Gary T. Settle was sworn in Thursday as superintendent of the Virginia State Police, replacing Col. W. Steven Flaherty, who announced his retirement last month after 14 years at the helm. He also is a graduate of the FBI Executive Management Course and the National Criminal Justice Command College of the UVA School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Another prominent co-author of the original paper is milder. “The paper’s message is perfectly fine from my point of view, and not actually a critique of our paper,” says UVA psychologist Brian Nosek, who directs the Center for Open Science. The “Redefine” paper’s key message was quite limited, he says: The current threshold of 0.05 yields weaker evidence than many people realize, and if it’s going to be dropped, 0.005 is a reasonable alternative.
The president is coming off a late-2017 high, when he managed to ram his massive tax cut plan through Congress. But one year into his presidency, Trump is entangled in an alarming face-off with North Korea, has antagonized US allies over Iran, and faces accusations of racism and hate-mongering. "Historically, this is bound to be a Democratic year," said Larry Sabato, who heads UVA’s Center for Politics.
It has thrilled many of his supporters, who love that Trump is taking on the media and smashing Washington norms like so much dainty china. Others disapprove of his style but embrace his policies. “He ran on a platform of chaos, and so in that sense he’s been very successful,” said Barbara Perry, who has studied presidents’ first years at UVA’s Miller Center.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) Republicans retirements give Democrats some clear targets, but path to House majority is more about beating incumbents.
The UVA School of Engineering has been selected to lead one of six centers as part of a roughly $200 million national effort to reinvent computing.
Members of Charlottesville City Council are discussing protocols for meeting and the city budget. Councilors, City Manager Maurice Jones, and UVA officials met Thursday at Morven Farms.
“A visibly frustrated Marc Short, the White House’s legislative affairs director who is working to try to avoid a shutdown, placed all of the blame of the current predicament on Congress [writ large, not just Democrats]. In an event hosted by the University of Virginia on Thursday, he said everyone was hyperfocused on the government funding vote but not enough attention was being paid to all the missed opportunities in past months to avoid the deadline.”
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is urging Congress not to pass a continuing resolution without a two-year renewal of the $150 million program Special Diabetes Program, which has led to groundbreaking research in Type 1 diabetes treatment, including an artificial pancreas being developed at UVA.
If you looked at all the spiral galaxies in the local volume of the universe, the Milky Way wouldn't stand out as being much different than any other. "As galaxies go, the Milky Way is pretty ordinary for its type," said Steve Majewski, a UVA professor of astronomy and principal investigator on the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment.
If humans ever decide to colonize Mars, we’ll need a source of energy, so NASA is sponsoring a competition to design the best system for getting it. A team of UVA students has made it through the first round of competition.
The Virginia women’s tennis team opens the season on Thursday at home against Old Dominion at 5 p.m. It will also be the start of Sara O’Leary’s head coaching tenure at UVA.
(Commentary) Having grown up in the South for the entirety of my life, I have found myself becoming normalized to the conservative right-wing ideologies, cultures, and experiences that come with living below the Mason-Dixon line. Recently, my car was broken into with LGBTQ hate speech left on the front window. My name is Andrew Burrill, and I am a current graduate student at Shenandoah Conservatory graduating this May with my Masters degree in Performing Arts Leadership and Management. Prior to being in Winchester, Virginia, I graduated in 2016 from the University of Virginia in my hometown of...
Nelson is expected to continue in the leadership tradition of the church's previous president. "What they prize in their transition is continuity of the tradition. And they choose a man who is most experienced ... the most mature in terms of experience in the system," said Kathleen Flake, a UVA religious studies professor who focuses on the Mormon church.
Farmers and ranchers should be buzzed about bees and making room for the busy little insect in their land management, say University of Alberta researchers who are leading one of the first studies to establish baseline data about bees across Alberta. They found that regions with more grasslands harbored higher numbers and more kinds of bees, as opposed to cropland. The researchers, led by rangeland ecologist Cameron Carlyle, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, and Jessamyn Manson, an assistant professor at the University...
"What we find is that meaning is really important to students and, without it, a lot of students will look like they aren't motivated," said Chris Hulleman, a UVA associate professor of psychology who studies student motivation. Rather than "blaming students," Hulleman and his colleagues are exploring how schools can change the ways they approach content to make it more relevant.
The hosts are joined by Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies, to talk about Facebook’s big news feed changes and what they might mean for the way we read the news and talk to one another online.
When a lieutenant governor becomes governor late in the term, she has limited time to establish an agenda or identity of her own. Meanwhile, other candidates who'd been eyeing the job may already be geared up and ready to go. "Other candidates have been waiting, and they're not going to step aside just because someone got the post late in the second term of a sitting governor," says Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics.
Looking for relief is futile, because experts say there is no way of knowing when La Niña will pass. "This is why long-range forecasts don't work in the region," said Jerry Stenger, UVA’s director of climatology and the state's 'official' climatologist. "Weather in the region has incredible variables, and it doesn't take much of a shift for things to change."
The UVA Health System has launched a new clinic off Route 29 in Albemarle County. UVA Primary Care Riverside Clinic provides things like X-rays, pediatric medicine, medical exams and care for chronic illnesses.