Early reviewers were struck by complex intrigues worthy of a Russian novel and an ensemble of actors that’s as good as any you'll see. They also were impressed by the big-screen production values and location filming, and by writing intelligent enough that at least one college—the University of Virginia—now offers a course on “Game of Thrones.”
Other educational initiatives include monies for higher education maintenance reserves, especially at schools like George Mason University. Unfortunately, the University of Virginia has not made out as well as other institutions of higher learning in this proposed budget, and I will be advocating for more money for UVA throughout the session.
“We found that the pH of some rivers started increasing in the 1950s and ’60s – decades before the implementation of acid rain regulations,” said Michael Pace, a UVA professor of environmental sciences and a co-author of the study.
When you walk into UVA’s Center for Politics, there’s no guessing what they do there. It’s about all things politics, which may sound scary in 2018 when bitterness and hate often still pervade the topic, but don’t run away yet.
The Miller Center historically has had three main projects: analyzing the secret tapes of presidents, interviewing living presidents and their aides and taping “American Forum” broadcasts. The live TV program will end in March, but the center is determined to use new formats and projects to study what some think is the most provocative time in the history of the presidency.
While Southwest Airlines has grown into the third-busiest U.S. carrier, a recent study shows the airline can still significantly affect prices when it enters a market. A 2017 UVA study examined 109 daily nonstop markets Southwest Airlines entered from 2012 to 2015. Average fares for all carriers fell a minimum of 15 percent in 56 of the markets and 74 markets saw fares decrease and average of 10 percent. Twelve of the markets experienced fare increases.
It’s not just about camaraderie. Eileen Chou, a UVA associate professor of public policy, documented in a 2016 study in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making that the mere presence of other people encourages us to take more risks. Now she’s extending that research to explore whether the presence of others can spur people not only to live on the edge, but to think outside the box when working toward solutions.
The nasty feud between President Trump and one-time trusted adviser Steve Bannon is a no-win battle for the alt-right strategist whose influence in the 2018 midterm elections suddenly seems “more bark than bite,” political analysts told the Herald. “If Trump versus Bannon were a prizefight, the ref would have to stop it in the first round,” UVA political science professor Larry Sabato said. “Trump is president; Bannon derived most of his power and influence from his association with Trump. Now that association is incinerated.”
The one certainty appears to be the election of Majority Leader M. Kirkland Cox, R-Colonial Heights, as speaker of the House to succeed Del. William J. Howell, R-Stafford, who will retire this week after 30 years in the House and 15 as its iron-handed leader. “Kirk Cox could be a reformer who saves his party,” said Larry J. Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, “or he could be a partisan who ensures it goes down the tubes in 2019. That’s the choice he’s got to make.”
(Commentary) As Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics points out, Democratic House candidates, including those unopposed, pulled 55 percent of the vote, to 49 percent for Republicans. In other words: Republicans are the majority in the House, but they’re the minority with voters.
By undergoing his first formal medical check since entering the White House, Trump hopes to put to bed allegations about his mental state that emerged this week. Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, said: “Having come of age in the Watergate era, I am very keen on transparency in presidents."
Donald Trump’s description of himself as a “very stable genius” sparked new debate this weekend about the 25th Amendment, but invoking the provision to remove a president from office is so difficult that it’s highly unlikely to come into play over concerns about Trump’s mental health, a half-dozen lawyers with expertise on the measure said. “The people who wrote it were confronting the alternative of a severely brain-damaged, gunshot president,” said UVA law professor Paul Stephan, who advised a study of the 25th Amendment by the University’s Miller Center in the 1980s.
Michael Livermore, a UVA environmental law professor, said that "based entirely on the Department of Interior's own analysis, drilling off the coast of California is a terrible idea." Livermore also questioned whether any company would be willing to risk the public backlash were there to be a spill in such closely watched waters.
“Sabato's Crystal Ball,” a weekly newsletter published by UVA’s Center for Politics and its director, Larry J. Sabato, closely monitors every House and Senate race in the country. Kyle Kondik, an Ohioan and the managing editor of “Sabato's Crystal Ball,” cautions that not too much should be read into Chabot's 18 percentage point lead in 2016. "House performance can vary widely from election to election,'' Kondik said. "An 18-point margin can dissipate very quickly."
The UVA Medical Center, which offers telemedicine in 60 specialties and subspecialties, estimates that it has spared patients more than 17 million miles of driving to the medical center to obtain care.
Of 115 children in foster care in Charlottesville at one point in 2017, 80 percent were black or of mixed race, according to data provided by Charlottesville Department of Social Services. But only 22 percent of the total population is black or mixed race, according to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
In a study conducted at Stanford University, we asked students to sit in a room for six minutes. We told one group of students (the resistors) to put their phones on the table in front of them but not use them. The videos of the resistors are telling (and funny), with a lot of fidgeting and staring forlornly at the phones they couldn’t use. Indeed, the resistors and the controls found it difficult to sit alone with their thoughts for the six minutes. Is this a sign that our students have become addicted to their phones? We think not. Instead, as colleagues at the University of Virginia and Har...
Gov. Terry McAuliffe attended a summit at UVA’s Curry School of Education in October to discuss the teacher shortage crisis, and said at that time that the shortages “will be the single-biggest challenge for the next governor.”
The majority of the bachelor’s degrees (37,988) were conferred by Virginia’s public colleges, with George Mason University and James Madison University seeing the largest increases.
The Charlottesville Mural Project is teaming up with the Batten Institute to create a new mural for an interior wall at the Darden School of Business. Organizers hope the mural will inspire students and faculty to find extra meaning.