Political analysts in Virginia said it is better for the lawmakers, particularly Ms. Luria and Ms. Spanberger, to stay off the national radar than be the face of the party in attacks ads like Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and her liberal colleagues. “It’s easier to make waves when you have zero worries about reelection,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
UVA professor and renowned political analyst Larry Sabato says Joe Biden’s video formally announcing his candidacy differentiated the long-time politician and former vice president from the sprawling Democratic field he’s entering.
UVA professor and renowned political analyst Larry Sabato says Joe Biden’s video formally announcing his candidacy differentiated the long-time politician and former vice president from the sprawling Democratic field he’s entering.
The Harvard College Democrats are leading a coalition of more than 40 Young Democrats chapters to boycott the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee over their policy to protect incumbent Democrats from primary challengers. Chapters involved in the boycott include: Arizona State University, Dartmouth College, Michigan State University, Rutgers University-Newark, and the University of Virginia, The Hill reported.
“NCCDC’s systematic, professional approach to this competition, and the use of real-world business scenarios, helps attract the talent that will fill the 3.5 million cyber job vacancies we will see by 2021,” said John DeSimone, vice president of Cybersecurity and Special Missions at Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services. “Congratulations to the University of Virginia and all NCCDC competitors. We encourage them to continue their pursuit of cybersecurity excellence.”
Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidential-campaign announcement on Thursday featured footage from the 2017 white-supremacist rally at the University of Virginia. In the announcement, the former vice president called student activists at UVA “a courageous group of Americans” who stood against those spreading hate.
The UVA Health System had a little help drumming up organ donors on Thursday. The system's popular therapy dogs were on hand Thursday as part of UVA’s fourth annual Donate Life Week.
UVA police are holding public roll calls to give the public a glimpse into what they do.
UVA police are holding public roll calls to give the public a glimpse into what they do.
Patrick Tolan, director emeritus of UVA’s Youth-Nex, a center dedicated to effective youth development, reviewed the study. He said the findings are not surprising, but they don't mean long-term consequences are inevitable for all kids who are bullied. But the study is a warning that "this is a real problem worthy of attention and intervention to stop and prevent," he added.
Janet Warren, UVA professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences, testified in that trial as an expert who knew about policies regarding protection of children from sexual abuse. Besides her work as a professor, the Boy Scouts of America retained her in 2013 to research its ineligible volunteer database and to recommend how to make it more effective, according to BSA.
Janet Warren, UVA professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences, testified in that trial as an expert who knew about policies regarding protection of children from sexual abuse. Besides her work as a professor, the Boy Scouts of America retained her in 2013 to research its ineligible volunteer database and to recommend how to make it more effective, according to BSA.
The prosecution called Timothy Longo Sr., a nationally renowned expert. He served, most recently, as the chief of police of the city of Charlottesville. He is now creating a master’s degree program on police issues for the University of Virginia while teaching as an adjunct professor teaching the police use of force at the UVA Law School.
Minnesota-based lawyer Jeff Anderson, who specializes in sex-abuse litigation, released a court deposition in New York on Tuesday with testimony from Janet Warren, a UVA psychiatry professor hired by the Boy Scouts to review its files. In her deposition, Warren said there were 7,819 individuals in the "ineligible files" as of January, as well as 12,254 victims. Warren joined in Wednesday's news briefing, describing the BSA's sex-abuse database as "cutting edge' and contending that the organization's rate of reported sex abuse was lower than in society as a whole.
Attorney Jeff Anderson released a January testimony from UVA professor Janet Warren, who had been contracted by the Boy Scouts for five years to pore over their “ineligible volunteer” or “perversion” files from 1946 through 2016. Her team identified 12,254 victims and 7,819 perpetrators in those documents.
The UVA Medical Center is getting the word out that use of e-cigarettes and JUULs risks nicotine addiction and exposure to carcinogens, heavy metals and dangerous chemicals. “There’s this misconception that they’re OK and they’re not a tobacco product, but they are,” Connie Clark, a tobacco treatment specialist, said to several health care providers Wednesday at a talk sponsored by the Teen Health Clinic.
The UVA Medical Center says doctors are seeing more and more teenagers turning to vaping or electronic cigarette smoking. Doctors want parents and kids to know that even if they think vaping looks cool, it can be dangerous.
A survey of 100 urban universities across America revealed that the overwhelming majority offer community-engaged coursework and have centralized offices dedicated to partnerships with their communities. According to research by Thriving Cities Lab at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, 90 percent of schools sampled offer community-engaged coursework for students and 95 percent have central offices that work intentionally on community collaborations.
Between 2011 and 2014, a new study says almost 70 percent of babies who died from sleep-related suffocation died due to soft bedding. A physician at the UVA Health System conducted the study, underscoring the message physicians have been telling new parents, which says babies should sleep only in cribs or bassinets that are free of blankets, toys and other potential hazards. "These results are very significant, because these deaths, clearly due to suffocation, were all preventable," said Dr. Fern Hauck.
Spring-semester final exams are approaching, but student anxiety is a year-round problem. We are in the middle of what experts are calling a mental health crisis on college campuses. James Madison University and the University of Virginia are seeing the effects.