Many of Sanders’s policy priorities were central to McGovern’s platform 48 years ago, starting with health care. “McGovern called health care a human right and backed a free-at-the-point-of-service, single-payer health-care plan,” says Joshua Mound, a UVA historian who has written about the similarities between Sanders and McGovern.
When German academic Hajo Funke received word he was selected to be a visiting professor at UVA, he hastily began preparing. When the consulate returned his passport, it was accompanied not by a visa, but by a letter that said a decision about his visa had been delayed for three to six months, jeopardizing the two classes he was set to teach.
Political experts say that Sanders has moved to the left along with the rest of his party after the issue became a major vulnerability for him in his 2016 primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, who found and exploited Sanders' rare vulnerability on the left. "Bernie shifted with the Democratic Party (even as an independent)," Professor Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said in an email. "And he saw in 2016 his gun record could be a real detriment to his presidential ambitions."
McLean, Virginia-based Perthera Inc. received $500,000 and $1 million in matching funds to support development of its precision oncology platform. Todd Bauer, a UVA professor of surgery and project team lead at Perthera, said the company has the most advanced platform for a precision oncology approach to treating pancreatic cancer.
The motion also includes a personality assessment carried out by Dr. Sara Boyd, a clinical and forensic psychologist from the University of Virginia, which suggests that Manning is constitutionally incapable of acting against her conscience. “Manning exhibits long standing personality features that relate to her scrupulousness, her persistence and dedication, and her willingness to endure social disapproval as well as formal punishments,” Boyd wrote.
Regarding The Atlantic’s provocative headline, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake,” W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, said, “It’s a mistake to think you can go it alone as a nuclear family. In the last century, too many Americans have tried to go it alone. It’s certainly the case that many hands of kin and kith make the work of family life lighter.”
“Bloomberg was the foremost loser. To be blunt, he was terrible. It’s been about a dozen years since his last debate, so I didn’t suppose he’d shine. But I never expected him to look timid and act nervous. Bloomberg was the new pledge in the fraternity. The hazing was inevitable. His deer-in-the-headlights look was not. He was mayor of ferocious New York City for three terms, after all. Not to worry, his massive TV ad buy will soon take over again, and, lucky for him, the spots reach far more people than watched this debate,” said Larry J. Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Polit...
Sabato Downgrades Odds for Gardner, Jones: Sabato’s Crystal Ball, published by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, updated race rating for two incumbents today. Republican Cory Gardner‘s race in Colorado went from a Toss-Up to Leans Democratic, while Democrat Doug Jones’ bid to keep his Alabama seat looks even tougher, going from Leans Republican to Likely Republican. The analysis also said that “Republicans remain favored to hold the majority.”
Post-surgical geriatric patients with four distinct characteristics are most likely to be readmitted to a hospital, UVA researchers have found.
Barbara Kelly, a pioneer in the advancement of women’s athletics, passed away this week in her hometown of Garner, North Carolina. Kelly became Virginia’s first full-time female athletic staff member in 1971 when she was appointed assistant director of intramurals and physical education. One of the driving forces behind the development of a national class women’s athletic program at Virginia, she spent 38 years as a member of the Virginia athletics department staff, retiring in 2009.
University of Virginia's School of Medicine received the largest amount of funding in the school's history from the National Institutes of Health, according to an announcement from UVA Health Systems. In fiscal year 2019, NIH provided $146.3 million in funding. The funding backs an ambitious research effort to pioneer new treatments and cures while helping doctors better understand and prevent disease.
UVA is ranked 10th on a list of more than 200 schools for the number of students receiving Fulbright scholarships and is the top public school in the list. This is the fourth time in five years and the third year in a row that UVA has been included on the list, and marks the first time the university has broken into the top 10 ranking for schools that award doctoral degrees, according to the university.
These UVA and Virginia Tech engineering students are headed to an international robotics competition
This week, a 14-person team of students from the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Virginia Tech headed to Abu Dhabi to participate in an international robotics competition. The Virginia team of undergraduate and graduate engineering students named VIrginia Cooperative of auTOnomous Robots (VICTOR) is being led by UVA robotics researcher Tomonari Furukawa.
UVA law professor and legal scholar Dayna Bowen Matthew will serve as the next dean of George Washington University’s law school and become the first woman to hold the post.
UVA has had several projects taking a closer look at the history involving enslaved people who built the school. Now, just over a month before the memorial to enslaved laborers is dedicated, some of the research is expected to continue.
(Commentary by Qian Cai, director of the UVA Weldon Cooper Center’s Demographics Research Group) As an immigrant, a proud naturalized American citizen and a professional demographer, I feared the citizenship question proposed for the upcoming census would discourage participation. Fortunately, the question has been scrapped. Unfortunately, another new approach by the U.S. Census Bureau presents an even bigger concern.
Sarandon Elliott, a student at the University of Virginia, was drawn to YDSA for similar reasons. “I grew up in a working-class black neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia, and I just saw that capitalism has never worked for the working class, especially black working-class folks. It’s time for a change, it’s time for radical change.” Elliott attended this year’s Young Democratic Socialists of America conference in Chicago.
“Initial disparities in uninsured rates between diabetes belt and non-belt counties have not existed since 2014 among expansion states,” wrote the authors, led by Min-Woong Sohn of the University of Virginia.
“Bloomberg is probably going to have an uncomfortable night," University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato said. “He’ll be attacked by the other five candidates, probably repeatedly. His TV ads allow him to present only the positive image he prefers, but Democratic viewers are going to be learning things that won’t please them.” Sabato said he expects Bloomberg to fight back.
Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, agrees the state can still recast its late date and make the best of it by convincing candidates to use the three-week gap between the last primaries and the Pennsylvania vote to blanket the state – perhaps as a warmup to the fall campaign.