Children being treated at UVA Children’s can now access a closed-circuit television adventure channel put on by the San Diego Zoo.
As UVA’s Center for Politics noted, since 1900 there have been 30 presidential elections. Ohio has correctly picked the winner in 27 of those elections. One of those incorrect picks was this year.
Franklin D. Roosevelt had won his third term in 1940, in the midst of the Great Depression and the start of the Second World War. History quoted a professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center as saying, "You have economic-domestic issues and you have foreign policy with the outbreak of World War II in 1939. And then you have his own political viability – he had won the 1936 election with more than two-thirds of the popular vote."
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The University of Virginia has an ongoing research project on relationships called The National Marriage Project in which they explore statistics pertaining to nearly every element of marriages, and one of their findings reports that generosity is a key factor to a happy marriage.
Built in the 1950s to serve freshmen students, Bonnycastle Hall is part of the McCormick Road Houses complex at the University of Virginia. New interior finishes and an emphasis on transparency and daylighting create a contemporary aesthetic and make the space more attractive to students.
“Especially with the increase in cases that we’re seeing nationwide, it certainly is safer not to travel in group settings,” UVA infectious disease Dr. Patrick Jackson said.
University and county officials are keeping the full contents of the 111-year-old capsule a closely guarded secret until the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library’s historic preservationists present their findings to the county’s Board of Supervisors at its Nov. 18 meeting.
In solemn silence, nearly 100 UVA Reserve Officer Training Corps members on Monday will start their 24-hour vigil in ritual remembrance of soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who never returned.
(Podcast interview with Chris Lu, practitioner senior fellow at Miller Center) Lu, who led the 2008 Obama-Biden presidential transition team, discusses what a transition from a Trump to a Biden administration might look like.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies and co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at UVA’s Miller Center, discusses the historic nature of Kamala Harris’ election and the road it took to get here.
“In all likelihood, the race won’t be so close that a single electoral vote would decide the outcome,” Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told the Omaha World-Herald’s Joseph Morton ahead of election day. “But it is important for the campaigns to compete everywhere that’s competitive, and NE-2 voters should think of themselves as living within their own swing state.”
The country’s political divisions are as deep as ever. Political analysts don’t see that changing anytime soon, especially with former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney saying he expects his former boss will remain a very vocale political player and on the short list to run again in 2024. “The geographic sort of metro-rural is changing our politics, and defining the actual nature of our polarization,” says Guian McKee, an associate professor of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “If we hope to find a better politics in the aftermath of this horrible year...
Michael Gilbert, a University of Virginia law professor specializing in election law and legislation, says lawsuits over elections aren’t uncommon. This year’s reliance on mail-in voting could see the number of suits skyrocket.
With only a few states left to report election results two days after the election, the University of Virginia Center for Politics says people need to continue watching the states in play.
He said for now, he doesn't have any immediate plans. He will work shifts at the University of Virginia Medical Center and he teaches graduate-level classes at UVA focusing on health reform and the social detriments of health.
(Video) Larry Sabato, University of Virginia Center for Politics director joins Shep Smith to provide his analysis on swing states and why we shouldn’t be driven by the polls.
Legal experts have rejected the Trump campaign’s allegations that widespread voter fraud has taken place. “There is no reason I have seen anywhere to believe that there’s a problem here,” Michael Gilbert, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday. “It’s just vote-counting takes time, and they’re counting the votes. I see no evidence of fraud. I see zero evidence whatsoever of an election being stolen.”
While the ideological cleavage between urban and rural parts of the U.S. continues to grow, progressive candidates at the local level had a strong showing Tuesday. There is a “dramatic progressive turn” taking place on the local level, said Richard Schragger, a University of Virginia professor and author of “City Power: Urban Governance in a Global Age.”
“Except for the Civil War, I don’t think we’ve lived through any time as perilous as this in terms of the divisions,” said historian Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.