Two UVA researchers are testing the effectiveness of using focused ultrasound to battle breast cancer. Dr. Patrick Dillon and Dr. David Brenin just launched what they believe to be the first clinical trial to combine focused ultrasound with immunotherapy. Their goal is to fight breast cancer without surgery or chemotherapy.
Professors from the University of Virginia’s law and medical schools took the university’s highest honor, the Thomas Jefferson Award, during the Fall Convocation ceremony Friday.
The 30th annual Virginia Film Festival returns Thursday to Sunday in Charlottesville. “We’re programmed at the University of Virginia, but we’re also one of the largest film festivals in the mid-Atlantic,” festival director Jody said.
Brian Balogh, cohost of the “Backstory” podcast and professor of history at UVA’s Miller Center, said that the level of partisan divide and Washington gridlock is reminiscent of the late 19th century. In those years, he said, the federal government was deeply divided, leaving it unable to address economic changes like the emergence of a large industrial working class and big urban centers.
She was the only woman and person of color to graduate from her UVA Medical School class of 1967, and most notably, went on to become the director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health, a position she retired from in 2011. On Sept. 13, UVA renamed the medical education and research building (formerly known as Jordan Hall) Pinn Hall.
It is a testament to the remarkable explosion of women candidates who have entered the political stage since Donald Trump was elected president one year ago. "The slow trot to gender equity sprinted a solid half-mile last night," said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
How Trump responds to tragedies on Twitter matters because he champions the microblogging platform as his direct connection to the nation. And when a president speaks to America about a tragedy, we expect a unifier and spiritual father (no spiritual mother has broken that hardest glass ceiling, yet). "Like an artist who paints in oils or pastels or watercolors or sketches, his medium for his 'art' is Twitter," said Barbara Perry, presidential studies director at UVA’s Miller Center. "Much as for FDR it was the radio and for Kennedy it was television."
Barbara Perry is the director of presidential studies at the UVA’s Miller Center. She says Trump and his former political adviser Steve Bannon have created a new party line. “They have cowed the party regulars. They've cowed the party traditionalists. We have seen it already with the Jeff Flakes in the party who are having to step aside and actually step out of politics. And if that happens – if people who oppose him leave the party, that will be a success for him.”
Beyond the gubernatorial race, political pros are also watching the Virginia House of Delegates races. That's not because Democrats have a chance of capturing the heavily gerrymandered chamber (Republicans now hold 66 of its 100 seats) but for further indications of whether Trump is hurting the GOP in suburbia. UVA's Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball, says the test of a good night for Democrats is whether they net more than the four delegate seats they gained in 2007, their best recent showing.
“Anger’s such a great motivator,” said Kyle Kondik, referring to the Democratic reaction to last year’s Trump victory. Kondik, managing editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a University of Virginia election forecasting site. “In terms of the competitive suburbs where there are a lot of competitive House races, this is like a flashing red warning sign.”
At the gubernatorial level, Democrat Ralph Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie in a hotly contested race in Virginia, which many analysts viewed as a referendum on President Donald Trump. The victory was "a backlash to Trump and Trumpism, pure and simple," wrote Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said there had been one key factor that had shaped the good night for Democrats in the state: “Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump.” “This is a good sign for the Democrats in 2018, as long as Trump continues to be unpopular,” he said.
Larry Sabato, executive3 director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said the results were an open rebellion against the GOP and President Trump. “Dear Pundit Friends, please stop attributing this D landslide in VA to ‘changing demographics’. VA hasn’t changed that much since last Nov. 8 (Hillary [won] by 5%). The bigger explanation is a backlash to Trump and Trumpism, pure and simple,” Sabato tweeted.
“In the electoral outcome, the candidate that raises more money usually wins. Fundraising is important too. In 2013, Terry McAuliffe raised more than Ken Cuccinelli. Donors can also affect the policy positions of the candidates. They use television, radio, and even mailers to get themselves out there,” Geoffrey Skelley, the media relations coordinator for UVA’s Center for Politics, said.
(By Michael Nelson, senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center) It’s one thing not to understand the challenges of a new position because of lack of experience. It’s another not to learn.
The University of Virginia has seen a spike in the ethnic diversity of its student body. More than 9 percent of UVA’s current first-year students are African-Americans. Back in 2012, just over 7 percent of the University’s youngest students were black.
(Co-written by Christopher Ali, assistant professor of media studies) In telling the story of the changing fortunes of the newspaper industry, the focus has been on large metro and national newspapers. Less attention is given to the small-market newspapers, with a weekly or daily print circulation of under 50,000.
The weeks leading up to Tuesday’s election were in the aftermath of the deadly Aug. 11-12 demonstrations. According to members of the UVA community, these events impacted activism on campus and fueled student-led, bipartisan efforts that have resulted in thousands of new voter registrations.
(Commentary by Angeline Lillard, professor of psychology) About 150 years ago, the Western world, in the midst of a major industrial revolution, began an experiment. It started gathering all children during weekdays into rooms where teachers told them what they should know.
After guiding downtrodden Virginia to bowl eligibility in only his second year on the job, Bronco Mendenhall said during his Monday presser that it is only the first step in turning around the Cavaliers’ football fortunes.