A UVA data model is suggesting we might be past the peak of the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Data from the UVA Biocomplexity Institute suggests cases peaked around Sept. 19.
A new UVA Center for Politics study has found that a majority of GOP voters supported Republican states seceding from Democratic ones. The study found that 52% of voters who supported President Donald Trump and 41% of voters who supported President Joe Biden said they’d want the country to be split. Experts say politics are now personal and impact lives in person and online, causing deep divisions across the country. “The emotion is building up,” said Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics. “The anger is building up, and at some point, you’ll have an explosion.”
(Commentary) This week, the University of Virginia Center for Politics released a poll surveying Americans’ feelings about their political opponents. According to the poll, 80% of Biden voters and 84% of Trump voters believed that elected officials of the opposite party present a “clear and present danger to American democracy”; 78% of Biden voters believed that the Republican Party wanted to eliminate the influence of “progressive values” in American life, while 87% of Trump voters believed that the Democrats wanted to eliminate “traditional values”; 75% of Biden voters and 78% of Trump voter...
(Commentary; subscription may be required) Sitting on a shelf in my sunlit study are two massive works of history by the late, great scholar Zara Steiner, each dealing with the international politics of the 1920s and ‘30s. The first volume is “The Lights That Failed”; the second is “The Triumph of the Dark.” They came particularly to mind when I learned of the latest poll results from the University of Virginia Center for Politics, in which about three-quarters of Joe Biden and Donald Trump voters say that representatives of the opposing party are “a clear and present danger to American democr...
(Editorial) A new political poll offers an alarming look at the state of American unity and our population’s respect for some of the nation’s core values. The poll, conducted by the University of Virginia’s nonprofit Center for Politics, shows that 52% of respondents who voted for former President Donald Trump were in favor of splitting the country into red and blue states, while 41% of voters for President Joe Biden agree with the idea.
(Commentary) In a survey taken this summer by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, 83% of Trump voters agreed with this statement: “There are many radical, immoral people trying to ruin things; our society ought to stop them.”
(Commentary) To that point, a new poll from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics shows that more than 50% of Trump voters would support seceding from the Union. Given the racial grievance and white supremacy politics of Trump’s followers, such a course of action could lead to a second American civil war. It is no coincidence that a fair number of Trump’s terrorists waved Confederate flags as they attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
(Commentary; subscription required) The tools of political science, neuroscience, evolutionary theory, psychology, cognitive science and sociology are all necessary to understand the ongoing upheaval in politics — not just in America but also globally. On Sept. 30, for example, the University of Virginia Center for Politics and Project Home Fire released a survey showing unexpectedly large percentages of voters agreeing with this statement: “The situation in America is such that I would favor states seceding from the union to form their own separate country.” Among Trump voters, 52% agreed, wi...
A new way to be protected from COVID-19 without the poke of a needle is being researched right here in Virginia. If you’ve ever gotten a flu shot at the doctor’s office, sometimes they’ll ask you if you want the shot or the spray. Intranasal vaccines have been used by health care professionals for more than a decade. Now, researchers at UVA Health are developing their own version of a spray — but this time for COVID-19.
Developing vaccines is faster and easier than ever before, and with mRNA platforms, the global medical community now has a body of resources to quickly respond to future pandemics. … It’s what many in the field know as a “universal vaccine,” or a treatment for all future variants of coronaviruses (the family of spherical, crown-shaped pathogens) that would allow manufacturers to build new vaccines for new viruses in a matter of days or hours. It’s a subject of massive research investment globally, with researchers at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ...
Virginia is still growing, although not nearly as fast as it did in the last decade. And that urban-rural divide everyone’s always talking about is growing wider. Shonel Sen at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service says the projections from the summer of 2019 about those trends are now showing up in stark relief in new data from the 2020 Census. “So pretty much what we had anticipated is that given this pattern of regional population shares, we will see about 70% of the state’s population will reside in the three largest metro areas. And that is what the Census 2020 headcount also vali...
(Press release) On Sept. 28 at the IDEA2021 Annual Conference in Austin, Texas, IDEA presented the University of Virginia with the coveted 2021 IDEA Innovation Award for their submission, “Automated Chiller Tube Cleaning Improves Chilled Water Plant Efficiency.” The award was presented in person at the IDEA Networking and Recognition Lunch to Paul Zmick, Director of Energy and Utilities at UVA.
As director of Counseling and Psychological Services at UVA, Nicole Ruzek can see why so many students are in search of a therapist. “There’s been the pandemic, but even before that we were seeing students in a lot of distress,” she says. “Part of that may have to do with social media – kind of social comparison. Some of that could be due to climate change and maybe a perspective on the future that isn’t as bright as we would like it to be.” Issues of race or gender trouble others, and with a staff of about 25, Ruzek says UVA can’t supply prompt, in-person therapy to everyone who wants it. So ...
This week, SP Books, a press which primarily publishes manuscripts, will release facsimiles of the handwritten manuscript of “The Grapes of Wrath.” The manuscript, currently stored in the University of Virginia’s archives, reveals information previously unknown to casual readers about John Steinbeck’s writing process – as well as the word “slut” mysteriously written at the end of the manuscript.
(Commentary by Jack Hamilton, assistant professor of American studies and media studies) These days, to judge by the omnivorous listening enabled by Spotify and the stylistic free-for-alls of mega-festivals like Coachella, the genre boundaries that once defined popular music and its fandoms may be collapsing.
Staff members at the UVA Medical Center will be seeing their pay increase. According to a release, the center has committed more than $30 million in fiscal year 2022 to increase compensation in order to reward and retain team members who have served patients throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This will include market pay adjustments for much of the workforce at the medical center.
(Video and transcript) The report includes an interview with UVA President Jim Ryan, who discusses the University’s vaccine and mask mandates, as well as with undergraduate student Sarita Mehta and graduate student Tristan Baird.
Albert H. Small, real estate developer and philanthropist, who helped shape the residential housing and commercial building landscape across the Washington, DC metropolitan region, peacefully passed away on October 3, 2021, at his home in Bethesda, Maryland. He was less than two weeks shy of his 96th birthday. … As a civic-minded philanthropist, who sought to share his appreciation of American history with future generations, Mr. Small endeavored to donate his extensive collection of presidential documents (including an original Declaration of Independence) to the University of Virginia, where...
Chris Albright has been hired as the general manager of FC Cincinnati, ending a seven-year stint with the Union as its technical director. … A Philly native and Penn Charter grad, Albright excelled at the University of Virginia.
She met Phil Murphy at the University of Virginia, where she was studying English and communications.