Forty years ago this Thursday, Dick Obenshain, then the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, climbed into a twin-engine Piper Seneca in Winchester for a night flight to Chesterfield County. On final approach to the fog-enshrouded suburban Richmond airport, the light airplane crashed in trees a short distance from the runway, killing the 42-year-old Obenshain and the two pilots. In an instant, Virginia politics was remade. Larry Sabato, the UVA analyst who has followed state politics for a half-century and once worked for Henry Howell, the Democratic firebrand vilified by Obenshain and other Rep...
The city of Bellevue is cherishing small wins. On Tuesday, the city celebrated the first bike lanes spanning the length of the downtown corridor with free rides on electric-assisted bicycles, helmet giveaways and a ribbon cutting. For one year, transportation planners will measure impacts from the bike lanes, including vehicle-travel delays, traffic volume, on-street parking and the number of bicycle trips. “In the public sector, it’s very nascent,” Alex Cowan, a faculty member at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business who teaches product design, said about this type of prototy...
A new study shows that a UVA Medical Center program is helping heart failure patients live longer, healthier lives.
The Jefferson Area Board for Aging received an aging innovations award for its dementia care coordination program at a conference over the weekend of July 28. Although the grant-supported program is coming to an end, UVA’s memory and aging care clinic will offer a similar program starting Sept. 4.
(Video) Tuesday marks Teresa Sullivan’s last day at the president of the University of Virginia and students and staff are reflecting on her up-and-down eight-year tenure.
Julian Assange would likely fight extradition based on an argument that the U.S.-U.K. extradition treaty bars turning someone over to another country for political offenses, according to Ashley Deeks, a professor at the UVA School of Law.
(Video) Gloria Graham, UVA’s new vice president of safety and security, discusses what the University is doing to prepare for the upcoming first anniversary of Aug. 11 and 12 and what students should do to stay safe.
It’s a typical week at UVA: Students are working on chemistry experiments, robot engineering and complicated math formulas. The only difference? This week, those students are rising ninth- and 10th-graders.
International students in the United States are more susceptible to plagiarism — using someone else’s academic work as one’s own — and are more likely to be caught than their American counterparts, studies show. “In the case of plagiarism, one factor is that it concerns written material. International students are often not native English speakers,” said David Mills, a University of Virginia economics professor. “Their skills and comfort in using the English language may be more limited.”
What to do when financial stability is beyond one’s grasp? Over the past decade, a coterie of pundits and think-tank scholars have arrived at a surefire answer, a simple one that comes with a snappy title and puts the onus on the individual: pursue the “success sequence.” The concept of the success sequence has caught on for multiple reasons. “I think part of the appeal is it’s a fairly straightforward way of formulating a life script,” Brad Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, a professor of sociology and the best-known advocate of the success s...
The UVA Medical Center is gearing up for the anniversary of the Unite the Right Rally on Aug. 12 in a big way. After the events of last year’s rallies that resulted in one death and many injuries, the UVA Medical Center is preparing for the anniversary by erring on the side of caution and calling for an all-hands-on-deck weekend.
Innovate Biopharmaceuticals Inc. announced today it has agreed to collaborate with DR. James P. Nataro, , the Benjamin Armistead Shepherd Professor and Chair, Director of Children's Services, UVA Children's Hospital of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, whose research is focused on the study of enteric bacteria and their roles in health and disease.
(Commentary by Adam Daniel, senior associate dean for administration and planning, and Chad Wellmon, professor of German language and literature) If the university is to flourish and continue to play a vital role in American life, it needs to reinterpret its democratic legacy.
At UVA, the sustainability team takes proactive measures to deal with what has become a routine waste problem. To manage the excess waste and dispose of it, the University runs Hoos ReUse, a move-out donation drive.
On Monday, UVA’s Observatory Mountain Engineering Research Facility became the mission control center for a fleet of "Mars rovers." BLAST is a free, three-day residential program at UVA for incoming high school freshmen and sophomores that encourages interest in STEM careers.
“When things like this happen, people will take a look at whether the leadership team of Facebook is the right team to have in place,” said Gabrielle Adams, assistant professor of public policy and psychology at the University of Virginia.
It is clear that both parties now see the midterms as a referendum on the president. "We have rarely had a president who was so centered on an election and so essential to it," said University of Virginia analyst Larry Sabato via Skype. "He is the sun. Everything else revolving around the sun is a planet or a moon."
It is clear that both parties now see the midterms as a referendum on the president. "We have rarely had a president who was so centered on an election and so essential to it," said University of Virginia analyst Larry Sabato via Skype. "He is the sun. Everything else revolving around the sun is a planet or a moon."
Bigfoot has become a hot topic in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District race. Leslie Cockburn, the Democratic nominee, tweeted screenshots from an Instagram account of Denver Riggleman, the Republican nominee, depicting images of Bigfoot naked but censored. Geoff Skelley, a political analyst for Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, said he thinks the Bigfoot issue is a one-off and likely won’t have any long-term effect on Riggleman’s campaign and that a book is unlikely to disqualify a candidate.
As UVA law professor Michael Livermore has explained, the most important effect of Executive Order 12,291 was that it encouraged agencies to use excellent economists to improve the quality of their economic analysis of rules. Since President Reagan issued the order, agencies have issued thousands of major rules with economic benefits that exceed their costs. According to estimates for one recent 10-year period, the benefits exceed their costs by as much as 10 to one.