Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Romney has shown he’s principled in the impeachment process by keeping an open mind approaching the trial and asking substantive questions. “I’d say he’s one of the few who could look himself in the mirror in the morning,” Sabato said.
More than any sporting event, the Super Bowl — with all its patriotic pageantry — is tied to the question of what it means to be American. Is it all smoke and mirrors? Writing in the Los Angeles Times in 2014, UVA English professor Mark Edmundson quoted Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory, who observed, “Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.”
Dr. Anita Clayton, David C. Wilson Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, explained in an interview what doctors can do to limit sexual dysfunction as a side effect of antidepressants.
The impeachment inquiry against the President will also loom over the evening. Assuming the Senate trial will be over by next Friday, “Candidates may be asked if they think it was worth it,” Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, said. The senators on the stage might also feel the need to justify how they voted.
Those who avoid politics will likely fare better this year, said Kim Whitler, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business. “Gearing up for a national election, I think people are just exhausted from the heaviness of the news,” she said. “This is that moment of escape when people are looking to have a break from the news.”
The Leadership Charlottesville Alumni Association honored Emily Martin at its recent membership breakfast meeting. Martin, of UVA Facilities Management, who is among those working to build a Diversity & Inclusion program at UVA, received the Community Leadership Award.
Political scientists and commentators jumped on the idea that Sanders’ health scare would greatly affect his chances at the nomination, with Jennifer Lawless, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, stating that she “thinks it would be difficult to encourage more people to begin supporting him.” But the current polling and surge in support for Sanders indicates voters are not buying this argument, perhaps valuing his intellectual integrity and ideas over his aging exterior.
Though in South Carolina that demographic is estimated at 5.5%, much smaller than Nevada’s, the Nevada contest is “probably more of a harbinger for South Carolina than ... Iowa or New Hampshire,” said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics. “A big part of the Democratic coalition in Nevada is the Hispanic vote.”
UVA Children's held its 13th annual Main Event fundraising gala at the Common House on Saturday night. The event raises money to support pediatric cancer programs, including patient care and research aimed at developing more effective treatments for childhood cancer.
(Editorial) We hope you like numbers because we have more of them today – all courtesy of the state’s latest population estimates from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
On Friday, the University of Virginia updated its advisory on coronavirus, which maintains that the risk posed by the disease to Charlottesville-area students is “low.” The university has advised UVA students in China for university-related purposes to leave the country following CDC guidance, and is revising plans of study for students who hoped to go to the country this semester.
(Commentary co-written by Melody Barnes, co-director of the UVA Democracy Initiative and a professor of practice at the Miller Center of Public Affairs) Even as they debate often profound policy disagreements, a successful Democratic candidate must inspire Americans with a clearer, bolder vision than President Trump has offered for what America can be in the 21st century.
UVA constitutional law professor Richard C. Schragger said a county may leave one state and join another with the majority vote of both states’ legislatures and the U.S. Congress, according to the U.S. Constitution. Schragger predicted that while West Virginia’s legislature might welcome Justice’s proposal, Virginia’s remaining Republican lawmakers would be loath to let conservative counties break away. Virginia’s Democrats would probably oppose the secession also, he said, “as a matter of pride and … a sense of the historic integrity of the state.”
A Doritos spot featured Lil Nas X and actor Sam Elliott in a dance-off to the viral hit “Old Town Road.” “Doritos does this mash-up of different targets colliding,” said Kimberly Whitler, assistant professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business. “They’re trying to draw all the audiences. I have to believe the people who know Sam Elliott don’t know Lil Nas, and the people who know Lil Nas don’t know Sam Elliott.”
Gov. Ralph Northam’s proposed budget, if approved by the legislature, would attempt to address several health care issues at Virginia’s prisons. It contains a pilot program in which UVA and Virginia Commonwealth University, two schools with medical departments, would oversee portions of prison health care.
A.E. Dick Howard, a UVA constitutional law expert, said there’s a long way to go before questions about the Equal Rights Amendment will be settled. “My goodness, can you imagine the number of parties and other states that would want to be heard in this?” he said.
“Children should learn to decode – i.e., go from print on the page to words in the mind – not by shrewd guesswork and inference, but by learning to decode,” UVA psychologist Daniel Willingham said. He said the inferences Columbia University professor Lucy Calkins applauds are “cognitively taxing, and readers don’t have much endurance for it. … It disrupts the flow of what you’re reading, and doing a lot of it gets frustrating.”
UVA research says state-purchased insurance plans could make life better for people living with HIV and keep the disease from spreading.
As a veteran, Ramela is able to take advantage of the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill, which covers his education expenses and provides a monthly housing allowance. It covered around $46,000 per year in tuition and fees at American University, where Ramela earned a master’s in finance, completed in December. He receives about $28,000, or just over $2,300 per month, to put toward housing as well. Ramela isn’t done with school yet. He’s working on his second master’s degree in information technology at the University of Virginia, which he started pursuing in August.
UVA Facilities Management employee Emily Martin was presented the Community Leadership award for her work to develop a diversity and inclusion program. "I think it's important to remain engaged in the community, because we shouldn't be complacent,” Martin said.