It was not yet 7 a.m. and the leader of the free world, still hospitalized with the coronavirus, was thinking about Virginia, an increasingly blue state where his campaign hasn’t been willing to bankroll ads on TV. “There have been some flashbulb moments in Virginia that have come up a lot,” said Kyle D. Kondik, who analyzes elections at UVA’s Center for Politics.
The White House physician, Dr. Sean P. Conley, predicted in a memo released Thursday that President Trump could safely “return to public engagements” on Saturday, based on the date on which he tested positive for the coronavirus and his response to treatments. Such vague wording could be interpreted to mean a definitive test for infectiousness, which “to my knowledge, doesn’t exist,” said Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care physician at the University of Virginia. “I wish I could learn from Dr. Conley what they’re doing.”
In the month since the first debate, the Senior Statesmen Forum on Sept. 9, Cameron Webb and Bob Good have not taken the virtual stage together again, despite attempts from both campaigns to do so. The Webb campaign says they were willing to move forward with the Liberty debate if the Good campaign agreed to a debate at the University of Virginia, where Webb works. They say the Good campaign has not responded to that request, and now time is running out.
The reintroduction of seagrass into Virginia’s coastal bays is one of the great success stories in marine restoration. Now, a long-term monitoring study shows this success extends far beyond a single species, rippling out to engender substantial increases in fish and invertebrate abundance, water clarity and the trapping of pollution-causing carbon and nitrogen. Scheduled for the Oct. 7 issue of Science Advances, the study was led by scientists of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science; joining them are Karen McGlathery, Lillian Aoki, and Matthew Oreska of the University of Virgini...
The FDA received 47 clinical trial grant applications that were reviewed and evaluated for scientific and technical merit by more than 90 rare disease and clinical trial experts, including members of academia. University of Virginia, Owen O'Connor, phase 2 study of oral azacytidine plus romidepsin for the treatment of peripheral T-cell lymphoma – $3.2 million over four years.
The University of Virginia is at the forefront of researching that very cocktail, which was given to the president along with Remdesivir and Dexamethasone.
UVA researchers want to find out whether the “antibody cocktail” that was administered to the president can prevent COVID-19 infection in people that share the same household.
Over the next five years, researchers from the University of Virginia's Arctic Research Center, in partnership with local entities, will be designing and monitoring environmental sensors throughout Utqiaġvik that will collect data that can be used to design future buildings.
Dr. William Petri of UVA Health said Thursday the cocktail appears to be effective, lowering the number of days a patient is sick from about 13 to eight.
Research conducted by Yale Law School professor Ian Ayres and UVA law professor Quinn Curtis suggests that most 401(k) participants don’t allocate their investments efficiently, meaning that for any degree of risk, 401(k) savers are getting sub-optimal returns out of expensive funds dominated by offerings from fund sponsors.
The watch is on at UVA’s Blandy Experimental Farm, a 700-acre property about two hours north of Charlottesville. It’s the home of a giant stand of gingko trees, at least 300 of them, and photographers come from around the world to see their leaves turn.
(Commentary by William Hitchcock, history professor) The decision by President Trump’s physician, Sean Conley, to release only partial information about Trump’s condition raises two urgent questions for all Americans: What obligation do the president’s doctors have to tell the public what they know about an ailing president? And who takes charge when the president falls ill?
(Editorial) John Conover’s passing will leave a huge gap in Charlottesville’s civic life and in the lives of his family and friends. But, oh, the gaps he filled during his long career of public and professional service. Conover had arrived in Charlottesville in the early 1970s to attend the University of Virginia, and he was part of the protest culture of the time. He and his wife, Virginia Daugherty, worked with a company called Black Flag Press. “If you wanted to print a protest flyer or a newsletter, you went to Black Flag,” recalled Jim Heilman, now secretary of the Albemarle County Electo...
Arizona Diamondbacks prospect Pavin Smith was selected No. 7 overall out of the University of Virginia in 2017. Smith entered the Diamondbacks organization with high expectations due to his lofty draft status, and he lived up to the billing with a steady progression through the minors.
The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico on Tuesday appointed board member and professor of corporate law and bankruptcy, David Skeel Jr., as chairman of the board, effective immediately. Skeel received a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a juris doctor degree from the University of Virginia.
UVA graduate creative writing student Jana Horn considers her output carefully. After performing eponymously for years, the cerebral Austin singer-songwriter finally offers a debut statement. “Optimism” masters clear-eyed, sure-footed folk rock with subtlety, allowing space for each phrase to land.
Pence would do well to frame his environmental policy in economic terms — emphasizing energy jobs in states where the election is close, such as Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Texas, said J. Miles Coleman, the associate editor of the political newsletter Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Harris will bring a considerable constituency along with her for 90 minutes: American women, among whom Biden leads Trump by a staggering 34 percentage points, according to a new CNN poll. “I’m very impressed with her,” says Larry Sabato, a professor of political science at UVA and longtime director of its Center for Politics. “There’s no question that Trump is losing the women’s vote, and losing it badly. Harris can really stick it to him.”
The very role of the second-in-command is often dismissed as that of the person who goes to state funerals, tempered with the reminder that the vice president is a heartbeat away from the presidency. Those old cliches are unnervingly real this year as Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee Harris face off Wednesday night in Salt Lake City in their first and only debate of the 2020 election. "One of these people really could be president. It's likely that that could be," says Barbara Perry, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
University of Virginia political science professor Jennifer Lawless pointed to the vice presidential debate between Biden and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in 2008 as one in which both candidates struck an effective tone. “Substance aside, she was quite likable in the debate, and he didn’t belittle her and demean her,” Lawless said.