"It speaks to a pretty familiar idea in politics that the side that feels more threatened by something is probably the one that gets more motivation out of it," said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. "And so the side that maybe feels more threatened that the abortion status quo is going to change is the Democrats right now."
Infectious disease specialist Stephen Zeichner and other experts point to uncharted factors in COVID-19 vaccine research in kids as mRNA jab developers reveal their authorization plans.
(Subscription may be required) “Before social media arrived on the scene, it was very difficult to do this kind of thing minute-by-minute. Now that social media is a central part of our lives, every campaign believes it must bring out every gun available, even if a tank is used to squash a small bug,” Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia wrote in an email.
"Youngkin's affable and he's a good guy. But he can't do anything about the positions that are hurting him [in the suburbs]," says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary by Tianshu Li, research assistant in systems engineering) Bats roost under bridges and culverts across North America, so highway departments have to check for them before repairing bridges. A new AI tool makes those inspections faster and more accurate.
“We’re now 18 months into this crisis, and nurses are caring for the sickest patients we’ve ever seen in our careers day after day with no end in sight. We’re seeing massive volumes of patients that are stretching our resources thin, and it causes significant moral distress for nurses when we can’t provide the level of care that our patients deserve,” University of Virginia Clinical Nursing Instructor Ashley Apple said.
Dr. Taison Bell, UVA’s ICU director, says as the hospital overcrowds with COVID-19 cases again, it's leaving workers experiencing burnout.
Some of the concerned mothers say they have a lot of fear for their children's safety.
The University of Arizona now joins a list of about 100 universities, which includes the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia and Arizona State University, with endowments exceeding $1
A more in-depth review by UVA police now says that wind might have blown over the flags and that the person in the video might have been trying to set the table right.
A University of Virginia model, used by the state health department to forecast trends and changes in COVID-19 cases, shows the Rappahannock Area Health District to be in a slow growth pattern with a peak in cases predicted the first week of October.
There will be an in-person and online screening of the new documentary on immigration at Light House Studio.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine were able to prevent bone loss in lab mice by blocking the cellular protein ELMO1, including in two different forms of rheumatoid arthritis.
As University of Virginia historian Peter Norton has written, these regulations date back to the beginning of the automotive era, when they were introduced by car-industry-aligned groups eager to shift blame for fatal crashes from drivers to pedestrians.
Along much of the Eastern Seaboard, the once-healthy coastal woodlands are dwindling rapidly — to the extent that if the rate of decline continues, these forested wetlands will reach the “point of no return within the century,” according to University of Virginia and Duke University researchers focused on studying the ecosystems.
(Subscription may be required) “Pfizer is a big hammer,” Dr. Jeffrey Wilson, an immunologist and physician at the University of Virginia said, but “Moderna is a sledgehammer.”
Anna Dickinson, a student at Eastern Virginia Medical School, was a varsity swimmer for the University of Virginia. Before the start of each semester, the biology major looked at her class and swim schedules and planned exactly when she would study, go to class, swim and conduct lab research. “I enjoyed working hard and I loved the grind,” she says. “I took pride in learning in the classes, then working hard in the pool and then advancing science in my research lab.”
Constitutional law experts agree employers risk lawsuits by challenging the sincerity of workers’ religious beliefs. “It’s very difficult to investigate sincerity,” University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock told WBEZ-FM in Chicago. “How do you decide what someone really believes in their heart of hearts about religion?”
Black voter turnout will be pivotal in next year’s midterm election when Democrats risk losing control of the House and Senate, according to an analysis last week in Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political journal published by UVA’s Center for Politics. Typically, voters in mid-term elections are whiter and more educated than in presidential elections, a turnout that tends to favor Republicans. But in 2018, a surge of Black voters helped Democrats gain 41 seats and win control of the House. “At one time, this sort of change from the presidential to the midterm electorate might have made midterm ele...
(Commentary) I queried the University of Virginia’s guru of politics, Larry Sabato, about that press-release storm. He chalked it up to social media’s increasing influence on modern politics. You can summarize that more or like this: A lie can now travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on. “Before social media arrived on the scene, it was very difficult to do this kind of thing minute-by-minute. Now that social media is a central part of our lives, every campaign believes it must bring out every gun available, even if a tank is used to squash a small bug,” S...