“Bloomberg was the foremost loser. To be blunt, he was terrible. It’s been about a dozen years since his last debate, so I didn’t suppose he’d shine. But I never expected him to look timid and act nervous. Bloomberg was the new pledge in the fraternity. The hazing was inevitable. His deer-in-the-headlights look was not. He was mayor of ferocious New York City for three terms, after all. Not to worry, his massive TV ad buy will soon take over again, and, lucky for him, the spots reach far more people than watched this debate,” said Larry J. Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Polit...
Sabato Downgrades Odds for Gardner, Jones: Sabato’s Crystal Ball, published by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, updated race rating for two incumbents today. Republican Cory Gardner‘s race in Colorado went from a Toss-Up to Leans Democratic, while Democrat Doug Jones’ bid to keep his Alabama seat looks even tougher, going from Leans Republican to Likely Republican. The analysis also said that “Republicans remain favored to hold the majority.”
Post-surgical geriatric patients with four distinct characteristics are most likely to be readmitted to a hospital, UVA researchers have found.
Barbara Kelly, a pioneer in the advancement of women’s athletics, passed away this week in her hometown of Garner, North Carolina. Kelly became Virginia’s first full-time female athletic staff member in 1971 when she was appointed assistant director of intramurals and physical education. One of the driving forces behind the development of a national class women’s athletic program at Virginia, she spent 38 years as a member of the Virginia athletics department staff, retiring in 2009.
University of Virginia's School of Medicine received the largest amount of funding in the school's history from the National Institutes of Health, according to an announcement from UVA Health Systems. In fiscal year 2019, NIH provided $146.3 million in funding. The funding backs an ambitious research effort to pioneer new treatments and cures while helping doctors better understand and prevent disease.
UVA is ranked 10th on a list of more than 200 schools for the number of students receiving Fulbright scholarships and is the top public school in the list. This is the fourth time in five years and the third year in a row that UVA has been included on the list, and marks the first time the university has broken into the top 10 ranking for schools that award doctoral degrees, according to the university.
These UVA and Virginia Tech engineering students are headed to an international robotics competition
This week, a 14-person team of students from the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Virginia Tech headed to Abu Dhabi to participate in an international robotics competition. The Virginia team of undergraduate and graduate engineering students named VIrginia Cooperative of auTOnomous Robots (VICTOR) is being led by UVA robotics researcher Tomonari Furukawa.
UVA law professor and legal scholar Dayna Bowen Matthew will serve as the next dean of George Washington University’s law school and become the first woman to hold the post.
UVA has had several projects taking a closer look at the history involving enslaved people who built the school. Now, just over a month before the memorial to enslaved laborers is dedicated, some of the research is expected to continue.
(Commentary by Qian Cai, director of the UVA Weldon Cooper Center’s Demographics Research Group) As an immigrant, a proud naturalized American citizen and a professional demographer, I feared the citizenship question proposed for the upcoming census would discourage participation. Fortunately, the question has been scrapped. Unfortunately, another new approach by the U.S. Census Bureau presents an even bigger concern.
Sarandon Elliott, a student at the University of Virginia, was drawn to YDSA for similar reasons. “I grew up in a working-class black neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia, and I just saw that capitalism has never worked for the working class, especially black working-class folks. It’s time for a change, it’s time for radical change.” Elliott attended this year’s Young Democratic Socialists of America conference in Chicago.
“Initial disparities in uninsured rates between diabetes belt and non-belt counties have not existed since 2014 among expansion states,” wrote the authors, led by Min-Woong Sohn of the University of Virginia.
“Bloomberg is probably going to have an uncomfortable night," University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato said. “He’ll be attacked by the other five candidates, probably repeatedly. His TV ads allow him to present only the positive image he prefers, but Democratic viewers are going to be learning things that won’t please them.” Sabato said he expects Bloomberg to fight back.
Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, agrees the state can still recast its late date and make the best of it by convincing candidates to use the three-week gap between the last primaries and the Pennsylvania vote to blanket the state – perhaps as a warmup to the fall campaign.
Elderly individuals – those age 65 years or older – make up 43% of Americans undergoing an inpatient operation and are more likely than younger patients to have postoperative complications, results of multiple studies show. More than one in 10 of the elderly patients in the new study had an unexpected readmission, according to study authors. "Readmissions are stressful and expensive and Medicare reduces payments to hospitals with excess readmissions," said Dr. R. Scott Jones, a study coauthor and emeritus professor and chair of the University of Virginia's surgery department. "We want to antic...
The University of Cape Coast has released seven new varieties of cowpeas to help increase yields and promote food security. The research was funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Treaty on the Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, with support from the University of Virginia, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
(Commentary by Dr. Patrick Northrup and Dr. Shawn Pelletier of the UVA Medical Center) Seriously ill Virginia residents in need of lifesaving liver transplants face longer wait times and a greater chance of dying under ill-considered regulations implemented Feb. 4 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We will do everything in our power to fight what we see as a misguided change.
Researchers at the University of California Davis and the University of Virginia found that internet skills and experience with photo-editing software, like Photoshop, predicted how well people could tell if a still image was faked.
Consider UVA’s College Republicans, a chapter that has focused on training future party leaders. Members described how belonging to the group tempered their more extreme impulses. Meeting and working for politicians helped them appreciate electability over fiery rhetoric, while debating public policy with visiting experts led them to see compromise as a way toward the greater good.
Political insiders are looking ahead to Super Tuesday, Virginia’s Democratic Primary that takes place on March 3. Larry Sabato with the UVA Center for Politics says getting to the polls will be crucial as Democrats are “muddled this year.” He says the moderates are splitting their votes, which has worked to Bernie Sanders' benefit.