(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.
Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a political newsletter published by UVA’s Center for Politics, said it would be “unlikely” the presidential race would end in an Electoral College tie, noting Biden's consistent lead over Trump for several months in national and battleground state polls, but sketched out several possible scenarios based on the results of the 2016 election.
The new report, released Tuesday from the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institution of Brigham Young University, is titled “Teens in Quarantine: Mental Health, Screen Time, and Family Connection.” It’s co-authors include W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
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A University of Virginia law professor defended Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the highest court in the U.S. during Thursday’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
The coronavirus pandemic has been a "disaster" for the Trump administration, and the Republicans will prefer to talk about other things, says Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
The University of Virginia is reporting 19 new cases of COVID-19 on Grounds. Of those cases, 14 are among the students.
Mabel O. Wilson co-designed the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers and co-edited Race and Modern Architecture, among other things.
Arnold Joaquin Morazán Erazo was the latest activist murdered in one of the region’s most violent nations, where corruption and drug trafficking are rife. “Regardless of the individuals that were responsible for what happened last night, you have to put this in context. The Honduran government has an international obligation to protect these people and prevent this sort of violence,” said Camilo Sánchez, director of UVA’s International Human Rights clinic.
(Commentary by Margaret Riley, law professor) When President Trump was hospitalized with COVID-19, his doctor pointed to “HIPAA rules and regulations” as the reason he couldn’t speak more freely about Trump’s condition. HIPAA is a medical privacy law, but people often misunderstand what it does and doesn’t do.