The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico on Tuesday appointed board member and professor of corporate law and bankruptcy, David Skeel Jr., as chairman of the board, effective immediately. Skeel received a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a juris doctor degree from the University of Virginia.
UVA graduate creative writing student Jana Horn considers her output carefully. After performing eponymously for years, the cerebral Austin singer-songwriter finally offers a debut statement. “Optimism” masters clear-eyed, sure-footed folk rock with subtlety, allowing space for each phrase to land.
Pence would do well to frame his environmental policy in economic terms — emphasizing energy jobs in states where the election is close, such as Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Texas, said J. Miles Coleman, the associate editor of the political newsletter Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Harris will bring a considerable constituency along with her for 90 minutes: American women, among whom Biden leads Trump by a staggering 34 percentage points, according to a new CNN poll. “I’m very impressed with her,” says Larry Sabato, a professor of political science at UVA and longtime director of its Center for Politics. “There’s no question that Trump is losing the women’s vote, and losing it badly. Harris can really stick it to him.”
The very role of the second-in-command is often dismissed as that of the person who goes to state funerals, tempered with the reminder that the vice president is a heartbeat away from the presidency. Those old cliches are unnervingly real this year as Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee Harris face off Wednesday night in Salt Lake City in their first and only debate of the 2020 election. "One of these people really could be president. It's likely that that could be," says Barbara Perry, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
University of Virginia political science professor Jennifer Lawless pointed to the vice presidential debate between Biden and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in 2008 as one in which both candidates struck an effective tone. “Substance aside, she was quite likable in the debate, and he didn’t belittle her and demean her,” Lawless said.
Larry Sabato with the UVA Center for Politics offered some early insight. In a tweet, he wrote, “Pence starts with a full-throated defense of his boss on COVID. Only the Trump base will buy it.”
Professor Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, joined CBSN to preview Wednesday’s vice presidential debate.
Stepfamilies are an intricate and intimate arrangement, as any member can tell you. But in politics, thrusting these relationships into the spotlight is standard practice, says Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia.
There are 64 different combinations of the most competitive battleground states and the Maine and Nebraska districts that would produce 269-269. In each of those scenarios, of course, flipping Nebraska’s 2nd District from one candidate to the other would produce a 270-268 winner. “There are some very real possibilities where NE-2 and the ME-2 district could impact the race for president,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the UVA Center for Politics.
More than an hour in, a black housefly sat for several minutes on Pence’s white hair, hanging on as he shook his head and parried with Harris over race and criminal justice. “Three debaters are now on the stage: Harris, Pence, and a very political fly that has nested in the Veep’s head,” Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics, wrote on Twitter.
In a vice-presidential debate so civil and calm that an insect briefly took center stage, what moments actually mattered? Seventeen experts weigh in. Jennifer Lawless, UVA professor of politics whose research focuses on political ambition, campaigns and elections, and media and politics: The most revealing moment of the vice-presidential debate came before the candidates uttered a word. The minute the plexiglass went up, Covid took center stage.
Kyle Kondik of the UVA Center for Politics said stimulus could have helped Trump in the last month before the election but wondered that with so many other events in the news cycle, “and so little that seems to really move the numbers, that I question whether the actual act of ending negotiations on stimulus moves the needle much.”
During the 1990s, Republican governors were viewed as more pragmatic than the party’s more ideological congressional wing, led back then by Newt Gingrich. “The GOP came to the fork in the road and rejected the one their governors had taken and marched enthusiastically down the lane of ideology,” said Larry Sabato, who directs UVA’s Center for Politics. “Some of these governors are (politically) homeless, and they’ve decided to endorse Biden because they see him as far more pragmatic and moderate than Trump.”
Those who take to the streets by themselves can face long odds when it comes to making a difference. “If they’re not willing to engage with the public, if they’re not willing to speak to journalists or sort of articulate their message, then it kind of ends then and there,” says Kevin Gaines, Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice at the University of Virginia. “It may exist in the memory of people who witness the protest, but it’s really hard to have any kind of discernible impact if there’s no public engagement.”
By late February, though, the virus had already spread to half the states. By focusing only on people with known links to China, the CDC testing strategy "was designed to miss community transmission," Dr. Taison Bell, an infectious-disease specialist and critical-care physician at the University of Virginia, said in the film.
“This is material that will be unfamiliar to anyone,” said the curator of the Gibbes Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, “Charleston Collects: Devotion and Fantasy, Witchcraft and the World’s End,” Lawrence Goedde. A professor at the University of Virginia, Goedde specializes in Northern Renaissance art, work that often prominently features religious subjects.
In this futuristic world of money run by machines, Lana Swartz, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia said access won't be a problem. It is more about how the terms of access are defined. “Machine learning will decide if identities in many forms are transactable,” she said. For example, can my fridge order my milk, and what basket of currencies will it use? “Machines [not humans] will be making most of those decisions,” says Swartz.
(Co-written by Dr. Taison Bell, School of Medicine) Academic medicine is beginning to realize that suffering acts of discrimination is par for the course for Black trainees and physicians. Although these acts may be subtle, they are rooted in systemic racism, a powerful force impeding progress.
Wednesday brought with it another sports schedule change for the University of Virginia. This time, women’s soccer joined the list of Olympic sports impacted by COVID-19 and injuries. It’s been a week of postponements and cancellations for the Cavaliers, but the programs are still navigating competition amid the COVID-19 pandemic.