The study, part of the NFL’s Play Smart. Play Safe initiative, consisted of a video review of the 459 known concussions that occurred over the 2015 and 2016 seasons, from preseason games through the playoffs. The team, led by Jeff Crandall, director of UVA’s Center for Applied Biomechanics and chair of the NFL engineering committee, looked at each hit from multiple video sources.
UVA linebacker Micah Kiser has been named 1 of 10 finalists for the Senior CLASS Award. The award is presented annually to an FBS senior with notable achievements in four areas of excellence: community, classroom, character and competition.
Throughout Tuesday, Central Virginia communities reported voter turnouts of near 50 percent, compared with 2013’s post-presidential turnout of 43 percent. “This election’s apparent 50 percent turnout is better than four years ago,” said Larry J. Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “It’s a glass half-full. We’ll take it but not be satisfied.”
Geoff Skelley, Sabato’s Crystal Ball associate editor at the University of Virginia, discussed voter turnout as a major factor in Democratic wins, noting that 47 percent of registered voters came out. But he also noted the Democratic wins in the House of Delegates had to be “chalked up to Trump.”
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said there is "no question" that Medicaid expansion is back on the table in Virginia. “He’s got an enormous mandate," he said of Northam, a pediatrician. "The Republicans are as shell-shocked in this state as Democrats were a year ago.”
Kyle Kondik, an expert at UVA’s Center for Politics, said the Virginia House results were certainly the "most surprising." Although looking at the number of pro-Clinton districts, he said, "maybe they shouldn't have been." Though he said the massive victory is "a great sign for Democrats," he, like Cohn, pointed to the House landscape tilting "a little bit redder" than the Virginia House, "so caution is warranted."
Gillespie tried to embrace the Trump message in the campaign's final weeks, but it did not work. Whether it was because of the message itself or, as Trump's biggest backers point to, Gillespie's lack of authenticity, is not known, though Kyle Kondik, an expert with the UVA Center for Politics, said Gillespie and Republicans "struggled the most in the places where Trump was the biggest drag."
Nearly 60 percent of Loudoun’s votes went to Northam in Tuesday’s election. Northam got more votes than any other candidate in the history of gubernatorial races in the state by a quarter-million votes. Part of that dominance was a function of the growing and shifting population in Virginia. “The bigger explanation is a backlash to Trump and Trumpism, pure and simple,” political analyst Larry Sabato explained. Sabato is also the founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia and publishes Sabato's Crystal Ball, an online newsletter and website that provides polit...
“The Democrats won Tuesday night. Dislike of Trump drove the outstanding Democratic turnout in Virginia, but in his heart of hearts, I doubt Trump cares all that much about Gillespie or who controls this or that state legislative seat or chamber,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Here is one more sound bite, Larry Sabato. He runs the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. He’s a renowned political scientist of great repute among some, and he was on Shannon Bream’s show on the Fox News Channel last night — Fox News @ Night, Fox News After Dark — and she said, “Did Ed Gillespie try to embrace some of the president’s policies while not necessarily embracing him? What led to this resounding defeat?”
Virginia is now more Democratic than the nation as a whole, and won't be considered a tossup in the next presidential election, says Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. "Does it start as a New Jersey or a Maryland? No," he says, "but it's to the left of center now and moving more so to that direction."
Larry Sabato, a UVA political analyst who has studied his home state’s politics since the 1970s, said that the election is not just a manifestation of Virginia’s new multi-hued, multi-cultural character, which is on full display in its bustling, increasingly Democratic metropolitan areas. It is mostly a slap at the president.
A video review of 459 reported concussions sustained during the past two NFL seasons has found far more occurred on passing plays than any other plays. The review was overseen by Dr. Jeff Crandall, chairman of the NFL's Engineering Committee and director of UVA’s Center for Applied Biomechanics.
Two UVA researchers are testing the effectiveness of using focused ultrasound to battle breast cancer. Dr. Patrick Dillon and Dr. David Brenin just launched what they believe to be the first clinical trial to combine focused ultrasound with immunotherapy. Their goal is to fight breast cancer without surgery or chemotherapy.
Professors from the University of Virginia’s law and medical schools took the university’s highest honor, the Thomas Jefferson Award, during the Fall Convocation ceremony Friday.
The 30th annual Virginia Film Festival returns Thursday to Sunday in Charlottesville. “We’re programmed at the University of Virginia, but we’re also one of the largest film festivals in the mid-Atlantic,” festival director Jody said.
Brian Balogh, cohost of the “Backstory” podcast and professor of history at UVA’s Miller Center, said that the level of partisan divide and Washington gridlock is reminiscent of the late 19th century. In those years, he said, the federal government was deeply divided, leaving it unable to address economic changes like the emergence of a large industrial working class and big urban centers.
She was the only woman and person of color to graduate from her UVA Medical School class of 1967, and most notably, went on to become the director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health, a position she retired from in 2011. On Sept. 13, UVA renamed the medical education and research building (formerly known as Jordan Hall) Pinn Hall.
It is a testament to the remarkable explosion of women candidates who have entered the political stage since Donald Trump was elected president one year ago. "The slow trot to gender equity sprinted a solid half-mile last night," said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
How Trump responds to tragedies on Twitter matters because he champions the microblogging platform as his direct connection to the nation. And when a president speaks to America about a tragedy, we expect a unifier and spiritual father (no spiritual mother has broken that hardest glass ceiling, yet). "Like an artist who paints in oils or pastels or watercolors or sketches, his medium for his 'art' is Twitter," said Barbara Perry, presidential studies director at UVA’s Miller Center. "Much as for FDR it was the radio and for Kennedy it was television."