A majority of Trump voters want to split the country into red and blue halves, according to a new poll conducted by the University of Virginia’s nonpartisan Center for Politics.
On the sixth floor of the Homewood Suites by Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., [UVA Law alumnus] Harry Marino hunches over his MacBook, furiously typing Instagram direct messages. Marino, who serves as the executive director for Advocates for Minor Leaguers, spends much of his time reaching out to recent MLB draftees with a link to the organization’s draft handbook. The handbook explains the rights granted by the uniform player contract, pay scales, the challenges of finding in-season housing, the expectation for food and nutrition from teams and more. “I want players to be informed as soon ...
The project to restore the old baseball field at the former Burley High School is moving ahead. Wednesday night, a game took place on the historic diamond. Ahead of the game, Donald Byers threw out the first pitch. He was one of many Black students and ballplayers in the 1950s who left a legacy at the former Burley High School -- a segregated school. “We still need more progress, but a lot [has been] made and it’s enjoyable to see what’s going on here today,” Byers said. What’s “going on” was a ballgame, just like old times. But this one included everyone -- a game that matched up high school ...
The First Amendment Museum has appointed Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson professor emeritus at University of Virginia and a specialist in the history of the early American republic, to the museum’s board of directors. Onuf, who retired to Maine several years ago, brings extensive scholarship in American history to the board, and the new concept museum that inspires people to understand and exercise their First Amendment rights.
A local nonprofit that supports the immigrant community, mostly Latinx, in the Charlottesville area has hired its first-ever executive director. Edgar Lara will be the executive director of Sin Barreras beginning Oct. 1. Lara has been a member of the board of Sin Barreras for some time and he also co-directs the “Conecta2” Latinx leadership technology program at the University of Virginia.
“Youngkin obviously has immense personal resources to bring to bear here,” says Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the UVA Center for Politics’ political newsletter and website, Sabato’s Crystal Ball. “One thing that’s interesting is that McAuliffe is the one who is trying to nationalize this race, because he wants people to think of Youngkin as Trump so that Democratic voters will be motivated to come out. Youngkin wants this to be more of a localized race. He’s muddying his ideology and political background, representing himself as a nonpartisan business type – almost like Mark Warner in revers...
Justin Kirkland, a political science professor at the University of Virginia, previously told The Washington Times that McAuliffe’s political history puts him at a disadvantage because his opponents could put greater scrutiny on him, while also labeling them as a career politician. “It’s easier to find things to use against him because he served in office for a really long time,” Kirkland said. “It’s a lot easier for Republicans or the Youngkin campaign to paint him as a kind of a career politician.”
Justin O’Jack, chief representative of the University of Virginia in China, said more and more Chinese students are coming back to China to work after they graduate from universities in the US. “The opportunity to grow is so much more in Shanghai,” he said, adding that many US universities have leveraged their alumni networks to help international students land jobs in Shanghai.
American Justin O’Jack, University of Virginia’s chief representative in China, said most Chinese students studying in the university now intend to return home due to more employment opportunities here, especially in Shanghai, for jobs in financial services and business consulting. The situation has been changing compared with over a decade ago when many Chinese graduates opted for careers in the U.S.
(Commentary) “The problem with Facebook is Facebook” goes the line coined by Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA media scholar. The problems, Vaidhyanathan explains, result when the platforms perform exactly as designed.
It’s fun to romanticize early modem listening as a folk ritual. In an email to Gizmodo, Kevin Driscoll, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, described early modem listening as a participatory act of summoning the technology to do its bidding.
Experts caution that the results are preliminary and not a guaranteed cure. Of the three initial patients, one relapsed and is no longer in the trial. Even if the institute’s trial shows that it can help some untreatable addicts, broader use is still years away. “There is a lot of research where there have been positive findings initially and then they don’t prove to be that reproducible,” said Dr. W. Jeffrey Elias, a professor of neurological surgery at the UVA Brain Institute. Even so, he says the concept and early findings are exciting. “We are understanding more and more about the brain ci...
The reason deforestation represents an “own goal” is that forests aren’t just important for the global climate. “[F]orests do a lot more than store CO2,” University of Virginia environmental science professor Deborah Lawrence explains in the press call. “They are critical climate regulators. They keep us cooler every day, protecting us against extreme heat, maintaining rainfall, and controlling the flow of water across and through our lands.”
Fast forward 1967: Dr. Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine founded the Division of Perceptual Studies, a research mecca for scientists and physicians to study survivors of clinical death with a story to tell. DOPS research attracted medical doctors like Bruce Greyson, M.D., Chester F. Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, whose specialties include death-bed visions, and neuropsychiatrist Peter Fenwick from University of Cambridge, who became curious when a patient described an NDE after Fenwick resuscitated him.
There are some other medical experts who believe in the possible existence of life after death. A few months back, Dr Bruce Greyson, professor emeritus in psychiatry at the University of Virginia had suggested that humans could have a non-physical part. “I recognize that there is a non-physical part of us. Is that spiritual? I’m not sure. Spirituality usually involves a search for something greater than yourself, for meaning and purpose in the universe. Well, I certainly have that,” said Greyson.
(Podcast; subscription may be required) Today on the Academic Minute: Frank Dukes, distinguished institute fellow and lecturer at the University of Virginia, explores an example of how change is coming to many historical institutions.
As the cost of developing solar projects continues to fall while the demand for renewable energy climbs, the pressure on local officials will intensify. How do they accommodate utility-scale solar while staying true to their comprehensive plans? “Solar is the latest emerging land use for which we need to have a public dialogue,” said Jonah Fogel, program director for the Environmental Resilience Institute at the University of Virginia. “As we build out the energy future for the country and decarbonize the economy, there are going to be trade-offs.” Fogel also works with local governments...
Legal scholars say that the wave of state laws preventing local climate action and other progressive priorities, which they call “new preemption,” is different. States are increasingly using preemption as a partisan tool that prevents any regulation on a given issue. Foster likens the tactic to a “partisan hit-job,” while University of Virginia law expert Richard Schragger calls it an “attack on American cities.”
Pediatricians are seeing more childhood ear infections this summer than last year, as they rise to levels that were previously seen before the pandemic. Dr. Abigail Kumral, a UVA pediatrics assistant professor, says there were fewer ear infections when kids were wearing masks and practicing social distancing.
Just because you were told you had a penicillin allergy when you were a kid doesn’t mean you still have it or that you ever did, according to researchers. A University of Virginia asthma and allergy researcher says current research shows allergic reactions to one of the oldest antibiotics have been over reported over the years, often because of a confusion of rashes and reactions. Dr. Anna Smith, an assistant professor of medicine at UVa School of Medicine, says determining whether a person has an allergy could mean that more patients are able to take the drug, which is effective against a mor...