(By Kyle Kondik, political analyst, and Geoffery Skelley, associate editor at UVA’s Center for Politics) What is uncertain is the political fallout – or lack thereof.
The funding was made possible through Piedmont Virginia Community College’s partnership in the Virginia-North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. Led by the University of Virginia, the alliance strives for diversification of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce.
Jon Oliver, second-in-command in Virginia’s athletic department for the past 16 years, resigned Thursday and will form his own consulting business to help the development of future leaders in sports. Having handled the day-to-day operations for longtime UVA director of athletics Craig Littlepage, Oliver has been involved in every phase of the department’s mission, and was chiefly responsible for bringing Tony Bennett, Bronco Mendenhall, Brian O’Connor and Mike London into the fold.
A University of Virginia's College at Wise economic development project will get a share of nearly $234,000 in state Building Entrepreneurial Economies implementation grants announced Monday by Gov. Terry McAuliffe. UVA-Wise has proposed “The Nest” Entrepreneur Hub to nurture and assist startup business enterprises and will receive $40,000 toward the effort. The college’s proposal is also supported by Wise County and the city of Norton.
“No one who knows Ed Gillespie thinks for a moment he believes this nonsense,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, referring specifically to Morgan’s remarks about communists. “But this is about winning, and apparently he’s willing to do whatever it takes to win a difficult race.”
Foundation Radiology Group has signed an agreement with the UVA Health System on medical imaging services. A news release said the pact includes radiology and medical imaging services, along with the use of the IT platform developed by Foundation Radiology.
The team therefore hopes for rapid translation of their D-methionine findings for diagnosis in human patients. “I don’t anticipate any difference between the mice and humans, since the tracer only targets bacteria,” said Dr. Javier Villanueva-Meyer, assistant professor of clinical radiology at the University of Virginia, who did the PET experiments as a postdoc in Wilson’s lab.
UVA professors hosted a conversation that put the events of Aug. 11, the torchlit rally at UVA, and Aug. 12, into historical context. It focused on the ongoing struggle for social justice and racial equality.
The Miller Center at the University of Virginia has been documenting the first year of each of the last six administrations, offering some lessons and guidance on what should be avoided. The radio piece quotes Miller Center director William Antholis, and UVA historians Melvyn Leffler, William Hitchcock and Philip Zelikow, who was a top State Department official in the George W. Bush administration.
(Commentary by Richard Schragger, Perre Bowen Professor of Law) The question before the court, however, is a fairly straightforward one: Does a Virginia statute bar Charlottesville from taking down or moving a statue of a Confederate general erected in 1924? There are certainly some ambiguities in the law, but this central question can easily be answered in the negative.
(Commentary by psychology professor Angeline S. Lillard) Pretend play is a charming activity. Children pretend that their living room is a restaurant where they prepare and serve food, or they imagine the tree outside is a castle. American parents serve this activity by purchasing toys to support it ($20 billion worth last year), and most think pretending is very important to children's development. But the evidence on the latter point is actually quite weak.
“Anecdotally, it seems to be growing. But how much it’s growing and what percentage of people who are basically full-time, gig-economy people, I think, is less clear,” says Chris Lu, a deputy secretary of labor under then-President Obama who now is a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center.
In 2014, election officials across Virginia began implementing a new voter ID law aimed at combating voter fraud, even though studies show that voter fraud is incredibly rare. Statewide, it’s unclear if the law has impacted voter registration, but that’s due to a lack of research on the topic, said Geoffrey Skelley, media relations coordinator at UVA’s Center for Politics.
“As a demographic category, race is the strongest predictor of vote choice,” says Geoff Skelley at the UVA Center for Politics. “Nonwhite voters tend to be strongly Democratic, while white voters are more likely than not to be Republican.”
“None of these polls are perfect, to say the least. But they all have one common thread: Moore is leading in all of them. That should be disturbing for Strange and his supporters,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a UVA political analyst.
Kyle Kondik is an Ohio native who’s now the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the newsletter of the UVA Center for Politics. “The governor, I think, is trying to keep his name out there and stay relevant as his time as Ohio governor ends,” Kondik said.
The 30th annual Virginia Film Festival, presented by the University of Virginia, once more will bring big-name filmmakers and an assortment of film world celebrities to the UVA campus, Nov. 9-12, and will offer more than 120 Hollywood releases, small independent films and cutting-edge documentaries, as well as special film events and lectures designed to educate and enlighten the festival’s loyal audiences.
As the city of Charlottesville and the nation as a whole continues to grapple with the violent racial strife that erupted earlier this month, the Virginia Film Festival announced on Tuesday that it will host filmmaker Spike Lee as a special guest at the upcoming festival as part of a program around the legacy of slavery.
Spike Lee will bring two of his films to this year’s Virginia Film Festival as part of a broader project with the festival and James Madison’s Montpelier to explore the ways in which slavery continues to affect the way black Americans are seen and treated.
Years of research and consideration led Davis to take the plunge and get a cochlear implant, which was installed in late July and turned on in time for his 80th birthday Tuesday. The two-day process was completed at the UVA Health System on Monday.