UVA students living in Hancock House, a first-year residence hall, are being asked to test for COVID-19 on Wednesday at the Student Activities Building. This is part of UVA's asymptomatic prevalence testing.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan on Tuesday announced three new COVID-19 restrictions that will begin Wednesday, which include limiting travel and reducing gatherings to no more than five people.
The measures, which were announced on social media by the University in a video of President Jim Ryan, include a reduction in the maximum size of gatherings to five people, and stronger enforcement of limitations on travel and visitors. Masks must also be worn at all times, except when at home or exercising outdoors. The new guidelines take effect Wednesday.
(Podcast interview) President Donald Trump is expected to nominate an ideologically conservative successor to the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, senior fellow with the University of Virginia, discusses the implications.
Will COVID-19 have lasting impacts on cancer? UVA Cancer Center collaborates nationwide to find out.
Many in the medical field are worried the coronavirus may have lasting impacts when it comes to cancer, especially because access to crucial screenings and clinical trials may have been restricted these past few months. The UVA Cancer Center is collaborating with 16 other cancer centers across the country, as well as the National Cancer Institute, to develop a survey to study the impacts of the pandemic on cancer.
Virginia Film Festival officials have announced the launch of sales of Virtual All-Access Passes for the 2020 Festival, coming up from Oct. 21-25. This year’s festival will feature a virtual format, while also offering safe and socially distanced drive-in movies each evening.
Carlos Muñiz is a justice on the Florida Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment in 2019, Muñiz served as general counsel to the U.S. Department of Education and in various positions in the Florida state government. Muñiz is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Yale Law School.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics Sabato's Crystal Ball moved the race from Likely Republican to Leans Republican in June when Good defeated Riggleman in the primary. The center says that stance on the district still stands. "Of course, we're constantly kind of monitoring that race, but we're not ready to make any changes," said J. Miles Coleman, Associate Editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball.
How much of an impact does our social environment have on our health? This was the topic of a recent University of Virginia Lifetime Learning webinar. The guest speaker was Dr. Michael D. Williams, director of the UVA Center for Health Policy, and an associate professor of surgery at the UVA School of Medicine.
While many Democrats discuss swaying four Republican senators to vote no on moving forward with a nominee, the UVA Center for Politics says one key Senate race could change everything. “In Arizona, you have Martha McSally who was appointed. We’ve pretty much had her race as ‘leans Democratic’ since March," J. Miles Coleman with the Center for Politics said. There is a special election being held there to finish Senator John McCain’s term. If Democrat Mark Kelly wins, he could be placed as early as Nov. 30.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, has argued that Biden needs to push his economic message in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 3 election in order to win. “The one thing that Biden simply has to do is to talk about the economy more,” Sabato said in a webcast last week. “He’s not going to have the edge on Trump on the economy for lots of reasons, good and bad, but what he can do is reduce the gap. He needs to have that be a wash, and it’s not close to a wash right now. Trump is getting credit for those first three good years of his term with the economy...
In politics, the balancing act between consensus-building and the power play is more of an art than a science. Political observers say Filler-Corn has proven herself adroit at both. “When you project ‘nice’ and calmly explain things, that helps,” says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “But inside she’s all steel.”
So far this year, Republicans are well behind Democrats in applying for mail ballots, several experts said. “There is a very clear trend in many key states in which Democrats — either registered Democrats or voters that political pros model as Democratic voters — are requesting mail-in ballots at a significantly higher clip than Republicans,” said Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Commentary) For Thomas, the only role for precedent comes via the arcane and anachronistic process of constitutional "liquidation." The subject is most closely associated today with the legal scholarship of Caleb Nelson, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.
J. Miles Coleman is the associate editor at Sabato's Crystal Ball, which is a part of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Coleman weighs in on the key details and facts that voters need to know before making a decision.
University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock, who is an expert on religious liberty, agreed that constitutional protection for gay marriage is seen as a done deal. “Gay rights might be surprisingly safe, except for those who view every religious exemption as a defeat for the LGBT community,” Laycock said. The Supreme Court "may not expand constitutional protection for gay rights any further, but there is not much left to strike down.”
Does virtue signalling do enough to make the powerful question their privileges? Laura Morgan Roberts, Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia’s Darden School, answered her own question by criticizing the affirmative action movement for backing off when those in power start to feel uncomfortable. She called for a radical shift in focus towards “helping people of all backgrounds to feel they truly belong in their work organizations… just as we want them to feel safe and belong in society”. That means “not being pulled over, carded and racially profiled” because they are presumed to ...
Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, offered a different theory. Along with the association between mental health and libido, there is, as he describes it, a rise in the culture of risk avoidance — of “safetism.” Basically the mindset where there’s a much greater focus on being careful and protecting yourself. Something that, because of COVID, is unlikely to change soon.
(Commentary) Jalane Schmidt, a University of Virginia religion professor who has helped organize protests against Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, sees an important distinction between the legacies of Confederate leaders and those enslavers who helped lead the American Revolution.
“Unless [the court] does something very crazy, the injunction will be vacated,” said Rich Schragger, a law professor at University of Virginia. “What’s at issue is all the attorneys fees.”