“I think it’s done one good thing for Democrats. It has awakened some of the activists to the very real possibility that Trump will win a second term,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
An insurance industry group that hired the Rolling Stones last year to help promote annuities is undertaking a new venture, a research initiative it announced Monday.The institute will receive advice from at least 10 scholars, including the American College of Financial Service’s Wade Pfau and Brookings Institution senior fellow Bill Gale. The group is led by Jon Forman, from the University of Oklahoma College of Law; Leora Friedberg, associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Virginia’s economics department and Frank Batten School of Leadership and Publi...
Robert F. Turner, a professor of law and co-founder and associate director of the Center for National Security Law in the School of Law at the University of Virginia, plans to retire.
National political analyst and head of UVA’s Center for Politics Larry Sabato said the entire spectacle was unprecedented in all his years of political study. "I was stunned and disgusted because there were so much bitterness and partisanship and frankly outright hatred on both sides. You can't run a country that way," Sabato said.
Although he was never formally impeached, President Richard M. Nixon also faced the specter of Congressional ouster, said Larry J. Sabato, founder and director of the UVA Center for Politics and author of “The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy.” “Nixon shouldn’t be left out because, unlike Clinton and Trump, he really would have been ousted by the Senate,” Sabato said.
“Time since surgery has been shown to be the most common factor used when making decisions for return to sport after [ACL reconstruction],” Stephan G. Bodkin of UVA’s Department of Kinesiology and colleagues wrote. “Time following any surgery should be considered, given the healing processes of involved tissues; however, it is often the only criterion used, ignoring the symptomatic state of the patients or objective measures of strength and performance.”
In 2013, a study by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service identified Youngstown, Ohio, as one of the 20 most racially segregated cities in the country. While the study specifically looked at housing trends, there is plenty of evidence to show that poverty, measures of health and wellness and other economic indicators also follow these trends.
UVA’s Center for Politics and Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy will sponsor the “Democracies in Crisis” discussion on Feb. 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. in Garrett Hall.
The University of Virginia Foundation has hired Maryellen Dolan as director of real estate asset management, the organization announced Wednesday.
Let’s start with what most people agree on: “It would severely limit the ability of governments to make decisions explicitly on the basis of sex,” says John Harrison, a professor at the UVA School of Law. But how this principle would be applied in actual laws and court cases is unclear, though there are some ideas.
“It’s the big discussion in election forecasting and political science right now,” said Kyle Kondik, communications director at UVA’s Center for Politics. “As I look at it, there are just a lot of different things going on in the electorate. The more you learn about this stuff, the less you feel like you have a grasp on it.”
(Commentary co-written by Barbara Comstock, resident fellow at UVA’s Center for Politics) A bill proposed by the new state Senate majority leader, Richard Saslaw (D-Fairfax), would gut Virginia’s right-to-work laws and end long-standing bipartisan support for Virginia businesses.
A year after cutting down the nets and winning the NCAA Tournament, Tony Bennett and the Virginia Cavaliers face a much different challenge this season. They’re fighting just to qualify for the Big Dance.
For two decades, tuition at Virginia’s universities was on the rise. That ended last year after a massive new investment in higher education was available only to schools who agreed to cap their tuition rates. But, it’s unclear whether lawmakers will make the same move this year.
"The Gallup poll showing Trump at 49% is likely an outlier, but it does fit in a broader pattern of respected national polls showing Trump's approval surpassing 45% and getting within shouting distance of 50%," Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the UVA Center for Politics Sabato's Crystal Ball, said. "I do wonder if Trump's better approval polling will last once impeachment ends – he may be benefiting from a motivated GOP electorate – but if it does last beyond impeachment, the president's reelection standing improves. If he's over 45% consistently – and he's not there yet – his path t...
Travis County commissioners announced at a Feb. 4 meeting they had hired Adeola Ogunkeyede to serve as chief of the county’s forthcoming public defender’s office. Ogunkeyede is a lecturer at the University of Virginia law school’s civil rights clinic and the legal director of the Legal Aid Justice Center’s civil rights and racial justice program in Charlottesville.
Afterlife expert and child psychiatrist Dr. Jim Tucker from the University of Virginia spent 15 years interviewing children who may have been reincarnated. The findings of his incredible study were published in the book, “Life After Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives.”
Although the jury is still out on whether reincarnation can be proven scientifically, one researcher has taken upon himself to study the phenomenon. Dr. Ian Stevenson, a former professor of psychiatry at the UVA School of Medicine, has dedicated most of his career to studying so-called past lifers. Through his research, Stevenson claimed to have found more than 3,000 case studies of possible reincarnation.
Travis County has hired UVA law professor Adeola Ogunkeyede as the first person to lead its public defender office. Until last year, the county was the largest U.S. jurisdiction without an office to handle cases for poor adults accused of crimes. She currently heads the Civil Rights and Racial Justice Program at UVA’s Legal Aid Justice Center.
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a non-partisan political newsletter produced at UVA’s Center for Politics, suggested Buttigieg's success could be short-lived. He believes Buttigieg, to really transform himself into a real contender, will need to win New Hampshire next Tuesday, a tough challenge considering Sanders’ perceived lead there. "Assuming he wins Iowa – maybe he will, maybe he won't – maybe that leads to a breakthrough, " Kondik said. "Because otherwise, if he sputters out of New Hampshire, I don't know if there's anywhere for him to go."