With roughly one-fourth of all voters viewing both parties unfavorably, a House GOP pollster sees independents tilting the outcome. "There's a gender dividend, but it's among independents," says Jennifer Lawless, a UVA political scientist who has written extensively about women candidates.
Kathleen Flake, a UVA professor of Mormon studies, said she does not think Nelson meant to rebuke the #MeToo movement or subdue women’s political activism.
The University of Virginia could debut the country’s first full graduate program for cyber physical systems as early as August 2019. New master’s and doctoral programs in cyber physical systems, which studies the intersection of computer science and technology and engineering, will be developed by UVa’s School of Engineering.
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine took a hard look at the state of our democracy Monday during a visit to UVA’s Center for Politics. The Democratic senator and the center’s director, Larry Sabato, talked before a crowd about immigration, political polarization and the gradual decline of voter participation.
Negative, critical people often ascend to positions of leadership because their disregard for social niceties makes them seem powerful, research suggests. UVA’s Eileen Chou explored people’s attitudes toward “naysayers” – those who express negative, critical views, and “cheerleaders” – those who express positive, supportive views.
A study from Margaret Neale (Stanford University) and Peter Belmi (UVA’s Darden School of Business) may clarify the issue. Their experiments were broken down into competitive and cooperative negotiations that involved food sharing as well as just food consumption. The researchers also served savory (chips and salsa) or sweet food (apples and caramel sauce) to see if the type of meal had any effect on negotiation outcomes.
The misconception that SEC actions can’t impact private organizations is a common one, according to University of Virginia professor Andrew Vollmer, who teaches securities law.
"The tropical forest countries should be the highest priority, not only because they hold so much carbon and take up so much carbon every year, but because tropical forests also act as a global air conditioner," said Dr. Deborah Lawrence, professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.
Since a Sept. 30-Oct. 2 Detroit News-WDIV poll found James trailing Stabenow 53 percent to 35 percent with about 10 percent of voters undecided, experts wonder why Trump and Pence would devote their energies to the former Apache helicopter pilot when other Republican Senate races are more competitive. "I really don't understand it. In terms of the 2018 Senate races, there are lots of other races where (Trump) potentially would be more useful," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, where he fol...
Trump’s election and performance in office have clearly pushed independent and Democratic women into action, resulting in record numbers of women running for office, and surges of women involved in local political organizing for the first time. But what about Republican women? Is it possible that Trump—and the Republican politicians who enable him—are not just alienating left-leaning women, but are permanently damaging the GOP’s female ranks, driving some splintering portion of women away for good? And beyond the midterms, too. “Once you give up that party label, you’re less inclined to easily...
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics) As we enter the final month of Campaign 2018, the political world remains fixated on embattled U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who awaits the findings of an FBI investigation into whether he tried to sexually assault Dr. Christine Blasey Ford while both were in high school. The allegations, somewhat predictably given the tribal nature of our politics, divided the country along partisan lines.
Amidst the low growls and raspy roars of American muscle cars and the rat-tat-tat of antique engines, there was one distinctly British accent among the 68 locally owned exotic cars at the inaugural Festival of the Wheel on Sunday. Painted hood to bumper in the Union Jack flag, the 2002 XK8 Jaguar convertible — with an Austin Powers cardboard cutout behind the wheel — all but shouted “Yeah, baby!” to attendees milling about beneath the Sprint Pavilion tent at the fundraiser for the University of Virginia Cancer Center.
UVA researchers recently have investigated how the bacteria in your nose can correspond with the severity of your cold symptoms. And what they found is that people whose noses contain more Staphylococcus bacteria are more likely to have more acute cold symptoms than those whose noses contain less.
Robert M. O’Neil, a scholar of First Amendment law who served in the 1980s as president of the University of Wisconsin System and then as president of the University of Virginia, where he was credited with recruiting more minorities to the faculty and student ranks, died Sunday at his home in Washington. He was 83.
The first-ever Virginia Festival of the Wheel car show took place at the Sprint Pavilion in downtown Charlottesville on Sunday to benefit the UVA Cancer Center. The event was planned to celebrate cars, but also cancer survivors.
About 100 years after its last full renovation, it’s time to refit and refinish Morven House. Fred Missel, director of design and development for the UVA Foundation, said the project will help maintain the 200-year-old Albemarle County estate and make it easier to host conferences and international groups.
UVA Law alumna Megan Lacy was part of the White House team that worked on Kavanaugh’s nomination, and is a former counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
A fierce advocate of education, Jefferson used his later years to propagate an institution of higher learning. Jefferson began planning the resources for a Virginia state university during his presidential term, writing to the Virginia House of Delegates that a college should not be solely a house but a “village.” In the proceeding years, Jefferson arranged funding, contributed design ideas, and helped shepherd the University of Virginia toward its formal opening in March 1825.
It’s still uncertain, though, whether a yes or no vote on Kavanaugh will be influential among voters in red-state Democrats’ reelections. Eitan Hersh, a political science professor at Tufts University, told me that taking a hard line against Kavanaugh could make it more difficult for those Democrats, because their strategy isn’t purely focused on turning out the base. But Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia who founded the political-forecasting website Crystal Ball, argued that red-state Democrats “aren’t getting but a handful of Republican voters in any event.”
Scientists from around the world called for stepped-up efforts to use forests to keep global warming to the lowest limit agreed by governments in 2015, as a key report on how to meet that goal is finalized in South Korea this week. "Forests really are the unsung hero of our struggle to address climate change," said Deborah Lawrence, a University of Virginia professor and one of 40 scientists who backed a statement emphasizing how the Earth's climate depends on forests.