Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said Ms. Clinton did better than at the 2013 Senate hearing.
Sixty-five years ago, a federal hearing was held to determine if Gregory Swanson, a black attorney, would be allowed to enroll as a graduate student in the UVA School of Law.
A worker renovating UVA’s Rotunda made an unexpected discovery when he crawled through a hole in the wall: Thomas Jefferson’s lost chemistry hearth.
Saturday marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, and UVA commemorated by announcing the creation of an award named after the former student who went on to become the first American ambassador to the UN.
By Barın Kayaoğlu is an independent political analyst and consultant in Washington, D.C. He recently finished a doctorate in history at the University of Virginia.
In the late 1950s, graduate student Bascom Deaver worked with William Fairbank at Stanford University in California to test this prediction. … Deaver, now an emeritus professor at the University of Virginia, said both experiments convincingly demonstrated flux quantization.
Dewey Cornell, a University of Virginia education professor who developed threat assessment guidelines for the state, said school shootings generally are preceded by threats or alarming statements that are discounted or overlooked.
University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett compared 21 capital murder trials held since 2005 in Virginia with 20 capital trials from 1996 to 2004. Capital defendants received life sentences in more than half the trials since 2005, double the number in the older group of trials.
“His endorsement matters, and sooner or later he’ll follow President Obama and give the nod to Clinton,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “A unified party may be one of the Democrats’ greatest assets next fall. Look at what’s happening on the Republican side.”
(By Michael Livermore, associate professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, who argued the case, and Jayni Hein.) The U.S. Department of the Interior announced last week that it is canceling future lease sales in federal Arctic waters off Alaska’s northern coast, a decision that places future Arctic offshore drilling on ice. This decision signals a clear shift in Arctic offshore leasing policy and marks a victory for environmentalists who have long highlighted the risks inherent in leasing in this remote and unpredictable region.
Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers in Charlottesville will soon have access to a unique support system, thanks to a new federal grant awarded to the Memory Disorders Clinic at the University of Virginia. The program will focus on providing information and support to people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and their families.
When Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia in 1819, chemistry was still a new science, only recently detached from the arcane darknesses of medieval alchemy. But within a few years Jefferson’s university had a fully firing chemistry lab, the remains of which university officials revealed this month. Tucked at the edge of a lower level in the university’s famous rotunda, the “chemical hearth” was among the first in the country. In 1820 the US had only 40 colleges or universities, and 25 offered courses in chemistry, although those classes were usually linke...
In the 1980s and ‘90s, he taught at several universities, including American, Drexel, Williams, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard universities and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia has a large volunteer community, giving students the chance to give their free time to those who will certainly benefit from it. Cavs In The Classroom is a [Madison House] volunteer program that gives elementary students more one on one attention, altering the learning environment.
The presentation included an interview with Dr. Jim Tucker, associate professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia, who has studied the cases of children, usually between the ages of 2 and 6 years old, who say they remember a past life.
W. Bradford Wilcox, a visiting scholar at AEI and the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, argued that the “role of husband and father is transformative for men,” and that the link between marriage and economic growth is demonstrated by the fact that men who are married with children are more likely to participate in the workforce.
Jane Friedman, a professor of digital publishing at the University of Virginia, describes catfish as an ongoing but “not that significant” threat. (“It increases the noise for everyone, sure,” she wrote by email, “but for any author building a long-term career, it’s not hard to distinguish yourself from low-quality opportunists.”)
“Jim Webb does things because he’s motivated by beliefs,” Larry Sabato, director at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told me. “He clearly thinks the Democratic Party has gone too far to the left, and the Republican Party too far to the right.”
New research from Eileen Chou, assistant professor in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, finds that e-signatures can potentially make people behave in more dishonest ways. It turns out people are less willing to lie and cheat when they handwrite and sign their full names instead of using an e-signature, computer generated user code or other form of identity verification.
The museum produced “Lifelines” in collaboration with the University of Virginia’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, which supplied more than half of the works. The show will run until September 2016.