Trump has long rejected the traditional presidential role of a unifying figure for America’s broad and diverse population, and his decision to spread such inflammatory rhetoric was bound to escalate beyond his control, said Russell Riley, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center.
The president’s narrow victory in 2016 and his relatively low approval rating, currently around 43%, leaves him vulnerable for re-election, and makes his strategy a risky one, according to UVA analyst Kyle Kondik. “The approval rating is the troubling thing for the president because if his approval rating is under 45%, then he is going to need a significant share of people who don’t approve of him to vote for him. And that is when it becomes really difficult.”
Researchers at the University of Virginia Medical Center are working to find a treatment for a tick bite that causes an allergic reaction to red meat. UVA is the first to create a model that is a replica of the human immune system to find out why this happens and how to fix it.
Mortimer Caplin, who as Internal Revenue commissioner in the early 1960s was credited with making taxpaying more tolerable for the majority of Americans who do so voluntarily and tougher for the rest to avoid or evade, died on Monday at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 103. After completing John Adams High School in Queens, Mr. Caplin graduated with a bachelor of science degree in economics and political science in 1933 from the University of Virginia, where he was first in his class, and went on to earn a law degree there.
The Charlottesville-UVA-Albemarle County Emergency Communications Center on Thursday announced its next executive director. Larry “Sonny” Saxton Jr., a 25-year public safety veteran, was chosen from 11 candidates for the position.
The Charlottesville-UVA-Albemarle County Emergency Communications Center will have a new executive director next month. On Thursday, the ECC Management Board voted to appoint Larry Saxton, Jr. to the post. The ECC is the emergency communications services provider for Albemarle County, Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, handling 911 calls and as the main dispatch unit for the three police departments, EMS teams, fire crews and coordinating emergency management when necessary.
Scalia has a fairly long and impressive resume that should serve him well in the upcoming confirmation hearings. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia, majoring in science and minoring in political science.
Amazon is certainly not alone in appreciating Northern Virginia’s prime location. When UVA’s Darden School of Business expanded its MBA studies in 2016, it chose to offer its executive MBA program at a facility in the Rosslyn area of Arlington, overlooking the Potomac.
For six years, UVA has made a sustained effort to learn more about the enslaved people who lived and worked at the University during its building and founding. But until this month, it had not made a large-scale attempt to identify living relatives of those people.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Trump’s message is clearly aimed at those white voters who delivered him the White House in 2016. Trump’s strategy, Sabato said, is to “tag the Democratic Party with the image of four women of color.”
Just a few years after Chevron was handed down, Stevens and longtime colleague Justice Antonin Scalia disagreed about the doctrine, Pojanowski said. The dispute wasn’t over whether the ruling was correct. They agreed it was. Instead it related to how broadly it should be applied. Stevens sought a more limited application; Scalia advocated for a more robust one, Merrill said. So for much of its history, a broad application of Chevron was generally supported by conservatives, Merrill said. That began to change after the election of President Bill Clinton, said administrative ...
“This CNN ‘draft’ feels like something akin to the NBA draft lottery or the release of the NCAA tournament bracket,” says Kyle Kondik, who serves as managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. Which makes a kind of sense, he says: “Both politics and sports have long seasons, voluminous statistics, and, most importantly, quantifiable winners and losers.”
The University of Virginia community is mourning the loss of a long-time law professor and prominent benefactor. Mortimer Caplin passed away last week at the age of 103 at his home in Maryland.
The City of Charlottesville has completed another step in its commitment to addressing climate change by formally submitting its newly adopted greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal as part of 2019 reporting cycle on its Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy commitment. The city, Albemarle County, and UVA are each making new commitments on climate action concurrently through 2019.
Big UVA fan? Now you can broadcast it on your license plate. A limited-edition Virginia license plate is being offered to celebrate the University of Virginia men's basketball team's 2019 national championship win.
Five Virginia universities, including UVA, have teamed with Virginia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Development Services to support prevention and treatment programs and collect and analyze data related to the crisis.
Elizabeth Tikoyan said when she was diagnosed with Lyme disease, she learned how lonely having a medical condition can be. Which is why she founded the Riley App and formed a team through UVA’s i.Lab to make it come to life.
Steve Swanson will begin his 20th season in charge of the UVA women’s soccer program next month. He spent this summer as an assistant coach for the U.S. women’s team during its run to a second straight Women’s World Cup title.
Mortimer Caplin, an eminence of tax law who propelled an often-low-profile bureaucratic position into the national spotlight while serving as President John F. Kennedy’s hard-driving and charismatic commissioner of internal revenue, died July 15 at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He was 103. He spent 33 years on the faculty of the UVA School of Law and jokingly credited his Internal Revenue Service appointment in 1961 to his “good judgment – the good judgment to have both Bobby and Teddy Kennedy as students at the University of Virginia and to pass them both.”
Back in 2017 when Donald Trump reneged on our national commitment to fight climate change by pulling out of the Paris Agreement, a bunch of U.S. states formed a coalition to push back. But the states that decided not to join are the ones that need it the most. A new analysis of existing data sets, released Tuesday by data scientists at the University of Virginia and their software partner, Brightest, found that the states absent from the alliance – such as Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina – will be the ones most negatively impacted by climate change.