“None of these polls are perfect, to say the least. But they all have one common thread: Moore is leading in all of them. That should be disturbing for Strange and his supporters,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a UVA political analyst.
Kyle Kondik is an Ohio native who’s now the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the newsletter of the UVA Center for Politics. “The governor, I think, is trying to keep his name out there and stay relevant as his time as Ohio governor ends,” Kondik said.
The 30th annual Virginia Film Festival, presented by the University of Virginia, once more will bring big-name filmmakers and an assortment of film world celebrities to the UVA campus, Nov. 9-12, and will offer more than 120 Hollywood releases, small independent films and cutting-edge documentaries, as well as special film events and lectures designed to educate and enlighten the festival’s loyal audiences.
As the city of Charlottesville and the nation as a whole continues to grapple with the violent racial strife that erupted earlier this month, the Virginia Film Festival announced on Tuesday that it will host filmmaker Spike Lee as a special guest at the upcoming festival as part of a program around the legacy of slavery.
Spike Lee will bring two of his films to this year’s Virginia Film Festival as part of a broader project with the festival and James Madison’s Montpelier to explore the ways in which slavery continues to affect the way black Americans are seen and treated.
Years of research and consideration led Davis to take the plunge and get a cochlear implant, which was installed in late July and turned on in time for his 80th birthday Tuesday. The two-day process was completed at the UVA Health System on Monday.
Once again, the Page family – that’s Marshall and Kim and daughter Lindsey – were the hosting force at their Uptown home at the send-off party for the University of Virginia. Approximately 80 students, alumni and friends mixed and mingled. Alumna Ashbrooke Tullis thanked the Pages for hosting the party and offered congratulations and encouragement to the five new Wahoos in attendance.
(Commentary by Jeff Goldsmith, associate professor of public health sciences at the University of Virginia) It is possible that this is just the beginning of a campaign to re-advantage independent practitioners at the expense of hospitals.
But what happens when we cut out those innocuous, fleeting moments with the person behind the counter or in the driver’s seat? Allison Pugh, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia, says it amounts to placing ourselves in social bubbles that consist only of like-minded people.
Scott C. Beardsley has been the dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business since 2015. Previously, he was a senior partner at the global consulting firm McKinsey & Co., where he worked for 26 years. Now Beardsley has written a book about his experience and his outlook, “Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia.”
The UVA football team, along with other sports programs at the university, will pay respect to the civil unrest in the hometown of the University this season by wearing a special patch on their uniforms.
UC Berkeley’s chief lawyer, Christopher Patti, 59, died in a hit-and-run accident while cycling over the weekend in Sonoma County, and police are hunting for the driver, officials said. He graduated from Dartmouth College and earned his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School.
Sykes Enterprises says it is in the process of adding 285 new jobs by the end of the year. The company is partnering with Mountain Empire Community College and the University of Virginia’s College at Wise to recruit potential employees from their students.
Thai-Son Kwiatkowski, who was the 2017 NCAA singles champion and helped the Cavaliers win the ITA Indoor and NCAA outdoor national titles, gave No. 23-seeded Mischa Zverev all he could handle but couldn’t complete the upset. Earlier in the day, former Wahoo J.C. Aragone loss to No. 28-seeded Kevin Anderson in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1.
J.C. Aragone traveled to New York this month without any guarantees. For him to even land a spot in the qualifying tournament for the United States Open, he needed several other players to drop out. But there he was on Monday, taking his place on one of the sport’s biggest stages against Kevin Anderson, a former top-10 player who ended the party with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 victory.
UVA students hope a new initiative will deepen the connection between the UVA community and some of the Charlottesville neighborhoods closest to Grounds. This year, five third-year students – Ameenah Elam, Dominique DeBose, Isabella Hall , Sade Akinbayo and Sarah Bland – are the first to live in The Perkins House, a house in Charlottesville’s 10th and Page neighborhood named in honor of civil rights activist John M. Perkins.
Through direct contact with constituents, research on actual bill proposals, and writing memorandums to the Senator himself, these interns are doing work that matters – and affecting the lives of Delawareans every day. “I get to do real work, in a field that I’m actually interested in, and then give my opinion. It’s amazing,” said Alaina Robinson, a summer intern at the Dover office and student at the University of Virginia.
UVA psychiatrist Jim Tucker is arguably the world’s leading researcher on the topic of reincarnation. In 2008, he published a review of cases that were suggestive of reincarnation in the journal Explore.
Attorney General Mark Herring is issuing an advisory opinion saying he believes city officials can remove many of those old statues. Micah Schwartzman, a UVA law professor, said, “I don’t think it’s clear that the state court will be bound by it. That state court judge may continue to interpret the law as he has before, although I don’t think he shouldn’t. I think the attorney general’s view is persuasive.”
In July, he performed steps away from the Old State Capitol during the Amaranth Apple Festival. This conversation took place there – weeks before the deadly events in Charlottesville, which Carson witnessed. He just started at the University of Virginia as a professor of “Hip-Hop & The Global South.” During this interview, he discusses the oppressive, racist legacies present across the country, often on university campuses and in academia.