Three former Virginia soccer players will help the United States Women’s National Team defend its World Cup title next month in France. Becky Sauerbrunn, Emily Sonnett, and Morgan Brian were named to the United States’ 23-woman roster for the World Cup, which was revealed on Thursday afternoon.
A few months ago, UVA, the City of Charlottesville and the County of Albemarle sent a joint press release asking for community input to help them draft their environmental plans, under their umbrella concept called “Climate Action Together.”
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) The perception of which candidates stand the best chance of toppling Trump will play a major role in deciding who ultimately wins the Democratic Party’s nomination, according to polling and interviews with campaigns, operatives and rank-and-file voters across the early primary states.
Three pounds. That’s all a human brain weighs. Students in Andy Kelly’s Sports Medicine 2 class at William Monroe High School felt the true weight of it when they visited the UVA School of Medicine’s cadaver lab two weeks ago.
President Donald Trump doesn’t have a slam-dunk legal case for keeping his banking records away from congressional investigators, legal experts say. Still, his latest lawsuit could help him politically: It could stall the production of potentially damaging documents, perhaps even until after the 2020 reelection bid. Even if the suit succeeds in delaying document production until after the next election, the congressional subpoenas may set a longer-range precedent, said Saikrishna Prakash, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District is a Republican district that includes a mix of independents and suburban voters – the kind of district Trump relied on in 2016 and that he’ll need to win again to secure reelection in 2020. The House seat is “reflective of broader national trends,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. The district’s “rural areas are becoming much more Republican, but [the] suburban areas are becoming more Democratic.”
“When insurers were developing rates for 2018, most insurers should have figured out how to keep their MLR at 80%,” said Carolyn Engelhard, a public health expert at the University of Virginia. “But Optima was new to the market, and because they were scaling up so much, they had to take on much more administrative costs. I think they were freaking out and they didn’t know what they didn’t know.”
Richard H. Robinson was an “independent spirit” who admired that characteristic in his students. “With his flexible mind, he would have been more than happy that so much that I have written is contrary to what he wrote. He’d enjoy it tremendously,” said Jeffrey Hopkins, Robinson’s student and now professor emeritus of Tibetan and Buddhist studies at UVA.
A legal debate continues in Charlottesville about whether the statues that incited the movement to remove Confederate statues are actually monuments to the Confederacy. That question is central to whether the city has the authority to remove them, said Richard Schragger, a law professor at the University of Virginia who has followed the case.
A nondiscrimination policy at Yale Law School, which prohibits fellowship funding with organizations that won’t hire applicants who are gay, probably does not violate any federal laws. Nevertheless, some legal experts say that the institution might want to rethink how it is written. “They’re not guilty as charged and are dealing with the issue. Whether they deal with it well or badly remains to be seen. In terms of what she’s saying, there’s no intention to exclude employers with serious religious convictions,” says Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law school professor and church-stat...
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine say they have discovered how cancer hijacks the wound-healing process to survive.
Sen. Chuck Edwards was selected for the 2019 Class of Emerging Legislative Leaders Program through the State Legislative Leaders Foundation. The Emerging Legislative Leaders Program is designed specifically for the next generation of leaders who are likely to be at the helm of tomorrow’s legislatures. Up to 50 of the best and brightest state legislators from across the nation take part in four days of challenging classroom discussions, led by a team of professors at the Darden School of Business on the campus of the University of Virginia. The annual program convenes every July.
The University of Bristol is in the process of making its links to slavery more explicit and is exploring its response with other universities studying slavery as part of a project led by the University of Virginia.
In “Suez Deconstructed,” Philip Zelikow, a UVA historian and former counselor of the State Department, argues that students of strategy have as much to learn from Suez as its much-studied cousins.
Sanders, 77, has never worried much about “likability.” In fact, to many voters, his gruff manner is evidence of his authenticity and deep commitment to his convictions. “In some ways he’s always taken ownership of that and has made it his effective way of communicating how disgruntled he is,” said Jennifer Lawless, a UVA professor of politics.
A graduate of UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, Sonja Hoel had been hired at TA Associates after a stint at the London Stock Exchange. She had impressed management with her self-taught computer skills and the computer jobs she held at UVA. Now an analyst, her job was to find auspicious companies for investments, interview the founders and executives about their business models, and then – when she had enough compelling information – pull in the TA partner best suited to land the deal.
"Historically, the economy is a very important factor for presidential elections, and I’d say it may be even more important for incumbent presidents," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
“This movement is interesting because they tend to be neutral in terms of politics,” said Robert Fatton, a Haiti analyst and UVA politics professor. “In one way, that gives them strength. But it also gives them a rather weak hand, because the people who are accused have more power than the people who are accusing them. We’ll see what will happen, whether political parties in the opposition are going to hijack the movement for their political purposes.”
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political newsletter run by UVA’s Center for Politics, said Democrats’ path to victory relies on taking back Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. A Republican win in Michigan would likely ensure Trump remains in the White House, Kondik said. “You’re going to see both sides go all out in Michigan,” Kondik said.
The University of Missouri’s Vice Chancellor for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity will be stepping down in July. Dr. Kevin McDonald has accepted a new position at the University of Virginia.