The University of Virginia’s College at Wise will host a televised gubernatorial debate in Southwest Virginia in October. The Southwest Virginia Technology Council is sponsoring the event between Republican Ed Gillespie and Democrat Ralph Northam.
The UVA Facilities Management team on Thursday recognized seven men and women for completing the University’s apprenticeship program.
Most elite athletes have strong legs – that’s obvious to any sports fan. But it’s much harder to know the specific muscle patterns that help each athlete excel – or make them vulnerable to injury. Springbok, a startup founded by three UVA scientists, hopes to give professional athletes and coaches a better understanding of lower-body muscles with detailed renderings and analytics.
Former UVA star Malcolm Brogdon isn’t sure how “The President” nickname got started. But it stuck after fellow Milwaukee Bucks rookie Thon Maker got wind of it.
Youngstown was also a reminder that, while Trump has historically low approval ratings for a new president, he remains popular with his core supporters. "He retains pretty good numbers with Republican voters, usually 80 percent approval or better," UVA political analyst Kyle Kondik noted.
Repeating the aggressive approach that he took during last year’s campaign, Donald Trump has stepped up his tyrannical assault on Jeffery Sessions, the beleaguered U.S. attorney general. Once a trusted campaign aide, the Alabama senator was the first senior Republican lawmaker to publicly endorse the property tycoon. “We all know Trump has little self-control of his emotions. And loyalty is a one-way street,” says Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia: “He is extremely angry about the Russia probe, and he’s concluded that Sessions could have protected the president and didn’t.”
It’s still too early to tell if Democrats can carry this momentum into the 2018 midterms, but so far, the signs are encouraging. “This is after Democrats routinely underperformed Barack Obama’s margins in special elections leading up to the 2014 midterm,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics.
A survey that is already underway aims to get to the bottom of why so few are using the program. UVA survey researcher Tom Woodson has already spoken with some Louisa County residents. "Sometimes there is a concern in respect to having transportation to come to the food pantry itself," Woodson said.
The UVA Health System includes the UVA Physicians Group; the UVA School of Medicine, a leading research center; and the UVA Medical Center, U.S. News and World Report’s top-ranked Virginia hospital. With about 13,000 employees systemwide and a national patient footprint, the UVA Health System serves thousands of patients from its Charlottesville campus and through partnerships with other facilities.
New research from the UVA School of Medicine, the American SIDS Institute, and other global organizations, may provide insight to Sudden Unexpected Infant Death.
Researchers in the U.S. are designing and looking to develop 50-megawatt wind turbines with "extreme-scale blades" 200 meters in length. To put things in perspective, if built, they will be taller than the Eiffel Tower. The Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor project is being led by UVA researchers.
Politicians have turned some interest on Wise County, with one gubernatorial candidate proposing millions in expansion for UVA-Wise and both candidates agreeing to a debate on the college's campus in October.
A regional body that consists of Albemarle, Charlottesville and UVA officials directed the TJPDC to start work on a transit partnership last year.
One week after Albemarle County officials toured the site of a proposed University of Virginia indoor golf facility at the Birdwood Golf Course, members of the county Planning Commission weighed in on the plans Tuesday night.
A public hearing for the proposed University of Virginia indoor golf practice facility was postponed Tuesday night after Albemarle County staff discovered issues with the legal notice for the hearing. In a portion of the meeting separate from the scheduled hearing, county staff and planning commissioners also said they are concerned about location of the parking lot at the proposed facility.
In an interview with the New York Times last week, Trump said he would never have hired Sessions had he known that he would recuse himself. “We all know Trump has little self-control of his emotions. And loyalty is a one-way street for Trump,” said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. “He is extremely angry about the Russia probe, and he’s concluded that Sessions could have protected the president and didn’t [and] doesn’t care that it would have been unethical for Sessions not to recuse himself.”
A megateam of reproducibility-minded scientists is renewing a controversial proposal to raise the standard for statistical significance in research studies. To explain to a broader audience how weak the .05 statistical threshold really is, Johnson joined with 71 collaborators on the new paper (which partly reprises an argument Johnson made for stricter p-values in a 2013 paper). Among the authors are some big names in the study of scientific reproducibility, including psychologist Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who led a replication effort of high-profile psychol...
In an interview with the New York Times last week, Trump said he would never have hired Sessions had he known that he would recuse himself. “We all know Trump has little self-control of his emotions. And loyalty is a one-way street for Trump,” said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. “He is extremely angry about the Russia probe, and he’s concluded that Sessions could have protected the president and didn’t [and] doesn’t care that it would have been unethical for Sessions not to recuse himself.”
Government experts said Trump wants Sessions gone – but doesn’t want to fire him and face the repercussions. Trump wants to “try to persuade him to step down rather than trying to take action himself. He wants the investigation to end so is trying to move out players causing problems . . . without doing the firing,” said Julian Zelizer, a professor of public affairs at Princeton. “Trump is trying to intimidate his own AG,” added University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.
Government experts said Trump wants Sessions gone – but doesn’t want to fire him and face the repercussions. Trump wants to “try to persuade him to step down rather than trying to take action himself. He wants the investigation to end so is trying to move out players causing problems . . . without doing the firing,” said Julian Zelizer, a professor of public affairs at Princeton. “Trump is trying to intimidate his own AG,” added University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.