Yesterday’s apportionment results were less dramatic than some analysts had expected. “It was surprising that Texas only gained two seats. I’d assumed they’d be getting three or even four,” said J. Miles Coleman, associate director of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the political analysis project of the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato.
“I’d expect, just from reapportionment, the Republicans to win a few seats,” said Kyle Kondik, an election analyst at the University of Virginia. Republicans only need to flip five seats in 2022 to retake the House.
In the states losing seats, the casualties could be split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. But Republicans could press their advantage in the states gaining seats, especially in Texas and Florida. “Republicans are going to net out an advantage in that trade-off,” Kondik told Bloomberg TV. “They’re states that are competitive to be sure, but they’re states that are dominated by Republicans at the state level.”
Qian Cai, the director of the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, said there were generally few surprises for Virginia in Monday’s release by the census, which she said is good news for her team of demographers. Their estimate for Virginia’s population in 2020, which was hatched in 2018, was just 479 people off from the official census count.
U.S.-Mexico border issues are the main thing that Biden is getting wrong or needs to work on, according to Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. The Biden administration has struggled to handle increasing numbers of migrants arriving at the border, leading to plenty of criticism from Republicans as well as Democrats and independents. “It is the one major policy area where Americans already give him low grades,” Sabato said.
“It’s all fairly artificial, but as humans we need these milestones and markers,” Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said of the 100-days window. “It’s meaningful at the time. It could be meaningful in the long term. But it could also be overtaken by the swath of history.”
“His trainees were like a 2nd family to him,” Kedes’s son, Dean Kedes, a microbiologist at the University of Virginia, wrote in an email. His father would often have students over for dinner, and their lively discussions were part of what prompted the younger Kedes to pursue a career in science. “In the end, I saw my father’s daily enjoyment of his career not only from his awe of new discoveries in gene expression but also his creation of this super-family ... all of whom shared his joy of science and life. What son wouldn’t also want that type of career?”
“[The Virginia Supreme Court] held that the original law never applied to the statues, so Charlottesville always had the ability to take them down,” said Rich Schragger, a UVA law professor. “Because the language of the revised statute, which allows local governments to remove, tracks the language of the old statute in important ways, the city could take the position that the new statute’s procedural requirements do not apply to the statues and therefore the city can act immediately to remove them.” Given that a previous council’s vote to remove monuments lead to losing a lawsuit and an injunc...
The Virginia volleyball program has its new head coach. Shannon Wells, who has spent the past seven seasons as an assistant at the University of Florida, will replace former head coach Aaron Smith. “She is a perfect fit for who we are currently and what we aspire to be as a volleyball program,” director of athletics Carla Williams said in a statement. “First, she is an exceptional person and will be a wonderful addition to the UVA family.”
As local health care workers continue to fight on the front lines, a team of nurses is looking to provide tools for self-care. Registered nurse Nancy Farish and two other nurses created the Mobile Resiliency Toolbox. They are part of the Compassion Care Initiative at UVA’s School of Nursing.
West Virginia is also one of just two states where deaths exceeded births over the decade. (The other is Maine, which grew because it had a higher rate of in-migration.) The median age in West Virginia is between 42 and 43, compared with the national average of 38. The state’s population is projected to keep shrinking through 2040, according to UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
A new advanced PET imaging technique can help surgeons identify and remove areas in the brain responsible for triggering harmful epileptic seizures, according to the results of a small pilot study. Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine say their approach measures glucose utilization in the brain to determine what regions are causing seizures. With the help of this parametric dynamic FDG-PET imaging development, physicians can surgically remove those spots, the UVA team explained.
Huge advancements in how doctors treat epilepsy seizures are in the works at the University of Virginia. A new approach to advanced imaging of the brain may help doctors pinpoint exactly where seizures are coming from. “Once that bad spot is located, we can then evaluate whether or not it can be removed through surgical means and then treat somebody who’s seizures are resisting treatment with normal epilepsy medication,” UVA professor of neurology Mark Quigg said.
The U.S. Census Bureau is beginning to release data that will impact seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. In response, Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics has released a special edition.
UVA has named the first woman to be dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Jennifer L. West will be the 14th dean of the school, beginning on July 1.
Some schools are partnering with the University of Virginia to establish a number of initiatives in the beginning years of the program. The University acts as a consultant for school leaders. Through the partnership, the leaders receive guidance on how to recruit and retain teachers, provide high-quality curriculum and create a supportive climate and culture.
Some schools are partnering with the University of Virginia to establish a number of initiatives in the beginning years of the program. The University acts as a consultant for school leaders. Through the partnership, the leaders receive guidance on how to recruit and retain teachers, provide high-quality curriculum and create a supportive climate and culture.
“An Introduction to Personal Branding,” University of Virginia: The focus of this course is to teach students how to create and maintain a personal brand. Kimberley R. Barker provides an overview of personal branding, explains how to write your mission statement, helps you identify which social media platforms fits you best, and explains how reputation and digital privacy affect your personal brand.
UVA will hold its commencement outdoors on May 21 to May 23 for the class of 2021. Students will walk the lawn and process to Scott Stadium, where each student can have two guests. The class of 2020 will also get a chance to walk and attend a special ceremony, according to UVA President Jim Ryan.
With COVID-19 case and vaccination numbers both heading in the right direction, the University of Virginia eased limits on indoor and outdoor gatherings on Monday. Under the new guidelines, up to 25 people can now get together indoors and up to 75 people can gather outdoors. Previously only 6 people could gather inside and 25 outside.