Obamacare, abortion rights and the rights of LGBTQ people will likely dominate the looming Senate confirmation hearings, but the potential nominee will likely decline disclosing her views about them. “If she is asked about Obamacare and Roe and all these things, she’s just going to say, ‘I can't discuss cases that might come before me,’” UVA law professor Saikrishna Prakash said.
The president has frequently made unsubstantiated claims about fraud with mail-in ballots, and experts have been pushing back. “I want people to know many of us, and I’m one of them, have looked into vote fraud for decades, and there are certainly isolated examples, but it’s just not there. This is made up. It is a fiction,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said.
Filipino scientist Rhoel Dinglasan and his team at the University of Florida were recently recognized for developing a rapid saliva test using a smartphone to diagnose COVID-19, along with malaria and anemia. Dinglasan went to the University of the Philippines Diliman for two years before moving to the U.S. and graduating from the University of Virginia.
A mounting fight over the makeup of the Supreme Court is drawing extra attention to Arizona’s already high-profile Senate race. But political analysts question how much of an impact the high-court drama will have on the contest, even if Democratic challenger Mark Kelly defeats Republican Sen. Martha McSally and gets sworn into office by the end of November. “We’ve had that race ‘leans Democrat’ since March. I don’t see the court vacancy changing this race a whole bunch,” said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an election forecasting publication from political analyst...
(Commentary by Bethany Teachman, professor of psychology) Most people hate this all-too-familiar type of uncertainty. I find it fascinating. As a psychologist, I’m interested in how people think differently when they’re anxious. That means I study what happens when people don’t handle uncertainty well and get lost in that bottomless pit of currently unanswerable questions.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam offered relief to public colleges and universities in the state Tuesday with a refinancing plan that could save the institutions more than $300 million over the next two years. According to the governor’s office, it could save $58 million at GMU, nearly $44 million at James Madison University, $40 million at Virginia Tech, nearly $13 million at Virginia State University and $344,000 at the University of Virginia.
UVA students living in Hancock House, a first-year residence hall, are being asked to test for COVID-19 on Wednesday at the Student Activities Building. This is part of UVA's asymptomatic prevalence testing.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan on Tuesday announced three new COVID-19 restrictions that will begin Wednesday, which include limiting travel and reducing gatherings to no more than five people.
The measures, which were announced on social media by the University in a video of President Jim Ryan, include a reduction in the maximum size of gatherings to five people, and stronger enforcement of limitations on travel and visitors. Masks must also be worn at all times, except when at home or exercising outdoors. The new guidelines take effect Wednesday.
(Podcast interview) President Donald Trump is expected to nominate an ideologically conservative successor to the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, senior fellow with the University of Virginia, discusses the implications.
Will COVID-19 have lasting impacts on cancer? UVA Cancer Center collaborates nationwide to find out.
Many in the medical field are worried the coronavirus may have lasting impacts when it comes to cancer, especially because access to crucial screenings and clinical trials may have been restricted these past few months. The UVA Cancer Center is collaborating with 16 other cancer centers across the country, as well as the National Cancer Institute, to develop a survey to study the impacts of the pandemic on cancer.
Virginia Film Festival officials have announced the launch of sales of Virtual All-Access Passes for the 2020 Festival, coming up from Oct. 21-25. This year’s festival will feature a virtual format, while also offering safe and socially distanced drive-in movies each evening.
Carlos Muñiz is a justice on the Florida Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment in 2019, Muñiz served as general counsel to the U.S. Department of Education and in various positions in the Florida state government. Muñiz is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Yale Law School.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics Sabato's Crystal Ball moved the race from Likely Republican to Leans Republican in June when Good defeated Riggleman in the primary. The center says that stance on the district still stands. "Of course, we're constantly kind of monitoring that race, but we're not ready to make any changes," said J. Miles Coleman, Associate Editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball.
How much of an impact does our social environment have on our health? This was the topic of a recent University of Virginia Lifetime Learning webinar. The guest speaker was Dr. Michael D. Williams, director of the UVA Center for Health Policy, and an associate professor of surgery at the UVA School of Medicine.
While many Democrats discuss swaying four Republican senators to vote no on moving forward with a nominee, the UVA Center for Politics says one key Senate race could change everything. “In Arizona, you have Martha McSally who was appointed. We’ve pretty much had her race as ‘leans Democratic’ since March," J. Miles Coleman with the Center for Politics said. There is a special election being held there to finish Senator John McCain’s term. If Democrat Mark Kelly wins, he could be placed as early as Nov. 30.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, has argued that Biden needs to push his economic message in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 3 election in order to win. “The one thing that Biden simply has to do is to talk about the economy more,” Sabato said in a webcast last week. “He’s not going to have the edge on Trump on the economy for lots of reasons, good and bad, but what he can do is reduce the gap. He needs to have that be a wash, and it’s not close to a wash right now. Trump is getting credit for those first three good years of his term with the economy...
In politics, the balancing act between consensus-building and the power play is more of an art than a science. Political observers say Filler-Corn has proven herself adroit at both. “When you project ‘nice’ and calmly explain things, that helps,” says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “But inside she’s all steel.”
So far this year, Republicans are well behind Democrats in applying for mail ballots, several experts said. “There is a very clear trend in many key states in which Democrats — either registered Democrats or voters that political pros model as Democratic voters — are requesting mail-in ballots at a significantly higher clip than Republicans,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Commentary) For Thomas, the only role for precedent comes via the arcane and anachronistic process of constitutional "liquidation." The subject is most closely associated today with the legal scholarship of Caleb Nelson, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.