Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a forecasting outfit at UVA’s Center for Politics, says its initial Electoral College ratings for the 2020 presidential election indicate it’s a toss-up.
UVA’s Center for Politics says that Texas, along with Georgia and North Carolina, "may be becoming less reliably Republican." The analysis says Texas "leans Republican" – as do notorious swing states like Iowa and North Carolina – and lists it among states that might be the best targets for Democrats looking to win over historically red regions of the country.
Matt Simpson, a law student at the University of Virginia, became legally blind at a young age. “As a person with a disability, it can be debilitating – not to have a disability, but to have people around you set incredibly low expectations for you as a human being. And so I hope that people who come learn about Paralympic sports get to hear us talk, get to interact with us, I hope that they will continue to raise the expectations for themselves, but also for people with disabilities around them,” he said.
Political observers say there could be an advantage to Sanders kicking off his campaign outside of Vermont. Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics, said Sanders’ decision to hold the first rally in Brooklyn could also be about delegates, and that it makes strategic sense to announce outside of Vermont. “Sanders is making clear he will compete vigorously in New York State. Vermont is a lovely place, but it’s probably locked down tight for Sanders, while New York will be highly competitive,” Sabato said.
For Ken Hughes, a Watergate expert with UVA’s Miller Center, Cohen’s testimony is “immediately reminiscent” of Dean’s, including the attempts to discredit the witness ahead of the hearing. “The Nixon administration tried to frame Dean as the source of the Watergate cover up, [while he was] more of a point man operating under Nixon’s most powerful aides, and they were guided by Nixon himself,” Hughes said.
(Commentary by Richard Schragger and Micah Schwartzman of the UVA School of Law) “The court is increasingly upholding government support for religion that is neutral in theory, even if it favors the majority religion in practice. Yet we hope that the other justices will join Kagan and safeguard the principle of religious equality.”
A report from the University of Virginia released to the commission late last year cited a dramatic rise in involuntary admissions to state psychiatric hospitals from 2014 to 2018. Over the same time period, involuntary admissions to private hospitals have fallen.
A previously unknown, rapid-fire connection between the gut and brain. A CRISPR-based test for viruses such as Zika and dengue, with results that can be read as easily as a pregnancy test. A pill that mimics the effects of gastric bypass surgery. These are just a few of the 64 discoveries and inventions that made the cut for the third annual STAT Madness, the bracket-style competition for scientific glory modeled on college basketball’s March Madness. The University of Virginia is among the finalists who were selected from a record 160 entries submitted by universities, medical schools, and re...
As the University of Virginia razed the iconic Cavalier Inn, a vision for the site that focuses on welcoming, collaborative and safe spaces was beginning to take shape.
A first-of-its-kind event is bringing together dozens of diplomats from across the world to UVA. They were on Grounds Tuesday to meet with state and local leaders for a summit to discuss citizen engagement, hosted by UVA’s Center for Politics to promote a better understanding of the political culture outside of Washington.
“Go abroad, young man and woman” isn’t the motto for UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, but it might as well be. The school offers a slate of master’s programs that may be the most globally oriented in the United States.
UVA law professor and former Joint Committee on Taxation chief of staff George Yin laid out how the process would work in testimony earlier this month. He explained that the authority of Congress to request tax return information was added in 1924 as a co-equal branch of government, and before, only the president had such authority to request and disclose tax returns.
This year’s Virginia Film Festival will take place from Oct. 23 to 27, festival officials announced Monday. And for the first time, the opening events will set the festival’s screenings, panel discussions and other events into motion a day earlier, on a Wednesday. The festival, a program of the University of Virginia and the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts, brings a variety of events to Charlottesville each autumn.
In a new study, investigators from UVA and James Madison University discovered the skills teens learn in friendships with peers of the same gender are the strongest predictors of later romantic satisfaction, more so than experience learned from teen romance.
Researchers have identified an unexpected contributor to rheumatoid arthritis that may help explain the painful flare-ups associated with the disease. Dr. Sanja Arandjelovic, a UVA research scientist, was seeking to better understand what causes the inflammation associated with inflammatory arthritis when she noted that deleting a gene called ELMO1 alleviated arthritis symptoms in mice.
Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine think they have found out why so-called "killer T cells" are unable to destroy cancer tumors. Scientists have found a defect in these kinds of immune cells, and they believe repairing this defect will make the cells better at killing cancer.
The conference also hosted panelists from UVA and a number of hemp and bioscience companies. They offered their perspectives on the emerging industry to an auditorium filled with interested entrepreneurs.
In 2017, researchers at UVA’s Darden School of Business published a study that found when Southwest Airlines enters a market with nonstop flights, fare prices fall an average of 15 percent. At the same time, the number of people flying increases by 28 percent to 30 percent.
A dream come true for insomnia patients has helped earn a University of Virginia professor the highest honor bestowed upon UVA innovators. Lee Ritterband, the director of UVA’s Center for Behavioral Health & Technology, received the Edlich-Henderson Innovator of the Year from the school’s Licensing and Ventures Group.
Some Southern voters, particularly in Texas, have drifted away from Republican candidates because of a lack of enthusiasm for Trump, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. “I think the hope for Democrats is that maybe with more resources from the national party – and potentially a national environment where the president may be something of a drag in those districts – that the Democrats can make further inroads in Texas," he said.