By Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics
Unlike many presidential races in recent history, there probably won't be a "eureka" moment for this GOP nomination. But there are six decisive days that will be worth watching on the road to the Republican nominating convention in Tampa. Three favor Mitt Romney and three favor his opponents. ...
... But are quotas smart public policy? Do they make good business sense? New data has emerged that for the first time shows results about the effects of having more women in management positions. Norway was the first European (albeit non-EU) country to go down that road: since January 2008, all businesses whose stocks are traded on the Oslo exchange have had to have at least 40% women on their corporate board. And now, four years later, there’s a report on how things are going. The report, authored by two American economists, was published this past December. In it, David Matsa and [U.V...
If Martin Davidson had his way, the recent media flubs concerning Jeremy Lin could have been avoided. ESPN’s operation, he said, wasn’t diverse enough to stop a racially insensitive headline about Lin. The lesson for others, said Davidson, a professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, is leveraging difference to the organization’s benefit. His new book “The End of Diversity As We Know It” is billed as a how-to manual for business and nonprofits interested in shifting the way people think about diversity, he said.
The recent controversy over contraception and health insurance has focused on who should pay for the pill. But there is a wealth of economic evidence about the value of the pill – to taxpayers. … A study by Martha J. Bailey, Brad Hershbein and Amalia R. Miller, an associate professor of economics at U.Va., helps assign a dollar value to those tectonic shifts. For instance, they show that young women who won access to the pill in the 1960s ended up earning an 8 percent premium on their hourly wages by age 50.
Kelton Flinn and John Taylor
Students at the University in the 1980s who created the prototype of what would become the world's first commercial online roll playing game.
Margaret Brennan
A 2002 alumna who is a Bloomberg news announcer and Whitehead Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association
Kaz Komolafe
Managing editor of the Cavalier Daily
This week, University of Virginia students are continuing the work during their spring break. When they leave on Friday, Foster will have a new roof, new floor in her front room and the bathroom will be in working condition.
Kyle Kondik
A political analyst with the Center for Politics
Faith & politics: Verify truthfulness of information before passing it
‎Word and Way | March 6
Douglas Laycock
A law professor
Rick Santorum Isn’t Crazy
New York Times (blog) | March 5
Geoffrey Skelley
A political analyst with the Center for Politics
Most, but not all, of Central Virginia localities go for Romney
‎ Daily Progress | March 6
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Mitt Romney Wins an Ohio Nailbiter and Snaps up Delegates
The Atlantic | March 6
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Lackluster Super Tuesday in Virginia
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Pointing makes kids believe you. And it may convey an air of authority to adults, too. That's the finding of a pair of psychologists at the University of Virginia. In a new study probing how young children make inferences about what other people know, co-authors Carolyn Palmquist and Vikram Jaswal found that adults can convince a 4-year-old that they know something simply by pointing while delivering the message. This act even overrides all other evidence that the pointer is clueless.
Among adult patients participating in the three-times weekly sessions, 78% reported improvements on the asthma quality of life questionnaire compared with 39.5% of controls (P=0.05), according to Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills, MD, PhD, and colleagues from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will provide up to $20 million in grant funding to support an international clinical trial to examine the effectiveness of MRI-guided radiosurgery as a treatment for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. ... Mark S. Quigg, MD, a neurologist with University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Va., is helping lead an international trial.
A University of Virginia professor is collaborating with pop star Lady Gaga to help build the singer's anti-bullying foundation. Curry School of Education professor Dewey Cornell returned this week from the launch of Gaga's Born This Way Foundation at Harvard University. ... Cornell's research has linked bullying to lower test scores in Virginia schools and helped develop an anonymous survey for students in Albemarle County and Charlottesville schools to report victims of bullying. Cornell presented parts of that Safe Schools/Healthy Students project to panelists from around the world at...
The University of Virginia Glee Club visits Las Vegas as part of their tour of the West coast. Joining the Virginia group will be the UNLV Varsity Men's Glee Club.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics’ Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI) held its first-ever Super Student Day Mock Election leading up to the 2012 Super Tuesday primaries. Students from across the nation participated, contributing their opinions and voices before registered voters went to the polls on Super Tuesday.
A Charles City County man convicted of a 1978 rape in Williamsburg is asking the Virginia Supreme Court for exoneration in light of new DNA evidence. ... "This is an egregious miscarriage of justice," Barbour's lawyers with the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law wrote in a petition for a writ of actual innocence filed Tuesday.
The University of Virginia Eye Clinic held a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday evening to celebrate its expansion of its facility. ... "Well this should really help the community in providing increasing the quality of care for our patients that have potentially blinding eye disease so were thrilled about being able to provide that service and be able to send that to our community," said Chairman of Ophthalmology Peter Netland.
Darden professor Martin Davidson led the panel. Davidson is an associate professor of leadership and organizational management and a consultant for Fortune 500 firms and government agencies. Tuesday’s event also served as a public introduction of his newly released book, “The End of Diversity as We Know It: How to Make Diversity Efforts Really Matter.”
Mark S. Quigg, M.D., a neurologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, is helping lead an international clinical trial in order to find out if Gamma Knife radiosurgery (a noninvasive procedure), could effectively treat individuals with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy - a certain type of the epilepsy.
By R.K. Ramazani, The Edward R. Stettinius Professor Emeritus of Government and Foreign Affairs
Iran should make a constructive offer now -- before the new negotiations resume. Iran needs to make a practical and positive move to support diplomacy and avert a possible war. The crescendo of drumbeats of war this week has been deafening. Israel and its hawkish American supporters have pounced on President Obama en masse to pressure him to agree to precipitous military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.