(Commentary) State law is murky about whether lawmakers may raise funds during a special session. Even the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato isn’t sure, according to a story earlier this year in the Times-Dispatch: “Maybe they technically can raise money” during a special session, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, noting that he is not “100% certain” on the issue. “But doing so is clearly against the spirit of the law, since this so-called special session is just a sleight-of-hand maneuver around the GOP’s refusal to have the normal lengt...
(Video) One of the top political scientists in the United States, Jennifer Lawless, joined GoLocal LIVE on Tuesday to discuss Andrew Cuomo’s controversies, President Joe Biden’s challenges, and the potential gubernatorial campaign of Helena Foulkes in Rhode Island. Lawless chairs the political science department of the University of Virginia.
That margin of victory was a boon to Trump's sway in congressional races and could help his allies to cast the Texas race as a fluke, said J. Miles Coleman, an associate editor for Sabato's Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics. "I think to some extent the Trump base can tell when an endorsement seems genuine or not," Coleman said.
In another crowded primary race for a vacant U.S. seat in the Democratic enclave of Ohio’s 11th District, progressive Nina Turner conceded to local establishment Democrat Shontel Brown. “Establishment Democrats likely feel that Brown would be more a team player and reliable vote for leadership than Turner, whereas progressives see Turner as someone who could help pull the Democratic House caucus a bit more to the left,” said Kyle Kondik, an election analyst at the University of Virginia.
As a child growing up in the Chicago suburbs, Stephanie Bajo fell in love with competitive horse riding and its inherently rugged way of life. “The equestrian community is pretty tough,” she said. “We’re getting up in the dark and cold and crushing ice in buckets because our horse’s drinking water has frozen. Serious riders are pretty stubborn and if they get injured, they just grin and bear it. Horse riding makes people extremely resilient, but it also puts them at risk when they experience a concussion and say, ‘I’m fine,’ and want to keep riding,” the UVA neuropsychologist told UVATod...
"All mediocre novelists are alike," Andrew Kaufman, a professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Virginia, once told The Millions. "Every great novelist is great in its own way." This is, in case you didn't know, an insightful spin on the already quite insightful opening line from another of Tolstoy's novels, “Anna Karenina”: "All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Dr Karen Rheuban, a medical director of UVA’s Office of Telemedicine, in one of her videos describes their cancer center being without walls, where they not only provide patient evaluation and follow up, but help the communities get together and have the patient education program broadcast by the health providers to their patients in their respective settings. She adds that the provision of care away from a hospital or clinic at the comfort of the patient’s house or community makes them engaged and accountable for their own care.
While many people are putting face masks back on, testing for the coronavirus may also be making a comeback. “If you do get infected with a Delta variant, you’re just as likely to transmit it as somebody who’s not vaccinated,” UVA infectious disease physician Dr. Amy Mathers said. “So that was really the new finding and why a lot of the movement and recommendations have changed around universal masking.”
The New York Times reported on per-mile fee programs in 2010, saying road usage charges raise “Orwellian questions.” Two former secretaries of transportation joined a group of experts in 2010 to propose the vehicle miles traveled tax as a long-term solution for transportation funding, according to the Times. The two secretaries, Norman Mineta and Samuel Skinner, “urged Congress to phase in the VMT over a decade.” The Times continued: “In a report from the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, they acknowledged that the public will have privacy concerns about the tax, b...
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine say they’ve found the body’s natural blood-pressure barometers — a feat that has escaped scientists for more than 60 years. A news release Tuesday describes the “cellular sensors” as being able to detect subtle changes in blood pressure and adjust hormone levels to keep it in check.
After 60 years, UVA scientists find the missing link in our body's blood pressure control. Researchers have located specific cells called 'baroreceptors,' which can prevent high or low blood pressure. Scientists have long suspected they existed in kidney cells but no one has been able to locate them until now.
UVA researchers say they’ve discovered something the medical community has spent 60 years looking for. A team from the UVA School of Medicine says it found the location of natural blood pressure barometers inside our bodies. These barometers detect changes in blood pressure, then make adjustments to hormone levels to keep us stable.
“The calories of a full meal may now be packed into a small volume, such as a brownie or a super-size soda. It is very easy for people to over-consume calories and gain excessive weight, often resulting in obesity and a lifetime of related health problems.” says Ali Güler, a UVA professor of biology, in his study of snacking and the stimulation of our dopamine brain centers.
“If you want to support student mental health and well-being, you have to support teacher well-being and mental health because they are very inextricably linked,” said Patricia Jennings, a UVA professor of education and an expert in teacher stress. “I think people are starting to recognize that teachers’ well-being is really critical to their ability to perform their jobs well.”
Often referred to as a vaccine passport, depending on the business or state, proof is anything from the CDC vaccination card you get upon receiving a shot to a digital app on your phone that uses a QR code. “We have this patchwork of implementation that’s being done by states and cities and counties and private businesses,” UVA law professor Kevin Cope said. He said he’s seen both experimental and real-life evidence that vaccine passports can nudge people into getting vaccinated.
(Commentary) Among the first orders of business in the condensed three-year schedule is to figure out who will be the Team USA head coaches for the next Olympic Games. While we could put together a big list of candidates (and we will at some point), in my mind, the two obvious choices have already emerged: Todd DeSorbo from the University of Virginia as women’s coach and Anthony Nesty from the University of Florida as men’s coach are the clear-cut front-runners.
University of Virginia graduate Joe Bell saw his historic run with New Zealand come to an end in the men’s soccer quarterfinals against host nation Japan. The All Whites, in their first appearance at the knockout stage of an Olympics, lost in penalty kicks, 4-2, after a scoreless draw at Kashima Stadium on Saturday.
Halifax County’s left-handed pitcher [and UVA star] Andrew Abbott was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds with the No. 53 pick in the second round of the Major League Baseball Draft on July 12 and more than a week later, met with the Reds to sign a $1.3 million sign-on bonus with the team. The bonus is expected to be the third-largest signing bonus by a fourth-year student over the last eight MLB Drafts.
Earlier this year, Danielle Collins revealed some heart-stopping news: a cyst a size of a tennis ball had been causing her severe pain for years. After undergoing endometriosis surgery to remove it, the 27-year-old American opened the start of the most inspirational chapter of her career. Collins has experienced a rollercoaster of highs and lows since turning pro, and has dealt with her fair share of skeptics–but throughout it all, she has never veered off the path of her dreams. The University of Virginia standout has nothing to prove to anyone, and it’s perhaps the reason she’s enjoyed a col...
“Both sides are behaving as though this is really competitive,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “I don’t know if that was how people felt about it two, three months ago.”