UVA Center of Politics forecasting guru and professor Larry Sabato thinks pollsters need to “completely redesign what they do” after he predicted Democratic nominee Joe Biden would defeat President Trump in a landslide.
(Video) Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine in the Divisions of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, breaks down the latest coronavirus developments as cases across the U.S. continue to spike.
The University of Louisville’s scheduled game Saturday at Virginia will be tentatively rescheduled for Saturday, November 14 at 3:30 p.m. on ACCN.
Maria Fitzpatrick, professor of economics and public policy in the College of Human Ecology (CHE), is Cornell’s new associate vice provost for social sciences. Fitzpatrick, who came to Cornell in 2011, received her bachelor’s in economics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
Our Industry Person of the Week is Vicki Spina. Vicki is an student at the University of Virginia.
Americans see democracy as good for capitalism and want CEOs to stand for more than just profits. Recent academic scholarship agrees. R. Edward Freeman of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, wrote in a 2019 piece that companies have both the capacity and the responsibility to help maintain democratic principles.
Larry Sabato, director at UVA’s Center for Politics, said that Democrats have had an "advantage" with Hispanic voters as a group, but "lost some ground" with the voting bloc in Florida.
Larry Sabato, University of Virginia Center for Politics director, says Pennsylvania is a crucial swing state everyone is waiting for.
Legal experts slam President Donald Trump’s claims that delays in declaring a winner are evidence of voter fraud. Michael Gilbert, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, pointed out that Trump’s recent comments on the integrity of the voting system are not new.
Many universities across the nation are finding ways to help students grapple with the election results (or lack thereof). The University of Virginia’s Contemplative Sciences Center and the Department of Religious Studies offers an online guided meditation and open reflection.
If elected, Biden would be the first Democratic president since Grover Cleveland in 1884 to win the White House without Democrats also winning both chambers of Congress, a University of Virginia political tip sheet noted Wednesday.
A new paper from the emergency medicine doctors highlights that the coronavirus can cause cardiovascular complications including heart attacks, heart failures, and blood clots, which in turn can lead to strokes. The new paper from UVA Health's Dr. William Brady and colleagues aims to serve as a guide for emergency-medicine doctors treating patients who may have or are known to have COVID-19.
(Q&A with Herman Mark Schwartz, politics professor) How would America change when it comes to taxes, health care, the minimum wage, COVID-19 and more if Biden wins the election and makes Trump a one-term president?
The moment offers an opportunity to talk to children not only about one of the most consequential elections in history, but also about values. Nancy Deutsch, a UVA professor of education, discusses how to talk to children about election night, the morning after and what lies ahead.
UVA’s Kate Douglass and Matt Brownstead were named the ACC swimmers of the week Tuesday.
Incumbent John Cornyn has won the U.S. Senate race against Democrat MJ Hegar, news outlets project. Cornyn holds a Master of Laws degree from the University of Virginia.
Democrat MJ Hegar has conceded in her bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas. Cornyn graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio with a journalism degree. He then went on to get his law degree frm St. Mary’s Law School in San Antonio. He would later earn his Master of Laws from the University of Virginia.
Mac Warner has been re-elected as secretary of state for West Virginia. He earned Master of Law degrees from the University of Virginia Law School and the Army's Judge Advocate General's School.
Shelley Moore Capito has been re-elected to serve was a West Virginia U.S. Senator. Born in Glen Dale in the Northern Panhandle, she holds a B.S. in zoology from Duke University and a M.Ed. from the University of Virginia.
(Radio interview) Psychologist Bethany Teachman from the University of Virginia offers up a few research-based coping strategies for pandemic uncertainty.