Normally, student families would have a chance to meet with UVA President Jim Ryan in person, but this year, there was a virtual town hall instead.
The University of Virginia says no new cases of COVID-19 were reported on Grounds on Sunday and there was only one new case reported on Saturday.
The University of Virginia, with 17,000 undergrads, said it will provide every student with the opportunity to get tested before leaving Charlottesville.
You can expect to see University of Virginia School of Law students working at the polls on Tuesday. The students are verified by either the Democratic or Republican parties and are specially trained to be poll observers.
(Editorial) The University of Virginia Board of Visitors last year voted to raise tuition by 3.6% for the current 2020-21 school year. But before 2020 was far advanced, the danger posed by COVID-19 necessitated abandoning in-person classes and switching to online instruction.
Among the images featured: an ensemble of filamentous viruses that infect archaea living in almost boiling acid, credited to UVA researchers Edward Egelman and Fengbin Wang.
Ilse Cleeves, astronomy professor, and her team of graduate students are trying to better understand the origins of the chemical abundances beyond water and what drives them.
“We call everything, we call all the states in the country, in the Electoral College, we call every Senate race, we call every House race, and of course we are going to be wrong in some,” said Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics.
Only a head coach — not a special teams coordinator — could make a decision as gut-wrenching as trying to convert a fake punt with just more than two minutes left to preserve Virginia’s 44-41 victory against No. 15 North Carolina.
Graduate transfers who joined the Wahoos during the offseason made an impact all over the field in Saturday's win over ranked North Carolina.
President Trump is locked in a dead heat with Joe Biden in the long-red state. If he loses, its two incumbent Republican senators could follow suit. While the Cook Political Report still rates the Georgia presidential race as leaning Republican, the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics sees it as a tossup.
During his four-year tenure, President Donald Trump has presided over – and to a large degree strategically stoked for political advantage – a bitterness and increasing division among the American electorate. "I fear we are stuck in this polarized time and I don't see the end of that," Barbara Perry, director of Presidential Studies at UVA's Miller Center, says.
Suggesting other news sources only reinforces users' political beliefs. Another study finds that quitting the social media giant leaves people less informed. While there’s little evidence to support that Facebook is biased against conservative users, UVA professors Brent Kitchens and Steven Johnson found that, by maximizing for engagement and attention, Facebook’s algorithms actively push conservatives toward more radical content than liberal users.
The question has forced observers to look back at what the 74-year-old Trump has said in recent months -- and whether to take him at his word or assume some of those comments were for shock value. For veteran political analyst Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia, that "depends heavily on the margin of Biden's victory (assuming he wins)."
As the U.S. continues grappling with significant spikes in coronavirus cases, the country is now also facing flu season (from roughly November through February). “We’re definitely concerned about our testing capacity,” Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA assistant professor of medicine in the infectious disease and pulmonary divisions, said.
Don’t be fooled, voting experts and academics say. Early vote counts in the most competitive, battleground states can be particularly misleading this election because of the surge in mail-in or absentee ballots, and the different ways that they are processed. “Something I’m prepared for on election night is for Pennsylvania to look more Republican than it may actually be, whoever ends up winning the state,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
President Donald Trump's hopes of winning a second term are, well, slim. Which, for Republicans, puts even more pressure on the ongoing fight to keep control of the Senate and, thereby, avoid total Democratic control come 2021. "Overall, Democrats are favored to win the Senate, but their odds of winning the White House are better," wrote Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia's Crystal Ball.
(Commentary by Aynne Kokas, media studies professor) Whoever wins Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, one of the biggest issues facing lawmakers around the world will be how to deal with Chinese-owned social media sensation, TikTok.
Technology both new and old drove the success of this year’s pandemic-disrupted Virginia Film Festival as organizers embraced the new virtual reality of movies and went back to the future with a return to drive-in shows.