The signs on Capitol Hill are increasingly clear that Justice Roberts will join his direct predecessor, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, in presiding over the impeachment trial of a president when he returns from winter recess in the new year. “I think he’ll navigate that, and like Rehnquist, he’s not going to want to make a splash,” said A.E. Dick Howard, a constitutional law professor at the UVA School of Law.
During the House debate on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, Rep. Barry Loudermilk closed his remarks with a statement that drew its own headlines. … The passages from the biblical books of Matthew (chapter 27), Mark (chapter 15) and Luke (chapter 23) "pretty much agree on the story," said Douglas Laycock, a professor of law and religious studies at the University of Virginia.
Calls to boycott the New York Times because of the column miss the mark, writes Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA media studies professor and the author of “Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy.” “A fake boycott of the Times would be meaningless at best, counterproductive at worst,” Vaidhyanathan argues. The only potentially effective response, he says, is to “push at what the leaders of the Times care about as much as their revenue: their reputation for seriousness and responsibility. Shaming the Times works bett...
Economic growth under Trump peaked at 2.9% in 2018. It has slowed since then and will probably end 2019 around 2%, with even slower growth likely next year. That should be good enough to keep the unemployment rate low, but not necessarily enough for Trump to win. Research by Alan Abramowitz of UVA’s Center for Politics shows that an incumbent with a minus-10 net approval rating needs economic growth of between 2% and 3% to win reelection. Trump probably won’t get that in 2020.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies) Just three days before the dawn of the third decade of the 21st century, one of the world’s top newspapers published a column by one if its full-time opinion contributors arguing that one ethnic group is inherently more intelligent than others. In this case, the superior ethnic group in question was, unsurprisingly, that to which the writer belongs.
Technology developed at the University of Virginia is part of a newly-approved artificial pancreas system. UVA Health announced Thursday, January 2, that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved the system Control-IQ.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an artificial pancreas system from the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology according to a press release.
What is Virginia football? Well, the Cavaliers, first-time ACC Coastal Division champs, aren’t quite ready to win on a national stage against a top-10 foe. They lack depth on defense and balance on offense. But with a generational quarterback in Bryce Perkins these last two seasons, Virginia conjured memories of the 1990s, when this program was nationally relevant and was a magnet for dynamic skill players.
University of Virginia graduate student Neal Curtis and Sam Lemley walked into the school’s Alderman Library and promised they wouldn’t leave that night until they had found a way to save the old card catalogue. So began a plan that would bring together a community of book lovers, 22,000 pounds’ worth of cards and one rubber ducky.
To cite just a couple of examples, Colgate Darden, a governor from the 1940s, has the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia named after him – appropriate since after he left the governorship he served 12 years as president of the University.
Many museums around the country are taking steps to acknowledge the role of slavery. Among them is an exhibition at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk that explores Thomas Jefferson's evolution as an architect and slave owner. Museum director Erik Neil discusses Jefferson's legacy and slaves.
The University of Virginia is planning ambitious projects in the new year such as a renovation of the Alderman Library. UVA secured General Assembly funding for a facelift of the 1938 structure last year.
(Analysis by graduate student Richard Burke and undergraduates B. Kal Munis and Nicole Huffman of UVA’s politics department) Many observers have noted that Biden’s supporters are a diverse coalition, including older white and black voters. But using data from our new survey, we’ve found a new factor related to support for the former vice president – what social scientists call “white consciousness.”
Everything in Dr. Joshua Alley’s training had prepared him for this moment: The youngest of five children of a Baptist pastor in Lynchburg, Alley studied medicine at the University of Virginia, graduating in 2002 on an Air Force scholarship. By 2008, he was on his first war deployment, in Iraq, where he performed 300 surgeries on his four-month tour, treating soldiers and civilians injured by enemy fire or roadside bombs. A year later, when he was dispatched to Khost, Alley was considered tiny Salerno’s most battle-tested surgeon.
Few, if any, college athletics departments had a calendar year like Virginia did in 2019.The Cavaliers won two national championships and played for a third. Even programs that didn’t contend for national championships had highlights.
The Royal Society has just brought out a Special Issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - A, this being the refereed proceedings of a conference held at The Royal Society, London, in October 2018, in celebration of the centenary of Srinivasa Ramanujan’s election as Fellow of the Royal Society. The online issue was published on Dec 9, 2019, with the print issue to follow later in the month. The Special Issue is edited by Professor Ken Ono, now at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) Trump was elected in large part because supporters wanted someone who didn’t care about the old rules and institutional strictures, and the actions leading to his impeachment stemmed from just that instinct, said Barbara Perry, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
(Commentary) Way back in May – when many Americans didn’t know where Ukraine was, let alone the name of its president – presidential scholar Ken Hughes at the University of Virginia wrote about a congressional committee that had voted to impeach the president for defying congressional subpoenas. Hughes’ subject was Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal that ultimately forced him from office. But while those events were almost 40 years ago, Hughes wrote of the parallels between Nixon and the current U.S. president, Donald J. Trump.
In a race where no Democratic candidate has become a clear frontrunner, Bloomberg's position in polls shows he is a serious candidate who faces an uphill battle. "He's now got a foot in the game," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "This shows you the advantage you can have with enormous wealth, but also that you really can't buy a nomination like this."
(Commentary) Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia, interprets the situation slightly differently. "With an economy this good, a normal president would have a 60% approval rating and be coasting to re-election," says Sabato. "That's not Trump."