“Sabato's Crystal Ball,” a weekly newsletter published by UVA’s Center for Politics and its director, Larry J. Sabato, closely monitors every House and Senate race in the country. Kyle Kondik, an Ohioan and the managing editor of “Sabato's Crystal Ball,” cautions that not too much should be read into Chabot's 18 percentage point lead in 2016. "House performance can vary widely from election to election,'' Kondik said. "An 18-point margin can dissipate very quickly."
The UVA Medical Center, which offers telemedicine in 60 specialties and subspecialties, estimates that it has spared patients more than 17 million miles of driving to the medical center to obtain care.
Of 115 children in foster care in Charlottesville at one point in 2017, 80 percent were black or of mixed race, according to data provided by Charlottesville Department of Social Services. But only 22 percent of the total population is black or mixed race, according to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
In a study conducted at Stanford University, we asked students to sit in a room for six minutes. We told one group of students (the resistors) to put their phones on the table in front of them but not use them. The videos of the resistors are telling (and funny), with a lot of fidgeting and staring forlornly at the phones they couldn’t use. Indeed, the resistors and the controls found it difficult to sit alone with their thoughts for the six minutes. Is this a sign that our students have become addicted to their phones? We think not. Instead, as colleagues at the University of Virginia and Har...
Gov. Terry McAuliffe attended a summit at UVA’s Curry School of Education in October to discuss the teacher shortage crisis, and said at that time that the shortages “will be the single-biggest challenge for the next governor.”
The majority of the bachelor’s degrees (37,988) were conferred by Virginia’s public colleges, with George Mason University and James Madison University seeing the largest increases.
The Charlottesville Mural Project is teaming up with the Batten Institute to create a new mural for an interior wall at the Darden School of Business. Organizers hope the mural will inspire students and faculty to find extra meaning.
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.