"Trump is not [popular] right now, and his weakened standing could threaten Republican chances to defeat Democratic Senate incumbents in dark red states," observed Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of the VA Center for Politics' Sabato's Crystal Ball.
(Commentary by John Moore, professor at UVA’s School of Law) The Constitution of the United States, and its subsequent Bill of Rights, produced the greatest political success in history: the United States of America. Much of the genius behind that success came from James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and other Virginians. Virginia contributed greatly to the early success of the nation, providing four of our first five presidents; Washington, Jefferson, Madison and James Monroe (not counting Virginia’s later contributions to the presidency, including Woodrow Wilson). The recent “Charlottesville” tr...
Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters is forming an alliance with the University of Virginia to develop best practices for pediatric care in both locations. The alliance, which is called a "clinically integrated network," is the first in the state focused on children's health, according to a joint news release from the hospital systems Tuesday.
A recent UVA-led study shows that most threats made in a school setting in Virginia are not serious in nature and can be dealt with accordingly, according to the determinations of threat assessment teams.
Daniel Cox spent most of his career studying Type 1 diabetes. About a decade ago, he measured his own blood sugar. It was high. He thought it was a mistake, measured again, and got the same results. Cox, a professor of psychiatric medicine and internal medicine at UVA’s School of Medicine, has used blood glucose monitoring to manage his diabetes for seven years. He has offered the program to a few people, and he recently received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to test his strategy in clinical trials.
A University of Virginia library is preserving the events of Aug. 12 and the Charlottesville community's response to the “Unite the Right” rally.
Interestingly, at least two schools – the College of William & Mary and UVA’s College at Wise – simply omit addresses and phone numbers from their student directories, rendering them useless for solicitation purposes. Instead, requestors might only get a campus post office box, which also takes care of the safety concern.
"To have both statewide candidates come, talk about the issues that are important to southwest Virginia, talk about economic development, coal tax credit, talk about growing the University of Virginia's College at Wise," said Chuck Slemp, Commonwealth's Attorney for Wise County and the City of Norton, "that's amazing to me."
The Big Idea: Democrats have a real problem in rural America, and it was on display in the third and final Virginia governor’s debate last night. In the heart of coal country, at the University of Virginia campus in Wise, the moderator asked Ed Gillespie about schools. The Republican nominee quickly pivoted to talk about coal. Rather than push back, Northam — the lieutenant governor — talked about pre-K and K-12 education.
Virginia’s two major party candidates are closing in on the final days of a heated campaign. They made some of their closing comments in rural Virginia. The third and final debate between Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie took place in Wise County, where the candidates were asked about what can be done to keep millennials in rural Virginia.
Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie kept a civil tone but clashed over themes of economic progress for rural Virginia in a debate held Monday night in the state’s ailing coal country, at UVA’s College at Wise.
A group of students from the UVA School of Architecture toured Alaska to develop design strategies for extreme climates in the Arctic.
We wish the University of Virginia could have celebrated just one evening of unmarred joy over its 200 years of accomplishments. But, alas, it was not to be.
It's dropped on the floor, stuffed between sofa cushions and probably been in the dog's mouth, so it's no wonder a UVA study of cold viruses on household surfaces showed the remote control was one of the most infested.
When UVA senior Steven Stetzler met former NASA astronauts Al Worden and Catherine "Cady" Coleman, the computer science and physics major said it was "a very surreal experience." Astronauts had always seemed to exist in a different reality from his own, yet here they were, in the flesh, he said. Stetzler met the NASA astronauts last month in Washington, D.C., after winning a scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
Even in the past few months, there has been growing momentum for intersex rights – on both the cultural and political fronts. These developments are in step with the larger disability rights movement, which argues for replacing assumptions of “bad-difference” with acceptance of “mere-difference,” in the terminology of UVA philosopher Elizabeth Barnes.
UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan said that while Facebook and other internet companies are used to tough pressure from regulators in Europe, the degree of pressure that the platform is feeling in the U.S. is unprecedented. "Any time that the Senate Intelligence Committee demands that you testify, demands data from you, you better take it seriously,” said Vaidhyanathan, who’s writing a book about Facebook.
As the distance to Election Day shortens, Virginia’s two major-party candidates for governor are using considerably more of their paid TV and digital ads directly attacking each other – and, in Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam’s case, defending himself. Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor, said he considers such ads to be a poor investment because he doesn’t think there are many voters who are undecided.
Facebook finds itself either unable or unwilling to cope with the increasingly apparent fact that its platform was/is being used as a vehicle for propaganda through the use of fake accounts, by a hostile foreign country seeking to destabilize the country. Warned of the problem by no less than President Obama, Zuckerberg reportedly shrugged it off. As published at Wired, Siva Vaidhyanathan of the University of Virginia “describes Zuckerberg as a bright man who would have done well to finish his education.” Quoting Viadhyanathan directly, “[Zuckerberg] lacks the historical sense of the horr...
When it comes to active campaigning, Northam is more often found in Northern Virginia, Richmond or Hampton Roads. That may just be smart politics, said UVA political analyst Geoffrey Skelley.