These signs all show that North Carolina’s purple electorate again is a critical prize for both major parties as they strive for control of the White House and Congress. “Without North Carolina, Trump doesn’t have many feasible routes to 270 electoral votes,” wrote J. Miles Coleman and Bennett Stillerman in an analysis of the state for Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a blog published UVA’s Center for Politics.
An artificial pancreas originally developed at the UVA Center for Diabetes Technology safely and effectively manages blood sugar levels in children ages 6 to 13 with type 1 diabetes, a national clinical trial has found. Data from this and other studies has prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve the device for use by children ages 6 and older.
Trump has argued mail-in ballots would favor the Democrats, but a recent study co-written by political scientists at the University of Virginia and Brigham Young University showed only a small increase in Democratic voter turnout. After analyzing presidential and midterm general elections between 1996 and 2018, states that had switched to all-mail voting saw increased voter turnout of 1.8% to 2.9%, but only a 0.7% uptick in the shares of votes cast for Democratic candidates.
UVA classes started, virtually, on Aug. 25. The University had delayed the return to Grounds by two weeks to buy more time to evaluate the coronavirus. In a statement sent out Friday, the University announced plans to bring students back to Charlottesville.
In UVA’s statement on Friday, the University explained its rationale for bringing students back. It says that concerns about supply chain readiness have been addressed, and that the virus prevalence in Virginia is in a range the University feels comfortable with.
In a statement posted on the school’s website, UVA officials said they had initially delayed the start of in-person undergraduate classes by two weeks to allow for more assessment of the spread of COVID-19. They also said they delayed the decision in order to take a look at how other schools have fared since opening. UVA said it is now proceeding with plans to welcome students to residence halls starting Sept. 3 and to begin in-person instruction for undergraduates on Sept. 8.
The University of Virginia announced Friday that it is moving ahead with plans to offer in-person instruction for the fall semester, after delaying the start of classes for two weeks to assess the spread of COVID-19. “We know some will be delighted to hear this news and others will be disappointed,” a university statement said. “To be frank, it was a very difficult decision, made in the face of much uncertainty, and with full awareness that future events may force us to change course.”
Relying on the local expertise of demographers, the count review operation has helped the Census Bureau identify more than 240,000 housing units and 6,500 group living quarters, such as nursing homes and prisons, that were missing from the bureau’s records, the agency confirmed. Qian Cai, a demographer who directs the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, had been preparing to do another review of the bureau’s data files in September to help make sure college student housing in her state was correctly counted.
The statue of Revolutionary War Gen. George Rogers Clark has stood on University of Virginia land for 99 years, but a push for racial equity and efforts by student leaders may force the statue to be removed. The statue, for which University leaders actively lobbied a wealthy Charlottesville philanthropist back in 1921, would be replaced by a Native American-centered cultural center under a recommendation by UVA’s Racial Equity Task Force.
(Commentary by alumna Karen Owen) As we celebrate the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote throughout the land, perhaps lost in the shuffle is another red-letter day for women in Virginia: The 50th anniversary of full co-education at the state’s flagship university.
The coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately impacted minorities. But statistics and the lack of research studies show health care is different for Black and brown people. Dr. Taison Bell from the University of Virginia believes biases are the cause.
In a traditional presidency, a natural disaster can provide a political advantage because it can give the incumbent a chance to put his or her leadership on display, said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
UVA Health has designed a nasopharyngeal swab and will distribute 60,000 of them across the state per week to support COVID-19 testing, the Charlottesville-based health system said this week.
Arlington has tallied more than 3,400 cases of COVID-19. More than 450 have been hospitalized and at least 138 have died. UVA researchers estimate that Northern Virginia will see a surge in new cases this fall.
As more of Virginia’s universities open for the fall semester, they’re collecting and releasing COVID-19 data and grappling with contingency plans for those who contract the disease. The University of Virginia released its first set of COVID-19 testing data Wednesday.
The five people are accomplished scholars and government practitioners who can comment on a broad array of political and governmental issues.
Tony Poljan, who is now a graduate transfer tight end at UVA, has rarely shied away from a hurdle. His stuttering is an issue he faces head-on.
The only university in the U.S. designated a UNESCO World Heritage site, the University of Virginia is one of the oldest in the country, founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson.
Brennan Armstrong has been named the starting quarterback for the University of Virginia. The announcement was made with a press release Thursday morning.
Expectations are rising that a COVID-19 vaccine will be ready for the public by the beginning of next year. That could mean an approved vaccine by January. “I believe that it is realistic that we will know sometime in late 2020 whether some COVID-19 vaccines are safe, exactly how effective they are, and which ones should be used to vaccinate the U.S. population in 2021,” writes William Petri, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Virginia.