Adam Haseley was well-regarded as a two-way baseball player at the University of Virginia. He’s even more well-regarded as a one-way player as a professional. Haseley, an outfielder/left-handed pitcher at UVA, was drafted in the first round (eighth overall) by the Philadelphia Phillies last summer. He’s been an outfielder exclusively while moving quickly through the Phillies’ system. Haseley, 22, was promoted to Double-A Reading 2½ weeks ago, in time to make a trip to The Diamond — where he played against VCU several times — on Thursday.
One of the last details Natalie Romero remembers, before a gray Dodge Challenger plowed into her at a white-supremacist rally in August 2017, was turning around. Then, she said, everything “went blank.”
The special election for the 12th Congressional District looks competitive. Democrat Danny O'Connor is making a run at winning the reliably Republican district against Troy Balderson. It's so close, political handicappers like Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, think it's a toss-up. This week, he returned to the Ohio Matters podcast to talk about the dynamics of the race.
History suggests voters push against leaving the three branches of government in one party's hands. The University of Virginia's forecast says: "The President's party has lost ground in 36 of 39 House Midterms since the civil war with an average loss of 33 seats ... Since the end of World War II, the average seat loss is 26 seats, or right on the borderline of the 23 net seats the Democrats need to elect a House majority."
Virginia is a major focus. Some leading political odds-makers say one Republican-held seat, Rep. Barbara Comstock’s Northern Virginia district, is leaning Democratic. University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato calls GOP Rep. Scott Taylor’s Williamsburg-to-Virginia Beach district a toss-up, and thinks Henrico Republican Dave Brat’s bid for re-election is as well.
(Commentary by Karl Rove) The savvy “Crystal Ball” election prognosticators, led by the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato, issued their latest midterm forecast Tuesday. It is sobering for the GOP. The UVA team increased Democrats’ odds in 17 House races and, for the first time this cycle, declared “Democrats are now a little better than 50-50” to flip the lower chamber.
(Commentary) Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia and a political prognosticator, recently suggested the possibility of a modest Democratic tilt — and even then was extremely cautious: Democrats are now a little better than 50-50 to win the House. This is the first time this cycle we’ve gone beyond 50-50 odds on a House turnover.
And so, authorization and fraud detection took place in the bank’s mainframes, while the reader and the card were basically dumb access devices hooked up to a network. This was convenient for customers, but if you were a merchant, not only did you need a special account with a bank that allowed you to transact with cards, but you also had to deal with the whole front-end to that system. As Lana Swartz, a media-studies professor at the University of Virginia and the co-editor of Paid, said to me, in the era before anyone was on the internet, accepting cards required “putting a modem in your sho...
More than 600 people die every year from heat-related illnesses that are preventable, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency estimates more than 65,000 Americans visit an emergency room for acute heat illness each summer. “I think people underestimate how quickly it happens. And when it starts to happen, if someone is progressing to heat exhaustion or heat stroke, you lose your self-awareness,” said Dr. Robert O’Connor, professor and chair of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia. “It’s important to keep an eye on those around you for heat-related pr...
Infants who die under the care of a nanny are also more likely to have objects, such as toys and blankets, in their crib, the research adds. Such items raise the risk of suffocation or strangulation. Study author Dr Rachel Moon, from the University of Virginia, said: “If someone else – a babysitter, relative or friend – is taking care of your baby, please make sure that they know to place your baby on their back in a crib and without any bedding.”
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media-studies professor at the University of Virginia, said he thinks flop accounts are a good thing. “You have people engaging directly with claims about the world and arguing about truthfulness and relevance in the comments. It’s good that that’s happening,” he said. “If young people are getting more politically engaged because of it, all the better.”
“Following Watergate, Congress changed the law to eliminate the president’s ability to order a disclosure [of other people’s tax returns],” George Yin, a University of Virginia law professor who previously worked for Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation, wrote in February. “But it retained the right of its tax committees to do so as long as a disclosure served a legitimate committee purpose. Such a disclosure must be in the public’s interest, and today’s understandable concerns about Trump’s potential conflicts of interest would seem clearly to justify a congressional effort to obtain, inves...
Anita Clayton M.D., from the University of Virginia, has estimated that there is a connection between menopause and the risk of developing depression. Also, she came up with some recommendations for women during this period.
The primary proponent of the hypothesis — that human impacts on climate are as old as civilization — has been Dr. William Ruddiman, a retired professor at the University of Virginia. The theory is often called Ruddiman’s Hypothesis, or, alternately, the Early Anthropocene Hypothesis.
Most panelists expressed how it important it was for physicians on the other end of the line to have the maximum information possible when evaluating a patient. David Catell-Gordon, director of telemedicine at the Karen S. Rheuban Center for Telehealth in the UVA Health System, said the answer is in getting diagnostic tools into the hands of patients and then getting that data transmitted to doctors. It's important "being able to see the patient, see the images; having diagnostic peripherals in the home that provide this kind of information, because I don't believe you can prescribe antibiotic...
In Virginia, state law prohibits public employees from striking, but frustration among teachers is growing. School employees “see the buildings that are literally crumbling around them,” says Livingston. “They see the lack of resources.” The resulting problems are defying textbook solutions. “Our teachers are browbeat,” says Robert C. Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. The Curry School is working with the state Department of Education to “heat-map” teacher shortages across the state, using data to refine possible solutions for various regions or even ...
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia and author of the new book, "Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy," dismissed the significance of the stock plunge. "Mark Zuckerberg isn't panicking," he said. "The Facebook board isn't panicking. Most of its large institutional investors aren't panicking. They know they're in it for the long game."
Organizers with Charlottesville Community Health Fair are urging people to register for screenings and physicals ahead of an event planned for Saturday. “I hope people will leave with a renewed enthusiasm to take care of themselves as best they can,” says Dr. Marcus Martin, the vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity and professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia. “If there is a need for behavioral change related to what they eat, how much they eat, exercising, that will be very important.”
Many high-paying law firms recruit recent J.D. grads from top-ranked law schools. In U.S. News' 2019 Best Law Schools ranking, law school degree grads from the class of 2016 who completed their degree at an institution ranked among the top 15 earned $180,000 on average in the private sector, according to data submitted to U.S. News by 179 ranked law schools in an annual survey. The top-15 list includes four public law schools: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Texas-Austin, University of Virginia and University of California-Berkeley.
UVA’s program, funded primarily by alumni donations, has run for nearly two decades. Law graduates who take public-service jobs – as public defenders, prosecutors, government attorneys or at legal aid offices or other nonprofits – that pay less than $75,000 per year are eligible for loan assistance.