Marlene Daut, associate professor of African diaspora studies in UVA’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, talks about the history of the Haitian revolution.
Kyle Klondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political newsletter run by the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Democrats’ path to victory relies on taking back Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Trump won the Midwest “blue wall” states in 2016, but each swung for Democrats in 2018 midterms.
UVA political analyst Kyle Kondik says Northam remains in office for a number of reasons. “For one thing, Fairfax is even more toxic than he is, and the accusations against the lieutenant governor help insulate the governor. But I also think the governor surveyed the political climate and determined that he was better off staying in office than resigning. Northam did, in fact, face a lot of pressure to resign, but he weathered it and decided not to step aside in spite of it,” he explained.
In general, the experts I consulted agreed that the optimal number of children is specific to each family’s desires and constraints. “When a couple feels like they have more interest in kids; more energy for kids; maybe more support, like grandparents in the area; and a decent income, then having a large family can be the best option for them,” says Brad Wilcox, the director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project. “And when a couple has fewer resources, either emotional, social, or financial, then having a smaller family would be best for them."
Primary care physicians often struggle to connect patients with specialists. Specialists, on their end, are often overwhelmed by referrals. Five years after its launch, the AAMC's Project CORE has helped improve patient care for more than 2 million patients. “There are definitely providers who, for their patients that are paying out of pocket, almost always start with the eConsults instead of referrals just because it is much more cost-effective if the patient doesn’t need to see the specialist” in person, says Kim Dowdell, MD, primary care lead for CORE at the University of Virginia Medical C...
(Commentary by UVA professors Lisa Woolfork and Noelle Hurd) Without Joe Biden setting foot in Charlottesville, his presidential launch video managed to transform our hashtagged city from a potential campaign backdrop into a campaign prop. Mentioning Charlottesville cannot substitute for advancing a genuine racial justice platform.
Google Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton Cerf spoke Wednesday at the UVA School of Engineering about cyber-physical systems, which connect the physical world to the virtual world.
Charlottesville School Board members appeared visibly moved after UVA doctoral student Margaret Thornton’s presentation covering the local and federal background of gifted education and the early years of Charlottesville’s gifted program.
A UVA School of Medicine scientist has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, which is one of the highest honors for a scientist. Edward H. Egelman is among 100 new members of the academy, bringing the number of active members to 2,347.
Three former Virginia soccer players will help the United States Women’s National Team defend its World Cup title next month in France. Becky Sauerbrunn, Emily Sonnett, and Morgan Brian were named to the United States’ 23-woman roster for the World Cup, which was revealed on Thursday afternoon.
A few months ago, UVA, the City of Charlottesville and the County of Albemarle sent a joint press release asking for community input to help them draft their environmental plans, under their umbrella concept called “Climate Action Together.”
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) The perception of which candidates stand the best chance of toppling Trump will play a major role in deciding who ultimately wins the Democratic Party’s nomination, according to polling and interviews with campaigns, operatives and rank-and-file voters across the early primary states.
Three pounds. That’s all a human brain weighs. Students in Andy Kelly’s Sports Medicine 2 class at William Monroe High School felt the true weight of it when they visited the UVA School of Medicine’s cadaver lab two weeks ago.
President Donald Trump doesn’t have a slam-dunk legal case for keeping his banking records away from congressional investigators, legal experts say. Still, his latest lawsuit could help him politically: It could stall the production of potentially damaging documents, perhaps even until after the 2020 reelection bid. Even if the suit succeeds in delaying document production until after the next election, the congressional subpoenas may set a longer-range precedent, said Saikrishna Prakash, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District is a Republican district that includes a mix of independents and suburban voters – the kind of district Trump relied on in 2016 and that he’ll need to win again to secure reelection in 2020. The House seat is “reflective of broader national trends,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. The district’s “rural areas are becoming much more Republican, but [the] suburban areas are becoming more Democratic.”
“When insurers were developing rates for 2018, most insurers should have figured out how to keep their MLR at 80%,” said Carolyn Engelhard, a public health expert at the University of Virginia. “But Optima was new to the market, and because they were scaling up so much, they had to take on much more administrative costs. I think they were freaking out and they didn’t know what they didn’t know.”
Richard H. Robinson was an “independent spirit” who admired that characteristic in his students. “With his flexible mind, he would have been more than happy that so much that I have written is contrary to what he wrote. He’d enjoy it tremendously,” said Jeffrey Hopkins, Robinson’s student and now professor emeritus of Tibetan and Buddhist studies at UVA.
A legal debate continues in Charlottesville about whether the statues that incited the movement to remove Confederate statues are actually monuments to the Confederacy. That question is central to whether the city has the authority to remove them, said Richard Schragger, a law professor at the University of Virginia who has followed the case.
A nondiscrimination policy at Yale Law School, which prohibits fellowship funding with organizations that won’t hire applicants who are gay, probably does not violate any federal laws. Nevertheless, some legal experts say that the institution might want to rethink how it is written. “They’re not guilty as charged and are dealing with the issue. Whether they deal with it well or badly remains to be seen. In terms of what she’s saying, there’s no intention to exclude employers with serious religious convictions,” says Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law school professor and church-stat...
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine say they have discovered how cancer hijacks the wound-healing process to survive.