For Narayana Murthy, capitalism must be compassionate. "I want a stone on my grave that says: 'This was a fair person'," Murthy said at the Darden School of Business (University of Virginia) about 10 days ago. He was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Foundation medal by the school. Murthy shared his thoughts on corporate governance, once again highlighting the values of fairness, transparency and accountability.
UVA’s ROTC detachment hosts the race each year to remember Hess — the unit’s only graduate killed in the war in Afghanistan — and raises money for a scholarship bearing his name.
Animals left outside will have shelter thanks to a program that's building boys into men in Charlottesville. The leadership project pairs middle school boys with student mentors from the University of Virginia.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the Miller Center, said one of the few presidents who's spoken directly about the 100-day milestone is John F. Kennedy, who raised it in his inaugural address -- though he did so to downplay it.
Alexis Ohanian, 33, is a tech entrepreneur and best-selling author from the U.S. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City, in 1983 to an Armenian-American father – whose family fled the genocide – and a German mother. Alexis went to school in Ellicott City, Maryland, before graduating from the University of Virginia in 2005 with degrees in commerce and history. It was this very year when Alexis did what he is most famous for – co-founding social news website Reddit.
Republicans currently have a 52-48 majority in the Senate. Democrats face an enormous challenge in retaining the seats they now have, much less picking up the three GOP seats they would need to seize the majority. Democrats “face an over-extended map,” said Kyle Kondik, who analyzes federal races at UVA’s Center for Politics. “But midterm forces often break against the president’s party.”
There are plenty of skeptics. "You will have to count me among the 'doubting Thomases,'" said Rhodes Cook, a nonpartisan analyst for UVA’s "Crystal Ball." The effects of gerrymandering and a relatively small playing field next year, combined with a recent record of GOP House dominance, will make it really difficult for Democrats to steal seats away, he said.
First-quarter fundraising numbers show the Democratic primary for governor is the hottest statewide race on the ballot. And that’s even though Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam was legally prohibited from raising money during the General Assembly session. That gave former Congressman Tom Periello a chance to catch up. Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says that race is becoming a top-dollar attraction.
UVA’s Center for Politics is labeling the Virginia gubernatorial race a toss-up. Larry Sabato says the race will be the most watched election in the United States for 2017.
Few times have colleges successfully limited a speaker appearance. In 2008, then-University of Nebraska Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman, citing threats of violence, successfully rescinded an invitation to Bill Ayers, a former leader of the Weather Underground. Robert M. O'Neil, a law professor at the University of Virginia, and its former president, said he knew Perlman, who had cataloged enough threatening messages that proved “an ominous situation” could arise, according to O’Neil.
The cost of that failure to forge a steady working relationship is that, though he declared Tuesday that “no administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days,” Trump will almost certainly complete 100 days in office on April 29 with no notable pieces of legislation to his name. “There is not a lot to show for all of this kinetic political activity other than the fact of the activity itself,” said Russell Riley, an expert on the U.S. presidency at UVA’s non-partisan Miller Center.
"People with diabetes need to recognize that they're part of a huge mass of people who have potentially impaired driving, like people with heart disease or narcolepsy. They shouldn't think of themselves as isolated. It's just an issue to deal with," said the author of a new study on diabetes and driving, Daniel Cox, a UVA professor of psychiatry, internal medicine and ophthalmology.
UVA’s McCormick Observatory was built in the 1880s, and not much has changed inside the old brick structure with wooden floors and cabinets. Its large dome, for example, is still opened with the help of a rope.
High-status teenagers, research suggests, tend to behave in ways adults find inappropriate, but other teenagers find exhilarating. “They are on the fast track socially,” UVA psychologist Joseph Allen said. “That means they’re the kids getting involved in romantic relationships earlier than their peers, they are getting involved in minor forms of delinquency.”
The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon board game, which appeared in 1997, featured 20-sided dice. But the true great leap forward came a year earlier, when Brett Tjaden, a UVA computer science graduate student who sometimes played the parlor game, created The Oracle of Bacon, a website that generated authoritative “Bacon numbers” based on data from the Internet Movie Database. “I did it mainly for myself and my friends,” Tjaden, now a professor at James Madison University, said in a phone interview. “They sent the link to their friends, who sent it to a couple of their friends, and before too long it...
“Just because we haven’t seen a Republican Senate incumbent go down in a primary in the last couple cycles doesn’t mean Republican primary voters will all of a sudden love the party’s leadership,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Justices also referenced a recent change to Missouri's public grant policy. The governor announced Friday that churches will now be eligible for programs like the scrap tire grant, so the Supreme Court will have to consider whether a ruling in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer is still necessary. It's pretty safe to say this case won't solve ongoing disagreements over Blaine Amendments and religious discrimination, said Douglas Laycock, a law and religious freedom expert at UVA.
As her final concerts with the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia draw near, Kate Tamarkin isn’t counting the minutes. She’s counting the moments.
With his election in 2014, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, broke a nearly 60-year tradition of the two parties trading control of the governor's office every eight years. With approvals only in the high 30s, Republicans are looking to take out Wolf, who's up for re-election next year. But according to UVA political analysts Geoffrey Skelley and Kyle Kondik, it's still too early make a call on whether Wolf will re-establish the so-called "Eight-Year Rule" as he launches his campaign.
(Commentary by Geoffrey Skelley and Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics) Those looking for electoral drama in the 2018 cycle should pay attention to the 38 gubernatorial races being held this year and next.