The Trailblazer Award, which recognizes creative solutions to procuring local food, went to Greens to Grounds, a UVA student organization that sells produce and snacks sourced from Local Food Hub farmers and community gardens on Grounds.
The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners has released the bar exam passing rates of each law school in the state. The best first-time takers’ pass rates were at UVA (91.76 percent), Liberty University (89.66 percent) and the College of William & Mary (87.76 percent).
The Julian Bond Professorship of Civil Rights and Social Justice will be awarded to a scholar “whose thought and writing and shaping power of the imagination can mirror, exemplify and extend Julian Bond’s lifelong mission,” Arts & Sciences Dean Ian Baucom said.
A tech-savvy workforce is also key to the economic development McAuliffe says could come from cyber. That’s why colleges in Southwest Virginia, which has been hit hard by the decline in coal, are interested in cybersecurity’s potential to help their local economy. Programs at University of Virginia College at Wise and New School Institute can help fill the 33,000 cybersecurity job openings in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia region, he said.
Up until Oct. 13, University of Virginia professor Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball had predicted the 5th District race was projected to have a “likely Republican” outcome, but it has been updated to “leans Republican.”
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the Arizona Senate race has been “rated ‘Likely Republican’ for a bit” by Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the center’s campaign analysis arm. “It looked like Kirkpatrick gained some headway in the summer. Some polls had it as a close race, but his poll numbers improved after the primary,” Skelley said.
The role of the surrogate has nonetheless grown in importance recently, according to Larry Sabato, the director at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. That's because the demands on the campaign staffers and the candidates are only increasing. "The advent of social media has added more pressure," he said, noting the incredible number of people now paid to hype the candidates. "2016 has topped all previous elections. I never knew there were so many strategists in politics. CNN has tables of them."
Another polling expert, Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, has the Republicans retaining the House by a comfortable margin. The Crystal Ball forecast currently has the Democrats picking up between 10 and 15 House seats, which would be well short of the 30 they would need to take control. “We’re in a very hazy period in the battle for control of the lower chamber – a battle that, it should be noted, the Republicans were winning handily as of a week ago. And Republicans may still be winning handily,” Crystal Ball Managing ...
Election analyst Larry Sabato said on social media there "seems to be agreement that headline is 'Trump won't commit to accepting election results'."
With the third presidential debate in the books and scarcely three weeks to go before the polls open in most states, Donald Trump's path to the White House appears more precarious than ever. The morning after the showdown at UNLV, a new forecast by University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato finds Democrat Hillary Clinton well above the 270 electoral votes she needs to win the presidency.
The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics currently has Mrs. Clinton winning 341 electoral votes compared to 197 for Mr. Trump.
“Nothing in this debate will change the campaign’s trajectory, and that is great news for Hillary Clinton,” said Larry Sabato, an expert on presidential politics at the University of Virginia. “Trump made a giant mistake in saying he won’t necessarily accept the results of the election. There’s the headline.”
Heavy traffic is anticipated Saturday as the UVA hosts a football game against the University of North Carolina and Carrie Underwood performs at the John Paul Jones Arena.
The story quotes UVA professors and prominent Revolutionary War historians Alan Taylor and Andrew O'Shaughnessy.
Larry Sabato, Director, UVA Center for Politics: "The debate didn't change the campaign's trajectory, and that's great news for Hillary Clinton. ... Trump left himself wide open for severe criticism when he refused to commit to accepting the election results."
University of Virginia Athletic Director Craig Littlepage is easing out of his role until the new year. It was announced on Tuesday, October 18, that Littlepage is taking some time to care for an aging family member.
Clinton, meanwhile, "has a heck of a lead to blow," said Geoff Skelley, an analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics.
Like many creatives, Damien Shen spent most of his adult life focused on building a career instead of a formal art practice. But in 2013, the South Australia native and current Kluge-Ruhe artist-in-residence realized he had a calling.
The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business is the third-best “overall MBA program” in the world, according to The Economist.
Thousands of pint-sized heroes, hoodlums and other creations will descend on UVA on Oct. 31 from 4 to 6 p.m. for its annual “Trick-or-Treating on the Lawn” celebration.