As the campaign enters its final two weeks, Florida has again emerged as a critical state, and Pinellas, one of the largest counties in the state, is one of those places likely to track the final outcome. “It shifted further to the right than the state as a whole did,” said political analyst Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) This conversation with Aynne Kokas – associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia; senior faculty fellow, Miller Center for Public Affairs; and author of “Hollywood Made in China” (2017) – is the 243rd in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.”
(Co-written by Karen McGlathery, environmental sciences professor) A century ago Virginia’s coastal lagoons were a natural paradise. Fishing boats bobbed on the waves as geese flocked overhead. Beneath the surface, miles of seagrass gently swayed in the surf, making the seabed look like a vast underwater prairie.
With the weather beginning to get chillier, UVA Health researchers say a spike in cases is likely on the way, as multiple factors make respiratory illnesses even more dangerous in cold weather.
Scientists see ecosystem-wide results of globe’s largest seagrass restoration. During the past 21 years, scientists at the University of Virginia and other institutions have spread more than 70 million eelgrass seeds in four previously barren seaside lagoons, spurring a propagation of underwater meadows that has so far grown to almost 9,000 acres.
You shouldn’t have to have graduated to start a business. In fact, many students are now exploring starting new business ventures as a side hustle or future career alongside their studies. Reddit, founders: Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian; origin: University of Virginia.
The 2020 Virginia Film Festival – all virtual in this pandemic year – kicks off in a very Virginia way with “A Conversation with Vince Gilligan and Mark Johnson” among the Wednesday morning offerings. The conversation is hosted by UVA English professor William Little, who teaches a course on “Breaking Bad.”
The Ivy League school's new Mindfulness Center will conduct and promote research on the impact of mindfulness on mental and physical health. The University of Virginia has a Contemplative Sciences Center .
A review of “Three Rings –A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate,” published by the University of Virginia press. Originally a series of lectures delivered at the University, the book is about – and full of – circles.
The first-person article mentions both the Innocence Project at the UVA School of Law and a prison entrepreneurship program offered by Gregory Fairchild, a professor at the Darden School of Business.
(Radio interview) UVA politics professor James Ceaser and other experts joined National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen to discuss the most contentious elections in American history.
Alan S. Boyd, a lawyer and chief executive who helped establish the Transportation Department and served as its first secretary under President Lyndon B. Johnson, building a sprawling executive department that brought together more than 30 federal agencies, died Oct. 18 at a retirement home in Seattle. Boyd received a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1948.
On Sept. 13, UVA Law alumna Antoinette Bacon was less than two weeks into her job as the region’s top federal prosecutor when 11-year-old Ayshawn Davis was shot to death in Troy. The acting U.S. attorney for the 32-county Northern District of New York, which includes Albany, parts of the Hudson Valley, Binghamton, Syracuse and up to the Canadian border, identified gun violence in the Capital Region as a top priority.
When Jason Clark played basketball for Bayside and Kellam high schools in Virginia Beach, he knew all about the girls program at Salem High. Now, he’ll get a chance to lead the SunDevils. He was announced as the new head coach Monday.
“Totally Under Control” delivers a damning – and essential – report card on the White House’s mismanagement of the pandemic. After an audio clip plays of the president declaring that the U.S. “wasn’t built to be shut down,” Taison Bell, the ICU director of the UVA Medical Center, describes feeling helpless in the face of the disease.
To get an answer, we spoke with Bill Petri, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Virginia.
The first question on a Virginia voter's ballot this election cycle is on the Redistricting Commission Amendment, which will ask whether an amendment establishing a bipartisan redistricting commission should be added to Virginia's Constitution. “Next year will be the first redistricting year since 1992 [that] the Democrats have had the governorship and both chambers of the legislature,” said J. Miles Coleman, the associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the University of Virginia Center for Politics nonpartisan newsletter.
Political experts said Republicans may bear more of the political backlash for the hold-up in stimulus because they are currently the party in power in the White House. “Voters are likelier to hold the incumbent presidential party more responsible for the state of the economy, and the country as a whole,” Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, said.
The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the winners of the 23rd Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards, which were held virtually this year. UVA English professor Christopher Tilghman won the 2020 Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award for Fiction for his book, “Thomas and Beal in the Midi.”
Research at the UVA School of Medicine is working to make it easier for scientists to track and understand what is happening inside individual cells.