Virginia entered as losers of three straight, all by three-score outcomes, and after starting with a flash in the two quick deep passes to cover 75 yards for an opening touchdown, UM had to scratch and claw at the end.
The American Bankers Association recently elected James J. Edwards Jr. as its chair for the 2020-21 association year. Edwards received an MBA from the University of Virginia.
Albert Pike Elementary School in Fort Smith was built and named in 1952, and the school's website describes its namesake as “a local educator and celebrity.” What isn’t mentioned is that Pike also was a Confederate general who joined a petition in 1858 to “expel all free blacks from the State of Arkansas.” Such controversies aren’t new, said Caroline Janney, a University of Virginia history professor who specializes in Civil War and 19th-century U.S. history.
Millions of voters mailed ballots and endured long lines at polling sites over the weekend. “People are determined to express themselves and we all know why: Donald Trump. That includes his base: The cult is going to support the cult leader,” Larry Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told the Guardian.
The last president facing re-election troubles like Donald Trump's was Jimmy Carter in 1980. Injured by recession and impotent against a national crisis, Carter lost big. "Trump is the worst president ever -- I can't imagine historians will spend more than 10 minutes debating that," says Larry Sabato, who directs UVA’s Center for Politics. But "he really has developed a rock-solid base."
Our 2019 participants told us loud and clear that they want more writing exercises, so we will also have a workshop session with Irene Mathieu, a published poet and University of Virginia pediatrician who trained at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
The UVA Center for Politics says political conditions in Virginia appear to favor the current U.S. senator, Mark Warner.
Thursday night’s debate was one of the last chances Republican President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, had to appeal to a large nationwide audience. “It was definitely better than the last one,” J. Miles Coleman, election analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics, said.
In his book “Soul Mates,” University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox finds, “Latino and black couples who attend church together enjoy significantly happier relationships, in large part ... because they pray with one another.”
(Podcast interview) Dr. Amanda K. Gibson an assistant professor of biology at the University of Virginia. She joins the show to dissect the relationship between parasitism and evolution.
Every other week, Dr. Cameron Webb’s busy life gets a little busier. He has two kids, teaches at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine, plus he’s running for Congress – and he takes shifts at the hospital every other week, where many of his patients have been diagnosed with the coronavirus.
(Interview) High incidence of kidney failure in minority groups can be attributed to faster progression of kidney function decline in these populations, said Guofen Yan, associate professor of biostatistics in the department of public health sciences at the UVA School of Medicine.
"The Court plays an outsize role in constitutional law," says Saikrishna Prakash, the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School. "These nine people decide what our Constitution means."
Every four years, both political parties choose their electors in the months before the election to cast votes at a meeting set for the "Monday after the second Wednesday in December of presidential election years," which falls on Dec. 14 this year, according to federal law. "We have no uniform national system for appointing Electors, which means the legislatures do not have to consult the public at all," wrote James W. Ceaser, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia
The reason, analysts believe, is simply Donald Trump, and by extension his handling of the coronavirus pandemic that has infected 8.5 million people and killed 224,000. “The pandemic is part of it, particularly for older voters,” said Dr Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Commentary by Bob Gibson, communications director and senior researcher at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service) Only Virginia and New Jersey hold their elections for governor the year after the nation votes for president, and this year a former Virginia governor appears poised to grab an early lead in an already crowded field.
A 5K race, organized with help from some University of Virginia students, is bringing awareness to, and raising funds to fight, acute myeloid lukemia.
An accomplished Black businessman, Devon Henry took on a job the city says others were unwilling to do: lead contractor for the now-completed removal of 14 pieces of Confederate statuary that dotted Virginia’s capital city. Records show his Newport News-based Team Henry Enterprises has won more than $100 million in federal contracts in the past decade. Team Henry was the general contractor on the recently completed Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia.
Actress Linda Hamilton, best known for her iconic role as Sarah Conner in the “Terminator” franchise, spoke about her varied career with University of Virginia President Jim Ryan in a Virginia Film Festival virtual program.
Public health officials worry winter could bring an outsized impact on the pandemic. If holiday travel and colder weather lead to a jump in new infections, cases could peak in January, according to a new analysis by UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute.