University of South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley’s seven-year, $22.9 million contract puts [the UVA alumna] on par with the highest-paid women’s basketball coach in the country, the kind of progress that’s long overdue for Black women.
Accountability Virginia PAC has in turn spent thousands of dollars on digital advertising pushing the narrative that Youngkin “refuses to tell us where he stands on guns and the Second Amendment,” unlike former President Donald Trump. Axios news, which was first to report the story, uncovered the PAC has ties to prominent Democrats. Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, told the outlet that the ads appear to be part of “an attempt to undermine Youngkin’s support in western rural areas, where gun ownership is sacred and the Republican has a big lea...
Virginia’s race for governor matters because it’s the only competitive big election this year, but it’s not “an unerring predictor” of what will happen in next year’s midterm elections, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, in an email.
This election does not look anything like the presidential election in 2020, when President Joe Biden won Virginia by ten points. In fact, there is a possibility the state could turn red after eight years of being blue. "Now it's a dead heat," said political analyst J. Miles Coleman at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
And as in California, Democrats in Virginia are struggling to overcome the fact that their base voters have not been as interested as the Republican grassroots. “Democrats are sated with victory. They’ve had so many victories in a row that they falsely assumed they would win this time automatically. But there’s no such thing in politics,” Larry Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told Yahoo News.
With less than two weeks to go, polls show an incredibly tight race in Virginia’s gubernatorial election, with a survey out Wednesday finding the race in a tie. “There are a lot of indicators that this is a close race, and it fits the basic pattern of how Virginia gubernatorial races have performed in the past — the race often breaks against the White House,” said Kyle Kondik, an election analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
In 2019, Dr. Lewis and other members of the American Academy of Neurology/American Neurological Association/Child Neurology Society Ethics, Law and Humanities Committee, along with Pope and Richard Bonnie, a lawyer and professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, made a case for revising the UDDA in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. A few months later, Dr. Lewis, Pope, and Bonnie reiterated their case in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
(Commentary) Others argue a government agency wouldn’t be enough. “Lawmakers would be more effective in going after the company’s primary source of profit: personal data,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. Requiring companies to delete data after a certain time would limit targeted ads and algorithms.
"The defendants are claiming that because the plaintiff is performing a strictly government function they should be treated as a public official," Frederick Schauer, a University of Virginia professor and First Amendment expert, told Insider. "That is not an implausible claim, nor is the response that the plaintiff is sufficiently down in the food chain that they cannot really be considered an official, even if they are doing something governmental under contract with the government."
(Podcast and transcript) This is Eric Topol for Medscape, with my co-host, Abraham Verghese, for our podcast, Medicine and the Machine. Today we're privileged to have Dr Ebony Hilton with us. She is an anesthesiologist and on the critical care medicine faculty of the University of Virginia.
The CDC has updated its guidance on underlying medical conditions associated with a higher risk of severe COVID-19. “Diseases, like diabetes, obesity, cancer. Certain neurologic problems, like stroke, would increase your risk of having a severe outcome with COVID-19,” Dr. Bill Petri, Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Virginia, said. Now, people who struggle with mental health are also at a higher risk of having a severe reaction, if they contract COVID-19. “They were able to look at 5 million hospital admissions in the U.S. during the COVID pandemic. Of those 5 million, abo...
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman, political analysts at UVA’s Center for Politics) The vote count in California is finally done, and there were some noticeable trends in the results. While the recall election largely lined up with the 2018 gubernatorial result, some notable changes are evident when comparing last month’s vote to other recent statewide races. That the Democrats performed very well in that race even in the midst of Joe Biden’s still ongoing slide in popularity is an interesting data point, but it’s just a single one that may not be confirmed by looming statewide r...
New research from the University of Virginia offers insights into the cause of the seizures, thereby promising better treatments for people suffering from epilepsy. In a paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers write that the problems in the brain’s cortical microcircuits can trigger epileptic seizures. A type of brain cell, in particular, called the somatostatin interneurons can trigger epileptic seizures when it goes haywire.
University of Virginia Associate Professor of Nursing Dr. Pam DeGuzman found kids who miss doctor visits in early childhood can be found to have autism later in life, and that late diagnosis can lead to them not receiving the intervention and help they need.
A new baby means plenty of check-ups, and some of those can be critical when it comes to diagnosing autism. A new study conducted at the University of Virginia School of Nursing suggests that missing these visits may lead to delayed autism diagnoses.
Nearly one in five of the children in the study did not attend a single well-child visit between ages 1 and 5. Children on Medicaid are less likely to attend checkups than are those with private insurance. And for children who are still undiagnosed at their 3-year-old visit, “those who have Medicaid insurance are 85 percent less likely to be diagnosed” at that checkup than are privately insured children, says study leader Pamela DeGuzman, associate professor of nursing at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Though coronavirus cases are declining throughout Virginia, public health officials worry the high level this month could create a bigger springboard for a holiday surge than last year. The caseload entering this October was three times larger than in October 2020, according to a recent analysis by infectious disease modelers at the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute. With 2.7 million Virginians still completely unvaccinated, there’s enough opportunity for a repeat of last year’s wave.
The University of Virginia will be the first American university to host the International Seminar of Young Tibetologists. The weeklong conference is set to take place during the summer of 2022. UVA will welcome more than 100 scholars from around the world at Nau and Gibson halls.
The University of Virginia will be the first American university to host the International Seminar of Young Tibetologists. The weeklong conference is set to take place during the summer of 2022. UVA will welcome more than 100 scholars from around the world at Nau and Gibson halls.
The University of Virginia says it is now requiring all of its employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 8, unless they have a “university-approved religious or medical exemption.”