Facebook has been completely ineffective in dealing with the barrage of misinformation, according to Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies and author of “Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy.”
A group of UVA students are putting their business skills to good use by helping nearby businesses hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden’s team has office space two blocks from the White House. Is it enough for a smooth transition?
Biden said his team will be fine without the federal transition funding or access to presidential daily briefings known as “PDBs.” But the lack of access could pose a threat to Biden’s first weeks in office, according to Kathryn Tenpas, a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center.
The fundraising email sent by Republican Party of Virginia on Tuesday was dire: party chair Rich Anderson warned that the presidential election was “under attack by the corrupt Democrats,” who were out to “steal this election.” Anne Meng, a UVA associate professor in politics who studies authoritarianism, said Republicans were making “very authoritarian and anti-Democratic statements.”
This kind of election is the new normal, as voters are less persuadable than in the past, according to Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
University of Virginia political science professor Jennifer Lawless explained why she thinks GOP women’s success this year is important.
An estimated 170 medical personnel in the UVA Medical Center’s pediatric intensive care unit were exposed to a COVID-19-positive patient last weekend, but caregivers are continuing to work pending their own tests to avoid shutting down the unit.
The pandemic has transferred learning from the classroom to the computer screen. For members of the deaf community, this has amplified challenges they already faced. Bobbi-Angelica Morris is a third-year student and among the deaf and hard-of-hearing community at the University of Virginia.
The center says this year’s panel will focus on the results of the 2020 election and what people might expect over the next four years.
A new study from the University of Virginia is showing that being around even controlled explosions repeatedly could be hazardous to men and women in uniform.
For the past few weeks, cases in Virginia were fairly stable. But that’s largely because of low counts in densely populated parts of the state that were overshadowing the burgeoning spread in Southwest Virginia, including in Appalachia and the Roanoke Valley, according to a new analysis by UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute.
UVA Health has tapped Wendy Horton as CEO of the UVA Medical Center, the health system said Thursday.
Wednesday was National Signing Day, meaning a handful of Virginia athletic programs turned verbal commits into official members of their 2021 recruiting classes.
When schooling in New Zealand, the Chinese native was exposed to a diverse learning environment: students came from various cultural backgrounds, and the curricula encourage students to explore their passion. “I also had ample opportunities to travel with friends abroad to participate in swimming and business competitions,” the University of Virginia medical student tells over e-mail.
“I think what we’re seeing is marriage is becoming more selective,” said W. Bradford Wilcox, a senior fellow at IFS and a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.
Biden will need to balance her responsibilities at the White House and in the classroom, something that will be time-consuming and difficult but that she has experience doing. “The particular challenge will be making sure to send a signal she can do two jobs,” said Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia Miller Center senior fellow Chris Lu, a former Deputy Labor Secretary who served as the executive director of the 2008-09 Obama-Biden transition effort, said he did not know if it was possible to quantify the damage to national security that could result from a delayed transition process.
On Wednesday’s edition of UVA’s Medical Center Hour, experts dove into the mental toll of being on the front lines.