Kyle Kondik, a Cleveland-area native who wrote “The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President,” said the Buckeye State is one of several where Trump won fairly comfortably in 2016 but is now being forced to play defense. “The fact that Ohio is apparently not totally locked down for Trump is an indication of the immense amount of work the president needs to do across the Midwest in the final 40 days of the campaign,” he wrote for Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a publication by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, where Kondik works.
Beau Biden’s story, says University of Virginia politics professor Larry Sabato, that resonates with military members. And Trump, too, is responsible for his own drop in support among military members, says Sabato, whose state is home to many military families. “There is a very quiet contemplation among military members who are looking at Donald Trump, and the things he is saying and doing, and they’re a little nervous,” Sabato says. It’s not just the insults Trump has levied against the military, but “this is the ultimate in chaos. The military is anti-chaos,” Sabato says. Trump’s recent comm...
(Commentary) In the Electoral College contest for president, Virginia is “likely Democratic,” according to projections by Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Video) Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, discusses with Larry King the impact of Donald Trump’s taped conversations with journalist Bob Woodward on the presidential race.
Antonin Scalia served as an associate justice from September 26, 1986 to February 13, 2016. Before being nominated, Scalia was a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia from 1982 to 1986. He was also a law professor at the University of Virginia and later at the University of Chicago Law School.
The DOJ’s proposal targets the second type of immunity as well. It would effectively open platforms to legal action if they take down posts simply because they find them objectionable. “That is basically telling a private company it could face all kinds of crackdowns if it doesn’t participate in certain kinds of speech,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at University of Virginia. A social media platform would be shielded from legal challenge if it took down unlawful posts, or posts promoting terrorism, but could be sued if it wanted to take down something that was racist or ...
(Commentary) Nor is there any rational basis for the claim that Trump is violating historical precedent by nominating Ginsburg’s successor so near the end of his first term with no assurance that he will be reelected. University of Virginia professor Barbara A. Perry has pointed out in the Washington Post, six lame duck presidents (Harrison, Hayes, Tyler, Van Buren, Jackson, and Adams) nominated justices shortly before leaving office.
Prolonged opioid use may carry several potential health risks, particularly for breast cancer survivors. “One of the problems with adjuvant hormone treatment [for breast cancer survivors], and many of these survivorship treatments, is that they can be associated with musculoskeletal side effects,” Rajesh Balkrishnan, professor of public health sciences at the UVA School of Medicine, said. “It is often recommended that women take some type of commonly available painkiller and exercise to improve muscle tone. But many women require short courses of opioids to manage their pain.”
Kimberly J. Robinson, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, said the outcome was “horrific” but it could be a transformative moment for the future of the Black Lives Matter movement. “I think the risk with the Black Lives Matter movement is that it could dwindle out without requiring the systemic reforms of education and other areas that are needed,” Robinson said. “This moment will be one that people will point to as something that continues to fuel the need to move forward.”
University of Virginia researchers say that a COVID-19 vaccine is likely to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration before the end of the year, but how many people actually get the shot is the next great hurdle in defeating the virus.
(Commentary By Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics and managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball) With Joe Biden generally leading nationally in the range of 6-8 points, Donald Trump is playing defense in a number of states that he won relatively comfortably in 2016. One of those is Ohio, the traditional bellwether state that took a sharp right turn four years ago.
In “By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation’s Capital,” which comes out Oct. 6 from the University of Virginia Press, Kim Roberts collects poems from more than a hundred writers published between 1800 and 1930, from the city’s most famous names to its most obscure.
Dexcom Inc. has partnered with the University of Virginia (U.Va.) to accelerate development of next generation continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and automated insulin delivery technology.
A California-based company has signed a five-year collaboration agreement with the University of Virginia. According to a release, DexCom Inc. announced the collaboration on Thursday, saying it aims to advance research and development efforts on continuous glucose monitoring-based solutions. The research will be focused on an automated insulin delivery system and the exploration of using continuous glucose monitoring tools outside of the Type 1 diabetes market.
As the novel coronavirus vaccine would be approved in the U.S. by Food and Drug Administration before the end of 2020, University of Virginia researcher Dr. Steven Zeichner said that the vaccine would not be effective at all if a certain number of people don’t get the shot.
For Meejin Yoon, whose work on the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia has garnered extensive praise, the question is more nuanced. She sees the enslaved people commemorated in the UVA memorial as heroes too: brave casualties of an abhorrent system “who deserve to be honored and dignified.” The memorial includes the names of known enslaved people who helped build Thomas Jefferson’s campus, but several lines are left blank, because the story is unfinished. Yoon says too many memorials “try to close the topic or make it knowable to the public,” when history is never reall...
You may already recognize the University of Virginia Darden School of Business as a top global business school whose mission is to inspire responsible business leaders through unparalleled transformational learning experiences, but did you know these seven things about UVA Darden?
The University of Virginia (UVA) endowment’s long-term pool returned 5.3% for the fiscal year ending June 30, outperforming its benchmark portfolio’s return of 3.3%. The gains increased the endowment’s total asset value to $9.9 billion from $9.6 billion last year.
This summer has been a season of tests or lack thereof. In between checking for COVID-19, many high school seniors also experienced a test of their patience. With no in-person classes, they couldn’t take the SAT or ACT tests. As a result, college admission offices across the country changed course to accommodate a lack of standardized college admission testing. That includes colleges in Virginia, as they went “test-optional or “test blind” due to a shortage of testing availability. Universities in Virginia who also chose to go test-optional due to COVID-19 include the University of Virginia an...
This summer has been a season of tests or lack thereof. In between checking for COVID-19, many high school seniors also experienced a test of their patience. With no in-person classes, they couldn’t take the SAT or ACT tests. As a result, college admission offices across the country changed course to accommodate a lack of standardized college admission testing. That includes colleges in Virginia, as they went “test-optional or “test blind” due to a shortage of testing availability. Universities in Virginia who also chose to go test-optional due to COVID-19 include the University of Virginia an...