The battle over Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues has made it all the way to the highest court in the commonwealth. While the statues will eventually be moved, it’s a question of when and how much it will cost the city. Richard Schragger, a UVA law professor specializing in local government, says it’s a valid question.
The drug, aducanumab, made by Biogen, would be the first new Alzheimer’s treatment in nearly two decades. But the advisory panel said there was not enough evidence of its effectiveness in slowing cognitive decline. Of the 11 voting committee members, the only member to vote that the single study’s evidence was convincing was the committee chairman, Dr. Nathan Fountain, a professor of neurology at the University of Virginia.
(Radio interview) Chris Lu, senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center and former U.S. deputy secretary of labor, details the October jobs report and shares his thoughts on the election results.
Dr. William Petri, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Virginia, said UVA Health recently decided to implement universal testing for all admitted patients after one came in with no coronavirus symptoms but later tested positive, exposing several health care workers and forcing them to quarantine.
“This is extraordinary. It’s within less than a year from starting the vaccine development to having phase-three trial results. It’s completely unprecedented. I think the earlier record was probably about four years or so with Ebola, so this is really fantastic,” William Petri, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Virginia, said.
(Commentary by Alexandra Sullivan, student; subscription required) My mornings start ritualistically with a cup of coffee and the news.
(Co-written by Stephanie Muravchik, an associate fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) Despite courting white nationalists as President, Donald Trump remains popular among a minority of Latinos and Blacks.
Scientists at the UVA School of Medicine have worked on a way to understand how viruses infect cells.
Children being treated at UVA Children’s can now access a closed-circuit television adventure channel put on by the San Diego Zoo.
As UVA’s Center for Politics noted, since 1900 there have been 30 presidential elections. Ohio has correctly picked the winner in 27 of those elections. One of those incorrect picks was this year.
Franklin D. Roosevelt had won his third term in 1940, in the midst of the Great Depression and the start of the Second World War. History quoted a professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center as saying, "You have economic-domestic issues and you have foreign policy with the outbreak of World War II in 1939. And then you have his own political viability – he had won the 1936 election with more than two-thirds of the popular vote."
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The University of Virginia has an ongoing research project on relationships called The National Marriage Project in which they explore statistics pertaining to nearly every element of marriages, and one of their findings reports that generosity is a key factor to a happy marriage.
Built in the 1950s to serve freshmen students, Bonnycastle Hall is part of the McCormick Road Houses complex at the University of Virginia. New interior finishes and an emphasis on transparency and daylighting create a contemporary aesthetic and make the space more attractive to students.
“Especially with the increase in cases that we’re seeing nationwide, it certainly is safer not to travel in group settings,” UVA infectious disease Dr. Patrick Jackson said.
University and county officials are keeping the full contents of the 111-year-old capsule a closely guarded secret until the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library’s historic preservationists present their findings to the county’s Board of Supervisors at its Nov. 18 meeting.
In solemn silence, nearly 100 UVA Reserve Officer Training Corps members on Monday will start their 24-hour vigil in ritual remembrance of soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who never returned.
(Podcast interview with Chris Lu, practitioner senior fellow at Miller Center) Lu, who led the 2008 Obama-Biden presidential transition team, discusses what a transition from a Trump to a Biden administration might look like.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies and co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at UVA’s Miller Center, discusses the historic nature of Kamala Harris’ election and the road it took to get here.
“In all likelihood, the race won’t be so close that a single electoral vote would decide the outcome,” Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told the Omaha World-Herald’s Joseph Morton ahead of election day. “But it is important for the campaigns to compete everywhere that’s competitive, and NE-2 voters should think of themselves as living within their own swing state.”