(Subscriber access only) With just over three weeks to go until U.S. election day, Joe Biden has a significant polling advantage over Donald Trump, pointing to a potential blowout victory for the Democratic presidential challenger on Nov. 3. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said that the intensely polarized nature of U.S. politics meant it was “hard to imagine” a Biden landslide akin to 1984, when Republican Ronald Reagan carried 49 out of 50 states and 60% of the popular vote.
With classes moving online this semester, George Mason University students have been feeling the impact of the pandemic — and they want a change. The University of Virginia has just answered a similar petition, saying they will now give undergraduate students the chance to opt into a pass/fail grading system.
Coronavirus concerns, coupled with recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, led UVA to close the coffin on this year’s Trick-or-Treating on the Lawn event.
As of Sunday, there were 99 active cases of the virus on Grounds, down drastically from last week. Of those active cases, 78 are among students.
UVA canceled its annual Trick-or-Treating on the Lawn to help keep the community safe.
(Editorial) With any social movement, there comes a time when somebody has to say, “Enough.” University of Virginia President Jim Ryan seems to have reached that moment.
Nearly one in eight people with private health insurance receive a “surprise” bill for out-of-network expenses after undergoing an elective colonoscopy, according to an analysis by researchers at UVA and the University of Michigan.
Business Insider named Dr. Taison Bell one of its “30 Leaders Under 40 Changing Healthcare.”
A significant new report supported by the World Economic Forum argues there must be a “transport transformation” if the planet is to benefit from the Paris Agreement’s decarbonization commitments. The associate professor of history in UVA’s Department of Engineering and Society added that “we must present change as liberating, as an expansion of choices, and not as constraining, or as a loss of choices.”
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said the allegation that Scully would not moderate the debate objectively was “beyond ridiculous.”
Mental health experts offer advice on how to handle the return to indoor life the cooler weather will bring. “We’re moving from sprint mode to marathon mode,” said Bethany Teachman, a UVA psychologist specializing in anxiety. She added that since stressors tend to pile up over time, we’ll be “going into winter feeling depleted and exhausted.”
This summer, Bacardi introduced Plume & Petal, a “spa-inspired” lineup of low-calorie, low-alcohol vodkas aimed at “the modern woman.” It’s common practice to target consumers based on their identities, particularly gender, says Tami Kim, an assistant professor of marketing at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
A group of University of Virginia law students had a class they’ll never forget after witnessing their professor win a Louisiana man his freedom during a resentencing hearing via Zoom.
(Commentary by Douglas Laycock, law professor) I almost always side with protecting houses of worship. But there are limits.
(Commentary by John Owen, politics professor) While the United States spends 2020 drawing and quartering itself, China continues to solidify internally, then view outward.
The University of Virginia is changing the way it grades students this fall.
Modeled after the proportions of the second century Pantheon in Rome, the Rotunda on the lawn at the University of Virginia was designed by Thomas Jefferson to represent "the authority of nature and the power of reason."
The Virginia Department of Health reported 1,256 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, following over 1,000 new cases reported Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. While the health department says that the dates that patients started showing symptoms is a better measure of the spread of the disease – and the state's test positivity rate remained below the key 5% level – the recent trend is worrying, according to UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute.
Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun and Chesapeake public schools are also on the 2020 list of Virginia’s best employers, as are the University of Virginia, James Madison University, Virginia Tech and the College of William & Mary.
You may have noticed construction of a new building on Ivy Road near the UVA Grounds. That’s where UVA is building an orthopedic center to provide more care to patients.