The UVA Global Greeters are a group of students with a mission to help international newcomers adjust to the American lifestyle. With the number of international students continuing to grow each year, the program has become a necessity.
(By Jack Hamilton, UVA assistant professor of American studies and media studies) What “The Get Down” is not is “a mythic saga that chronicles the rise of hip-hop and the last days of disco,” as its press materials claim, unless “mythic” is meant in the way that, say, unicorns or Jedis are mythic: a cool idea uncorroborated by reality.
In 2014, UVA’s Amalia Miller and Carmit Segal of the University of Zurich found that more women police officers reduce violence against women – especially rape, sexual assault and homicide. It helps men, too: Fewer husbands are killed by their wives.
When Bronco Mendenhall accepted the Virginia job in December, it came as a surprise to many. Maybe Thomas Jefferson did the recruiting? UVA’s founder had some philosophies that seem to have resonance with Mendenhall.
(Commentary) Thomas Jefferson, writing about the University of Virginia he created, understood the aims of a university well. “This institution,” noted Jefferson, “will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” Can we follow the truth wherever it may lead when there is a pervasive fear that someone might be carrying a weapon?
Jack W. Gravely, a Virginia civil rights icon and radio talk show host died Monday at a Richmond hospital. He received his undergraduate degree from Fayetteville State University in North Carolina and his Juris Doctor in Law from the UVA School of Law.
Meanwhile, UVA’s Crystal Ball Director Larry Sabato and team predict Clinton will win 347 Electoral College votes.
“Just about everybody has recognized that the Republican Party is deeply divided, and really, it’s in a mess,” said Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics.
David Martin, a former Homeland Security official now at the UVA School of Law, said that while Trump’s proposal is probably legal, it is “inconsistent with our constitutional values.”
UVA Rector William H. Goodwin appointed an ad hoc committee Monday to take “a fresh and objective” look at the school’s disputed $2.2 billion Strategic Investment Fund. Goodwin asked for a report back by the Board of Visitors’ September meeting but made clear he believes a second look will vindicate the fund as a model others soon will follow.
Quite a bit of John F. Kennedy’s public persona was privately molded by his wife, according to a new documentary, “JFK: Fact and Fable,” that combines archival footage and stills of JFK and his young family with commentary by historian and author Thurston Clarke and Kennedy biographer Larry Sabato, who directs UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Video) UVA English professor Paul Cantor joins host Bill Kristol to talk about his recommended reading list, which includes several writers through the ages, both well- and lesser-known, who might appeal to lovers of liberty and classical liberalism.
Plans are continuing to come together for the Ivy corridor near the intersection of Ivy Road and Emmet Street.
The recession may be over and Virginia may be adding jobs again, but the state’s birth rate continues to fall. “Millennials in general have been a lot less sexually active than their parents or possibly even their grandparents, and that’s something that people really hadn’t been expecting or really looking at," said Hamilton Lombard of UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Interrogation is less about getting the truth and more about getting the confession, according to UVA law professor Brandon L. Garrett. “What modern interrogation techniques do is convince the person the most rational and sensible thing to do is to confess,” he told Esquire.
Despite Donald Trump's slide in the polls, a series of surveys released this week showed that some Republican Senate candidates are currently faring much better than the GOP nominee in their own states, raising the possibility that voters might be viewing the broader Republican Party separately from the real estate mogul. "If Trump wins in states like Florida, New Hampshire, Ohio or Pennsylvania, there's every reason to think those Republican incumbents will also win," said Kyle Kondik, an elections expert at UVA’s Center for Politics.
The emphasis on quality hearkens back to points raised by Bob Pianta, the dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education, at a June preschool symposium. Pianta explained that strong teacher-child interactions and an appropriate, engaging curriculum are key factors in ensuring that a preschool program actually prepares children for kindergarten.
Libertarians in Virginia hold high hopes and a to-do list to achieve them. With Republican Donald Trump showing higher than 61 percent unfavorability ratings, according to a Real Clear Politics poll average, some Republican officials are turning to the Libertarian Party, at least for now. “There’s always been sort of a low-running stream. Now it’s starting to move, not toward flood, but the stream is rising,” said James Lark, a UVA applied mathematics professor and national party rep.
As a result of those two polls and others, the political scientists and pollsters behind UVA’s Sabato's Crystal Ball on Thursday changed its prediction for how Pennsylvania voters will select a president Nov. 8 from "leans Democrat" to "likely Democrat." "While there is some suggestion that Pennsylvania might be slowly trending Republican, and while it has a lot of the white, working-class voters that Donald Trump is targeting, recent polling has suggested that Hillary Clinton is obviously the favorite there right now," wrote Kyle Kondik, managing editor...
An election model that has correctly predicted every presidential race since 1988 is giving Donald Trump a narrow victory in the 2016 election. Alan Abramowitz, the creator of the model, which was done for the highly respected UVA Center for Politics "Crystal Ball," also says that elements of his model may be out of line because of Trump's extraordinary unpopularity.