"He fit the changing Democratic Party almost perfectly," said Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics. A graduate of the old Augusta Military Academy near Staunton, Diamonstein served in the Air Force during the Korean War. He received a bachelor's degree in commerce from the University of Virginia in 1955 and graduated from its law school in 1958. (He later served on the University's Board of Visitors.)
University of Virginia cardiac specialists led by Dr. Sula Mazimba and Dr Scot Lim have over the last week been conducting rheumatic valvular heart disease screening as well as performing percutaneous valvular interventions at the University of Zambia Teaching Hospital.
"People with type 1 diabetes have to think every day about their blood sugar and how they need to manage it. Automated delivery systems can make a big difference and help ease the daily burden of managing blood sugar," said study lead author Dr. Sue Brown, an endocrinologist and associate professor at the University of Virginia.
The environmental monitoring plan is to be written with input from numerous research institutions including the Virginia Institute for Marine Science, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Tech.
The UVA Sustainability Team is getting ready for one of its biggest events of the year, the Green Game. During Saturday's home football game against Duke, student volunteers will be at 16 stations encouraging people to recycle and compost their trash.
A federal court ordered new maps for House of Delegates districts in February, a ruling that was the end result of a challenge arguing that Republicans used racial gerrymandering to pack black voters tightly into a dozen districts to dilute their influence. UVA’s Kyle Kondik wonders what influence all that will have on the election.
UVA’s Maxine Platzer Lynn Women's Center is putting on a Red Flag Campaign and Clothesline Project to bring awareness to sexual assault and domestic abuse, and to empower survivors.
The rookie Sacramento Kings guard has joined the Hoops2O team, which is part of the Waterboys organization. Waterboys was created by former UVA football star Chris Long to help bring clean water to people around the world in need. Former UVA basketball players Malcom Brogdon, Joe Harris and Justin Anderson are also part of the Hoops2O team.
(Commentary by Kelsey Johnson, a UVA professor of astronomy) It’s October, which means it’s hard to avoid the annual Nobel Prize announcements and flurry of resulting press. As a woman in science, I’ve learned to anticipate these with both excitement and anxiety. The track record of the Nobel Committee overlooking accomplishments of scientists who are not white men is deeply depressing.
“I thought every candidate had a good moment or two, though my memory is blurred by the unrelenting pace produced by too many topics and the tug-of-war for control of the conversation. Klobuchar had some smart answers. I’m starting not to care that she is brutal to her staff,” said Larry J. Sabato, the founder and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “The latest presidential debate provided voters with information about the candidates’ positions on impeachment, the opioid crisis, Syria, tech company monopolies, health care and reproductive rights. It offered viewe...
"Klobuchar had some smart answers. I’m starting not to care that she is brutal to her staff," added Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics.
The majority of college students attend public institutions not far from their home. In fact, more than half of freshmen at four-year colleges go to a school within 100 miles of where they went to high school, according to an annual survey of freshmen from the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles.
Lots of computer science students dream of landing a lucrative job at Google or Facebook when they graduate, but a new grant program aims to shine a light on an alternative career path: the public sector. A group of 21 universities and colleges, all members of the Public Interest Technology University Network, were awarded $3.1 million last week to fund 27 projects promoting the use of technology for the public good. The University of Virginia will design and offer an interdisciplinary graduate-level course called “Innovation in the Public Interest” that will tackle real-world proble...
Ultimately, while the shoulds and oughts can provide a road map, they go only so far in forming moral character, says Robert Louis Wilken, a UVA professor emeritus of the history of Christianity. Role models – parents, aunts and uncles, adults within the religious community – do the heavy lifting. “People act on what they’re drawn to, on what they love,” he says. “They see someone who does something good and say, ‘I’d like to be like that.’”
(Video) The UVA Medical Center's new emergency department is now open for business.
Drafted in the first round out of UVA, Zimmerman never left Washington, appearing for the Nationals in every season of their existence following their relocation from Montreal. Now Zimmerman, 35 years old and approaching free agency, finds himself in an unprecedented position that he feared might never arrive: preparing for a long-awaited World Series.
For Dick Howard, a constitutional scholar at the University of Virginia, a constitutional crisis occurs when the president and Congress go beyond their usual stalemates over policy, to a standoff over a fundamental question of governance.
The next key fight over President Donald Trump’s financial records could be whether it gets resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court before the end of Trump’s first term in office. UVA law professor Saikrishna Prakash said Trump’s attorneys using procedural hurdles, like requesting an en banc rehearing, would fit within their general legal strategy of delay.
“Trump won the big three (Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) by a grand total of 77,000 votes. It doesn’t take much of a shift to reverse that,” Larry Sabato, a leading elections analyst and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
According to research conducted by Dewey Cornell, a professor of education at the University of Virginia who developed a threat assessment model used across the U.S., the process can have positive effects: less bullying, fewer suspensions and an elevated feeling of safety. In schools that used Cornell’s model, a study showed, kids were more willing to seek help from adults if another student was bullying them or threatening violence.