It didn’t take long for Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall to learn just how much the Cavaliers’ rivalry with Virginia Tech means to UVA’s boosters and fan base. Fans told him, “‘We don’t care if you win any other game other than that game,’” Mendenhall recalled Monday. “Which has to be an exaggeration. But maybe it’s not?”
Sociologists such as W. Bradford Wilcox at the University of Virginia for decades have noted the tremendous damage divorce – another project of the sexual revolution – has done to America’s social fabric. Children exposed to divorce are more likely than their peers in intact marriages to suffer from serious social or psychological pathologies.
The story of JFK, Oswald and Fort Worth is about more than gravestones or addresses. It’s about Fort Worth people – the hundreds here who went to one school or another with Lee in the Class of 1958, or who knew Marguerite, Marina or June. It’s also about people who may have known about Oswald’s anger, or inadvertently enabled his plan. “If you think there was a conspiracy – and that’s ‘if’ – then it had to include Fort Worth, because Kennedy was in Fort Worth as well as Dallas that day,” UVA professor and Kennedy historian Larry Sabato said Saturday after a Sixth Floor program.
"It’s too pat and unidimensional," says UVA political scientist Larry Sabato. "A presidential win or loss is the confluence of dozens of factors, but mainly the fundamentals.”
The University of Virginia has developed an interactive map that will let you select the time of day that you want to leave and see what the road conditions usually look like at that time.
Long term, most of Central Virginia will see an uptick in total population between now and 2025, according to projections by the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Several employers will have representatives on site to talk to attendees, including Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Kelly Services, the National Ground Intelligence Center, the University of Virginia Health System, Visiting Angels, Allied Universal, and others.
Monday Properties announced today that the UVA’s Darden School of Business will open a state-of-the-art learning facility on the 30th and 31st floors of 1100 Wilson Boulevard in Arlington. The long-term lease includes 40,000 square feet of administrative, conferencing and classroom space on the top two floors of Monday’s iconic property.
(Commentary by Bob Gibson, senior researcher at UVA’s Cooper Center for Public Service) An old joke about Pennsylvania is that it consists of Philadelphia on one end and Pittsburgh on the other – with Alabama in-between. A new joke about Virginia could be that the Old Dominion is becoming a huge and aging rural retirement home crowned by a growing Emerald City of Oz in its north.
After the Charlottesville Planning Commission last week voted to recommend closing Brandon Avenue and a portion of Monroe Lane to make way for a UVA redevelopment project, the City Council moved forward Monday with plans to vacate sewer easements so construction on new student apartments can begin soon.
Jack Ruby, the man who eventually shot Lee Harvey Oswald, told an FBI informant to "watch the fireworks" on the day President John F. Kennedy was killed, according to new records the National Archives released Friday. New records – first highlighted by UVA political analyst Larry Sabato – describe what an FBI informant later told officials about Ruby.
Democratic consultant Lis Smith said Trump only hurt himself by slamming Franken. "His desire to lash out against his perceived enemies outstrips his capacity for being strategic,” Smith said. "He may have thought he was counterpunching, when he really was just punching himself in the face.” Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at UVA, described the Trump tapes as another example of the president's tendency to project his own behavior onto others.
Kyle Kondik, an Ohio native who is a political analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics, worked for Cordray for a time in the attorney general's office. He is not sure that Cordray's candidacy is a slam dunk. "He's getting in a little too late to win this by acclamation,'' said Kondik, who is managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a weekly political newsletter published by Larry J. Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics.
Stabenow is one of 10 Senate Democrats up for re-election next year in a state that GOP President Donald Trump won in 2016. But it is unclear whether national Republican groups will spend heavily in the general election now that Upton has opted out. “Given how many other Senate races are out there, I don’t know if Michigan is ever going to fully activate as a top-tier race,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
According to Professor Brandon L. Garrett from the UVA School of Law, 2015 saw 80 banks finalize criminal settlements with U.S. prosecutors.
Other studies had turned up genetic changes that help frogs resist the toxic effects of certain toxins. But this study “lets you look under the hood,” says Butch Brodie, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Virginia who wasn’t involved in the research.
A conversation on cultural humility will be held Dec. 4 at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center as part of a series of discussions aimed at helping community members understand cultural humility and recognize implicit bias. The community education session will be presented by Eboni Bugg as part of a partnership between Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital and the UVA Health System.
UVA professor of medicine Dr. Robert Carey, who served as vice chairman of the committee that wrote the new guidelines, said the new rules should help catch warning signs of heart and kidney disease and encourage early treatment.
A UVA doctor is at the forefront of a study that may change your lifestyle. Dr. Robert Carey and other medical experts recently changed the guidelines for blood pressure, and he is now warning patients to get checked right away.
On Friday and Saturday, you'll see a group of UVA and Virginia Tech students pounding pavement -- all to support cancer research. The 15th annual FIJI Run kicks off on Friday.