To get an answer, we spoke with Bill Petri, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Virginia.
The first question on a Virginia voter's ballot this election cycle is on the Redistricting Commission Amendment, which will ask whether an amendment establishing a bipartisan redistricting commission should be added to Virginia's Constitution. “Next year will be the first redistricting year since 1992 [that] the Democrats have had the governorship and both chambers of the legislature,” said J. Miles Coleman, the associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the University of Virginia Center for Politics nonpartisan newsletter.
Political experts said Republicans may bear more of the political backlash for the hold-up in stimulus because they are currently the party in power in the White House. “Voters are likelier to hold the incumbent presidential party more responsible for the state of the economy, and the country as a whole,” Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, said.
The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the winners of the 23rd Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards, which were held virtually this year. UVA English professor Christopher Tilghman won the 2020 Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award for Fiction for his book, “Thomas and Beal in the Midi.”
Research at the UVA School of Medicine is working to make it easier for scientists to track and understand what is happening inside individual cells.
The University of Virginia is taking big steps to achieve some hefty civic and environmental goals. There’s a new 10-year sustainability plan on the horizon.
In his last reelection bid, the Virginia Democratic senator survived a near-upset. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, predicted that while former Vice President Joe Biden will win the state by a larger margin than Clinton’s 5-point victory in 2016, Warner “shouldn’t take anything for granted.”
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, media studies professor) Facebook and Twitter are trying to avoid repeating the 2016 misinformation disaster, but haven’t totally figured out how.
Alan S. Boyd, the first United States secretary of transportation, who was named by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 to integrate the nation’s sprawling networks of planes, trains, ships and highways into a new superagency, died on Sunday in Seattle.
(Radio interview) Chris Lu, former deputy secretary of labor and senior fellow at the University of Virginia Miller Center, discusses the dueling Biden-Trump town halls, the election and lack of stimulus.
As he has vacillated between abandoning stimulus package talks and restarting them, Trump’s “vaunted ‘art-of-the-deal’ mystique” has evaporated, said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center.
The plaintiffs are arguing that Gov. Northam does not have the authority to remove the statue because it would violate restrictive covenants in deeds that transferred the statue, its pedestal and the land they sit on belong to the state. Expected witnesses for the commonwealth include Kevin Gaines, UVA’s inaugural Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice.
(Program preview) University of Virginia business professor Ed Freeman discusses the focus on responsibility and ethics that he says unites influential businesses.
(Commentary by Mehr Afshan Farooqi, professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian languages and cultures) I’ve been working on Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib for nearly a decade. My original idea was to work on the ghazals that Ghalib excluded from his ‘published’ Divan.
(Commentary by Joshua Alley, postdoctoral research associate at the Democratic Statecraft Lab) Should the United States try to create such an organization?
The $288-million multiphase expansion provides needed space for the hospital and flexibility to incorporate continuing advancements in medical technology and services.
The coronavirus pandemic has wrought chaos on the U.S. and world economies, but for graduate business education, it has been a blessing in one very important way. At UVA’s Darden School of Business, extending round three by 99 days resulted in a wild 364% jump in MBA apps for the round, which ended up giving the school a 37.7% increase overall.
(Subscription required) Democratic nominee Joe Biden starts with a mathematical advantage over President Trump. States considered solidly or likely Democratic have a combined 226 electoral votes, based on combined ratings from three nonpartisan political analysts: the Cook Political Report, Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales and Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Suchak is UVA’s senior photographer and works independently for clients like National Geographic, but he’s exceedingly modest about his presentation of these images at the Crozet Artisan Depot.
The reason is what behavioral scientists call “ambient emotion” or background feelings. While ambient emotions are easy to ignore – like the effects of background music or the weather, we often aren’t even aware of them – research by Norbert Schwarz of the University of Southern California and UVA’s Gerald Clore, among others, has shown that even fleeting moods can influence decision-making.