Many students at the University of Virginia will be voting for the first time in the 2020 elections. Several groups across the commonwealth are rallying students virtually to get registered to vote and cast their ballot. The Virginia Young Americans for Biden-Harris made a stop in Charlottesville Thursday as part of their virtual “bus tour” to spread the word about early voting.
The University of Virginia calls the decision to contextualize the Thomas Jefferson statue in front of the UVA Rotunda part of a plan to tell the complicated life of contradiction its founder lived.
The impact of the coronavirus on the University of Virginia has spurred an estimated $90 million in cuts to this year’s budget.
The team of case investigators and contact tracers supported by University of Virginia funding will help manage positive cases related to UVA and its close contacts. The investigators who work directly with someone who tests positive will have information about quarantine and isolation resources at UVA and provide those recommendations about what a person should do.
Two new Resident Scholars will be working with staff and students at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. The 2020-2021 resident scholars are political communications veteran Tara Setmayer and journalist and UVA graduate Jamelle Bouie. They will participate as guest speakers in classes, as panelists for events and will develop a public program for the spring semester at the Center for Politics.
While warm weather has given families the opportunity to gather relatively safely in backyards, fall and winter celebrations are a trickier proposition. Developing a plan, clearly communicating expectations and discussing it with family members now can help alleviate tensions, said Robert E. Emery, a professor of psychology and director of the Center for Children, Families and the Law at the University of Virginia.
And with China poised to surpass the U.S. in box office revenue, it's an impossible market to ignore. For Disney, it goes beyond box office. The company owns a big chunk of a multi-billion-dollar Disneyland Resort in Shanghai, and its partner is the city government. Aynne Kokas of the University of Virginia says in China, Disney basically acts like a Chinese company, and its response to the "Mulan" controversies has been in character. “I think it's going to help them in terms of their ability to remain in the mainland market - the fact that they've held this line so firmly. And I don't see it ...
“The way the villains are discussed, the placeless-ness of the west of China, the sumptuousness and the perfection of the imperial city — there’s this rewriting in order to fit a very specific imperial narrative,” Aynne Kokas, a professor at the University of Virginia and the author of “Hollywood Made in China,” said in a telephone interview. “Hollywood has a very illustrious history of making faceless, Turkic villains itself, so it’s almost the perfect collaboration.”
Jim Lehrer holds the record for moderating 12 presidential debates. In 1996 and 2000, the late anchor of the “PBS NewsHour” moderated all three debates. “Some of the tips that Jim Lehrer had, for example, if somebody says, ‘I've got a seven-point plan for that.’ He would say, ‘Well, give me your first three points,” said Mary Kate Cary, a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, where she saw Lehrer lead a workshop on moderating debates.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a Facebook expert at the University of Virginia, said the company again proved itself incapable of effectively snuffing out dangerous misinformation when it failed to remove postings by right-wing militia organizers urging supporters with rifles to converge on Kenosha, Wisconsin. “Facebook’s biggest problem has always been enforcement,” he said. “Even when it creates reasonable policies that seem well-meaning, it gets defeated by its own scale. So I am not optimistic that this will be terribly effective.”
The NRCC on Monday added him to the top tier of its Young Guns program for strong candidates. Kyle Kondik, communications director at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the investment from the NRCC is a sign that national Republicans are worried about the race, but as long as Trump carries the district by a substantial margin, Good will likely come out ahead. “The danger for Good is that the district is closer at the presidential level and he underperforms,” Kondik said.
Last week, Sabato's Crystal Ball, the weekly politics newsletter published by Larry J. Sabato of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, became the latest political handicapper to move the Ohio-1 race from Leans Republican to Toss Up. Kyle Kondik, an Ohio native who is managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, says there was no specific news peg for changing the race's status. It was just a general feeling that Schroder was doing better as a candidate, he said.
“Transplantation of hearts from obese individuals and utilization of oversized hearts have both been associated with no increase in adverse outcomes and represent a promising, safe way to increase the donor pool,” Elizabeth D. Krebs, MD, MSc, resident physician in general surgery at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, and colleagues wrote in Circulation: Heart Failure.
A new artificial pancreas system may be the answer for some of these patients, according to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. This study included researchers from the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology.
In one of their few prescient moves of 2020, hedge funds backed off from the summer’s hottest trade and went bargain hunting, just in time for a revival in value stocks. Hedge funds were “indiscriminate” sellers during the February-March drawdown, dumping about $100 billion of stock during the stretch, or 4.4% of their assets under management, according to researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Zurich. Then, as airlines, hotels and restaurants bounced back violently, they kept their exposure near multiyear lows, according to brokerage data.
After spending years as a professional soccer player, Dr. Robert Russell is now in his medical residency at the University of Virginia, but he is still showing off his roots with a U.S. National Team face mask made from soccer jerseys.
There are four more cases of COVID-19 at the University of Virginia. All four of the new cases were among students, and 87 percent of all of the cases at UVA are students.
Facing fraud charges and years in prison, ex-Theranos CEO could invoke 'mental disease' defense. But to Anne Coughlin, a criminal law professor at the University of Virginia who specializes in feminist jurisprudence, that strategy may be a tough sell to jurors, mostly because Holmes was a dynamic, highly functional advocate for her company. "To the world, she was presenting herself as educated, self-possessed and affluent," Coughlin said.
Hearts donated by severely obese donors aren't more risky for recipients than hearts from people who aren't obese, a new study indicates. "These findings were somewhat surprising because the severely obese donors did tend to have more medical problems, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, than the non-obese donors," said study author Dr. Leora Yarboro. She's an associate professor of surgery at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville.
Federal forces kept some of this racial terror in check, but not all of it. And white Republican leaders occasionally bowed to the violence out of political expedience. In the 1876 presidential election, 19 electoral votes in three Southern states were disputed and accompanied by voter intimidation and widespread voter fraud. In South Carolina, according to the University of Virginia historian Michael F. Holt’s book “By One Vote,” voter turnout was an absurd 101 percent.