“In our view, we think a Sanders nomination would tilt the election more toward Trump, to the point where the ratings would reflect him as something of a favorite,” write UVA’s Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman. “However, we would not put Trump over 270 electoral votes in our ratings, at least not initially and based on the information we have now.”
As it did last year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison tops this year’s Peace Corps rankings with 79 alumni currently serving. Rounding out the top five are the University of Florida, with 70 volunteers; the University of Virginia, with 68; the University of Maryland, with 66; and the University of Georgia, with 64.
A recent comment from a black student at the University of Virginia that there were “too many white people” at a multicultural student center brought forward long-simmering racial grievances on campuses around the country, but a new book says that such centers help reduce stress for minority and underrepresented students.
Mary Kate Cary, a former speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush and a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, discusses what goes into putting together a speech for a president and vice president at an event like CPAC.
UVA law professor Frederick Schauer said public figures who sue for libel must show that a publisher either “knew it was false before publishing, or had actual suspicion of falsity and went ahead anyway.” Proving that in court, he said, “is virtually impossible.”
The political unrest surrounding the upcoming presidential election prompted a conversation with top UVA scholars. A “Grounds on the Go” seminar Wednesday focused on making difficult conversations a bit more civil.
It's been 11 years since Jenna Bush Hager married the love of her life, Henry Hager, but if it was up to her, the pair would have been married much sooner. On a recent episode of “TODAY with Hoda & Jenna,” Bush Hager revealed she proposed to Henry five (yes, five!) years before he proposed to her. After graduating from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, Henry joined the 43rd president’s re-election campaign. “On Election Day, they were friends," a source told People in 2008. But "by the Inaugural, they were an item.”
Democrats are gearing up for another presidential primary debate Tuesday evening, this time in Charleston, South Carolina. This debate will mark the 21st presidential primary debate held in South Carolina since 1948, according to a tally kept by Kyle Kondik at UVA’s Center for Politics. That earns the Palmetto State the distinction of third place among states when it comes to hosting primary debates.
Many thinkers are suggesting that storytelling is a key 21st-century leadership skill. Daniel Pink, author of “A Whole New Mind,” in a recent talk at the University of Virginia, explained how in an age of great technology disruptions, the power to tell good stories would be a key differentiator.
Next week’s argument in Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission will take the justices through familiar ground, as they consider once again the boundaries of the broad and multifarious forms of relief available in litigation enforcing the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The justices also may take account of an amicus brief in support of neither party filed by UVA law professor Douglas Laycock and a group of other prominent scholars of the law of remedies.
Last week, I wrote this story about Virginia law professor Dayna Bowen Matthew being named the next dean of George Washington University Law School. For the record, UVA’s five women deans since 2012, in addition to Matthew, are: Elizabeth Magill, who was dean of Stanford Law School before returning to Virginia as provost; Jennifer Mnookin, who is now law dean at UCLA; [Kerry] Abrams, currently dean at Duke Law; and Risa Goluboff, who was on the Virginia faculty before moving into the dean’s office in 2016.
Commentators and political scientists, especially those who study women in politics, noted how unapologetically Ms. Warren had expressed anger on the stage – despite the risk she faced, given sexist double standards. “I don’t know how to put it other than she was a badass,” said Jennifer Lawless, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia and former director of the Women & Politics Institute at American University.
Divorce is down more than 30% since 1980, and seems to be headed lower, said UVA sociology professor Brad Wilcox. “A clear majority of marriages being formed today will go the distance,” he told a congressional committee Tuesday. The bad news, he said, is that the nation still faces a deep divide when it comes to family structure and stability, with children from black and less-educated homes facing markedly higher rates of family instability and single parenthood.
If the poor represent a majority of voters in India, why doesn’t this electoral power translate into better quality government services? Why are some vulnerable communities able to secure development from the state while others fail? These are some of the big questions that political scientists Adam Auerbach and Gabi Kruks-Wisner shed light on in this week’s episode of “Grand Tamasha.” Gabi is assistant professor of politics and global studies at the University of Virginia and the author of “Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India.”
Larry Sabato, a politics expert at the University of Virginia, said the debate had not dramatically changed the race, but that it could raise some concerns about Sanders and, as a result, shore up Biden’s waning support in the state. “Sanders gave as good as he got,” Sabato said. “But one caution: South Carolina voters probably watched in large numbers. They heard a lot of things about Sanders they didn’t know – and some won’t like what they heard.”
According to our experts, the 10th Democratic debate was an ugly spectacle for everyone involved. And that could give Bernie Sanders reason to celebrate. “Bloomberg improved his performance from godawful last week to merely awful this time,” said Larry J. Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Professional investors tend to move the fastest when a market suddenly turns. That’s largely out of self-preservation, because the biggest risk they face is being so out-of-step with the market that their clients fire them. That can lead the pros to chase the market trend too far and too long. “Institutions sell more than individuals when there is a large stock-market drop,” finance professors Patrick Dennis and Deon Strickland found in a 2002 study. They also showed that the more widely a stock is held by big investors, the greater its trading volume during sharp market drops.
The UVA School of Medicine hosted its annual Infectious Diseases and Global Biothreats Research Day on Monday in Pinn Hall. UVA scientists shared their research on ways to fight deadly diseases around the world, such as E. coli, drug-resistant tuberculosis and salmonella.
The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia, or iTHRIV, has awarded pilot funding to four medical research projects. According to a release, the $200,000 in funding will support the early-phase research projects to help accelerate the discovery of potential treatment options for cancer, depression and a gastrointestinal disorder that causes pain, as well as help patients who are recovering from rotator cuff surgery. Physicians, researchers and engineers at the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic were awarded funding as part of the iTHRIV Clinical an...
The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV) has awarded $200,000 in pilot funding to multi-institutional research projects that will accelerate the discovery of potential treatment options for cancer, depression and a painful gastrointestinal disorder, as well as aid patients in recovery from rotator cuff surgery. Teams of physicians, researchers and engineers at the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic were awarded the funds as part of the iTHRIV Clinical and Translational Research Award (CTSA) from the National Center for Advancing Transla...