Democrats will face challenges because of geography and redistricting, said Jennifer Lawless, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. “But they can actually take a big lesson out of Tuesday and pass (the infrastructure and reconciliation) bills,” she told USA TODAY, pointing to Biden’s two pieces of legislation still being debated in Congress. “They need to demonstrate that unified control in Washington, in fact, does deliver to voters across the country,” she added. “They weren’t able to do that this time.”
Linwood Holton was followed by Mills Godwin, a longtime Democrat who won a nonconsecutive second term as governor in 1973 after switching his party affiliation during the campaign to Republican. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, worked on the 1973 campaign as a college student. He said Godwin waited until the Republican state convention before formally switching parties and accepting the GOP nomination. “He wanted to run as an independent,” Sabato said.
Anyone who is a Hallmark movie fanatic, like yours truly, is familiar with Roanoke native and University of Virginia grad Jen Lilley. The spirited and friendly actress stars in many of Hallmark’s most beloved films, think “Mingle All The Way”; “Winter Love Story”; “Love Unleashed”; “Paris, Wine & Romance”; and one of last year’s holiday favorites, “USS Christmas.”
Tim Brown is not your typical student. He served in the Navy for eight years before coming to the University of Virginia, but he’s here for the same reason as everyone else: To get an education. “We’re regular people,” said Brown. “We like to hang out, we like to have fun, we’re intellectually curious just like everyone else.” He’s one of about 65 student veterans currently studying at UVA, many of whom are using their GI Bill to go to school.
Legal experts have warned that a section of the Infrastructure Bill, which is due for a vote on Friday, amends a part of the tax code and makes a failure by businesses and individuals to report digital asset transactions a criminal offense. University of Virginia School of Law lecturer Abraham Sutherland said it is a separate provision to the controversial “broker” provision that attracted all the attention when the bill was in the Senate: “It’s bad for all users of digital assets, but it’s especially bad for decentralized finance. The statute would not ban DeFi outright. Instead, it imposes r...
“I believe that the [Jefferson School] proposal, in and of itself, is an important opportunity for us as a community in creating something,” Larycia Hawkins, a University of Virginia faculty member with a joint appointment in the politics and religious studies departments, told Council. “The opportunity to not only heal, but to re-narrate history, to create new and different kinds of memories in place of the lasting memory of oppression of the previous statues.”
Beyond developing new skills and positioning themselves for advancement, some students view business school as an opportunity for self-discovery, setting the stage for them “to figure out what they’re interested in doing next,” said Jeff Tang, senior director of the Career Development Center at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. “An MBA is a Swiss-army knife tool that solves a number of issues for people, and I think that’s why it remains so popular,” said Tang. “Obviously, earning potential is a top consideration –– the return on investment has to justify the cost of an e...
Can kids 5-11 get a flu shot and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at the same time? Here’s what doctors say
When it comes to flu shots and the COVID-19 vaccine, “the simple answer is they can be administered at the same time or shortly before or after one another,” according to Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley, a pediatrician heading the University of Virginia’s Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease.
The 34th Annual Virginia Film Festival made a successful and important return this year, drawing thousands of film fans to its remarkably diverse program of films that spanned award-season favorites, fascinating documentaries, outstanding special guests and panelists, engaging short films, dynamic parties, and sparked the kinds of conversations that kept audience members in their seats long after the final credits rolled.
Area sponsors for this year’s event include UVA Health, UVA Encompass Health Rehabilitation and Crutchfield.
Recent findings from a study by UVA professor Bob Pianta and his colleagues make a similar point: High-quality early child care increases children’s readiness for school and narrows the so-called achievement gap by half.
Doctors at UVA Health saw a 15% increase in eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Sara Stephens says the increase is among people under the age of 30.
A treatment researched by a University of Virginia lab is proving effective in treating severe cases of COVID-19. It’s inexpensive and one local scientist said it could save lives. Fluvoxamine, a generic antidepressant, is being prescribed for people recently diagnosed with severe COVID-19. Dr. Alban Gaultier, a scientist at UVA, helped conduct the research and said it’s effective in preventing COVID-19 from worsening in high-risk patients
We all heard countless ads and talking points for months during the Virginia gubernatorial race about parents, education and “Critical Race Theory.” Now, political analysts are talking about the role it played in the race and will play moving forward. That dialogue happened at the UVA Center for Politics’ annual American Democracy Conference.
(Commentary I’ve been thinking about the risk and reward of faith in technology recently because of a new book by Peter Norton, a UVA associate professor of history. Norton detailed decades of unfulfilled promises by carmakers and tech companies that some invention was just around the corner to free us from the worst aspects of our car dependency.
The Brooklyn Public Library has long considered how to help its patrons return books before they ever become overdue. In 2017, the library partnered with a UVA behavioral science lab to help people bring their books back on time without shame or financial stigma, as well as increase patron engagement and reduce barriers to accessing the library.
J. Miles Coleman, associate editor at the University of Virginia’s Sabato’s Crystal Ball, said Democrats’ problem wasn’t so much a lack of enthusiasm among their voters — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe received over 150,000 more votes than Gov. Ralph Northam (D) did in 2017 — as even greater enthusiasm for the Youngkin ticket. National Democrats’ failure to pass President Biden’s priorities in Congress wasn’t helping, he added.
(Video) The University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato joins Shep Smith to discuss the message to Democrats after yesterday’s election and heading into the 2022 midterms.
“Since August, Biden’s national standing has weakened,” Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman wrote in an analysis published Wednesday morning by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “That decline, combined with the usual headwinds the president’s party faces in off-year elections, helped fuel Youngkin’s 12-point net improvement over Trump’s 10-point loss in Virginia last year.”
“My take is that the key factor was, in fact, President Biden’s low ratings,” said Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “You can’t avoid it. I can’t see how anyone can deny that...That’s what it’s about, it’s not just about his agenda.”