The day after the 2016 presidential election, the editors of Sabato’s Crystal Ball declared, “The Crystal Ball is shattered.” The nation watched in disbelief as Donald Trump was elected president in an upset that political commentators had assured their audiences was highly unlikely to occur.
Gabrielle Adams, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia and an expert in interpersonal dynamics, believes that going into business with someone you already know well has advantages.
Researchers used different methodologies to examine the impact of adding ethnic diversity to school boards in California. Their conclusions were: School districts with at least one Hispanic member were more likely to make greater financial investments in district schools, and minority students saw academic gains in the years following such a change. ”I think the takeaway here is that one member seems to make a difference,” said Brett Fischer, a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia and the author of one of the California studies.
Johnson’s claims are rooted in research by Robert Epstein, a psychologist who studied arranged marriages and taught that couples could come to love each other. Siva Vaidhyanathan, a University of Virginia professor of media studies, director of the college’s Center for Media and Citizenship and the author of “The Googlization of Everything (and why we should worry),” described Epstein as “notoriously unqualified.”
“There’s a lot of evidence that the lower humidity allows the virus to be more efficient in transmission,” Bryan Lewis, a professor at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, said of the spread of influenza during the winter.
After winning in 2016 in what many viewed as a fluke, Trump mounted a registration and turnout drive in the counties of his white, blue-collar base that appears to have succeeded. “The Trump campaign worked on this for years, and pretty much kept it under wraps,” said Larry J. Sabato, professor of politics at the University of Virginia.
It’s only Tuesday, and it has already been a VERY tough week for Trump campaign lawyers. University of Virginia law lecturer and MSNBC election law analyst Matt Sanderson joins Katy Tur to discuss.
Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at University of Virginia, said Jill Biden will “knock down a glass ceiling” for first ladies and, along with Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, who is leaving his job to become America’s first-ever second gentleman, represents an evolution of U.S. politics.
The Medical Center Hour at the University of Virginia will host Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading coronavirus expert, to speak to UVA experts and the public virtually on Wednesday.
It’s a hard reality; men, for example, are more likely to quit jobs if their boss is a woman, according to research from UVA and Northwestern University.
The positive test rate around Charlottesville has hovered around 2% while the rest of the state is three times that. Health experts cannot point to any one thing that accounts for the difference, except people in Charlottesville appear to be more willing to wear masks and the University of Virginia, the local university, has been vigilant since cases began to rise this fall.
(Radio interview) Economics professor Anton Korinek says it’s time to regulate big tech, but it may be premature to break the big companies up.
The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation is a recipient of the “Truist Promise” award. Brennan Gould, CACF’s CEO, says this wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for all 800 donors. The Bama Works Fund of the Dave Matthews Band, the University of Virginia, and Wells Fargo are some of the donors.
Former Department of Homeland Security Secretaries Michael Chertoff (2005-09) and Janet Napolitano (2009-13) talked about the peaceful transition of power between administrations and the danger in delaying that transfer.
A text messaging program that aims to help people with Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes has selected its first drawing winner of a participant who gained better control of his disease. This program is currently being offered to Charlottesville are residents for free thanks to a grant from UVA Health and the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation.
Research from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service is showing that the coronavirus is becoming one of the leading causes of death in the United States.
(Commentary by politics professor Brantly Womack) One of the few certainties facing President-elect Joe Biden is the prospect of an enduring rivalry with China, and casting the task as a new cold war has a certain allure.
Online gaming “assembled a very large group of generally hard-to-reach voters. So, gaming allowed politicians to ‘go’ where voters are,” Bruce A Williams, a UVA professor of media studies, said. “As long as increasing the turnout of younger voters is a priority, politicians will continue to experiment with using online gaming to reach younger voters.”
Students at UVA’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy are diving into the problems of police and community relations and what can be done to resolve them.
Emily Murphy, 47, leads a 12,000-person agency tasked with managing the government’s real estate portfolio and serving as its global supply chain manager. The University of Virginia-trained lawyer and self-described “wonk” had spent most of the last 20 years honing a specialized knowledge of government procurement through a series of jobs as a Republican congressional staffer and in senior roles at the GSA and the Small Business Administration.