Larry J. Sabato, political analyst and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Garrett’s announcement was not necessarily a “slam dunk” for Democrats. Given the short time left before the June 12 filing deadline, Sabato said he suspects as many as a dozen people could throw their hats in the ring for the Republican nomination.
Over the past three years, Neal Goodloe, the criminal justice planner at OAR, has been working with UVA engineering students to help him capture long-term data. The group just reached the 30-month mark, with the goal being to understand the percentage of people filtering through the jail who fit the criteria for serious mental illness.
Researchers at Aga Khan University and the University of Virginia are collaborating on an innovative project that will harness the power of artificial intelligence to understand a particularly complex disorder of the intestine, environmental enteric dysfunction. EED, often referred to as a neglected disease of poverty, is widespread among children in low-income countries where the population is exposed to contaminated water and poor sanitation.
Professor Gregory B. Fairchild will be UVA’S first director of Northern Virginia operations.
The competing messages demonstrate just how far apart the two parties are. They’re not just talking about key issues differently; they’re touting completely different issues to motivate activists and win hotly contested primaries. “It sometimes feels like the two parties are talking to two different countries,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Commentary by Andrew W. Kahrl, associate professor of history and African-American studies) “Quality of life” laws serve as a potent instrument of racial segregation. They provide commercial establishments, law enforcement officers and everyday citizens with tools enabling them to police racial boundaries while at the same time claiming to simply be upholding the law.
NFL Player Turned Astronaut Leland Melvin Shares His 'Love Affair' with Earth in Nat Geo Documentary
Former NFL player turned NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, a standout college wide receiver who earned a master’s degree in materials science engineering from UVA, insists that playing football was perfect training for the rigors of space travel.
Gloria Graham began working in campus law enforcement while a college student, answering phones at a dispatch center at Indiana State University. Now UVA’s associate vice president for safety and security, Graham said she plans to address continued fallout from the August rallies and tackle the increasingly complex world of campus safety.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced today the appointment of G. Zachary Terwilliger as Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, effective May 25. Terwilliger earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.
James Lane, who leads Chesterfield County’s schools, was appointed state superintendent of public instruction Thursday by Gov. Ralph Northam. Lane holds a Doctor of Education degree from UVA’s Curry School of Education.
Over nine years the Richmond Flying Squirrels have existed, they have given away toothbrush holders, grill spatulas, pillow cases, swim caps and wine-stoppers, as well as all sorts of baseball-related gear, to ticket-holders on designated game days at The Diamond. Up to this point, no 19th-century poet found his way on the Squirrels’ promotional roster. On Wednesday, the first 1,000 fans through the gates for the Squirrels’ game against Bowie at The Diamond will receive Edgar Allan Poe Bobblehead dolls, complete with fuzzy fake hair on the upper lip.
Universities in particular might struggle to put together the information now needed to win an antibody patent, says Rodney Sparks, an attorney with the University of Virginia’s technology-transfer office in Charlottesville. Examiners are asking for more detail about the range of antibodies that can bind to a target, and specifically where on the target those antibodies will attach. “In universities, our guys want to publish,” Sparks says. “We don’t have the ability, typically, early on to make lots and lots and lots of antibodies and screen for all of those characteristics.” As a result, he s...
Barbara Perry, Presidential Studies Director at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said Trump is “an unprecedented president by virtually any yardstick,” including the connection between his personal brand and his public office. “He’s elected because he’s a businessman and an entrepreneur in the media business — and it’s all about name recognition and name branding,” she said. “He uses his presidency to increase that brand and the importance of that brand.”
Loudoun, meanwhile, is a more transient place dominated by rapid population growth over the past two decades. “It’s Panera-land,” said Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of the Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Democrats there may be just as liberal as those in Fairfax, but less rooted in tradition and less deferential to the political establishment. “If that’s where most of the Democratic votes are coming from, maybe that doesn’t give Wexton as much of an advantage,” Skelley said.
Francesca Tripodi, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Virginia released a study that analyses the relationship between how conservative Christians read the Bible and interpret the news.
After nearly a year without a permanent chief financial officer — a period that saw fiscal tumult in the form of deficits, revenue shortfalls and budget cuts — University of Iowa Health Care on Thursday announced it has hired Bradley Haws to fill the vacancy. He will start Aug. 20. Haws is now chief executive officer of the University of Virginia Physicians Group, a multispecialty practice of more than 1,000 UVA physicians and health professionals employed with the group and the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
At the heart of the program is the world premiere of “The World Called,” which features music by Virginia composer Adolphus Hailstork and text by University of Virginia Commonwealth Professor of English and former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove. Michael Slon, the ensemble’s music director, will conduct, and soprano Christina Pier will be the soloist.
There are also many ways for such trainings to go wrong. For instance, when people hear that stereotyping is normal, they may do it more, according to Vanderbilt researchers. More to the point, academics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Harvard, and the University of Virginia, examining 499 studies over 20 years, found very little evidence that changes in implicit bias have anything to do with changes in a person’s behavior.
The University of Virginia has announced appointments to its President’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation. The project, unveiled in February, is meant to pick up seamlessly from the 2013 President’s Commission on Slavery at the University, which, often for the first time, examined the lives and legacies of the hundreds of enslaved workers who toiled on and around Grounds.
Eleven leaders in tech – from high school students to large companies – were honored Thursday night during the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council’s annual awards gala. A recent UVA graduate, 2018 CBIC Student Entrepreneur of the Year Ashwinraj Karthikeyan founded the chronic wound care company InMEDBio as a student. His award included a $1,000 grant.