The two presidents have always been polar opposites. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, added: “Trump’s narcissism is overpowering: everything is about him. Obama was a very controlled person. He would have given you the facts and nothing more. He would have been perfect for this.”
A new UVA study shows just how large the financial fallout could be. “A coming recession is pretty much baked in at this point – the only question is how severe it is,” said UVA economist Terry Rephann, the paper’s author. “We don’t think these are the final estimates by any means but we’re trying to show a range of.”
Larry J. Sabato, who has spent a lifetime studying national elections as a UVA political science professor and director of its Center for Politics, said the prospect of one party using its power to disrupt the other party’s primary is unprecedented and outrageous. It also demonstrates the imperative for states to develop ways to ensure the continuity of the most fundamental act of a democratic republic.
Herbert “Tico” Braun, professor of history at the University of Virginia, said that just starting can be a challenge, especially for those who aren’t writers. “We have to convince ourselves that we’re writing something that perhaps other people want or need to read,” he said.
“Former presidents are a rarity and they are a precious, valuable informed commodity,” Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, said. And it’s not only because they know issues, “but they also have the experience of being president.”
UVA associate dean of admission Jeannine Lalonde said that the school’s housing department offers floor plans and virtual tours.
Researchers from the UVA School of Medicine made a new discovery that could change the trajectory for people with neurodegenerative diseases. The neurologists think they have uncovered the source of lifelong behavioral issues. It is an unexpected form of cell clean-up takes place in developing brains.
Hospitals across the globe are having to fight just to ensure health care workers have the personal protective equipment needed to treat patients infected with COVID-19. In that battle, UVA Health is unveiling a new secret weapon: TRU-D, an ultraviolet room cleaning machine.
Virginia public officials have said social distancing and closure guidelines cannot be lifted until data shows the curve of new COVID-19 cases in the commonwealth is dipping. Researchers with the University of Virginia plan to release information about a new Virginia-specific model tracking and predicting coronavirus cases in the state.
Before he was a vocal climate-change contrarian, Dr. Singer had an illustrious scientific career. An early rocket scientist whose work was important to the development of earth observation satellites, he was a professor at the University of Maryland, the University of Miami and the University of Virginia, among other institutions, alternating with positions in government.
Dr. Singer was a professor at the University of Maryland in the 1950s, then in 1964 became the first dean of a school of environmental and planetary studies at the University of Miami. He held high-ranking positions at the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency before joining the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1971.
Virginia Catalyst’s first 10 funding rounds enabled it to dedicate $19.1 million for 43 collaborative projects. The projects have created more than 170 new jobs and brought an additional $228 million of investment capital. Created by the Virginia General Assembly, the organization is funded by the Commonwealth’s General Fund, Eastern Virginia Medical School, and several universities: George Mason; Old Dominion; University of Virginia; Virginia Commonwealth; Virginia Tech; and William & Mary.
(Commentary by Christian McMillen, associate dean for the social sciences and professor of history) I am a historian. I don’t predict the future. And I generally don’t write about the present. I think about how the past created the world in which we now live. But these days, amidst the coronavirus pandemic, I find the past, present, and future colliding with one another. My knowledge of the past, especially past epidemics and pandemics, means I cannot help but draw eerie parallels between the past and the present.
The Barbers played at Cave Spring High School before going to the University of Virginia, where each was a first-team All-ACC player in 1995 and 1996.
UVA law professor Kevin Cope discusses a survey he conducted on which civil liberties Americans were willing to give up in order to tackle the coronavirus.
(Commentary by Drs. Scott Heysell and Rebecca Dillingham, UVA infectious disease physicians) Virginia currently detains around 60,000 people in conditions that, from the perspective of rapidly transmitting viruses like COVID-19, are similar to landlocked cruise ships.
The study, published Friday, uses an economic forecasting model to estimate the economic effects of COVID-19 on the state.
More than $65 million in emergency federal funding will be made available to D.C.-area colleges and universities, the Trump administration announced Thursday, money designed to support students who have struggled to afford basic needs since the coronavirus shuttered their campuses and cost many their jobs. (The University of Virginia received $5.86 million.)
(Commentary) Explained UVA’s Philip Zelikow, a defense analyst: “No country is now more deeply invested in those legacy notions and paradigms than the United States, and no country faces more difficult challenges of adjustment.” But with ballooning deficits, “folks will look a little harder about just what war, exactly, we are thinking about, with less tolerance for ‘Let’s just increase the [Defense Department] topline,’” Zelikow said.
According to Sheila Crane, chair of UVA’s Architectural History Department, part of our collective fascination with balconies lies in their unique position as gateways. “Balconies act as liminal spaces that bridge public and private life,” she said, citing a line from French sociologist Henri Lefebvre’s 1992 book Rhythmanalysis, where he honors the “marvelous invention of the balcony” as the place where one can best grasp the “fleeting rhythms of urban life.”