A UVA student is raising money for the Make a Wish foundation by running 48 miles in 48 hours Jan. 8 through 10. “I was reading David Goggins’ biography where he talked about his 4x4/48 challenge, which is essentially run four miles every four hours for 48 hours and I thought that would be a perfect fit to raise money and test myself physically and mentally,” Connor Burns said.
They did it for Helen. They wanted to make a difference. Now a determined group of 2020 Colonial Forge High School graduates – including five current University of Virginia students – who lost their friend in a car accident have been recognized with a National Purpose Award for their work to improve Stafford’s rural roads.
(Commentary by Hannah Adams, dual degree master’s candidate in public policy and public health, and Katie Platz, Ph.D. nursing student) Ten months ago, many people might not have known what telehealth was, let alone visited with their health care provider through their phone or computer screen. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Virginians have now seen their doctor online. It is now hard to imagine health care in Virginia without this technology.
The UN advisory group includes Sophia Kianni, 18, an Iranian-American student at the University of Virginia who founded and directs Climate Cardinals, a youth association that translates documents in numerous languages to make climate information more accessible to non-English speakers. “There really is a discrepancy in the amount of information available,” she said, “which is a shame because the top 10 countries worst affected by climate change – none of them are majority English-speaking.”
Canajoharie High School graduate and Eagle Scout Jacob St. Martin, currently an undergraduate student studying Mechanical Engineering and Global Sustainability at the University of Virginia, will present the results of a nearly year-long study to NASA officials this Wednesday. Mounted as part of NASA’s Big Idea Challenge, St. Martin’s team developed a system for delivering energy to equipment in the permanently shadowed regions of the moon.
Jim Kavanaugh, 95, died on Wednesday, December 31, 2020, at the University of Virginia Medical Center. He attended the University of Virginia as an undergraduate, medical student, and resident before joining the University’s faculty as a child psychiatrist in the School of Medicine.
Architect Jaquelin “Jaque” Taylor Robertson, the Driehaus Prize winner who cofounded the New York firm Cooper Robertson in 1988, was an urbanist at his core. The former dean of the UVA School of Architecture, where he founded a certificate program in American Urbanism, he also served as the first director of the Mayor’s Office for Midtown Planning and Development in New York. Although he received acclaim for residences like the serene Rose House in East Hampton, he is synonymous with Celebration, Florida, the idyllic master-planned community developed by the Walt Disney Company that he designe...
Virginia Coal and Energy Commission: Cale Jaffe of Charlottesville, UVA associate professor of law and director, Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic.
Virginia Interagency Coordinating Council: Kristen Heinan of Charlottesville, assistant professor of pediatric neurology, University of Virginia.
Marrying in your mid-20s is best for marital happiness, whereas marrying in your late 20s or early 30s is best for stability, according to a study by American think tank the Urban Institute in 2014. “Waiting somewhat translates into stability,” explains Bradford Wilcox of UVA’s National Marriage Project. “But those who wait longer tend to be less happy, perhaps because they have more baggage from past relationships.”
William Barr’s allies say he simply followed his instincts, honed by his maximalist view of executive power, and was untroubled by perceptions he was serving Trump’s agenda. “Bill Barr will be inexorably tied to Donald Trump,” said political scientist Nancy Baker, who interviewed Barr for an oral history project at UVA’s Miller Center.
The Fox News “award” of Arizona to Biden marked a turning point, and things started to unravel for the incumbent president. “News organisations have no legal authority to do anything that determines the outcome of the election,” professor Herman Mark Schwartz, a UVA political scientist, said. Fox calling Arizona for Biden may have been a political statement. “Fox owner Rupert Murdoch was sending a message from the big-business, boat-owning part of the Republican Party – which doesn’t like Trump’s policy craziness and erratic behaviour – to the voters with lower education, evangelical Christian...
“I think the attitude is ‘I don’t like Trump, but just give me a Republican I can vote for,’” said J. Miles Coleman of the UVA Center for Politics, who has studied Republican defections in Georgia. “I think they’re still loyal to the party to some extent, but I think Trump has put those people more up for grabs.”
One thing helping line voters up is the decision of the candidates in both races to run as tickets, with joint appearances and advertisements. J. Miles Coleman of the UVA Center for Politics said the joint effort has helped Warnock wrap up Democratic voters. “He and Ossoff have done a better job of running as a ticket,” Coleman said. “I think overall that’s going to benefit Warnock and help him consolidate some of his support.”
(Video) More than 2.5 million votes have already been cast in Georgia’s Senate runoff election. The rest of the state’s voters will head to the polls on Jan. 5. J. Miles Coleman, an associate editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, discusses the tactics being used by the candidates less than a week before election day.
(Commentary) Speaking of presidential elections in Philadelphia, not to be forgotten is this gem of a story from 2012. The headline in Philadelphia Magazine was this: “Mitt Romney Didn’t Get a Single Vote in 59 Philadelphia Voting Divisions.” President Obama, you see, won those 59 precincts 19,000 to zero. That’s right, zero. The magazine quotes Larry Sabato, a well-known UVA political scientist, as saying: “Not a single vote for Romney or even an error? That’s worth looking into.”
Even in the unlikely event that the Senate voted to affirm an objection, it would fail in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives. Larry Sabato, director UVA’s Center for Politics, said there is “zero chance such a maneuver” from the Republicans would work to block Biden’s victory.
UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato says there are a few factors that could help a Republican carry the governorship in Virginia next year.
(Commentary) Robert F. Bruner, dean emeritus of UVA’s Darden School of Business and a student of presidential leadership, argued that “Eisenhower’s warmth and optimism were instruments of his political influence.” … Theodore Roosevelt, described by UVA political scientist Sidney Milkis as “the first modern president of the United States,” today is criticized for primitive views on race, promiscuous use of executive orders, and an assertive foreign policy that bordered on ethnic chauvinism. But he also was a master of optimism.
In an effort to meet these needs, the Resource Council started a partnership with the UVA School of Nursing. For the last several years, nursing students have come to the Resource Council to help residents and to get some hands-on experience. Vickie Southall, an assistant professor of nursing and a friend of Runnett, said that each semester prior to the onset of COVID-19 her students would offer a range of services, including measuring blood pressure and blood sugar and answering questions about medication.