases the chances of Gov. Bob McDonnell having his conviction on corruption charges dismissed and of new court-ordered congressional district boundaries being tossed out, three Virginia professors said Sunday. John C. Jeffries Jr., a law professor at UVA School of Law, said it's impossible to say exactly what the impact of Scalia's death would be on the two cases, but that it certainly increases the likelihood of a Supreme Court tie – bad news for McDonnell.
Justice Antonin Scalia had deep ties to the University of Virginia where he started his teaching career. John Duffy, a current UVA law professor who worked for the Supreme Court justice, was just a young lawyer when he went to Washington to clerk for Justice Scalia, but the mentor and teacher left a big impact on him.