To form the most diverse and most exceptional class for the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Law & Policy list we enlisted judges who’ve led legal and political worlds in varied ways. Anthony Scaramucci was Trump’s right-hand man for a whirlwind 11 days. David Axelrod crafted President Obama’s iconic hope-based campaigns and served as his senior advisor. And as the Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law Risa L. Goluboff educates the next generation of policy superstars.
The UVA Health System wanted to create interactive multimedia reports, believing that radiologists could communicate better through the use of enriched and interactive content.
Focused ultrasound can not only treat tremors associated with Parkinson’s disease, but it also improves the quality of life, mood and cognitive ability of people with Parkinson’s, according to a new UVA study.
The National Geographic Society on Friday launched its new National Geographic On Campus initiative to connect college students with innovative changemakers in the fields of exploration, scientific research, storytelling and education. The National Geographic On Campus program is heading to the University of Virginia next in February 2019.
(Video) As the nation marks Veterans Day on Monday, a 24-hour vigil is underway at the University of Virginia.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will speak about his legacy on the high court at the University of Virginia School of Law this week.
It is not clear how the CyberX initiative will fit into the commitments made by Virginia in the Amazon package. A working group of research universities, including Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia, is due to submit a proposed strategic plan for the initiative on Dec. 1.
UVA President James Ryan says the University has been expanding its footprint in Northern Virginia, and is ready to help staff a new Amazon headquarters Gov. Northam announced will be placed in Crystal City.
What goes down the toilet has to go somewhere — and sometimes that somewhere is a farm in Albemarle County. “It’s not excrement. It’s the product of the cleanup, if you will, of the excrement,” said Aaron L. Mills, a UVA environmental science professor.
The 1805 impeachment of Samuel Chase had a profound effect by helping to establish that judicial impeachment should be confined to cases of alleged corruption or other illegal conduct, while also imposing an unofficial taboo against justices engaging publicly in partisan activity. "After that, no one was impeached for the way they decided cases, but justices stopped giving political opinions, " said UVA law professor John Harrison, who served on a Justice Department commission that studied the issue of impeachment.
The UVA chapter of Oxfam America, a global organization dedicated to stamping out poverty and hunger around the world, teamed up with the University's Jewish Leadership Council to show people just how easy it is to be born into poverty and how difficult it is to escape.
“It’s Washington lore that at cocktail parties you develop these friends, everyone holds hands and sings ‘Kumbaya’ – but you’re first and foremost a partisan when you get to Capitol Hill,” UVA political scientist Jennifer L. Lawless said. She and a colleague evaluated bipartisanship on several measures, including how often men and women co-sponsor bills with members of the opposite party and whether men and women opted to travel on official congressional delegations with members of both parties, rather than stick to one-party travel. They found no differences between the sexes.
“These star formation models are difficult to assess observationally,” said Jonathan Tan, a professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the University of Virginia, and a lead researcher on the paper. “We’re at a fascinating point in the project, where the data we are getting with SOFIA can really test the simulations.”
Liver grafts with high macrosteatosis correlated with a higher posttransplant mortality in patients with obesity compared with patients with normal BMI, according to data presented at The Liver Meeting 2018. “The obesity epidemic in the U.S. has changed both liver recipient and liver donor characteristics,” Patrick G. Northup, MD,from the University of Virginia, said in his presentation. “Many transplants in the high MELD era of these modern days now involve very sick recipients and more risky donors by nature of the system we have. It was the aim of this study to assess the influence of ...
George Yin, a UVA professor of law and taxation who formerly was chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation, asserts that Congress has the clear right to obtain and release a president’s tax returns to the public without his or her consent – provided the disclosure would be in the public interest.
According to Larry J. Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, under the current structure of the 5th District, it’s simply not possible for a Democrat to be elected, regardless of who the candidate is.
Law professors Cale Jaffe and William Buzbee said Monday’s hearing ran with no more tension than normal, but the line of questioning appeared to suggest that the justices were uncertain of an outcome that could rule in favor of the petitioner. “My reading on the questions was that I came out cautiously optimistic that the Virginia statute would be upheld, but of course there’s really no way to know,” said Jaffe, a UVA professor of environmental law who attended the hearing on Monday.
The UVA Health system is among 132 hospitals, clinics and health care companies that are live on Apple's health records feature.
Focused ultrasound can not only treat tremors associated with Parkinson’s disease, but it also improves the quality of life, mood and cognitive ability of people with Parkinson’s, according to a new UVA study.
(Video) Some spectators at UVA’s football game against Liberty University are going green. It's all part of the nationwide Gameday Recycling Challenge.