Stop obsessing over your cellulite. Or your belly rolls, or any other part of your body. “So often we’re not in the moment – we’re above it or outside of it, looking in and thinking, ‘Oh God, I look so unattractive,’” says Dr. Anita Clayton, a UVA professor and author. “It changes that emotional intimacy that’s part of experiencing pleasure.”
Saikrishna Prakash, a constitutional law expert who teaches at UVA’s School of Law, suggested that Trump is engaging in empty threats, which he has leveled at the media before. "It almost seems to backfire. People's interest in the book is whetted. I think it's gonna sell more copies."
Virginia is 2-0 in ACC play for the first time since the 2014-15 season when the Cavs finished 16-2, cruising to the regular season conference title. So after holding on against the pesky Boston College team that knocked off Duke, then blowing Virginia Tech off the floor in Blacksburg, it’s just about time to look at what might stand in the way of UVA earning the No. 1 seed in the ACC Tournament.
One bright spot on an otherwise bleak day for Democrats came when Cox told reporters that he would support proportional representation on House committees, meaning that membership will reflect the near-parity between the parties. But that’s small comfort to Democratic voters who turned out in droves in November, said Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist. He blames gerrymandering for allowing Republicans to cling to power in the House even though, when tallied as a whole, Democrats won 55 percent of the House votes.
Trump is uniquely unpopular. Around 56 percent of voters disapprove of his performance – more by far than any president dating back to Harry Truman at this point in their tenure. Republicans hope that a booming economy, low unemployment and the extra money voters will see from tax reform will provide favorable headwinds. But the president’s unpopularity makes that less likely. “When you dislike someone, you’re unlikely to think they’re responsible for anything good that happens, while you blame them for everything bad,” says Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist.
A showdown over Obamacare's Medicaid expansion pitting Republican lawmakers against Virginia's newly elected governor is almost certain following the GOP victory in a drawing to decide control of the state's House of Delegates. “I think there is a real possibility, because you’re talking about one or two people in each House,” UVA politics expert Larry Sabato said after Democrats’ strong electoral performance in November.
In countless other ways, from his provocative use of Twitter to his aggressive use of executive power to his attacks on the news media, Trump has disrupted American life, the American presidency, American politics and America’s place in the world. “As Winston Churchill once said of an American cabinet member, ‘He’s a bull who carries his own china shop with him,’” says Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
(Commentary) The Republican candidate in a tied Virginia statehouse district won a random drawing yesterday, giving Republicans control of the chamber. UVA’s Larry Sabato notes that Democrats won the popular vote across all of Virginia’s statehouse districts by a “landslide” margin – 55 percent to 45 percent – yet failed to win control of the chamber.
(Commentary by Mark Edmundson, University Professor in the Department of English) This movement toward a more varied and complex America is one that I applaud. As a Democrat who shares Walt Whitman’s vision, I want an America that’s hospitable to more sorts of people, more ways of life. Yet my encounter with the neo-fascists took me back in time.
Sales associates at a couple of stores have helped raise thousands of dollars to help kids at the UVA Children's Hospital. Walmart and Sam's Club associates raised more than $91,000 for the hospital this year through the annual Children's Miracle Network Hospitals campaign, which helps pay for critical care for children.
More people are dying of cancer in Southwest Virginia than in the rest of the state and the UVA Cancer Center wants to do something about it.
Jennifer Doleac, a UVA assistant professor of public policy and economics, is one of the handful of U.S. social scientists closely studying the practical and ethical questions of extending automation into public decision-making. “You could imagine feeding information into a computer that says, ‘Yes, this person’s eligible for benefits or not,’ instead of just looking at a file and say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ based on their hunch about whether the person needs the money,” she said.
Janet Rafner has spent four years looking for a way to marry art and science. Her research focuses on turbulence, or the physical phenomenon of chaotic changes in pressure and velocity, such as stirring a cup of coffee or air flowing over a plane wing. By creating a game, called Turbulence, that asks players to interact with shapes and flow, Rafner hopes to master the most important unsolved problem in classical physics — chaotic turbulence. Rafner majored in physics and minored in studio art at the University of Virginia.
Shouting and insults have become the norm have become the norm for city council, and members are struggling to find a solution. At UVA’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation, Frank Dukes says council is in “unchartered territory,” but Charlottesville is not alone.
Several political observers, including the Washington Post’s Paul Kane and Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics, noted that the last Democrat to occupy the seat had been Sessions’ predecessor, Howell Heflin.
Marijuana churches typically require people to purchase a membership, then give or sell them marijuana and related products. They may ask for ID such as a driver’s license but don’t require a doctor’s recommendation or medical marijuana identification card. They’re relying on court rulings that made it possible for some groups, including Native Americans, to use federally banned drugs like peyote in their religious ceremonies. Despite these rulings, courts have thus far rejected religious groups’ right to use marijuana, which is still illegal at the federal level, according to Douglas Laycock,...
For the fourth consecutive year, more people have been moving out of Virginia than in, according to the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Since 2010, Virginia’s population has been growing at its lowest level since the 1920s.
Anxiety has a way of disguising itself as an "intuition" that something's very off, when really, all that's off is your brain chemistry. "It can be challenging to determine whether a ‘bad feeling’ is a meaningful sign or if it’s anxiety," UVA psychology professor Bethany Teachman said.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Virginia, often called OLLI at UVA, has been offering educational opportunities and intellectual enrichment to older adults in the area since 2001, five years after UVA alum Jim McGrath returned to Charlottesville for a retirement that quickly became all too lively.
The link between the Lone Star tick and the resulting alpha-gal allergy to meat was first described in 2009 by Thomas Platts-Mills, a UVA professor who himself developed the disorder.