Joe Biden, leading in all national polls, is spending in seven key states that Trump won in 2016, too, banking on at least some of them swinging Democratic with widespread voter dissatisfaction over Trump’s handling of the coronavirus and the accompanying economic crash. “It would be fair to say that Trump winning this time would be a bigger upset than 2016,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Yes, he’s the incumbent, but 2020 is not the year you’d want to be running for president as an incumbent – and that would be true whether it was Trump or someone else.”
Several philosophy professors are among the 2020 class of fellows of the British Academy, including Frederick Schauer (David & Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School).
UVA historian Russell Riley said that since the civil rights struggles of the 1960s and ‘70s, Americans have come to expect something different from what Trump has offered so far – at the very least, a show of common cause with those demonstrating for racial progress.
Dr. Christopher Ali is an associate professor in UVA’s Department of Media Studies. He joined the department in the fall of 2013 after completing his Ph.D. at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include communication policy and regulation, critical political economy, critical geography, comparative media systems, localism and local news.
(Commentary by Kristen Eichensehr, professor of law) Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing two men linked to China’s Ministry of State Security of a decade-long campaign of hacking dissidents, human rights activists, and a variety of private sector targets, including most recently entities working on COVID-19 treatments, tests, and vaccines. This cyberattack attribution follows on the heels of last week’s joint U.K., U.S., and Canadian advisory accusing Russian intelligence services of targeting COVID-19 vaccine development “with the intention of ste...
Medical students usually make rounds with doctors during their third year of training, but this year they were sent home from UVA’s medical center because of the pandemic. Two of the aspiring doctors used their down time to raise money for charity in a surprising way.
Founded by Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia enrolls approximately 17,011 undergraduate students and is known for its law and business schools as well as for its strong athletics program. Average annual net cost for in-state students (income $48,001-$75,000): $16,999. The median salary for alumni with 10+ years of experience: $117,500.
(Subscription required) Football ticket sales, merchandise and TV contracts generate tens of millions of dollars and serve as a marketing and fundraising tool at some schools. “Some people have incorrectly framed the issue as safety versus revenue generation,” Iowa State University Athletic Director Jamie Pollard wrote to fans on July 13. He said safety was paramount, but pointed out that losing the football season would be financially devastating to the school. Some institutions, including those in New Jersey and Massachusetts, are looking for protection from potential lawsuits if student ath...
Virginia is not mentioned as a COVID-19 hotspot alongside states like California, Florida and Texas, but new data gathered and models created by UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute predicts that the commonwealth is creeping closer and closer to a surge.
John MacKnight’s countenance and tone were cordial and upbeat. UVA’s primary care team physician appeared eager to answer any and all questions about the Cavaliers’ meticulous preparations for a fall sports season amid our global pandemic.
The ordinances make masks mandatory in public, limit restaurants to 50% occupancy indoors and restrict certain public and private in-person gatherings to a maximum of 50 people. UVA President Jim Ryan sent an email to the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors and Charlottesville City Council on Monday supporting the ordinance, writing that, “We are putting similar measures into place on Grounds for students, faculty and staff.”
(Audio) This episode, we’re going to take a closer look at terrorism trends and far-right extremists in America. We’ll see how oftentimes right-wing violence works inside the seams of American security and law enforcement discourse, challenging our definition of terrorism. We’ll also discuss America’s wars abroad, and how many veterans have “brought the war home.” Then we’ll visit Charlottesville, Virginia, where we’ll tour a few Confederate monuments – monuments that are playing host to a new generation of vigilantes. Guests include Jalane Schmidt, University of Virginia profes...
Some marriage advocates hope that COVID-19, in the long run, will inspire more people to trade vows as a kind of insurance against uncertainty. “I think every family affected by this will recognize the merits of having two parents instead of one,” W. Bradford Wilcox, a UVA sociology professor and the director of the National Marriage Project, said. He predicts that the crisis will lead couples to reassess their priorities and work harder to create stable homes for their children. “The whole adult-centered, me-first model of family life died on March 13th. What will emerge is a kind of fam...
(Commentary by M. Jordan Love, academic curator at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia) It is an unusual feeling as a medieval art specialist for my subject to suddenly feel globally significant. I suspect some of my colleagues in Renaissance art feel this as well. For those of us who have studied art created after the Black Death of 1348, or the Plague of London in 1665, or during the wave of epidemics that washed over Italian cities every few years between 1500-1700, our current pandemic has felt familiar and brought our knowledge to the forefront.
A University of Virginia researcher says hiking and muscle-building exercise may reduce the risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome, a major cause of death in COVID-19 patients. A recent study by Zhen Yan of the UVA School of Medicine indicated regular aerobic and weightlifting exercise increase the body’s production of a powerful antioxidant that protects body tissue and fights disease.
A new paper from the emergency medicine doctors highlights that the coronavirus can cause cardiovascular complications including heart attacks, heart failures and blood clots, which in turn can lead to strokes. The new paper from UVA Health’s Dr. William Brady and colleagues aims to serve as a guide for emergency medicine doctors treating patients who may have or are known to have COVID-19.
Data from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute show that roughly a third of the commonwealth’s health districts are showing “sustained growth” in COVID-19 cases – what computational epidemiologist Bryan Lewis said could be described as a surge. “We are not out of the woods yet,” said Madhav Marathe, director of the institute’s Network Systems Science and Advanced Computing Division.
Coming in at #1 in Virginia with a 27% acceptance rate, the University of Virginia was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson. According to the U.S. News & World Report, 2020, UVA is the fourth-best public university. The University of Virginia offers almost 80 undergraduate majors for incoming students. In response to the coronavirus pandemic, UVA is actually partnering with the Virginia Department of Health to collect COVID-19 data.
Dewey Cornell, director of the Youth Violence Project and a professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development, said it’s important for schools to look at their individual survey results to assess their SRO program and learn why students felt safer or didn’t.
Officials with the UVA Medical Center and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital say they have seen a spike in people seeking care for chronic health issues – care that was delayed during the first few months of the pandemic.