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.
A new analysis found a troubling, though not surprising, link between the number of Confederate monuments and the number of lynchings in history: Places with more Confederate statues have a history of more lynchings. Researchers at the University of Virginia reviewed county-level lynching data between 1832 and 1950 and found that the number of lynchings in an area was linked to a higher likelihood of having monuments honoring Confederate leaders.
(Subscription may be required) In the Gulf War of 1991 he became known for the so-called “Powell doctrine” of military force, which was, in essence, that the U.S. needed to employ overwhelming strength. This approach worked well in expelling Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1991 – perhaps too well even for Chairman Powell. As Iraqi forces streamed back toward Baghdad under withering U.S. fire, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff began to push for an end to hostilities, remembered then-Deputy National Security Advisor Robert Gates in an oral history archived at the Miller Center of the Universit...
“I thought it was a stroke of genius to recommend him for the job, one of my best decisions,” former Vice President Dick Cheney told the University of Virginia. “When I think back now on my time there, it’s not possible to conceive of my tour without Colin Powell as an integral part of it.”
Powell said it changed war forever, recounting in his oral history with the Miller Center at the University of Virginia how he went to Cheney before the ground war commenced and said, “‘Dick, so far you’ve been seeing a nice air war. It’s clean, it’s neat, pilots fly, then come back. They all look like Steve Canyon. If you lose a plane, you lose one guy. If you lose a two-seater, you lose two guys. ... When the ground war starts, ground war ain’t air war. It’s ugly, it’s dirty, and you’re liable to see pictures coming out of some kid laying halfway outside of a tank on fire. He’s burning. It’s...
Yale’s Skull and Bones is probably the best known collegiate secret society, but for sheer drama and spectacle, none can top the University of Virginia’s Seven Society.