The UVA Center for Politics says political conditions in Virginia appear to favor the current U.S. senator, Mark Warner.
Thursday night’s debate was one of the last chances Republican President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, had to appeal to a large nationwide audience. “It was definitely better than the last one,” J. Miles Coleman, election analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics, said.
In his book “Soul Mates,” University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox finds, “Latino and black couples who attend church together enjoy significantly happier relationships, in large part ... because they pray with one another.”
(Podcast interview) Dr. Amanda K. Gibson an assistant professor of biology at the University of Virginia. She joins the show to dissect the relationship between parasitism and evolution.
Every other week, Dr. Cameron Webb’s busy life gets a little busier. He has two kids, teaches at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine, plus he’s running for Congress – and he takes shifts at the hospital every other week, where many of his patients have been diagnosed with the coronavirus.
(Interview) High incidence of kidney failure in minority groups can be attributed to faster progression of kidney function decline in these populations, said Guofen Yan, associate professor of biostatistics in the department of public health sciences at the UVA School of Medicine.
"The Court plays an outsize role in constitutional law," says Saikrishna Prakash, the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School. "These nine people decide what our Constitution means."
Every four years, both political parties choose their electors in the months before the election to cast votes at a meeting set for the "Monday after the second Wednesday in December of presidential election years," which falls on Dec. 14 this year, according to federal law. "We have no uniform national system for appointing Electors, which means the legislatures do not have to consult the public at all," wrote James W. Ceaser, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia
The reason, analysts believe, is simply Donald Trump, and by extension his handling of the coronavirus pandemic that has infected 8.5 million people and killed 224,000. “The pandemic is part of it, particularly for older voters,” said Dr Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Commentary by Bob Gibson, communications director and senior researcher at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service) Only Virginia and New Jersey hold their elections for governor the year after the nation votes for president, and this year a former Virginia governor appears poised to grab an early lead in an already crowded field.
A 5K race, organized with help from some University of Virginia students, is bringing awareness to, and raising funds to fight, acute myeloid lukemia.
An accomplished Black businessman, Devon Henry took on a job the city says others were unwilling to do: lead contractor for the now-completed removal of 14 pieces of Confederate statuary that dotted Virginia’s capital city. Records show his Newport News-based Team Henry Enterprises has won more than $100 million in federal contracts in the past decade. Team Henry was the general contractor on the recently completed Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia.
Actress Linda Hamilton, best known for her iconic role as Sarah Conner in the “Terminator” franchise, spoke about her varied career with University of Virginia President Jim Ryan in a Virginia Film Festival virtual program.
Public health officials worry winter could bring an outsized impact on the pandemic. If holiday travel and colder weather lead to a jump in new infections, cases could peak in January, according to a new analysis by UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute.
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(Commentary by Steven Johnson, Brent Kitchens and Peter Gray, information technology professors in the McIntire School of Commerce) When Mark Zuckerberg appears at a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday, he will no doubt be asked about Facebook’s content moderation policies.
The number of undecided voters varies from election to election, and it looks like there are fewer undecided voters in 2020 than in 2016. “People probably have a better understanding of their options this time,” said John Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Food insecurity is rising in Charlottesville and that’s why one doctor at UVA Children’s is trying to make sure his patients have fresh food at all times.
Working at the molecular level, MIT chemistry professor Yogesh Surendranath harnesses electricity to rearrange chemical bonds. Although he was interested in all of the sciences, he narrowed his focus after taking his first college chemistry class at the University of Virginia, with a professor named Dean Harman.
The dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine has been given what is considered one of the highest honors in the field of health and medicine.