This year, the U.S. Supreme Court looking at hot button and controversial topics, from abortion to guns. There is also the question of appointing a new justice before the midterm elections in November. Experts from UVA’s Miller Center \ are weighing in on the cases that have the potential to reshape the future of America and discussing who's likely to get President Joe Biden's first high court nomination.
As [UVA alumna] Margaret Brennan marks her fourth anniversary as “Face the Nation’s” consummate moderator, she reflects on navigating formidable news stories and the family life that keeps her light on her feet.
A second-year UVA student and her younger sister went on a family trip to Peru and came home with more than the usual warm vacation memories or splendid tales of Machu Picchu. Instead, the sisters, who were 13 and 17 at the time of the 2019 trip, came back with a plan to build a medical clinic.
Research from UVA’s National Marriage Project studied the role of generosity in the marriages of 2,870 men and women. Couples with the highest scores on the generosity scale were far more likely to report that they were “very happy” in their marriages. … James A. Coan, a UVA neuroscientist, recruited 16 married women to take part in a study about how holding hands affects the brain.
Tonie Marie Gordon works for the NSF, not as a federal employee but as an employee of SRI International, a nonprofit research firm created by Stanford University in 1946 under the name Stanford Research Institute. Gordon went to Youngstown State for her undergraduate degree and the University of Virginia, where she received a doctorate in sociology in 2015. On graduating, Gordon decided not to pursue a career in academia, because she wanted to address “the concerns that shaped” her early life.
(Essay by alumna Lauren Coleman) My desire to learn more about Black History intensified as I entered my first year at the University of Virginia. As double English and African American studies major, I took courses on “Food in the African Diaspora,” “African American Theater,” “Racial Politics,” and “Public Health.” People often ask me, “What can you do with an African American studies degree?” My response… Change the world.
Katherine Larson successfully integrates science and art in such a way that highlights the overarching narrative of the exploration of the human condition. Larson herself has a background in science; she is a molecular biologist and field ecologist. She graduated from the University of Arizona with dual degrees in English and Ecology and Evolutionary biology. She then went on to obtain a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia. Her unique way of blending two different disciplines together into one unit, one form, one poem effectively blurs the seemingly stagnant barr...
Gavin Oxley, a pre-medical student at the University of Virginia, said, “As part of the Mildred Jefferson Medical Fellowship, the opportunity to attend the National Pro-Life Summit events greeted me with some of my first interactions with what it looks like to live out the pro-life movement as a medical professional and inspired me to know that perseverance of convictions and truth can be a reality in the field.”
“The number of retirements is high. I think some of it can be chalked up to, there are some Democratic members that don’t want to serve in this environment,” said Kyle Kondik with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
“It’s a two-tiered governorship,” says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “The public figure is Glenn Youngkin in his suburban dad outfit and singing ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy,’ smiling a lot and telling us how he’s going to unite everyone. But right out of the gate, he went far right on everything,” Sabato says.
UVA law professor Dick Howard, who helped draft revisions for the 1971 constitution, said that the constitution was written to ensure that when it comes to education policy, “the conversation begins with the Board of Education and the General Assembly.” Howard says the staggered appointments for state Board of Education members were meant to ensure that “some time has to pass before a new governor can put his stamp on the board” and to “keep the schools from being buffeted about every time there is an election.” … Rich Schragger, a UVA constitutional law professor, agrees – adding that the ide...
A UVA math professor has proved the limit does not exist for him. You can catch him starring in a commercial throughout the week leading up to the Super Bowl. UVA’s Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics, the College of Arts & Sciences’ Department of Mathematics Chair Ken Ono says he got an email out of the blue from a casting company. It turned out to be for an ad about beer, specifically, Miller64.
Two UVA doctors, Dr. Karen C. Johnston and Dr. Brad B. Worrall, are among a dozen from around the world being honored for their research on strokes.
The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations is beginning to stabilize. A local doctor explains how these hospitalizations are reported. UVA Health says all patients who go to the hospital, regardless of what they’re being seen for, get tested for COVID-19. That means patients who are asymptomatic get counted in the hospitalization number.
Another area suggesting consciousness survives reincarnates is the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson, the former head of the department of parapsychology at the University of Virginia and his successor child psychiatrist Dr. Jim Tucker. Both specialized in collecting the past life stories from young children around the world by interviewing them and all the witnesses to their past life experience.
When examining the viral contamination of remote controls, researchers at the University of Virginia detected the presence of cold viruses on half of the controllers they tested (via MedicalNewsToday). Considering that research has shown that individuals can touch their face as many as 23 times an hour, regularly touching an unclean TV remote increases the chances of transmission of these viral particles.
Recently, there has been a raft of academic research showing that many private equity and hedge funds are simply not a great investment. One 2015 study by the University of Virginia found that post-2005 vintage private equity firms’ performance did not exceed that of the S&P 500 index, and that newer funds could not even match the index.
UVA psychologist Joseph Allen has spent decades studying the teenage brain, and his research has shown that close teen friendships, especially with same-gender peers, are where youth practice intimacy and conflict negotiation, and they can even predict how successful adult romantic relationships will be. In other words, your teen’s lack of practice in the art of socialization and friendship-making can have a long-lasting impact.
Brad Wilcox of the University of Virginia and Lyman Stone of the Institute for Family Studies (who happens to be a Missouri Synod Lutheran) have written up their findings in a report that has a title that sums up their findings: “The Religious Marriage Paradox: Younger Marriage, Less Divorce.”
“State of Our Unions 2022,” the latest in an annual reckoning on marriage, finds little evidence that marriage is stronger if you wait until you’re at least 25 to wed, compared to those who marry in their early 20s. Released Wednesday, the report is produced by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University using three recent large, nationally representative datasets.