“Just in terms of space, Republicans probably have an advantage at home,” said Jay Miles Coleman, of the University of Virginia’s Politics Center. “Well, in the Senate it will be the first mid-term since Franklin Roosevelt where every seat the Democrats hold, they hold in the state of Biden. In other words, one of the advantages Democrats have this year compared to 2010 and 2014 is that all the seats they defend are on the grass.”
In North Carolina, for instance, “in addition to the state’s deep red rural component there are several large suburban counties that are 60% Republican and that hasn’t budged much over the last decade,” said J. Miles Coleman, co-author of a recent University of Virginia Center for Politics analysis. The study predicts that redistricting could give Republicans at least six additional U.S. House seats in the South.
“We understand that stress injuries can impact many aspects of a person's life and there are many different strategies that may be helpful. We can use the five essential needs as a way of identifying and prioritizing what types of activities of resources would be most helpful to promote resilience and recovery,” said Richard Westphal, co-director of the Wisdom and Wellbeing Program at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. He is a co-creator of the stress first aid toolkit.
“Marriages are definitely up this year in 2021 as a reflection of pent-up demand for weddings,” University of Virginia sociologist and National Marriage Project director Brad Wilcox said.
University of Virginia Professor Jalane Schmidt will be among the keynote speakers. It's her hope that this event can help inform the public on how to stop these extremists groups altogether. "Some of those that were here at the Unite the Right rally in 2017 invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6 of this year," she said. "There is a straight line of that violence and of this fascist and some of them self-identified themselves as fascists and these brave students decided to stand up."
Between January 2020 and last Wednesday, COVID had killed 416 children in the U.S. That's a tiny percentage of overall deaths, but "anything that kills more than 350 children a year is going to automatically rank in the top 10 causes" of childhood death, says Debbie-Ann Shirley of UVA Health.
"We are seeing the largest increases in the percentage of children with COVID since the beginning of the pandemic," said Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley, a pediatric infectious disease specialist for UVA Health.
The former poet laureate [and UVA English professor] Rita Dove, whose new collection is “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” loves the Icelandic saga “Grettir the Strong”: “Bleak, modernist stuff! And yet revisiting that litany of betrayals and cruelties never fails to stir my spirits.”
(Commentary) Enter the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking, a project partnership between Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia, which shows that, going into this summer, AOC had introduced 21 bills defined by the group as “substantive." Of those 21 bills, none received floor votes and, therefore, not one became actual law.
The University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute, which has been tracking and predicting cases over the course of the pandemic, likened the rise in COVID-19 cases to a “storm” -- the epicenter of which began in Southern states of Florida and Louisiana, where vaccination rates are relatively low.
(Commentary) University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt wrote a 2012 book titled The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. He cites research implying that progressives focus strongly on three issues: social fairness, personal liberty, and caring for the weak. Conservatives partly share those urges, he says, but they also focus on three others: sanctity, respect for authority, and loyalty — qualities that breed political and religious conformity.
(Book review) “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” UVA English professor Rita Dove’s new book of poems, is among her best. The title makes it leap from the bookcase. It’s about life in what she calls this “shining, blistered republic.”
UVA is creating a space for student veterans on Grounds. The Veteran Student Center will open sometime this fall. There's no official date at this time, but it will be located on the bottom level of Newcomb Hall.
The vast majority of infections are still in unvaccinated people, says Liz Rogawski McQuade, a UVA infectious disease researcher. Some studies have found that the efficacy of vaccines is a bit lower against the delta variant, especially if you’ve only gotten one dose of an mRNA vaccine. But so far, it looks as if vaccines still largely work, especially in preventing many cases of severe illness, Rogawski McQuade said.
Virginia wants to be the top college softball program in the commonwealth. That lofty goal requires significant work for the Cavaliers, who went 15-33 in 2021 and haven’t had a winning season since going 26-25 in 2012.
Paige Madden’s life has changed dramatically in the last five weeks. The 22-year-old Mobile native [and recent UVA graduate] left home in late June, first spending more than two weeks in Honolulu before venturing to Tokyo for the 2021 Olympics. She returned home last Tuesday, carrying with her the silver medal she won as part of the United States 4x200-meter freestyle swimming relay team.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's announcement of a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for state employees could be especially impactful for UVA employees. First-year medical student Ben Angor supports the vaccine for employees. "Overall, like pushing like a health care system, I would say like trying to encourage as many as employees as possible to get vaccinated is a good thing," said Angor.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Friday appointed 21 people to the Virginia LGBTQ+ Advisory Board, including University of Virginia Assistant Vice Provost Matt Banfield and UVA Cancer Center Research Assistant for Community Outreach Bryan Price.
It was standing room only at Mudhouse Coffee in the Square Saturday, July 17, for an “Evening of Poetry and Prose” with poet [and UVA nursing professor] Virginia LeBaron, author of “Cardinal Marks,” and novelist Anna Caritj, author of “Leda and the Swan.”
The similarities between the Northam and Cuomo situations led University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato to tweet in March, "#Cuomo is pulling a Northam." Eventually, the national conversation moved on from Northam, who resisted the calls to leave office and went on to rehabilitate his image within the Democratic Party, in large part by championing liberal policies on issues, including gun control, civil rights and marijuana.