UVA is honoring the late Julian Bond, with an endowed professorship in his name.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Sunday received a special Swanson Courage Award for Civil Rights, in association with the Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP, at an annual event to celebrate the fight by attorney Gregory Hayes Swanson to desegregate the University of Virginia.
UVA pediatrician Rachel Moon is the lead author of an American Academy of Pediatrics paper that warns parents that couches and chairs are unsafe places to breastfeed their babies when they are sleepy.
The true break came last year, when members of UVA’s Innocence Project discovered the slide containing the vaginal swab at the school’s Department of Pathology.
“Abortion, a topic that will change zero minds,” said Geoffrey Skelley, of UVA’s Center for Politics, among other comments.
Last week, noted UVA political scientist Larry Sabato told Patch he wasn’t surprised about reports the Trump campaign was planning to pull back its presence in the state.
Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor, said: “One thing’s for sure – this is no way to try to win an election. If Clinton wins by a wide margin, that alone dampens any effort by Trump to cry foul. It would be laughed out of the public square.”
Speaking to the commission’s seven other charges, as well as the overarching goal of telling the city’s “complete racial history,” UVA history professor John Mason said it’s important to keep the statue in the city to assure the narrative of white supremacy, systemic inequality and segregation – all of which is reflected in the Lee statue and other Confederate memorials – isn’t forgotten.
It’s rare for someone to stay in the same job for 40 years, but Rob Vaughn is a rare person. He’s been with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities since graduate school, building it into the biggest organization of its kind.
(By Bonnie Gordon, associate professor of music) The parallels between the two Dons are too obvious to even state, but maybe hearing them, even as the melodies sweep us away, can remind us that some of the nastiest parts of our past are still present.
The late Julian Bond was one of the most prominent social justice advocates to emerge from the Civil Rights Movement. To honor his legacy and his service to UVA, where he taught for two decades, a new professorship is being established in his name.
The Trailblazer Award, which recognizes creative solutions to procuring local food, went to Greens to Grounds, a UVA student organization that sells produce and snacks sourced from Local Food Hub farmers and community gardens on Grounds.
The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners has released the bar exam passing rates of each law school in the state. The best first-time takers’ pass rates were at UVA (91.76 percent), Liberty University (89.66 percent) and the College of William & Mary (87.76 percent).
The Julian Bond Professorship of Civil Rights and Social Justice will be awarded to a scholar “whose thought and writing and shaping power of the imagination can mirror, exemplify and extend Julian Bond’s lifelong mission,” Arts & Sciences Dean Ian Baucom said.
A tech-savvy workforce is also key to the economic development McAuliffe says could come from cyber. That’s why colleges in Southwest Virginia, which has been hit hard by the decline in coal, are interested in cybersecurity’s potential to help their local economy. Programs at University of Virginia College at Wise and New School Institute can help fill the 33,000 cybersecurity job openings in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia region, he said.
Up until Oct. 13, University of Virginia professor Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball had predicted the 5th District race was projected to have a “likely Republican” outcome, but it has been updated to “leans Republican.”
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the Arizona Senate race has been “rated ‘Likely Republican’ for a bit” by Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the center’s campaign analysis arm. “It looked like Kirkpatrick gained some headway in the summer. Some polls had it as a close race, but his poll numbers improved after the primary,” Skelley said.
The role of the surrogate has nonetheless grown in importance recently, according to Larry Sabato, the director at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. That's because the demands on the campaign staffers and the candidates are only increasing. "The advent of social media has added more pressure," he said, noting the incredible number of people now paid to hype the candidates. "2016 has topped all previous elections. I never knew there were so many strategists in politics. CNN has tables of them."
Another polling expert, Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, has the Republicans retaining the House by a comfortable margin. The Crystal Ball forecast currently has the Democrats picking up between 10 and 15 House seats, which would be well short of the 30 they would need to take control. “We’re in a very hazy period in the battle for control of the lower chamber – a battle that, it should be noted, the Republicans were winning handily as of a week ago. And Republicans may still be winning handily,” Crystal Ball Managing ...
Election analyst Larry Sabato said on social media there "seems to be agreement that headline is 'Trump won't commit to accepting election results'."