Taiwan heads to the polls on Saturday with the island sitting in the center of a struggle for regional dominance between the United States and China. “Taiwanese voters, for the first time, are voting between two candidates that have completely different visions of what Taiwan’s relationship is with China and the world,” said Shirley Lin, Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Bush was punished for the Iraq War – but only after it had begun to sour and the public re-evaluated its earlier support for the action, notes presidential scholar Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. The payback came in the 2006 midterm elections, when Democrats took control of both the House and Senate. "What president, in the middle of impeachment, doesn’t try to get us to look elsewhere?" Perry says.
War powers practice in the early republic suggests that the president’s power of “self-defense” was far narrower than Trump’s defenders imagine. Yet, as the University of Virginia’s Sai Prakash explains, “even though [those] nations had declared war on the United States in formal and informal ways, Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison believed that the president could not wage war in response.” Without formal authorization from Congress, early presidents recognized that “they were limited to those steps falling short of a declaration of war, such as defensive meas...
A database compiled by UVA researchers \ is connecting people living with autism to hundreds of resources.
According to a new study, the pleasure center of the brain and the brain's biological clock are linked, and that high-calorie foods – which bring pleasure – disrupt normal feeding schedules, resulting in overconsumption. It was examined by the researchers at the University of Virginia that junk food can lead to weight gain not just because they are high in calories, but also because they interrupt with sleep patterns.
Since Danville’s peak in the 1990s, the largest city in Southern Virginia—most famous for tobacco and its large stock of Victorian homes—has lost 23% of its population. Projections by the University of Virginia’s Demographics Research Group forecast Danville will lose another quarter of its 40,693 residents by 2030.
The UVA School of Nursing just received its largest gift ever. Pam Cipriano, dean of the school, says they plan to use the money to help fund scholarships and increase diversity.
A $20 million grant from a Washington, D.C., investment mogul will allow UVA’s School of Nursing to graduate more nurses, expand school programs and improve nurse training.
The Virginia Kindergarten Readiness Program at the University of Virginia estimated that as many as 34% of Virginia children enter kindergarten unprepared in at least one critical learning domain, which include literacy, mathematics, social skills and self-regulation.
In the summer of 1998, a group of psychologists left their labs at Yale University and headed to the beach. They pitched a tent and began running experiments. Among them was Brian Nosek, a graduate student interested in the subconscious biases that affect our social interactions. For Nosek, now a UVA professor of psychology and executive director of the Center for Open Science, it was his first taste of team science and a lesson in the power of collaboration.
Bob Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education, and fellow researchers followed 1,300 kids from birth through high school and examined trends in school attendance. They found missing school, starting in kindergarten, could become a habit.
Podcast featuring Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA professor of media studies.
UVA soccer stars Joe Bell, Daryl Dike and Daniel Steedman all are leaving school early for the pros according to a press release. Dike and Steedman are both sophomores. Bell is a junior.
Meredith Sutton, an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, told researchers at the AGU meeting that microplastics are expected to be found downstream of urban centers. However, they are increasingly found downstream of agricultural areas as well. Sutton and her colleagues suspected that fertilizers made from sludge at wastewater treatment facilities might be a source, so they conducted a controlled experiment in Nebraska. After rainfall, they found that much higher concentrations of microplastics (mainly fragments) ran into streams from fields treated with sludge-based fertilizer...
Her House bill 1488 would amend the Public Procurement Act to clarify that public agencies can set minimum wage and labor standards for contracted workers. She notes the University of Virginia has struggled with this ambiguity in the state code for years.
Margaret Riley, a professor of public health sciences at the University of Virginia, said Sentara might not have been able to avoid penalty altogether by self-reporting its breach, but it could have reduced it.
(Commentary by Syaru Shirley Lin, Compton Visiting Professor at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs) As Taiwanese voters prepare to go to the polls Saturday to elect their next president, they are choosing between two candidates who take fundamentally different positions on an issue whose implications go far beyond Taiwan: how to preserve a country’s democracy and freedom while maintaining economic relations with a neighboring giant that wants to subsume it.
Results from safety crash tests have a direct impact on how cars are designed to make them safer. But if safety tests prioritize adult men, what does that mean for women? A recent study from the University of Virginia revealed that a seat-belt-wearing woman is 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a frontal car crash than a man.
The West Baltimore-based accelerator offers a four-month program to help build startups driving purpose and profits. The sixth cohort, which returns with the theme of “Urban Resilience and Smart Cities,” is scheduled to run from March to June. Up to 10 companies will be selected. “We’re also really excited about the new curriculum updates we’ve made with our partners at the Darden School of the University of Virginia and our plan to use different forms of financing, like revenue-based redeemable equity, that will help us extend and improve our program for more ent...
The University of Virginia’s School of Nursing announced a $20 million gift from Joanne and Bill Conway to support the enrollment of over 1,000 students in its programs over the next decade, according to a press release from UVA's Office of University Communications.