The Indiana Pacers have secured guard [and UVA alumnus] Malcolm Brogdon to a two-year contract extension worth $45 million that will pay him a total of $89.3 million over the next four years, Brogdon’s agent tells ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Brogdon’s original deal would’ve ended after the 2023 season, but this new extension won’t make him an unrestricted free agent until 2025.
Nine teams comprising students from 21 universities – including UVA’s Cavalier Autonomous Racing – are headed to Indianapolis Motor Speedway this week to compete as finalists in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. The teams’ autonomous open-wheel cars will compete for $1 million in prize money care of a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
A pair of professors from the University of Virginia School of Law have become members of the American Law Institute. The ALI announced on Oct. 15 that professors John Duffy and Ruth Mason have been elected members of the institute. Their election means 28 members of the UVA law school faculty are now affiliated with the ALI.
“Biden’s dip in popularity has made this trickier for McAuliffe, and McAuliffe likely believes that Democrats getting something done before the election helps Biden, which by extension helps him,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Subscription may be required) Despite McAuliffe’s effort to tie Youngkin to Trump — especially on opposition to vaccine and mask mandates and on the former president’s false allegations of election fraud — an analysis by Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics last week concluded that “Youngkin has done at least a passable job of straddling the various wings of the Republican Party, giving clear nods to the Trumpier wing by talking about so-called ‘election integrity’ while emphasizing less hot-button issues in his advertising, like repealing a sta...
In every Virginia governor’s race since 1969, the candidate from the president’s party won a smaller share of the vote -- usually a much smaller share -- than the president did in the race for the White House just the year before, according to calculations by Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, published by UVA’s Center for Politics.
Aynne Kokas, faculty senior fellow at the Miller Center and associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia: “U.S. foreign policy with regard to China needs greater nuance in areas of potential engagement. China is a strategic competitor, and that presents risks to the United States. At the same time, the United States still benefits from cooperation in important aspects of climate, education, and health. By painting ‘China policy’ with a broad brush, valuable opportunities for collaboration get lost.”
Any sitting president has an incentive to protect the power of the office and defend a Commander-in-Chief’s ability to have privileged communications with close aides. “Maybe an aide will choose not to give candid advice to the President because they saw that Biden released Trump’s records,” says Saikrishna Prakash, a UVA law professor who studies presidential powers. “Politically, maybe some President in the future gets injured more quickly because something embarrassing comes out of a record release.”
(Commentary; subscription may be required) The Build Back Better bill does not envision a public option. Instead, it builds on our sprawling market system, infusing existing child care programs with what Daphna Bassok, professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia, calls “baseline funding” that would allow them to “function and be more stable.” Right now, said Bassok, the child care sector is experiencing such a debilitating worker shortage, brought on by low pay coupled with the pandemic, that “the idea that centers could be responsive to demands” from the market is a...
Doctors at UVA Health are closely watching the data on the possibility of vaccine mixing. The National Institute of Health did a study on mixing Johnson & Johnson with either Pfizer or Moderna. The hope is it would create a higher antibody response. Dr. Taison Bell with the UVA Health Center says right now the data shows that mixing could be the best strategy, but we need to wait for CDC approval.
Experts say the more people are vaccinated the less spread there will be. “People who are more vulnerable, so for example people who are older and people with immune compromising conditions, really are replying a lot on the people around them to protect them,” said Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious disease professor at UVA.
“If you look at the [US invasion] now with hindsight, you can say that it was a major failure, it didn’t change Haiti, it didn’t democratize Haiti. If anything, the situation now is probably more catastrophic than it was in the mid-1990s. … It was a euphoric moment, which ended in disaster,” says Robert Fatton, a Haitian-born historian who is now a professor in political science at the University of Virginia.
“It is true that foreign interventions have left a trail of sorrow and have at best been a short-lived palliative that never addressed the deep inequalities of Haiti’s political economy that are in fact the cause of the nation’s current predicament,” said Robert Fatton, a Haiti-born political scientist at the University of Virginia who closely monitors the country. “That said, it is clear that the country’s climate of impunity nurtured by a total void of legitimate authority cannot last long.”
(By Kimberly A. Whitler, Frank M. Sands Sr. Associate Professor of Business Administration) Why are brands risking market share and brand image erosion to weigh in on important but hot-button topics on which consumers, shareholders, and employees do not agree? Marketers have been told, “You must take a stand,” in reports, articles, and surveys. But what is driving this belief?
James and Tania Kitchen are parents to Jonah, a baby who lost his life in UVA Children’s. They donated 1,000 special onesies to babies in the NICU on Monday.
Scientists and advocates from three main entities have been breathing fresh, green life into what, over decades, had become a barren, muddy ocean floor. The College of William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science instigated the first eelgrass plantings around 20 years ago and it monitors their progress through a variety of techniques, including regular aerial surveys. The Nature Conservancy participated in seed collection and cultivation. The third entity is the University of Virginia and its Anheuser-Busch Coastal Research Center, whose long-term carbon data-monitoring has made it ...
Low-income people of color in the U.S. are exposed to 28% more nitrogen dioxide in the air they breathe compared to their wealthier white counterparts, a new study using satellite measurements reports. The researchers find this is largely caused by the distribution of diesel truck routes, which has long been implicated as a source of environmental inequality. “There’s a whole racist history of freeway placement in that freeways didn’t end up where they ended up by accident,” Sally Pusede, a UVA assistant professor of environmental science and senior author of the study, said.
Assuming people wearing a biometric device sensitive to colds and flu acted on the warning, they could take precautions against infecting others and seek medical attention if needed. A 10-person team of researchers tackled the project. The scientists were part of Duke University; the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Imperial College London; the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan.
A vaccine development foundation in Norway is currently giving $200 million in grants to scientists working on a universal coronavirus vaccine. In addition to Northwestern Medicine, there are scientists trying to develop universal coronavirus vaccines at the University of Virginia, UNC Chapel Hill and the University of California–Irvine.
While COVID-19 case levels remain high in Virginia, they are declining in most areas of the state. Thirty-one health districts are in declining trajectories, and only one — the Southside Health District — is in a slow-growth trajectory, according to the UVA Biocomplexity Institute’s latest report, released Friday.