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.
At times, minorities do not get the same level of care from doctors and nurses as their white counterparts. Dr. Eliseo Perez-Stable led Thursday's discussion at the Jefferson School African-American Heritage Center speaking about the importance of working toward equity and inclusion in the health care field. The event was put on by the UVA Health System, Sentara Martha Jefferson, the United Way and others.
More than $1.1 million was approved by the Virginia Research Investment Committee to support the applied research and development needed to treat brain cancer and progress this innovative technology toward commercial products. The award is in partnership with Virginia Tech, UVA associate professor Wilson Miller and Blacksburg-based start-up company VoltMed Inc.
Researchers from UVA and the University of British Columbia conducted two experiments that show smartphone distractions reduce how much we enjoy one thing repeatedly shown to make humans happy: face-to-face social interactions.
UVA has launched an online tool that allows people to track the school's solar energy production.
UVA announced its 2018 football schedule on Wednesday afternoon, along with the rest of the ACC.
Former UVA basketball star Malcolm Brogdon has avoided a sophomore slump and is having a solid second season in the NBA. The Milwaukee Bucks guard is building on last season where he was named NBA Rookie of the Year.
Argument analysis: Justices debate the dual-office-holding ban and jurisdiction over military courts
UVA law professor Aditya Bamzai told the justices that the court can only review decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, which heard the service members’ appeals from the CCAs, if those decisions are “appeals.” But because the CAAF is part of the executive branch, he concludes, it does not exercise real judicial power.
In his address Tuesday, Nelson said he was humbled to be following in Monson's footsteps, whom he described as “a giant of a man, a prophet of God." Leadership of the Mormon church traditionally falls to the highest-ranking member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and Nelson was expected to ascend to the presidency following Monson's death. "What they prize in their transition is continuity of the tradition," Kathleen Flake, a UVA religious studies professor who specializes in the Mormon church told NPR. "And they choose a man who is most experienced ... the most mature in terms of experie...
There is a long history of the White House picking and choosing what to reveal about the commander-in-chief’s health, said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. Perry said she believed presidents should be subject to a raft of tests to establish they are fit to serve.
The provider assessment would enable the state to avoid its share of the expansion costs, but it would not apply to Children’s Hospital of King’s Daughters in Norfolk, which does not care for the adults who would be newly covered, or the state’s big teaching hospitals at Virginia Commonwealth University or the University of Virginia. Those teaching hospitals treat more uninsured and Medicaid patients than any acute-care facility in the state, so they receive hefty state subsidies that would be greatly reduced by the expansion of coverage for care of people who have no way to pay now.
A new study shows Virginia hospitals are financially better off than they were at the end of 2016. Both the UVA Medical Center and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital's net worth has increased in the last year. They say this means more money to improve patient care.
UVA’s School of Engineering & Applied Sciences is taking on a $27 million project to improve the way computers work around the world.
She was famously fired by President Donald Trump last year and now she is talking about "Standing Up to Trump." Former Assistant Attorney General Sally Yates paid a visit to UVA’s Miller Center on Tuesday. She talked not only about her firing, but American's faith in government and the special prosecutor investigating the Trump administration.
UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science has been picked to establish a center to help remove a bottleneck that is hindering technological advances.
A new, multimillion-dollar center at the University of Virginia will bring together researchers to eliminate a data bottleneck built into computer systems 70 years ago.
This Saturday will mark exactly one year since President Trump's inauguration. UVA’s Miller Center has been watching that year very closely.
(By Ashley Deeks, UVA law professor) Every day seems to bring a new article about China’s pervasive use of facial recognition technology. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post have reported how widely China is using this technology, collecting and storing video evidence from cameras on every street corner and road, at apartment building entrances, and in businesses, malls, transportation hubs and public toilets.