The University of Virginia is planning ambitious projects in the new year such as a renovation of the Alderman Library. UVA secured General Assembly funding for a facelift of the 1938 structure last year.
(Analysis by graduate student Richard Burke and undergraduates B. Kal Munis and Nicole Huffman of UVA’s politics department) Many observers have noted that Biden’s supporters are a diverse coalition, including older white and black voters. But using data from our new survey, we’ve found a new factor related to support for the former vice president – what social scientists call “white consciousness.”
Everything in Dr. Joshua Alley’s training had prepared him for this moment: The youngest of five children of a Baptist pastor in Lynchburg, Alley studied medicine at the University of Virginia, graduating in 2002 on an Air Force scholarship. By 2008, he was on his first war deployment, in Iraq, where he performed 300 surgeries on his four-month tour, treating soldiers and civilians injured by enemy fire or roadside bombs. A year later, when he was dispatched to Khost, Alley was considered tiny Salerno’s most battle-tested surgeon.
Few, if any, college athletics departments had a calendar year like Virginia did in 2019.The Cavaliers won two national championships and played for a third. Even programs that didn’t contend for national championships had highlights.
The Royal Society has just brought out a Special Issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - A, this being the refereed proceedings of a conference held at The Royal Society, London, in October 2018, in celebration of the centenary of Srinivasa Ramanujan’s election as Fellow of the Royal Society. The online issue was published on Dec 9, 2019, with the print issue to follow later in the month. The Special Issue is edited by Professor Ken Ono, now at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) Trump was elected in large part because supporters wanted someone who didn’t care about the old rules and institutional strictures, and the actions leading to his impeachment stemmed from just that instinct, said Barbara Perry, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
(Commentary) Way back in May – when many Americans didn’t know where Ukraine was, let alone the name of its president – presidential scholar Ken Hughes at the University of Virginia wrote about a congressional committee that had voted to impeach the president for defying congressional subpoenas. Hughes’ subject was Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal that ultimately forced him from office. But while those events were almost 40 years ago, Hughes wrote of the parallels between Nixon and the current U.S. president, Donald J. Trump.
In a race where no Democratic candidate has become a clear frontrunner, Bloomberg's position in polls shows he is a serious candidate who faces an uphill battle. "He's now got a foot in the game," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "This shows you the advantage you can have with enormous wealth, but also that you really can't buy a nomination like this."
(Commentary) Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia, interprets the situation slightly differently. "With an economy this good, a normal president would have a 60% approval rating and be coasting to re-election," says Sabato. "That's not Trump."
Political experts said they were not surprised to see the parties trying to leverage the impeachment vote heading in to an election year. The House votes approving the first and second articles of impeachment were almost completely partisan. “The party committees on either side are constantly in attack mode against incumbents from the other party that they see as vulnerable,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a publication of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Another researcher, Ben Castleman, said the low cost of texting campaigns can be alluring, but shouldn't overshadow hard questions about whether they work. "The inexpensiveness can be a distraction from whether these campaigns are effective when we scale them," said Castleman, a professor at the University of Virginia who's studied text messaging interventions that boost college enrollment and completion.
At the start of the decade, the U.S. was emerging from the 2008 financial crisis, which forced companies to be more financially conservative about how they invested in talent development and diversity initiatives. “Oftentimes, those are the aspects of the budget that are considered more discretionary or superfluous,” says Laura Morgan Roberts, a professor of practice at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
It was 37 years ago, on December 23, 1982, that a kid from Staunton helped pull off one of the biggest upsets in sports history. Tony Randolph, who played for Paul Hatcher at Robert E. Lee High School, ended up playing basketball in college at Chaminade, a small NAIA school in Honolulu. And two days before Christmas in 1982, Randolph scored 19 points for the Chaminade Silverswords in an upset of the No. 1-ranked University of Virginia and their star, Ralph Sampson, a graduate of Harrisonburg High School.
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These heart-wrenching cases can cause doctors, nurses and other clinicians significant distress to provide care they feel is not only inappropriate, but also may cause patient suffering, said Mary Faith Marshall, who directs the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics at the UVA School of Medicine. “Health care clinicians are not robots and they’re not automatons,” she said. “And they have professional ethics requirements not to harm their patients.”
With a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers from UVA and UVA’s College at Wise will look into equipping universities with a shared high-performance computer system for hosting research using data that come attached with stringent legal protections.
A report published by Tencent in 2018 says WeChat aims to embed itself in “every moment of the user’s daily life, from morning till night, anytime, anywhere.” Kimberly Whitler, a marketing professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, says that it’s pretty close to its goal.
Way back in May – when many Americans didn’t know where Ukraine was, let alone the name of its president – presidential scholar Ken Hughes at the University of Virginia wrote about a congressional committee that had voted to impeach the president for defying congressional subpoenas. Hughes’ subject was Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal that ultimately forced him from office. But while those events were almost 40 years ago, Hughes wrote of the parallels between Nixon and the current U.S. president, Donald J. Trump.