NBC29 recently shared the story of a man in dire need of a kidney transplant. Now, we are happy to share he found a match and it came on Christmas Day. His donor wishes to remain anonymous, but Leigh’s transplant is set for sometime in February at UVA Health.
A December 2016 case study of the American Underground entrepreneurial hub published by The Thriving Cities Project, a research initiative of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, deemed the project “a runaway success” and a “leading example of what we call a new-paradigm enterprise.”
Garland’s selection could frustrate more progressive members of the diverse coalition that helped elect Biden. On the bench, the judge developed a moderate to conservative record on criminal justice, according to an analysis by Tom Goldstein at SCOTUSblog. A more recent analysis by professors at the University of Virginia concluded that Garland was “in line with the Republican appointees” on criminal cases.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam held his first COVID-19 briefing of 2021 on Wednesday afternoon. He spoke about the University of Virginia COVID-19 model predicting an increase in cases and provided information on the vaccine distribution.
Research performed at the University of Virginia indicates that a scalpel-free alternative to brain surgery has the potential to benefit people with Parkinson’s disease symptoms that are much more severe on one side of the body.
Several upcoming events in Charlottesville seek to acknowledge the life and legacy of civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning on Jan. 18, the University of Virginia’s Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is planning a series of virtual events lasting through Jan. 31, per a news release. King’s 1967 book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” is the theme of the 2021 Community MLK Celebration.
University of Virginia’s Center for Politics had planned to talk about the political headlines during a ‘Democracy Dialogue’ on Wednesday night, but the violence in Washington, D.C. changed the discussion and the insights shared by Larry Sabato.
University of Virginia officials denounced the actions of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as a “coup d’etat,” with one supporting President Donald Trump’s removal from office. The UVA Center for Politics planned the first of its Democracy Dialogues for Wednesday. It was supposed to feature U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., but Kaine was taken to a secure location as rioters supporting Trump stormed the building. Kaine was unable to attend the event.
Current Big East commissioner and UVA alumna Val Ackerman was nominated for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for 2021.
(Podcast) Dr. Ebony Hilton-Buchholz, a UVA associate professor of anesthesiology, talks about everything you need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine, including how it works, whether it will protect against mutations in the virus and why it is so important that the vaccine is distributed equitably.
(Commentary by Daniell Citron, law professor) Even before Donald Trump took the office of president, we knew that his social media presence would be chaotic and undisciplined. Once inaugurated, Trump quickly outdid himself, doubling down on all of his destructive tendencies. Ever since, he has fomented a toxic brew of poisonous disinformation, harassment, and calls for vengeance.
Two New England Revolution players got the nod for the United States Men’s National Team January camp, which begins Jan. 9, including former UVA standout Henry Kessler. This is a major step in Kessler’s career as it’s his first call-up for the United States at any age level.
Staging a debate over the outcome of an election, meanwhile, with the loser pressing unsubstantiated claims from the White House and asking at least one election official in Georgia to help him find the votes to reverse the outcome, seems far different. “On this one, it’s just going to the fundamentals,” said Larry Sabato, editor in chief of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political handicapping site at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Are we going to maintain a democratic republic? … This is serious business and people are starting to wake up to it.”
Sabato’s Crystal Ball, which is housed within UVA’s Center for Politics, still considers both of Georgia’s Senate races toss-ups. “If Democrats have done better in the pre-Election Day vote this time, then Republicans either need to win the Election Day vote by more than Trump did, or have the Election Day electorate make up a bigger share of the total votes cast (and still vote heavily Republican),” Kyle Kondik writes for the political preview published today.
(Audio) Today on “All Sides With Ann Fisher”: a runoff preview and how changing demographics have turned Georgia purple after two decades of Republican control. Guests include Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics.
“I am so impressed by the turnout,” Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA, said. “This has to be one of the most engaged electorates of any non-presidential races in modern history.”
Georgia smashed its turnout record for a runoff even before most polls closed at 7 p.m. on Election Day, with more than 3 million votes cast by mail or during early in-person voting in December. “Both sides are very highly energized,” UVA Center for Politics analyst J. Miles Coleman said.
James Coan, a neuroscientist and UVA psychology professor, has decidedly mixed feelings about the experiment he inadvertently spearheaded. “I’m slow enough on the uptake that it took me a while to realize that the study I was doing was making people who had been sexually abused feel like I was their enemy,” he said. “That was completely devastating to me.” Although he has been asked to testify about false memory in countless court cases, Coan has always refused.
Susan A. Saliba, a professor of kinesiology in the School of Education and Human Development, is featured.
Our sources are Aseem Mulji, a legal counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, and Sai Prakash, a constitutional law professor at the UVA School of Law, as well as the federal statute about counting electoral votes. For an objection to pass, a senator and house representative must put it in writing. Then the two chambers would split off to debate the objection and vote. For an objection to be accepted, both the Senate and the House of Representatives have to approve it.