There's a new and novel way to snoop on Google Home and Amazon Echo devices, said a group of researchers from UVA, Indiana University-Bloomington and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
University of Virginia history professor William Hitchcock will discuss his book, “The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s,” airing Sunday at 8 p.m.
As America has grown more diverse, more secular and more polarized, its moral compass is harder to tune to a true north, with no particular voice emerging as an authority. Some experts say these trends have created a moral vacuum. "Society used to be more unified in the people they saw as moral leaders," said Barbara Perry, a historian at UVA’s Miller Center, which specializes in presidential scholarship.
Since Robert Mueller’s investigation started, conservative media outlets have worked tirelessly to raise doubts about the special counsel’s credibility, depict the FBI as corrupt and biased, and downplay the seriousness of the allegations against the White House. And in a fractured media landscape, where Republican voters largely get their news from right-leaning publications, experts like UVA professor Nicole Hemmer worry that those messages will have a big impact on Republicans in Congress.
Analysts who track House races aren’t ruling out the possibility of a wave. They’re also not predicting one. "The range of possible outcomes is still pretty wide," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a campaign-tracking project of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Census data show that from 2010 to 2017, net migration to retirement-destination counties in Appalachian regions of Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee increased 169 percent, the same percentage of growth for retirement destinations in Florida, according to Hamilton Lombard, a UVA demographer who has tracked the halfback phenomenon. During the same period, net migration to all U.S. retirement-destination counties increased 67 percent.
Penn’s lukewarm feelings toward the president are not, apparently, reciprocated. Trump regularly talks up his connection to Wharton: By the Daily Pennsylvanian’s count, he publicly mentioned the business school more than 50 times between the beginning of his campaign and January 2018. As Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, told me, Wharton’s prestige is useful to Trump, as it supports the narrative that he is intelligent and only settles for the best. Perry says that she’ll be interested to see, years down the line, if Penn adjusts its stance toward Trum...
According to UVA’s Jennifer Doleac and the University of Oregon's Benjamin Hansen, BTB has backfired on black and Hispanic men, aged 25 to 34, who lack a college degree. This cohort was, according to Doleac and Hansen, actually "less likely to be employed under BTB policies." Doleac and Hansen speculate this is because employers who know they cannot check criminal histories will "guess who the offenders are" (probably by making assumptions about their names) and choose not to interview them.
According to UVA’s Jennifer Doleac and the University of Oregon's Benjamin Hansen, BTB has backfired on black and Hispanic men, aged 25 to 34, who lack a college degree. This cohort was, according to Doleac and Hansen, actually "less likely to be employed under BTB policies." Doleac and Hansen speculate this is because employers who know they cannot check criminal histories will "guess who the offenders are" (probably by making assumptions about their names) and choose not to interview them.
(Co-written by Chris Hulleman, a research associate professor in UVA’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Foundations) Jaime attended the same undergraduate institution as both of the authors. When Larry Happel wrote about Jaime's story for Central College, Chris Hulleman immediately recognized the psychological factors at play in Jaime's journey. In this article, Hulleman and Happel come together to share Jaime's story and explain what it can teach us about the psychology of navigating life's transitions and challenges.
Wunlee Williams spent Mother's Day in the UVA Medical Center with her 12-year-old daughter, who has a kidney disorder. She said she is used to putting her daughter, as well as her four other children, before herself. But on Monday, she got the chance to be spoiled. Moxie Hair Lounge and Fuzzy's Taco Shop came together to give moms in the Children's Unit a little time of their own after spending long days and nights in the hospital.
Eat some yogurt. Over 80 percent of the body's serotonin, a brain chemical associated with happiness and satisfaction, is actually produced in your gut. This means that taking care of the good bacteria in your gut has a direct impact on how happy you feel. There's actual science to back up this mind-gut microbiome connection, according to a study done by the UVA Health System.
For all his colorful style, Judge Ellis’s rulings have a history of holding up. In more than three decades on the bench, he has been reversed by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals 8.3 percent of the time, compared with an average reversal rate for judges in the district of 14.3 percent, according to an analysis of Bloomberg Law data by UVA researchers.
Jim Ryan formally will be inaugurated as the University of Virginia’s ninth president on Oct. 19 with a ceremony on the Lawn. Ryan was named as Teresa A. Sullivan’s successor in September. Sullivan, the university’s first female president, will step down July 31, and Ryan will begin immediately. Originally, he was slated to start in October.
UVA and Piedmont Virginia Community College both recently added new media and digital humanities programs, expanding the reach of communications studies in the Charlottesville area.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Board has approved a projected budget of nearly $43.77 million for fiscal 2018-19. Because the General Assembly has not yet passed a state budget, the college based its projected state funding on the Senate version of the state budget.
No president has graduated from the UVA, according to Bestcolleges.com. Although Thomas Jefferson helped found the university. And James Madison and James Monroe were among the first people to serve on the university’s board. In 1900, vice president Alben Barkley graduated from the University of Virginia’s law school. Woodrow Wilson enrolled in the university’s law school, but dropped out.
Dozens of mothers spent their Monday morning in a one-of-a-kind salon at the UVA Children's Hospital. Employees say the mothers of pediatric patients need a reminder hospital staff cares for their well-being too.
(Commentary by Gerard Alexander, UVA professor of politics) I know many liberals, and two of them really are my best friends. Many liberals are very smart. But they are not as smart, or as persuasive, as they think. And a backlash against liberals – a backlash that most liberals don’t seem to realize they’re causing – is going to get President Trump re-elected.
UVA just received two exceptional donations to help more students take advantage of its stellar offerings. Both are targeted toward areas that will benefit not just students and the University but, more importantly, the citizens that students go on to serve.