In an odd way, former President Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House proved good for Hogan in terms of raising his profile, said J. Miles Coleman, a political analyst and editor at the UVA Center for Politics. Hogan’s willingness to throw barbs at the president made him a favorite guest on some national television programs and a leading voice of dissent within the party.
Women in Science Day was celebrated internationally on Friday, and women in STEM are leading the way to life-saving research at the University of Virginia.
Lauren Garcia, a sociology Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia, takes issue with the “performance” of the academic meeting — an obsession with institutions, titles, and connections — that she has seen play out when scholars gather in person. Garcia, who earned her master’s under the tutelage of Tressie McMillan Cottom, a MacArthur Fellow who now teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says she noticed people responded to her differently when she mentioned McMillan Cottom was her adviser at conference sign-in tables. “If you are not in an elite institution or didn’t ...
Megan Sullivan, of Burke, a Junior at the University of Virginia, will compete in the Jeopardy! National College Championship against some of the nation’s brightest undergraduates. Sullivan, a 2019 graduate of Robinson Secondary School, will appear in the last quarter-final episode airing on Feb. 16. She and her competitors, who know the outcome from filming last November in Los Angeles have been sworn to secrecy, but the outcome soon will be known to all.
A new chair has been appointed at the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Paola A. Gehrig will begin her new role as chair of the department on June 27, according to a news release.
The plus side is that the federal largesse protects Virginia from extreme economic downturns. The downside is Virginia is beholden to Washington. Economists say the state was slammed in the past decade by a federal sequestration program that automatically cut defense and domestic spending when Congress could not agree on a budget. “Virginia’s becoming a mature state with slow but steady growth,” said Terry Rephann, regional economist with the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
At this stage in the election cycle, Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said the choice to appear with the president in a part of the state he won to discuss a part of his agenda that is wildly popular was an “obvious one” for U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger. He cautioned that much could change before November. “But if this were October, with these kinds of ratings,” Sabato said, “I think she’d have a scheduling conflict.”
(Audio) As new congressional district lines are redrawn, Democrats and Republicans alike battle for representation across the country. The new maps are being brought to state courts to determine whether gerrymandering is at play, given that Democrats seem to be at a redistricting advantage. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, analyzes the maps and explains how this could possibly affect future elections.
“It’s 50/50 what [Louisiana Gov. John Bel] Edwards is going to do,” J. Miles Coleman of the University of Virginia Center for Politics said. “Other than veto, [Edwards] could just let it come to law without a signature if he doesn’t want to pick any fights and he wants to kind of keep his hands clean.” Creating a redistricting dispute against the GOP-backed map could set back other funding priorities of the governor, Coleman said.
Michael Gilbert, director of the University of Virginia School of Law’s Center for Public Law and Political Economy who specializes in campaign finance, said that federal limits on corporate PAC donations exist to prevent companies from wielding undue influence over a lawmaker. Gilbert said that, on the federal level, it makes sense that lawmakers are responsive to some degree to business needs, particularly if they matter to the economy in a lawmaker’s district. “Lots of people in politics and beyond I think would say it’s perfectly reasonable to take these contributions,” Gilbert said. “Thos...
(Commentary) University of Virginia President James Ryan has argued, “The best reform in the world, on paper, will be useless without sufficient political support to sustain its implementation.” It’s just to believe in righteous fights. Yet, public policy needs consensus. We are otherwise wasting time and money.
As a result of Jackie Kennedy’s work, the White House itself and the artwork and artifacts inside it are now preserved by the National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution. But before the Kennedys, upkeep of these historic treasures was “idiosyncratic and non-routinized,” says Barbara A. Perry, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and author of “Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier.” “When presidents would come and go, they could just take things with them or sell things off,” Perry says. “The tragedy of it in terms of preserv...
While there is, if anything, a glut of PhD graduates on the labour market, many cannot find academic jobs. Top business schools want to hire PhDs only from the best programmes, but this talent pool has not grown in line with the rising demand for business education in recent decades. “Supply has not changed much, but demand has increased,” says Sankaran Venkataraman, senior associate dean for faculty and research at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. “Schools are very careful about who they hire. Provenance is important.”
The pandemic has turned many people’s dining room tables into workplaces. Attorneys are no exception. What’s more, no one expects the legal industry to return to the pre-pandemic norm. A recent survey by the American Bar Association revealed that only 23% of the lawyers surveyed wanted to return to the office full time. These survey results were shared by professor Ben Sachs of the University of Virginia School of Law at the Practising Law Institute’s program, “Managing Remote and Hybrid Legal Teams: Tactics to Thrive and Lead in the New World of Work.”
“The ocean holds about 50 times as much inorganic carbon as the atmosphere because of its high alkalinity,” Scott Doney, a University of Virginia marine scientist who chaired the National Academy of Sciences panel, said. “It’s been suggested that if you increase the alkalinity of the ocean… you could potentially increase the capacity of the ocean to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.”
Roger Anderson is co-leader of Cancer Control and Population Health Research at the University of Virginia. He says all Virginians should be gravely concerned about the risks the map is showing. “We all have to be alarmed and concerned when there is an excess risk,” Anderson said.
Pediatrician and infectious disease specialist Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley at UVA Health says this decision by Pfizer is a move for transparency. “Whatever we do for young children, we want to make sure that it’s in their best interest and in their benefit, so I think it was just more for transparency and re-evaluating the situation,” she said.
“Maybe it’s a tiny bit premature for governments to be dropping their mask mandates,” said William A. Petri, a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health at the University of Virginia. “Check back in a week, because it’s going to be different. … Transmission is dropping so rapidly, I fully believe we won’t be needing to wear masks indoors.”
University of Virginia immunologist and COVID-19 researcher Dr. William Petri continues to answer reader questions about COVID-19.
Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, notes a rise in the appeal of soulmates since the 1970s, when the advent of what he calls the “me decade” and a culture of individualism shifted our approach to relationships. “People are now more likely to look for relationships that make them happy and fulfilled,” he says. “It’s also facilitated by unprecedented prosperity in the West, which made people less dependent on marriage for economic survival. There was a shift from a pragmatic approach to marriage to a more expressive,...