If you plan to go to an event or game at John Paul Jones Arena anytime soon, you’ll need to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccine or a negative COVID-19 test. The policy goes into effect Oct. 18.
Monday’s meeting of the Charlottesville City Council came with fireworks. Councilors disagreed on how to address the violence near the University of Virginia and the debate on whether to increase police presence near Grounds. It all started after two mothers of UVA students spoke, asking for more policing.
The handwritten manuscript of John Steinbeck’s masterpiece ,“The Grapes of Wrath,” complete with the swearwords excised from the published novel and revealing the urgency with which the author wrote, is to be published for the first time. The manuscript itself, the only one of “The Grapes of Wrath,” is kept in the University of Virginia’s archives.
(Video and transcript) Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine in UVA’s Divisions of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine, discusses the latest coronavirus developments.
Libby Stropko Baird: Baird graduated from the University of Virginia’s law school in 2019 and clerked for Judge Kevin C. Newsom of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and for Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the US District Court for D.C. She was the Virginia Law Review’s articles editor.
(Subscription required) With a hand repeatedly thumping over his heart and tears glistening in his eyes, Ryan Zimmerman paced in front of the home dugout at Nationals Park on Sunday afternoon. The crowd in the stands above him roared. His teammates and coaches applauded. His opponents started their own standing ovation.
In early September, just before President Biden ordered 80 million workers to get vaccinated or undergo regular testing, a question went viral on the internet. “Would y’all report your unvaccinated co-worker(s) for $200K?” asked @RevampedCP on Twitter. … “I was not expecting this,” says Arianny Mercedes, the career strategist and public policy student at the University of Virginia who dashed off the original tweet as she contemplated how far people would be willing to go to get back to “normal.”
Recently, Larry J. Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, complained on Twitter that he had not yet received his requested mail-in ballot for the upcoming Nov. 2 election. “NO BALLOT YET (or any other mail for days — and I get a lot),” he said in a tweet. “How many Virginians are in this predicament? I suspect many are.”
People who are having issues getting their mail are likely getting anxious about their mail-in ballot if they requested one. Local and state leaders say this problem needs to be addressed immediately. “This is going to impact voting because people are not getting their mailed ballots,” said Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. He was supposed to get his mail-in ballot weeks ago, but his mailbox remains empty. “I’ve gotten no mail except for about five days in September,” said Sabato. “Five days.”
After aggressive redistricting proposals advanced before the 2012 elections, courts required states like Virginia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina to redraw their maps in the middle of the decade, costing Republicans seats — and, in 2018, their majority in the House. “There’s a good argument to be made that without those mid-decade redistricting [requirements], Republicans would have taken the majority in 2020,” said J. Miles Coleman, a redistricting expert and associate editor at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “It shows you how fragile the Democrats’ majority is right now, ...
(Commentary) Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told me he thinks the 2019 scandals have “zero impact” on the November 2 vote. “If anything is pulling down McAuliffe, it is Biden’s sinking ratings, along with the inability of the Democrats in Congress — to this point — to get their act together and reach a reasonable compromise,” Sabato opined. If Congress passes some big bills, that could help McAuliffe. Youngkin’s ties to Trump could hurt the political novice, Sabato added, with “the large majority of Virginians who voted against Trump last November.” Y...
While McAuliffe has maintained a small leader among registered voters in recent polling -- a Monmouth University poll conducted in late September found the Democrat with a 48% to 43% lead over Youngkin -- a string of national polls has found Biden’s approval down since August, with a NPR/PBS/Marist poll in late September finding 46% of Americans approving of the way the President has done his job and 46% disapproving. Biden’s approval was markedly higher in early 2021 and through July. “It is hurting McAuliffe, there is just no question about it,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for ...
Trump, who retains an iron grip on the Republican faithful and is all but certain to be the party’s presidential nominee if he does decide to run, appears to be setting the stage for the “Big Lie 2.0,” said Foley. The strategy includes replacing Republican state election officials such as Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state who refused to do Trump’s bidding in 2020 and “find” 11,780 votes, with candidates who are diehard supporters. “Once you have that person in charge you have somebody who has great influence on how the election is conducted, how the votes are counted, who’s de...
Experts say if the pair of bills is successful, it would not only be a needed win for Biden, who has struggled in recent polls, but it could be a boost to Democrats in upcoming elections. “In the end, your legacy is determined by what you actually do, not the way something is spun, but what you actually accomplish,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “So the larger the amount, presumably the more that would be done and attributed to the Biden administration.”
As Larry Merkel, professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences and director of outreach at the University of Virginia, told 2021 Annual Psychiatric Times World CME Conference attendees, working with culturally different patients can be challenging and rewarding, but rarely avoided in current day psychiatry. “Everyone’s backgrounds are very complicated, multi-layered, and dynamic,” said Merkel. “No person has influences these days from just 1 culture—we live in multiple cultures.”
So far this year, just two Hollywood releases have cracked the top 10 at the overall China box office: “F9” and “Godzilla vs. Kong.” “There are Chinese blockbusters that Chinese filmmakers are making that people want to watch, and they feel less derivative than those made in Hollywood,” said Aynne Kokas, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia and the author of the book “Hollywood Made in China.”
Pharmaceutical company Merck has announced in a press release that its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus. If approved, the drug would be the first pill shown to treat COVID-19. Dr. Bill Petri, infectious disease professor at the University of Virginia, says that’s a big step in coronavirus therapy. “I could envision, in the future, we’ll have like one pill that combines what Merck is doing with what Pfizer is doing and that’s exactly how we’re able to cure Hepatitis C virus today for example,” Petri said.
There is no national database that tracks the number of conservatorships and guardianships in the United States. Naomi Cahn, professor of law at the University of Virginia, said the federal government does not mandate states to report how many conservatorships there are.
There is no national database that tracks the number of conservatorships and guardianships in the United States. Naomi Cahn, professor of law at the University of Virginia, said the federal government does not mandate states to report how many conservatorships there are.
(Co-written by Bidhan “Bobby” Parmer, associate professor in the Darden School of Business) To avoid ethical lapses, organizations need to build systems that help to protect against preventable errors and to recover from ones that are unforeseeable.