Kyle Kondik, communications director at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the investment from the NRCC is a sign that national Republicans are worried about the race, but as long as Trump carries the district by a substantial margin, Good will likely come out ahead. “The danger for Good is that the district is closer at the presidential level and he underperforms,” Kondik said.
As wildfires burn thousands of homes and businesses along the West Coast, a team of engineers at the University of Virginia are working to design a sensor network that can detect a wildfire as quickly as it starts.
University of Virginia: 321 positive cases among students and employees reported from Aug. 17 to Sept. 11. Current positivity rate is 17.14% as of Sept. 10.
Many restaurants on the Corner have seen a decline in business during the coronavirus pandemic, but the University of Virginia is trying to boost their sales by putting up a tent to encourage students to safely dine outdoors.
And the increases have occurred at a wide variety of schools. Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business saw a massive 63% jump in applications in the 2019-2020 admissions season. The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business experienced a 25% increase, while applications to Wharton’s MBA program soared by 21%, even though Wharton only extended its application season by two weeks.
Of more than 500 schools recognized on the U.S. News and World Report’s 2021 lists of the best universities and liberal arts colleges in the country released Monday, 26 Virginia schools snagged spots. The University of Virginia was ranked as the fourth-best public school in the country and had the highest graduation rate of any public school, at 95%.
Instead of testing every individual across campus for COVID-19, scientists can pinpoint certain residence halls. The University of Virginia is testing residence hall wastewater for the virus, and a pilot project in Stafford County has revealed that there could be 10 times as many known COVID-19 cases, according to tests done recently at the county’s wastewater treatment plants.
With Albemarle County’s “Johnny Reb” statue gone, activists have returned their attention to five other local monuments they say are “symbols of oppression.” “This is one object that needs to be removed,” Charlottesville activist Don Gathers said Saturday morning, as he watched crews work to take down the monument formally known as “At Ready” from the Albemarle County Circuit Courthouse lawn. “There are still five more.” The owners of those five monuments — the city of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia — have plans to either remove or make changes to each of them.
After a few injuries during his career as a Major League Soccer player, including time with DC United, Robbie Russell wondered: what’s next for me after soccer? That question, and a conversation with his father-in-law, brought him to Charlottesville. Russell needed to complete a residency program. He’s now in his second year of that residency at UVA Medical Center. That’s when a global pandemic hit. Part of keeping himself safe is wearing new, protective, pandemic-style outfitting. But Russell has his own unique twists.
The Tom Tom Foundation's Cities Rising Summit will kick off this week. This multi-week event is taking the place of the usual Tom Tom Summit and Festival, which was canceled earlier this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Ebony Hilton, an anesthesiologist at the University of Virginia Hospital, will be speaking on the Black Maternity Crisis Panel.
The University of Virginia Health System’s new emergency department and inpatient bed tower will offer an enhanced and more dignified experience for patients and staff when the project reaches completion. Designed by Perkins and Will and built by Skanska, the expansion of the hospital prioritizes well-being, while maximizing the number of patients who can receive care.
The Virginia football season opener at Virginia Tech has been postponed due to “Covid-19 Issues” within the Hokies' program. In a statement released on Saturday morning, Tech announced, “After consultation with Atlantic Coast Conference officials, our counterparts at the University of Virginia, campus leadership at Virginia Tech and Dr. Mark Rogers, Chief Medical Officer for Virginia Tech Athletics, the mutual decision has been made to move the football game between Virginia Tech and Virginia at Lane Stadium to a later date stemming from COVID-19 issues at Virginia Tech.”
“Making enemies [of Chinese partners] through the production of Mulan would not help advance that cause,” says Aynne Kokas, author of the book Hollywood Made in China and a scholar at the University of Virginia. “It’s interesting that they just decided to not address it, not to re-film, even as the human rights abuses became more visible.”
To critics, the rollout of “Mulan” marks the latest example of Hollywood’s hypocrisy and willingness to sacrifice values to do business in China. “In L.A., there’s a focus on freedom of expression,” said University of Virginia media studies professor Aynne Kokas, author of the book “Hollywood Made in China.” “Then we cross borders, and the democracy struggle in Hong Kong is erased, as are the human rights abuses in Xinjiang.”
“Disney is not alone, it’s just that they have to try and preserve their family-friendly brand issue,” said Aynne Kokas, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia and author of Hollywood Made in China. “If you have President Trump saying that the Uygur camps are not that big a deal, if you have corporations taking their lead from the US presidents, it’s the sort of decision they’ll make.”
Following the sage burning, attendees took turns pouring water on the site, offering thoughts on the removal and prayers for Winchester, where the statue and its accessories will be installed on a battlefield by the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation. “Our work is not done,” said Larycia Hawkins, a UVA professor. “... The forces of destruction who didn’t want him to go are alive and well and in our midst.”
Larycia Hawkins, a professor at UVA, said despite one of the symbols of slavery being removed, the vestiges of those troubled times still exist. "The Confederacy still lives on through those symbols, images and monuments in ways that shadow that is cast upon me," said Hawkins. "It's meaningful in the most detrimental way. It says that black bodies still are not equal."
In Wisconsin and Michigan, Biden cracked 50% support in averages calculated late last week by FiveThirtyEight; in Arizona and Pennsylvania, he drew 49.4% and 49.8%. If the former vice president can hold and augment that support with even a small share of undecideds, he'd capture 289 electoral votes -- 19 more than needed to win. Thus Trump needs "to claw back some people who now say they're voting for Biden," says Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. That won't be easy.