“From what I’ve been told, Trump just insists on these rallies and he wants more and not fewer compared to 2016 because he’s got all of the trappings of office and he can fly Air Force One low so people can be awed and all the rest of it,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.“Obviously, he didn’t calculate properly for the pandemic and other factors. He thinks they can correct it and go on. He wants one every couple of weeks or more frequently. He didn’t learn a thing. His campaign staff would gladly give them up, along with the tweets, if ...
Take ownership and responsibility for trying to positively change the culture of your workplace, said Laura Morgan Roberts, a professor of practice at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business who has researched and consulted on diversity.
There are three top contenders in the Democratic primary for the seat, which spans from the Washington exurbs to the North Carolina border. The front-runner is likely Cameron Webb, a physician at the University of Virginia and a former Obama White House fellow who has the backing of the science advocacy group 314 Action.
J. Miles Coleman, a political expert from the University of Virginia Center for Politics, says while RD Huffstetler has the most fundraising money, it may come down to who can rally votes from voters outside the Charlottesville area.
Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics said it’s possible for the winner to receive less than half of the votes, as long as they win by plurality.
“The basis for the litigation has disappeared because of the modification for the statue,” said Rich Schragger, a law professor at University of Virginia.
Some legal scholars say the state’s case is uncertain. The lawsuit that led to the injunction cites the 1890 deed conveying the site to the state, which stipulates that the statue must be “affectionately” preserved.Other court cases have reached a variety of conclusions on such language, said Alex Johnson, a professor at the University of Virginia who specializes in real estate and race issues. “There is no prevailing legal norm that would say, ‘Oh yeah, this is a slam dunk,’” Johnson said. He added, though, that the issue could wind up moot if the state invokes eminent domain and simply seize...
“Cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), which helps patients understand the behavioral and thought patterns that lead to long-term troubles with falling or staying asleep, has been shown to be very effective in adult cancer survivors. However, it has not been widely tested in the AYA survivor group. We wanted to explore whether a CBT-I program, specifically tailored to AYA survivors and available online, could be helpful in this population,” said Eric Zhou, PhD, who conducted the study with Dana-Farber colleague Christopher Recklitis, PhD, MPH. The insomnia intervention tested in t...
An innovative use of focused ultrasound being pioneered at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is showing promise against glioblastoma, the deadliest brain tumor, and could prove useful against other difficult-to-treat cancers.
Pairing a new drug with focused ultrasound could introduce a much-needed treatment for glioblastoma, the deadliest type of brain tumor for which there are currently few therapeutic options. Investigators from the University of Virginia School of Medicine are in the early phases of testing this combination both with mouse and human cells, but the results, so far, show their method can kill the number of living cancer cells in a tumor by nearly 50 percent. Their results, published in two recent studies in the Journal of Neuro-Oncology, indicate this oncologic strategy could be effectiv...
In addition to the ACC Board of Directors, the newly constituted Executive Committee will include Chancellor Syverud and President Price, who will be joined by President James Clements (Clemson University), Chancellor Randy Woodson (North Carolina State University), President Neeli Bendapudi (University of Louisville) and President James Ryan (University of Virginia).
When the COVID pandemic hit, UVA’s bookstore asked the maintenance department for plexiglass to protect cashiers from coughing and sneezing customers. … Demand across campus was growing when supervisor Shawn Ragland had an idea.“I was sitting here at lunch one day and it just hit me. “Man, we’ve got all the plexiglass down at Alderman that we need.’” Alderman library is being renovated, and about 200 sheets of plexiglass were coming down.
A federal magistrate judge agreed Monday to let an attorney withdraw from representing white nationalist leader Richard Spencer in a lawsuit over violence that erupted at a rally in Virginia nearly three years ago.
On this episode of The Journal, Dr. Laura Morgan Roberts, professor of practice at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, said black people are often put in the position of explaining such race-related issues to white colleagues and comforting them, while also dealing with their own emotions. And they’re tired of it.
But some of those issues that dominated in 2016 may feel a little out of place as the country wrestles with the twin crises of economic fallout over the coronavirus pandemic and nationwide protests over police brutality and racial inequity, according to Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
The University of Virginia currently plans to participate in interscholastic athletics this coming season, school President Jim Ryan said in a news release circulated last week. “Decisions about fan attendance have not yet been reached but will be announced when complete.”
Former UVA women’s soccer star Meghan McCool signed a one-year deal with the Washington Spirit with an option for an additional year. During McCool’s final year, she scored 15 goals and three assists in 22 games and helped lead the Cavaliers to the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Jennifer McClellan, 47, won a Senate seat in 2017, previously serving 11 years as a delegate for the 71st district for the commonwealth. A graduate of the University of Virginia, she also serves as the vice-chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia.
Three years ago, while testing an artificial intelligence model for automatically labelling images from the web, Jieyu Zhao spotted a trend: it repeatedly associated images of people in kitchens with women, even when they showed men. Suspecting social biases might play a part, Zhao, then a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia, teamed up with several peers to investigate. Their findings, published in a 2017 paper, were shocking. Even though images used to train the model showed 33% more women than men in kitchens, the AI more than doubled this disparity to 68%.
Crowded field of challengers hopes to take on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar
Candidates – Democrats and Republicans – who have lined up to challenge three of the most high-profile freshman House Democrats: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. “The fame and notoriety of these members can be a double-edged sword – it helps their fundraising, but also draws attention and competition,” said Kyle Kondik, an election analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.