More than half the private citizens who got face time or spoke with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state forked over bundles of cash to the Clinton Foundation, a stunning new investigation revealed Tuesday. Analysts said the revelations offer further proof that State under Clinton was rife with conflicts of interest because of its deep ties to the foundation. “The real conflicts of interest and appearances of conflicts are legion. This is proof positive the foundation should be shut if Clinton is elected president,” said Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist.
More than half the private citizens who got face time or spoke with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state forked over bundles of cash to the Clinton Foundation, a stunning new investigation revealed Tuesday. Analysts said the revelations offer further proof that State under Clinton was rife with conflicts of interest because of its deep ties to the foundation. “The real conflicts of interest and appearances of conflicts are legion. This is proof positive the foundation should be shut if Clinton is elected president,” said Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist.
Across the country, reliable GOP donors are bracing for an uncertain outcome for Republican candidates for Congress and offices further down the ballot if Trump were to lose to Clinton by a large margin, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
With the outsourcing of microchip design and fabrication a worldwide, $350 billion business, bad actors along the supply chain have many opportunities to install malicious circuitry in chips. These “Trojan horses” look harmless but can allow attackers to sabotage health care devices; public infrastructure; and financial, military, or government electronics. To pursue the promise of verifiable ASICs, Garg, abhi shelat* of the University of Virginia, Rosario Gennaro of the City University of New York, Mariana Raykova of Yale University, and Michael Taylor of the University of Califor...
Hundreds of students and staff lined the sidewalks at UVA’s College at Wise Tuesday to participate in “Operation Book Brigade 2016” to celebrate the opening of the college’s new library.
A large crowd of students, faculty, staff, alumni and others gathered on Tuesday, Aug. 23, to officially open the new $37 million library at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise. UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan also participated in the ribbon cutting. University Librarian John Unsworth was also part of the celebration.
Are women better at getting their legislation passed into law? A study by UVA professor Craig Volden, published in the American Journal of Political Science, found that women lawmakers are more effective in pushing bills through committees – but only if they’re in the minority party. Once their party takes control of the House, their advantage against men disappears.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan welcomed new and returning students to The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Tuesday, Aug. 23, during Convocation, the traditional start of the academic year.
Many of Virginia’s colleges are back in session this week. Classes at Virginia Tech started Monday, the University of Virginia’s began today – and Virginia Commonwealth University kicks things off tomorrow. UVA is welcoming its most socio-economically diverse class in recent history.
With the latest polls continuing to give a healthy, if not totally comfortable, lead to Hillary Clinton, experts told VICE this latest shake-up may not spell certain doom, but it's a disaster nonetheless. Before Manafort officially left the Trump campaign, analysts like Nate Silver derided the back-to-primary-mode general election strategy as a way to further alienate undecided voters. But according to Brian Balogh, a UVA historian and one of the hosts of the radio show “Backstory with the American History Guys,” there is a fleeting possibility that Conway could work wonders in...
Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s effort to restore voting rights to former felons is attracting some criticism from Republicans, who say the move a politically motivated effort to help his friend Hillary Clinton win the White House. Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says the politics of the issue are about demographics.
The words used to describe African-Americans have evolved over time to from words like “Negro,” “colored,” “Afro-American” to the current “black,” “African-American” and “people of color,” said Deborah E. McDowell, director of UVA’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. "We no longer use the term ‘colored people,’ although once upon a time that was a term in use," McDowell said.
Former VRS trustee Edwin Burton contended that investment professionals who serve as trustees and advisers for the $68.1 billion retirement system have an interest in promoting investments that require active management for high fees, rather than relying on less complex stock and bond indices such as the S&P 500. "They're not people who are inclined to indexing," said Burton, a UVA economics professor who served 18 years on the VRS board and often criticized its asset allocation policy for investments.
Eastern Europeans are keenly aware of these developments, perhaps nowhere more so than in Ohio, a must-win state for Trump. “If there is an effect, Ohio is a good place to see if it has resonance,” said Kyle Kondik from UVA’s Center for Politics, who has written a book about the demographics of the Buckeye State.
Taxi fleets are projected to be fully automated within the next several years, which might also create new in-car marketing opportunities. Automating taxi fleets could decrease average wait times for consumers by up to 23 percent, according to a recent study from the University of Virginia and the University of Texas at Austin.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe visited the Focused Ultrasound Foundation on Monday to discuss the impact of Virginia's investment in focused ultrasound.
A group of UVA students are spending their last day of summer serving the community. Batten Builds, which is in its seventh year, is a volunteer day effort that helps nonprofits that may not have enough money or time to get certain tasks done.
It’s common in college towns to find tensions between students and long-time residents. In Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia, two students have set out to improve so-called town-gown relations with a program that cultivates friendships through gardening.
UVA’s Jefferson Scholars Foundation selected Chisom as one of 34 recipients of the Jefferson Scholarship.