(Video) A health clinic in Charlottesville that was closed for two years is back open thanks to efforts from UVA’s School of Nursing.
A new study from a UVA researcher has revealed gaps in some HIV medical providers' knowledge of the Affordable Care Act.
“Men commit the overwhelming majority of mass shootings for basically the same reasons they commit most violent crimes,” Dewey G. Cornell, a licensed forensic clinical psychologist and director of UVA’s Virginia Youth Violence Project, told CNN in April.
Political analysts from UVA’s Center for Politics say that while the 5th District is very competitive, both candidates will need to play to their strengths and appeal to undecided voters on Thursday night. “Both candidates are going to be making pitches to their base, while also trying to use those pitches to make appeals to the few Independent voters who are really going to show up and vote,” Geoffrey Skelley, the media relations coordinator at the Center for Politics, said.
After a decade of strong growth, the population of Virginia’s cities may be leveling off, says Hamilton Lombard with UVA’s Demographics Research Group. The rising cost of housing in Virginia cities is pushing households into neighboring counties, he says.
“There’s limited evidence that campaign appearances by surrogates really matter all that much,” Geoffrey Skelley, an associate editor and political analyst at Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the UVA Center for Politics’ nonpartisan political handicapping newsletter, said. But Skelley said if Trump did campaign for Republicans, it should be in places where he’s popular. Nevada is not one of those places, according to a poll from Morning Consult, which found back in August that 46 percednt of voters approve of the job Trump is doing.
University of Virginia Health System began construction on its new musculoskeletal center, according to WVIR TV. Here are five things to know.
(Commentary) I also like to know how places vote. For the 2016 election, I refer to a pretty incredible interactive precinct-level map The Times published this year. I draw information from the Census Bureau on things like demographics, population change and housing stock. The University of Virginia’s Racial Dot Map, based on the 2010 census, is a fantastic resource for eyeballing patterns of racial segregation; also, it’s just beautiful to look at. And I spend a lot of time lurking on the housing market in other cities through sites like Trulia and Zillow.
On Tuesday, followers of America’s most-polled Senate race got a new toy to play with: A Quinnipiac survey gave Republican Sen. Ted Cruz a nine-point lead, the biggest margin anyone’s found for months. Then, on Wednesday morning, a new poll. This one, from Reuters and the University of Virginia, shows something entirely different: that O’Rourke is on top for the first time ever.
The University of Virginia will now offer up to eight weeks of paid parental leave to full-time employees following the birth, adoption or foster placement of a child, the university said last week.
(Video) UVA medical students got a firsthand look at what it means to be a doctor for refugees through a lecture at Pinn Hall.
Melody Barnes says citizens in the United States have important rights and responsibilities. The co-director for policy and public affairs at UVA’s Democracy Initiative says it requires we participate and be educated about our country.
William Ruddiman, emeritus paleoclimatologist at UVA and a co-author on the paper, first posited this theory 15 years ago while studying methane and carbon dioxide trapped in Antarctic ice going back tens of thousands of years. He discovered something unusual, and he has been working over the years to test it.
Emma Jinks hasn’t wasted time acclimatizing to the University of Virginia. Truthfully, she’s leapt straight into the thick of the women’s squash program. “It’s been so easy actually, honestly. Just jumping right into a team. Having a friend group right away to answer your questions helped a lot,” Jinks said in a recent interview from Charlottesville. The four-time Canadian junior champion (under-13, under-15, under-17, under-19) signed on with the Cavaliers continuing the upward arc of her a stellar career.
Gun control is "not a black and white issue," said Geoffrey Skelley, an independent analyst on Senate races at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, "and I guess for O'Rourke that's good news, because if it was he'd probably be in a lot of trouble in a state like Texas."
The fear for Democrats, in other words, is “you don’t get close enough to win in those high-educated districts and the Obama-to-Trump places don’t bounce back enough,” Kyle Kondik at the University of Virginia’s Crystal Ball told me in an email. “So you get squeezed at both ends, basically.”
Jalane Schmidt, a faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, believes advocacy must go beyond a “civil letter” to a congressman. She believes it can get, and needs to get, messy. “Sometimes disruption ... is called for,” Schmidt said. That is why, about a year ago, she and other race equality advocates did not listen to the leaders of her community and organized protests to alt-right meetings in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Since the recession hit a decade ago, the number of jobs in Virginia’s coal industry has been cut in half. From about six thousand in 2008 to about three thousand today. Terry Rephann at the University of Virginia says several factors are contributing to the decline. “One is competition from the shale gas industry. It’s much cheaper to employ that rather than thermal coal. You also, over the past ten years or so, have had increasing regulations — air quality and greenhouse gas regulations.”
In a 2014 study, researchers at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education estimated that one-third of kindergarteners in the state lacked critical skills for social interaction, self-regulation, literacy and math.
A new poll released Wednesday shows Andrew Gillum ahead of Ron DeSantis by seven percentage points in the race for governor, while the U.S. Senate race is still in a dead heat. The poll was conducted by Thompson Reuters, Ipsos and the University of Virginia Center for Politics, and it surveyed 2,000 adult Floridians online, with a 2.5 percent "credibility interval."