According to the U.S. Elections Project, more than one-third of the votes returned so far come from the three most populous states: California, Texas and Florida. Larry Sabato with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics says California seems to be a lock for Biden. The race for Texas is close, but leaning Republican. That leaves the swing state of Florida, as he calls it “the glittering prize,” because “there’s no way practically for Trump to get elected without Florida.”
(Commentary) Before looking at specific mattresses, I reviewed the American Academy of Pediatrics’s data on safe sleep and asked follow-up questions via email of Dr.Fern R. Hauck, the director of the International Family Medicine Clinic at the University of Virginia Department of Family Medicine, who was on the AAP task force on sudden infant death syndrome.
This new University of Virginia discovery is giving insight on how exactly cancer builds itself a home in human bodies. Chongzhi Zang, a computational biologist for UVA’s Center Public Health’s Genomics, says when components of human chromosomes are arranged, it can affect our genes.
New research at UVA Health reveals that the disease can remodel the architecture of our chromosomes taking hold and spreading.
The University of Virginia School of Architecture is rated No. 5.
Abigail Spanberger faces Del. Nick Freitas (R-Culpeper), while Elaine Luria is in a rematch with former congressman Scott Taylor (R). But both of their races are rated as “leans” or “likely Democratic” by four forecasting organizations: Cook, the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, the Niskanen Center and FiveThirtyEight. “They look like they’re going to survive,” said Larry Sabato, director of the UVA center. “You would think they would win another term, partly because Biden is doing better than Hillary [Clinton] did in Virginia.”
Volunteers plant 50 trees on Wednesday in the community forest at Blandy Experimental Farm in Clarke County. Blandy is a research field station affiliated with the University of Virginia’s Department of Environmental Sciences and the State Arboretum of Virginia.
Executive Director Colleen Keller said the Free Clinic partnered with UVA Health’s Riverside Clinic to refer people for COVID tests as needed.
Several academic institutions are collecting students’ wastewater in an effort to contain coronavirus outbreaks, according to an analysis. Using wastewater testing has given administrators at the schools such as the University of Arizona and the University of Virginia a heads-up on which students have the virus and how to contain those cases from spreading.
The University of Virginia and local musicians are teaming up to bring music performances safely to the community, in-person and online. One week ago, UVA started its Music Care Packages, inspired by UVA President Jim Ryan.
Jalane Schmidt, a UVA religious studies professor and activist who supported removing the monuments, said she thinks they can be properly contextualized in new locations, but that they must explain that the statues have been used through the last century to perpetuate a myth that the Civil War was not about slavery.
Wednesday promises to be a stressful day for Facebook, Google and Twitter, whose chief executives will be grilled by senators about whether social media companies abuse their power. “I think it’s a mistake to look at it as a right-wing versus left-wing bias,” UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan said.
University of Virginia students said they were motivated more by the issues and less by the candidates themselves.
Norman Thrower, who has died aged 100, was professor emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. From relatively humble beginnings, Norman became one of the world’s most famous cartographers. Norman and Betty Martin married in 1947 and, later that year, arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia, living in veterans’ housing while Norman did a BSc and an MSc in geography at the University of Virginia, where he was influenced by Erwin Raisz, an internationally renowned cartographer.
Virginia entered as losers of three straight, all by three-score outcomes, and after starting with a flash in the two quick deep passes to cover 75 yards for an opening touchdown, UM had to scratch and claw at the end.
The American Bankers Association recently elected James J. Edwards Jr. as its chair for the 2020-21 association year. Edwards received an MBA from the University of Virginia.
Albert Pike Elementary School in Fort Smith was built and named in 1952, and the school's website describes its namesake as “a local educator and celebrity.” What isn’t mentioned is that Pike also was a Confederate general who joined a petition in 1858 to “expel all free blacks from the State of Arkansas.” Such controversies aren’t new, said Caroline Janney, a University of Virginia history professor who specializes in Civil War and 19th-century U.S. history.
Millions of voters mailed ballots and endured long lines at polling sites over the weekend. “People are determined to express themselves and we all know why: Donald Trump. That includes his base: The cult is going to support the cult leader,” Larry Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told the Guardian.
The last president facing re-election troubles like Donald Trump's was Jimmy Carter in 1980. Injured by recession and impotent against a national crisis, Carter lost big. "Trump is the worst president ever -- I can't imagine historians will spend more than 10 minutes debating that," says Larry Sabato, who directs UVA’s Center for Politics. But "he really has developed a rock-solid base."
Our 2019 participants told us loud and clear that they want more writing exercises, so we will also have a workshop session with Irene Mathieu, a published poet and University of Virginia pediatrician who trained at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.