VAFF Director Jody Kielbasa talks about the options people have to still participate.
One of these is the documentary “Statecraft,” which was produced by the Miller Center and VPM, about President George H.W. Bush’s foreign policy team and the Cold War. The second involves the documentary “The Way I See It,” about former Reagan and Obama White House photographer Pete Souza.
Sibos Academy, facilitated by the SWIFT Institute, marked the fifth edition of the SWIFT Institute Student Challenge. Responding to this years’ challenge on how to mitigate and protect applications and data from cyberattacks, four final teams were selected representing Baruch College, New York University, George Mason University and University of Virginia.
A claim posted on Twitter says that most deaths in the 1918 influenza pandemic originated from bacterial pneumonia caused by face masks. This is false. Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA critical care and infectious disease physician, said that “there is no reputable study that has connected mask use with an increase in bacterial pneumonia.”
Louis P. Nelson, UVA professor of architectural history and vice provost for academic outreach, and two other experts joined a conversation about the history of white supremacy in the built environment and in architectural education.
How might the federal government legally get states to require the COVID-19 vaccine? Two words: ample incentives. “I think that the path of least resistance would be for the federal government to establish guidelines for the states,” says Margaret Riley, a UVA professor of law.
As one of the first women and African Americans to attend the University of Virginia, Reverend Brenda Brown-Grooms remembers a professor saying she’ll never get an A in class. “I have no idea what it is to be a white man in America. I've never been one,” said Brown-Grooms. “I know how to be a black woman in America, that's what I've been for 65 years.”
Born in India, Mehta came to the U.S. as a young child. He earned his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in 1993 and graduated from the University of Virginia’s law school in 1997.
Hip-hop loving Indian American US district judge Amit P. Mehta, a 1997 UVA Law graduate, has been picked to preside over the Justice Department's landmark lawsuit against Google, which is the U.S. government's most aggressive antitrust case in the tech sector in more than two decades.
In a virtual, week-long celebration, Lauren Alleyne was recognized at the Library of Virginia Literary Awards as a finalist in the poetry category for “Honeyfish,” her latest published collection of poems. In addition to writing, teaching and working with the Furious Flower Poetry Center, Alleyne is working on her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. She’s studying Caribbean literature and its relationship to African American literature.
Early in the year, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan’s seat was considered safe Republican. But J. Miles Coleman saw the potential for drama. He’s associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an election forecasting newsletter published by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “This race in Alaska, for me, it’s becoming maybe one of my pet races,” Coleman said.
While the economy is typically an important issue for voters, the public health aspect of the handling of the coronavirus pandemic might be what ultimately ends up swaying voters once they get to the ballot box. “Typically, an incumbent president would want consumer confidence to be as high as possible leading up to the election,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “And while you’d think part of Biden’s path to victory would be winning back some of those swing voters, this is a referendum kind of election on Trump and c...
“Colorado has moved clearly into the Democratic camp, Donald Trump is not their cup of tea, and it’s pretty obvious that Trump is going to lose Colorado rather badly,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “That pretty much condemns Cory Gardner to being a one-term senator.”
But even if this year’s results are not disputed – if there is either a full or “mini wave” that propels either Trump or Biden to a comfortable margin – 2020 already stands alone, said Larry Sabato, founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “I don’t think we’ve ever had a situation where a candidate, much less and incumbent president, has said so many times prior to the election that he would not recognize the results if he lost because in his view that simply can’t happen in a fair election,” Sabato said in a recent virtual forum with the Michigan Politica...
Another election-forecast team at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics broke down all of these races in a recent online briefing.
The president has shown little interest in expanding his appeal beyond that base, and his campaign has been working on a strategy of finding more such voters. “For his entire term, Trump has made very few attempts to reach out and broaden his coalition,” said Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “He has been trying to expand the Trump base that casts ballots, and they could substitute for the diminishing group of blue-collar whites.”
Pennsylvania’s vote counting could go on for days. Democrats in the state recently won a victory in the U.S. Supreme Court to allow officials to accept mail-in ballots up to three days after the election as long as they are postmarked by Nov. 3. “Something I’m prepared for on election night is for Pennsylvania to look more Republican than it may actually be, whoever ends up winning the state,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
As a political junkie, with less than two weeks until Election Day, I'm at DEFCON 1 when it comes to data about early voting, polls, what the candidates had for a midday snack, etc. There are three mostly nonpartisan analysts that have my attention these days: Kyle Kondik with Sabato's Crystal Ball out of the University of Virginia.
(Video) As the conversation continues about the safety of voting by mail, a machine and cybersecurity expert at the University of Virginia discusses how safe our in-person voting process is.
Otavio Freire has extensive experience in company strategy and engineering for cyber and risk-based scalable platforms, including social media applications, internet commerce and information technology serving the pharmaceutical, financial services, high-tech and government verticals. He has a BS in Civil Engineering, an MS in Management Information Systems and an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, where he currently serves as a visiting executive lecturer.