A college student from Arkansas is among 32 Americans selected as Rhodes Scholars and will pursue post-graduate studies at Oxford University in England. Little Rock resident Lauren C. Jackson is a senior at the University of Virginia where she is majoring in political and social thought.
A Maryland woman is among 32 Americans selected as Rhodes Scholars to pursue two or three years of post-graduate study at Oxford University. Aryn Frazier from Laurel, Maryland is a senior at the University of Virginia, where she is double-majoring in African-American and African Studies and the Honors Program of the Department of Politics.
As for another major promise, that he would create a “deportation force” to round up 11 million illegal aliens, Trump told “60 Minutes” he would instead deport “2 million, it could even be 3 million” undocumented immigrants with criminal records. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Trump’s shifts show that “he’s situational more than ideological. I only know one thing for sure: President Trump is going to be full of surprises.”
Also voting no on landslide was Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. "Calling a 306 electoral-vote victory a ‘landslide’ is ridiculous," Sabato told us.
“The entire state is running well below normal precipitation over the last 30 days, particularly a large swath of Southside Virginia through parts of Southwest Virginia,” said Jerry Stenger, director of the State Office of Climatology at UVA. “Many of these areas have received virtually no precipitation in that period. Some areas like around Martinsville are shaping up for the driest November on record. The other dry region is Northern Virginia.”
Barack Obama, facing the imminent handover to his bombastic successor, has plenty to be concerned about this week. But he took the time to express his concern about the impact of fake news online when he spoke to reporters on Thursday. “As long as Mark Zuckerberg refuses to understand his own system, there is no hope for Facebook reforming itself,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies.
The U.S. and others have previously alleged that China suppressed the value of the yuan so its exports would be cheaper. "In fact, the evidence is that they have been propping up their currency, for all sorts of different reasons," according to William J. Antholis, CEO of UVA’s Miller Center.
Even with Clinton’s shortcomings, Democrats fared well in states with the fastest-changing demographics. Clinton won Virginia and Colorado handily, and Nevada more narrowly. She also cut into the GOP’s victory margins from 2012 in Arizona, Texas and Georgia. But in North Carolina and Florida – two battleground states expected to trend blue in the future – Democrats fell short of expectations. “Unfortunately for Democrats, not every state looks like Virginia or Colorado,” says Kyle Kondik, who analyzes elections for UVA’s Center for Politics.
Among the counties that led Trump to unpredictable victories were dozens of Pennsylvania localities that had previously voted for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012 – but not in the numbers that led Trump to take the state for the first time since 1988. According to UVA political analyst Kyle Kondik, the shift in Pennsylvania alone was massive.
Several universities are partaking in a $1 million initiative to track seniors’ activities of daily living, in the hopes of predicting when they might need to move to assisted living or bring in home health care. A software system developed by the University of Virginia, called Piloteur, will collect data from the homes.
D. Michael Donathan, professor emeritus of music at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, has gifted the college with a generous donation to purchase a music dictionary collection for the college library in memory of his brother, the late Peter Donathan, a musician, educator and chef who passed away last year.
The UVA Health System kicked off construction of a 520,000-square-foot addition and renovation. The project will feature a new emergency department, interventional platform, operating rooms and 180-bed patient tower, which converts most semi-private rooms to private rooms.
Rural areas “have an entirely new challenge now,” said Terry Rephann, a regional economist at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, “and that is, getting the workers that they have locally to fill the jobs that are available that require greater degrees of training.”
In January, Tim Davis became UVA’s first executive director for student resilience and leadership development. Ten months into his new role, he is teaching a course for first-year students on resilient leadership, coaching students to become more effective leaders, and training staff members in the Division of Student Affairs on how to shift students from a "fixed mind-set" to a "growth-oriented" one.
UVA international law professor emeritus David Martin said the NSEERS program is constitutionally sound, but fraught with issues as a matter of policy. He said even when it was in effect, NSEERS was “more and more seen as potentially counterproductive” as the Sept. 11 attacks receded in America’s rear-view mirror and the government developed “more of an appreciation that doing certain things that singled out Muslims and were seen as discriminatory were strategically unsound.”
Local governments across Virginia are preparing for an epic battle next year in Richmond. They want a piece of the Airbnb action. Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says lawmakers realize they may be setting an important precedent. “We’re probably going to have other companies coming along changing the lay of the land in other areas of the economy, and so how they act here could also foretell how they might act in other areas too."
"Loyalty is a key reason why Trump picked them,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Trump wants people he can trust and I think he’s skeptical of some Republicans actually sort of following through and supporting him."
(Commentary by Josh Bowers, a UVA associate professor of law) It’s been a bad year. It started with the unexpected passing of my uncle, Larry Schreiber – a family doctor who was willing to trade medical care for firewood; a humanitarian who ran a special-needs adoption agency and raised 14 children, 10 of them adopted, one a refugee from war-torn Cambodia. Upon his passing, his hometown paper, The Taos News, remembered him as “the Albert Schweitzer of the Sangre De Cristos.” The year now draws to a close with the presidential election of a man who, from my perspective, ...
One of the largest employers in Charlottesville wants to keep its workers healthy. The UVA Medical Center is finding it also saves money in the long run. UVA Medical Center started its "be well" employee wellness program almost nine months ago and today hosted hospital systems from all over the country to learn about how they do it.
Many state college budgets have been cut significantly since the start of the Great Recession, forcing them to find places to make cuts. At some schools, the situation has pitted technical courses against classic liberal arts classes. With the support of Thomas Jefferson, the flagship University of Virginia – established in 1825 – blended a practical curriculum with traditional higher education that included a strong focus on the classics.