The University of Virginia Cavaliers secured a bowl appearance after defeating the North Carolina Tar Heels Saturday. The team is also currently number one in the ACC Coastal division. Fans believe they have a chance to win the title. The last time UVA won the ACC was in 1995.
In Virginia, a group of recent high school graduates and college students feel that the age limit for the purchasing of handguns at 21 is unconstitutional and are working to file a lawsuit to argue their case. UVA student Tanner Hirschfeld is the lead plaintiff in the legal action against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
"I think Republicans are aware of the symbolic importance of this seat, and we’ve seen Congressional Leadership Fund, the big outside GOP group connected to the speaker, spend here to protect Bryan Steil against Randy Bryce," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "But this is not a seat that national Democrats are counting on to win the majority. Ultimately, the district is just fairly right of center, so even as an open seat you’d rather be the Republican here than the Democrat."
Republicans and Democrats are trying to win the support of as wide an array of voters as possible, and their campaign messaging reflects that, said Geoffrey Skelley, an associate editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. “O’Rourke is trying to have a broad as appeal as possible and not strongly pointing out Democratic Party identification in a traditionally Republican state, or at least fairly Republican in recent times, is smart,” Skelley said.
(Subscription required) UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, where about a third of the school’s roughly 350 graduates go into investment banking, has asked banks this year to hold off on interviewing second-year students until after spring break. “You’re just trying to set some boundaries,” said Tom Fitch, head of McIntire’s career services office, “without stifling students’ opportunities.”
Turkish scientist Dr. Ali Mazhar Adlı, who conducts studies at the University of Virginia, has made two significant discoveries on the treatments of pancreatic and ovarian cancers. Adlı said he had been focusing on how cancer can be destroyed and how alternate drugs against the disease can be developed.
Andreas Malikopoulos from the University of Delaware and colleagues from the University of Virginia formulated a solution that yields the optimal acceleration and deceleration in a speed reduction zone, avoiding rear-end crashes.
Dr. Tamara Dias, executive director of African American Teaching Fellows, was honored by UVA President Jim Ryan at a ceremony on Grounds this week. Dias graduated from UVA’s Curry School in 2012 and earned her Doctorate in Leadership from Morgan State University.
Dominion Energy’s UVA Hollyfield Solar facility recently began generating electricity for the University of Virginia and UVA’s Darden School of Business. Through a 25-year agreement, UVA and Darden are purchasing the entire output of electricity produced by the 160-acre project, located in King William County.
The University of Virginia banned the white supremacist and campus provocateur Richard B. Spencer and nine others from its campus on Friday in connection with a 2017 rally that escalated into violence.
The University of Virginia has banned “alt-right” figurehead Richard Spencer and nine others over their involvement in a torchlit demonstration held on the eve of last summer’s deadly “Unite the Right” protest in Charlottesville.
The University of Virginia has issued trespass warnings to 10 additional white supremacists based on their actions during a torchlit rally on Grounds on Aug. 11, 2017.
The Inter-Sorority Council at the University of Virginia held a presentation on the history of sexual assault at the school on Sunday. The history went back to when slaves were victims of sexual assault. It was then brought to the present, reflecting on the Rolling Stone article, “A Rape on Campus," that was published in 2014 and then retracted.
The outlook for Democrats had improved in 48 of them during the seven weeks since early September in the eyes of at least one of a trio of political forecasting groups: Cook Political Report, Inside Elections and the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Across the nation, natural gas production has been ramping up. In many communities, this has meant new pipelines, new promises and new protests. How do we balance environmental concerns and the public good? UVA environmental engineer Andres Clarens explains the science.
Virginia football is back … in The Associated Press Top 25, at least. For the first time since Nov. 20, 2011, the Cavaliers are ranked, checking in at No. 23 in the poll that was released Sunday afternoon.
Severed body parts, skulls and coffins are horrifying props put together by students in UVA’s Brown College, who make creating a spooky maze their No. 1 priority.
She has seemed nervous when delivering public remarks, unlike her husband, who relishes the attention of chanting crowds and reporters with outstretched microphones. Melania Trump has also been thrown off message because of missteps, said Jennifer Lawless, a UVA politics professor, recalling the controversial pith helmet the first lady wore in Africa and the “I really don’t care, do u” jacket she wore as she boarded a plan to visit shelters on the border.
With less than two weeks until Election Day, UVA’s Center for Politics says the race for Virginia's 5th District is tight. Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball announced on Thursday that it now lists the 5th District as a toss-up.
“For decades, pollution was created by very powerful industries, and the state investigations were very friendly to industry,” says Leif Fredrickson, a UVA historian and a member of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative. “So [the people of Donora] were rightly concerned about that and wanted the federal government to get involved. But as it turns out, the Public Health Service was pretty concerned about their relationship with state researchers, and this is before the federal government had much say over what happens in terms of pollution control in state and local areas.”