Ted Cruz's campaign is well-organized, well-funded and committed to a delegate-based strategy to steal the nomination from Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July. It may triumph in a few more states, beginning with an expected victory Tuesday in Utah. And yet, as Larry Sabato, who runs UVA’s Center for Politics, puts it, "Everything has to go perfectly for this to work."
Bernie Sanders is likely to start racking up a series of victories over the next two to three weeks as the Democratic primary heads out West. "Even if he wins every state from here on out, he probably couldn't catch [Hillary] Clinton in terms of pledged delegates," says Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. "The math is really, really daunting."
A new facility for the UVA Medical Center's "Pegasus Air" will help crews take to the skies more efficiently.
Students from traditional minority groups have long been underrepresented in gifted categorizations, and no blanket definition of "giftedness" exists across states or local education agencies. One UVA study found low-income students are more underrepresented than black and Latino students within the reported gifted student population.
UVA engineer Jim Smith and Dr. Rebecca Dillingham are co-directors of PureMadi, a company that makes and distributes ceramic water filters in South Africa for communities with little access to clean water.
Students and faculty at UVA are bonding over their drive to do something their parents never did: earn a college degree. UVA is celebrating first-generation students by publicly listing hundreds of faculty members who know what it is like to jump over economic and socioeconomic hurdles.
The UVA Center for Politics’ Geoff Skelley says there is an increased chance no candidate will win enough delegates to avoid a contested GOP convention this summer. Skelley calls Tuesday's primaries a decisive day since U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio suspended his campaign.
"Violence can be prevented,” said UVA professor Dewey Cornell, one of the featured speakers and an expert on 'threat assessment' to prevent a violent attack.
Be it printed, digitalized or recorded, the next five days in Charlottesville will be all about the book. With more than 400 authors and moderators participating in 253 festival programs, including programs tailored toward all ages, the 22nd annual Virginia Festival of the Book began Tuesday and continues through Sunday.
A debate at UVA drew voters to hear from Fifth District candidates hoping to replace current Congressman Robert Hurt. Moderators from UVA’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy asked candidates about policy issues that affect the Fifth District as well as domestic and foreign policy.
Nursing student Anne McClure reads her essay on her experience caring for a patient suffering from a drug overdose.
Hosted by UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, the seven candidates currently vying to succeed retiring Rep. Robert Hurt were invited to participate in a public forum.
Malcolm Brogdon has elevated himself and Virginia’s program to heights unseen in Charlottesville for decades. As important, Brogdon has positioned himself intellectually and socially to affect United States policy on poverty in Africa.
From studying honey as a wound-healing additive in Rwanda to assessing the effect of mobile banking on women in rural India, 52 UVA students will use Center for Global Health scholarships this summer to address public health problems in the far-flung corners of the globe.
(Editorial) A.E. Dick Howard is the father of Virginia’s modern Constitution. A UVA law professor, he has earned a national reputation for his expertise on constitutional issues at the state and federal levels.
In a recent span of 24 hours, UVA politics professor Larry J. Sabato appeared on CNN, the Fox News Channel, CNN International and the BBC. The world wants to hear what Sabato has to say about those who are seeking the Oval Office.
There is hope that improvements are on the way, but they will probably come in small steps rather than big strides forward, said Dr. William A. Petri, a UVA professor and lead researcher of a major study in Dhaka.
The Darden School’s “Strategic Planning and Execution” course is ranked as one of the best for March.
There stood Malcolm Brogdon on senior night, under the basket at John Paul Jones Arena, staring at the floor with the corners of his mouth turned down in a pout so similar to Barack Obama’s that it’s clear why one of his nicknames is “the President.” He stayed stone-faced as he was handed a framed No. 15 jersey and held it to the crowd as his mother, father and two older brothers stood beaming next to him. Whatever emotion he felt in his final home game as Virginia’s most decorated men’s basketball player since the Ralph Sampson era in the early 1980s didn&r...
Lisa Woolfork, a UVA professor who studies representations of American slavery, discusses “Underground,” premieres on the basic cable channel WGN America tonight. It's the first major scripted drama taking the Underground Railroad as a setting.