Geoff Skelley, a veteran analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said that given their prevalence in national news lately, immigration and foreign policy will be at the center of much of the debate between the candidates.
“I don’t think you’re going to see less partisan rancor than you’ve already seen in the first months of McAuliffe’s administration,” Geoff Skelley, political analyst for the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told Watchdog.org. “… To some degree, you’re going to see similarities in what’s going on in Washington and what’s going on in Richmond” — not the same political structure, but a similar gridlock effect.
MONTEREY — The sheer size of the project leaves plenty of room for water quality issues. That’s what University of Virginia senior scientist Rick Webb explained Tuesday, at the Highlanders for Responsible Development gathering on Dominion’s pipeline proposal.
A number of collegiate athletes have come out as gay in the months since former University of Missouri defensive end Michael Sam publicly declared his sexual orientation. Parker Camp, a member of the University of Virginia swim team, began coming out to his family and friends earlier this year as he told Outsports.com, an LGBT sports website. He and four other teammates held a handwritten sign that read “2 of us gay. The other 3 don’t care” as part of an ad campaign promoting diversity.
As an elder statesman in his late 70s and early 80s Jefferson planned and designed the new University of Virginia in nearby Charlottesville.
Female professors at the University of Virginia are paid, on average, 2.7 percent less than their male counterparts, according to an internal study. A study of more than 900 tenured and tenure-track faculty members, broken down by rank, found that male faculty members made, on average, about $3,638 more than female members.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is forming a task force to combat sexual violence at the state’s colleges and universities, addressing a problem that has commanded attention this year in Washington and on campuses nationwide. ... Emily Renda, 22, who graduated this year from U-Va., is an advocate for sexual violence prevention who plans to introduce McAuliffe at a news media event Thursday outside the state Capitol. Now working as an intern for the public flagship university in Charlottesville, Renda said her activism is driven in part by her experience as a survivor of a sexual assault th...
Charlottesville, VirginiaCollege: University of VirginiaPopulation: 44,349Median home price: $244,250Cost of living: 102.4Residents 60 and older can take noncredit classes tuition-free at UVa and other area schools, including Piedmont Community College. For cultural stimulation, music lovers can catch free Fridays After Five concerts at the Downtown Mall from April to September.
Transfers typically lose an entire semester's worth of credit and tuition, a new federal study has found. Here are three ways to avoid missing out on that money and time.... Take Advantage of New Web ToolsWhile budget cuts have forced some public colleges to cut back on counselors who might help you figure out which courses will transfer, there are a growing number of web tools that you can use to find the courses that will be approved for transfer. One site Baime recommends is CollegeFish.Org, which is sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa, the International Honor Society of Community Colleges. An...
A report released today from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia looks at the many factors that predict a high quality marriage. More than one thousand Americans, 18 to 35 years old, who were in a relationship were recruited into the study. Within five years, 418 of those individuals got married. Galena Rhoades (a co-author of this article) and Scott Stanley, both at the University of Denver, looked closely at those who married, probing into their relationship history with their spouse, their relationships with others, and the quality of their marria...
Call it the “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” effect: Having lots of guests at your wedding is linked to a high-quality marriage, say researchers, who note that it’s not the lavishness of a wedding that matters but the size of the social network of friends and family who come to support the union. The bulk of the new study, being released Tuesday by the National Marriage Project, also looks at how premarital sexual activities, cohabiting and childbearing may promote or hinder subsequent marital happiness. Having multiple premarital sexual partners, cohabiting casually and “sli...
Wilson’s idea has given rise to the closely related concepts of biophilic design and biophilic cities, the latter actively promoted by Tim Beatley, a landscape architect at the University of Virginia. In interviews, Beatley and Stephen Kellert, Wilson’s co-editor on an early book about biophilia and a chief proponent of biophilic design, both stressed that the idea includes—but more crucially goes beyond—concepts like green building and simple sustainability to capture the innate human attachment to nature and increase well-being by honoring it.
A department store is making a big donation to support health education in central Virginia through the University of Virginia Children's Hospital. This year, Kohl's gave $45,828 to teach kids in our community about the importance of exercise and good nutrition. The Kohl's Growing Up Healthy Program was started in 2004 by experts at the UVA Children's Fitness Clinic. Staff members have used the fund to buy resources to craft interactive lessons on healthier lifestyles for children at area schools.
Katie Couric is bringing the documentary “Fed Up” to the Virginia Film Festival. The University of Virginia alumna will be on hand for a screening of the acclaimed film, which she narrated and for which she shared executive-producer duties with Laurie David, the producer of “An Inconvenient Truth.” The film, which premiered in January at Sundance Film Festival, combines first-person stories of youngsters battling obesity with interviews with food and nutrition experts. It also examines the role of sugar in the American food supply and the complicated politics of f...