Elsewhere in California, Democrats have all but secured candidates to take on politically vulnerable GOP incumbents Jeff Denham, Steve Knight, Mimi Walters, and David Valadao. “Democrats remain alive in all of their targets, which was not guaranteed going into Tuesday night,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of the election forecaster Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA.
Republicans are about to select their candidate to take on incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine. Whichever candidate emerges as the winner next week will face a huge financial challenge. Kaine has no opposition in the primary, and he’s already raised more than a million dollars. Geoff Skelley at the UVA Center for Politics says it’s noteworthy that none of the Republicans in the race have posted fundraising numbers anywhere close to that.
Albemarle County is joining local efforts to memorialize John Henry James, who was lynched there in 1898. On Wednesday, the Board of Supervisors discussed collecting soil from the lynching site as part of the Equal Justice Initiative memorial project. UVA professor Jalane Schmidt and Andrea Douglas, director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, are leading a pilgrimage to the EJI museum in July to place the jars of soil in the museum and pick up a monument to James.
Official recommendations from health authorities in the United States and the European Union agree that most people would benefit from eating more seafood. But their warnings to avoid fish that have higher mercury concentrations, such as swordfish and bluefin tuna, are having the unintended consequence of scaring consumers away from the fish counter altogether. Jay Shimshack, a UVA associate professor of public policy and economics and an expert in environmental and health policy, agreed that poor communication has had unintended, adverse consequences for the public health, as seen by the resu...
(Commentary by William I. Hitchcock, Randolph P. Compton Professor at UVA’s Miller Center) In 2018, the D-Day story carries even more power and weight because we live in a political climate that denigrates the very sources of strength that made the D-Day invasion such a dramatic success.
Another goal within the plan is to have all school principals complete the UVA development program — the top in the nation — and get teachers more involved in the development of curriculum and assessments.
The UVA School of Architecture has appointed Felipe Correa as the Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor and new chair of architecture. Correa is currently an associate professor and director of the Master of Architecture in Urban Design program at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University. He will start the new position on July 25.
The UVA School of Architecture has appointed Felipe Correa as the Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor and the new chair of Architecture. Currently an associate professor and director of the Master of Architecture in Urban Design program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Correa will assume the role on July 25.
(Commentary by Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor at UVA’s Center for Politics) A year ago, Virginia had one of its liveliest primaries in recent history with contested statewide gubernatorial contests for both parties. This year’s affair has not garnered quite the same level of attention as the 2017 primaries, though Virginia was one of the only states to hold regular elections last year.
"In many ways tech companies are the new conglomerates," said Jenny Zenner, senior director of career services at UVA’s Darden School of Business. "It really is a place where an MBA can go and know that they'll have opportunities within the company or be able to go to plenty of other companies as well." Darden has added classes and degree options to meet growing demand for skills that will prepare students for careers in tech.
Medicaid expansion in Virginia is viewed as a positive move and won’t have a significant financial impact on the UVA Medical Center, according to UVA officials. At the medical center’s Health System Board meeting Wednesday, several leaders praised the change, which was passed by the General Assembly on May 31.
Three UVA students — including one Madison County resident — will spend the summer immersed in foreign cultures and languages, thanks to the Critical Language Scholarships from the U.S. Department of State.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was 14 years old and at his boarding school when his father was shot. He attended UVA for law and worked as an attorney for the nonprofit Hudson Riverkeeper, after working with the organization as part of his sentence for heroin possession. He has asked that investigations into the murders of his father and uncle, JFK, be reopened.
UVA graduate student Jake Turner is developing new techniques to find evidence of exoplanets having magnetic fields as a means of searching for potentially habitable worlds, which likely range from Earth-sized to 2.5 times the size of our planet.
Constitutional expert and UVA law professor Micah Schwartzman talks gay wedding cakes and SCOTUS.
Half a dozen Democrats are locked in a tight battle to take on Rep. Barbara Comstock (Va.), one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the country. But she faces three other well-funded challengers in Army veteran Dan Helmer, anti-human trafficking activist Alison Friedman and Lindsey Davis Stover, who worked as a senior adviser on veterans policy in the Obama administration. Helmer, a Rhodes scholar and veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, has flirted with controversy during the race. He made national headlines when he released an undercover video that showed him buying a semi-automatic r...
A single-minded focus on college completion can create a whole slew of unintended problems. As we have seen in K-12 schooling, simple metrics can yield gamesmanship, corner cutting, or manipulation. That said, there are examples of promising developments that merit careful attention. Thirty-two states currently use performance-based funding policies that award a larger share of public subsidies to colleges that deliver impressive performance metrics. It’s useful to note, as UVA’s Sarah Turner has observed, that incorporating multiple performance measures in an evaluation “lessens incentiv...
Jay Shimshack, a UVA associate professor of public policy and economics and an expert in environmental and health policy, said the problem lies with the way policymakers frame the message when issuing health advisories. “Fish consumption advice is often complex and confusing. Message-framing matters a lot, and real-world constraints like affordability are as important as the true risks and benefits,” he said.
The very thing that sets Howard Schultz apart from many other would-be presidential contenders could also be the thing that would keep him from winning the White House, analysts say. “It will be tempting to look for a Trump of the left,” says UVA analyst Kyle Kondik. “But it’s not clear that Democrats are really looking for a person with a business background to lead their party.”
(Co-written by Douglas Laycock, UVA’s Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law) “We approach Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission from the perspective of supporting same-sex marriage and supporting religious liberty.”