(Commentary) I also like to know how places vote. For the 2016 election, I refer to a pretty incredible interactive precinct-level map The Times published this year. I draw information from the Census Bureau on things like demographics, population change and housing stock. The University of Virginia’s Racial Dot Map, based on the 2010 census, is a fantastic resource for eyeballing patterns of racial segregation; also, it’s just beautiful to look at. And I spend a lot of time lurking on the housing market in other cities through sites like Trulia and Zillow.
On Tuesday, followers of America’s most-polled Senate race got a new toy to play with: A Quinnipiac survey gave Republican Sen. Ted Cruz a nine-point lead, the biggest margin anyone’s found for months. Then, on Wednesday morning, a new poll. This one, from Reuters and the University of Virginia, shows something entirely different: that O’Rourke is on top for the first time ever.
The University of Virginia will now offer up to eight weeks of paid parental leave to full-time employees following the birth, adoption or foster placement of a child, the university said last week.
(Video) UVA medical students got a firsthand look at what it means to be a doctor for refugees through a lecture at Pinn Hall.
Melody Barnes says citizens in the United States have important rights and responsibilities. The co-director for policy and public affairs at UVA’s Democracy Initiative says it requires we participate and be educated about our country.
William Ruddiman, emeritus paleoclimatologist at UVA and a co-author on the paper, first posited this theory 15 years ago while studying methane and carbon dioxide trapped in Antarctic ice going back tens of thousands of years. He discovered something unusual, and he has been working over the years to test it.
Emma Jinks hasn’t wasted time acclimatizing to the University of Virginia. Truthfully, she’s leapt straight into the thick of the women’s squash program. “It’s been so easy actually, honestly. Just jumping right into a team. Having a friend group right away to answer your questions helped a lot,” Jinks said in a recent interview from Charlottesville. The four-time Canadian junior champion (under-13, under-15, under-17, under-19) signed on with the Cavaliers continuing the upward arc of her a stellar career.
Gun control is "not a black and white issue," said Geoffrey Skelley, an independent analyst on Senate races at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, "and I guess for O'Rourke that's good news, because if it was he'd probably be in a lot of trouble in a state like Texas."
The fear for Democrats, in other words, is “you don’t get close enough to win in those high-educated districts and the Obama-to-Trump places don’t bounce back enough,” Kyle Kondik at the University of Virginia’s Crystal Ball told me in an email. “So you get squeezed at both ends, basically.”
Jalane Schmidt, a faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, believes advocacy must go beyond a “civil letter” to a congressman. She believes it can get, and needs to get, messy. “Sometimes disruption ... is called for,” Schmidt said. That is why, about a year ago, she and other race equality advocates did not listen to the leaders of her community and organized protests to alt-right meetings in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Since the recession hit a decade ago, the number of jobs in Virginia’s coal industry has been cut in half. From about six thousand in 2008 to about three thousand today. Terry Rephann at the University of Virginia says several factors are contributing to the decline. “One is competition from the shale gas industry. It’s much cheaper to employ that rather than thermal coal. You also, over the past ten years or so, have had increasing regulations — air quality and greenhouse gas regulations.”
In a 2014 study, researchers at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education estimated that one-third of kindergarteners in the state lacked critical skills for social interaction, self-regulation, literacy and math.
A new poll released Wednesday shows Andrew Gillum ahead of Ron DeSantis by seven percentage points in the race for governor, while the U.S. Senate race is still in a dead heat. The poll was conducted by Thompson Reuters, Ipsos and the University of Virginia Center for Politics, and it surveyed 2,000 adult Floridians online, with a 2.5 percent "credibility interval."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein holds a robust, 44 percent to 24 percent lead over state Sen. Kevin de León, according to a new poll of likely voters by Reuters/Ipsos and the University of Virginia Center for Politics, to be released this morning.
U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso, leads Republican incumbent Ted Cruz by 3 percentage points in the race for a U.S. Senate seat, according to a Ipsos online poll released Wednesday in conjunction with Reuters and the University of Virginia. O’Rourke has been closing the gap over the last several months, but this is the first poll that puts him ahead of Cruz.
In Virginia, following the historic 2017 elections, advocates and lawmakers considered a number of bills to make Virginia more family friendly, and Governor Ralph Northam issued an executive order granting paid parental leave to state executive branch employees. Just last week, the University of Virginia followed suit by announcing a new paid parental leave policy for university system employees; Virginia Tech did the same in August.
Firefighters in Charlottesville are going door-to-door to make sure people have working smoke alarms. Charlottesville’s Fire Department and the University of Virginia are working together to make sure everyone in the city has a working smoke alarm in their home. “It’s more of an educational thing,” said UVA fire marshal Gerald Drumheller. “We’re really trying to be a service to the community because the university is part of the community.
9. Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, Virginia: Boasting small class sizes in a bucolic southern setting, entrepreneurial preparation is woven into Darden’s curriculum. The school offers over 35 electives in entrepreneurship and innovation, and hosts four major entrepreneurial competitions which award more than $370,000 annually. The school also offers a Venture Capital bootcamp. Nearly half of student businesses in its incubator, i.Lab, remain active for over five years with over $13,000 awarded per student company.
Flagship public universities in Texas, Virginia and Kansas reported double-digit gains, driving U.S. endowments to reach record values. It's shaping up to be a second year of strong performance for many endowments, with a number of funds attributing the boost to alternative investments such as private equity and venture capital. The University of Virginia gained 11.4 percent as the state school's endowment reached a record $9.5 billion. The performance, which is gross of fees, was driven by private equity returns of more than 22 percent, according to a report from the school's investment offic...
The UVA Investment Management Co.’s pool of $9.5 billion in endowment assets and other long-term funds returned a gross 11.4 percent in the fiscal year ended June 30, according to an annual report posted on UVIMCO’s website. The return well exceeds the policy benchmark of 7.6 percent.