Yet Martelly’s appearance in Washington suggests “the U.S. is fully on board,” said Robert Fatton, a Haiti expert at the University of Virginia. He noted that Martelly’s efforts at building a consensus with the opposition and his commitment to an election this year were well received in Washington. Kerry told Martelly he had “great respect for the road” he’s put Haiti on.Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/02/06/217260/haitis-president-martelly-meets.html#storylink=cpy
Larry Sabato, who directs the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, doesn’t buy it. “It’s not going to happen,” he says. His reasoning: Republicans think Romney lost a winnable race, and they’re not about to give him another nomination.
Police chiefs from Albemarle County and the University of Virginia introduced their plans for a joint firing range to the Planning and Coordination Council Thursday.
Several labor lawyers and professors noted, as did the CRS, that the court could rule narrowly to avoid the chaos that might otherwise result from multiple, repetitious challenges to all those cases. “It would be truly radical” to reopen hundreds of cases, said Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia analyst Larry Sabato says it would be rare for the Democrats to nominate someone without a primary challenge and he predicts someone will come forward to at least try and make it a contest.
This winter at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, graduate and undergraduate students from each of the school’s four disciplines – Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Urban and Environmental Planning, and Architectural History – participated in the invigorating third annual all-school design competition, appropriately named “The Vortex.” The event provides students exposure to design competitions, fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, and engages the local community in high-stakes urban design projects.
Kyle Kondik, an analyst for the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said it’s next to impossible to predict a frontrunner with this many candidates lining up. Each contender has their pockets of support, but few metrics to measure their strength.
Although physician groups have generally welcomed congressional efforts to swap the SGR for a value-based payment system, at least one analyst has raised concerns. In a recent blog post for Health Affairs, Jeff Goldsmith, president of Health Futures Inc. and an associate professor at the University of Virginia, said the measures before the congressional committees were “unsound health policy.”
AmeriCorps member Margaret Montague is used to having a steady stream of students come to see her for college advice in her office at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, VA, just outside the nation's capital. Since starting AmeriCorps last fall, she has already had more than 450 one-on-one meetings with students, including many first-generation Americans at this highly diverse school where more than 100 languages are spoken.
(By Janie Heath, chief academic office at the School of Nursing) Even in an era when smoking has never been a greater turn off, the cigarette – albeit the plastic one with tiny batteries and a warm mist of propylene glycol and carcinogenic nitrosamines, along with highly addictive nicotine – still resonates in Hollywood. Spoof or not, e-cigarettes are no laughing matter. Neither are their largely unknown health consequences.
AAA Mid-Atlantic has awarded four diamond ratings to the lodging and dining facilities at The Boar’s Head Inn – owned by the University of Virginia Foundation – and Keswick Hall. The Old Mill Room restaurant at The Boar’s Head earned the honor for the 27th year. The hotels at The Boar’s Head and Keswick were honored for the 13th year.
Skilled manufacturing could give more Americans the opportunity to climb into the middle class, according to a University of Virginia commission led by two former governors.
Courtesy of Jeff Farrar, the note sped its way around the Internet, bouncing from blog to blog, stirring up conversation about its meaning. On Dec. 17, Farrar, a three-star cornerback out of California, tweeted a picture of a simple note he received from his future coach. “Jeff,” the note began, “YOU!” It was signed by Mike London. Wednesday, London explained the significance of those three letters as he spoke proudly about Virginia’s highly touted 2014 recruiting class.
(Transcript) There's new research now that links the red state/blue state phenomenon with the fact that 40 to 50 million Americans move every year. So we are an increasingly mobile society. I spoke with psychologist Brian Nosek at the University of Virginia. He's been tracking more than a million Americans and they revealed two things about themselves: one, their political orientation and two, their zip code.
(Commentary) Recent leadership changes in the commonwealth promise significant and positive growth for Virginia's public colleges and universities. In addition to a new and proactive governor and secretary of education, we have three other potential game changers at the helm of three of our key universities: Teresa Sullivan at the University of Virginia, Angel Cabrera at George Mason University and now Timothy Sands at Virginia Tech.
Those numbers suggest “this issue is here to stay,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “It says it’s going to be one of the big issues in this election.”
One professor at the University of Virginia says the trip will be worth much more for both countries. "Thomas Jefferson was a real francophile," said Deborah McGrady, chair of the French department at UVa. "He absolutely loved France, and that is completely expressed at Monticello."
(Transcript) Brian Moriarty, a lecturer at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. discussed CVS’s announcement of its plans to discontinue its sale of cigarettes.
After a long rough period of bad press about sexual assaults, University of Montana President Royce Engstrom says the school has emerged as something of a model for taking steps to address the issue. “That was a difficult situation for us,” he said during a visit with the Inter Lake editorial board Tuesday. “But we’ve emerged as a much safer campus.” Engstrom said he will attend a panel discussion on the topic at the University of Virginia where only a handful of schools will be represented, and it’s largely because of the way UM responded. “We stood o...
Another study, from the University of Virginia, showed the perceived effects of cocaine varied across a woman’s menstrual cycle, with the “greatest subjective effects observed when estrogen levels are high and relatively unopposed by progesterone.” Men don’t have menstrual cycles, but there is definitely some interplay between our hormones and drug addiction.