The day before Matthew Simon was to begin crew practice in 2015 as a high school sophomore, he was diagnosed with leukemia. Now in his second year at UVA, Simon discovered something seemingly counterintuitive: exercising during chemotherapy made him feel less fatigued.
“While there is less ticket-splitting in American politics than there used to be, we do still see voters doing it,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political website at UVA’s Center for Politics. “So even if Sanders does do poorly — and that is far from guaranteed — House Democrats may be able to distance themselves from Sanders, much like many Republicans did from Trump four years ago.”
Bill Shobe, director of UVA’s Center for Economic and Policy Studies, said Virginia has operated under two effective cap-and-trade programs in the past: one implemented during George H.W. Bush’s administration aimed at reducing sulfur dioxide and the other aimed at cutting nitrogen oxides. “We have pretty good evidence that these cap-and-trade programs greatly reduce the cost of achieving these emission reductions,” Shobe said.
A new study has taken a look at how green space can help reduce violent crime. Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine found that properly designed and maintained outdoor green space has the potential to reduce violent crime, including gun violence.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce has announced this year’s winner of the Q Businesswoman Award. The award will be presented to Libby Edwards-Allbaugh of the Tax Ladies Inc. during the upcoming Quadruplicity Conference on March 13. She was also recently selected as a University of Virginia Equity Fellow for a project to increase financial literacy among African-American girls.
UVA-Wise Chancellor Donna Henry and Vice Chancellor for Advancement and Alumni Engagement Valerie Lawson accepted a $1 million gift Thursday from Rapha’s board of directors to the college’s foundation. Thursday’s gift will be matched by $1 million from the University of Virginia’s Strategic Investment Fund to create the Rapha Foundation Bicentennial Scholarship Fund.
The University of Virginia says there are no faculty-led or UVA-administered education abroad programs in China planned for the remainder of the spring 2020 semester; students in China for University-related purposes were advised to leave following the change in the CDC alert and State Department travel advisory on Jan. 27 and students whose spring term of study in China had not yet begun are receiving assistance with revising their plan of study for spring 2020.
Ahead of spring break, the University of Virginia is notifying students, staff and faculty about the potential impact of coronavirus to study-abroad programs and travel.
Hopkins Architects of London has won a contest for a new School of Data Science building on the edge of the University of Virginia’s UNESCO World Heritage-protected historic campus. The building will provide an “innovative new pedagogic environment” for the school and be a gateway to the emerging Emmet-Ivy Corridor campus expansion.
Henry Abraham, a UVA professor for 27 years and an expert on the court system, has died at 98. Abraham was born in Germany in 1921 and immigrated to the U.S. in 1937 to avoid Nazi persecution. After serving in the Army, he became a professor of political science, first at the University of Pennsylvania and later, in 1972, at UVA.
“In our view, we think a Sanders nomination would tilt the election more toward Trump, to the point where the ratings would reflect him as something of a favorite,” write UVA’s Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman. “However, we would not put Trump over 270 electoral votes in our ratings, at least not initially and based on the information we have now.”
As it did last year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison tops this year’s Peace Corps rankings with 79 alumni currently serving. Rounding out the top five are the University of Florida, with 70 volunteers; the University of Virginia, with 68; the University of Maryland, with 66; and the University of Georgia, with 64.
A recent comment from a black student at the University of Virginia that there were “too many white people” at a multicultural student center brought forward long-simmering racial grievances on campuses around the country, but a new book says that such centers help reduce stress for minority and underrepresented students.
Mary Kate Cary, a former speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush and a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, discusses what goes into putting together a speech for a president and vice president at an event like CPAC.
UVA law professor Frederick Schauer said public figures who sue for libel must show that a publisher either “knew it was false before publishing, or had actual suspicion of falsity and went ahead anyway.” Proving that in court, he said, “is virtually impossible.”
The political unrest surrounding the upcoming presidential election prompted a conversation with top UVA scholars. A “Grounds on the Go” seminar Wednesday focused on making difficult conversations a bit more civil.
It's been 11 years since Jenna Bush Hager married the love of her life, Henry Hager, but if it was up to her, the pair would have been married much sooner. On a recent episode of “TODAY with Hoda & Jenna,” Bush Hager revealed she proposed to Henry five (yes, five!) years before he proposed to her. After graduating from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, Henry joined the 43rd president’s re-election campaign. “On Election Day, they were friends," a source told People in 2008. But "by the Inaugural, they were an item.”
Democrats are gearing up for another presidential primary debate Tuesday evening, this time in Charleston, South Carolina. This debate will mark the 21st presidential primary debate held in South Carolina since 1948, according to a tally kept by Kyle Kondik at UVA’s Center for Politics. That earns the Palmetto State the distinction of third place among states when it comes to hosting primary debates.
Many thinkers are suggesting that storytelling is a key 21st-century leadership skill. Daniel Pink, author of “A Whole New Mind,” in a recent talk at the University of Virginia, explained how in an age of great technology disruptions, the power to tell good stories would be a key differentiator.
Next week’s argument in Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission will take the justices through familiar ground, as they consider once again the boundaries of the broad and multifarious forms of relief available in litigation enforcing the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The justices also may take account of an amicus brief in support of neither party filed by UVA law professor Douglas Laycock and a group of other prominent scholars of the law of remedies.