History is certainly on Doyle’s side, explains Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics. “More than 98% of all House members who have sought renomination by their parties since the end of World War II have, in fact, been renominated.”
Members of the Planning and Coordination Council solidified plans to dissolve two groups, including their own, with hopes of replacing them with something better. The group helps to shepherd growth challenges the city of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and the University of Virginia are facing. It also makes sure the three jurisdictions are working with, not against, each other.
A UVA fraternity found a sweet way to raise autism awareness on Thursday, and the frat also found a good sport in the UVA administration. Dean of Students Allen Groves took a pie to the face as part of the pie-tossing event held by the Theta Delta Chi fraternity to benefit the Virginia Institute of Autism.
Officials at the University of Virginia Press, which works in conjunction with Founders Online, told PolitiFact that they see no evidence it was said by Jefferson. "It is very unlikely that this is a verbatim quotation from anything Jefferson ever wrote himself. The style and phrasing is uncharacteristic," David Sewell, managing editor of Digital Initiatives at the organization, wrote in an email.
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers – included UVA’s Daphna Bassok and Vivian Wong – working in a school district near Denver examined the impacts of enrolling children in full- versus half-day preschool programs.
(Commentary by Ken Hughes, a researcher at UVA’s Miller Center) Whatever Donald Trump does, Richard Nixon usually did it first and better. Trump’s imitation of the master has proven far from perfect, and that may cost him the presidency.
A group of black nurses known as “the Hidden Nurses” are passing on lessons they learned to the next generation of medical professionals. On Wednesday, the UVA School of Medicine hosted a Medical Center Hour, where the Hidden Nurses shared advice and words of wisdom, part of a research project by a UVA nursing student.
This fall, the University of Virginia is offering free tuition to students from families making less than $80,000 a year. It’s one way they’re trying to increase economic diversity at the school.
A UVA professor is digging into Medicaid waiver programs and says Virginia is lacking. Children with profound disabilities are waiting for therapy, assistive technology, and even wheelchairs. Jessica Keim-Malpass is conducting a state-by-state analysis. She says Medicaid dollars are not being used well, even though one-third of them are spent on children with disabilities.
History is certainly on Doyle's side, though, explains Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "More than 98% of all House members who have sought renomination by their parties since the end of World War II have, in fact, been renominated."
“This COUP business from Trump is the same nonsense that the revisionist Nixon gang pushed for years,” Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said on Twitter, “that Nixon wasn’t really guilty of anything, he was removed from office via a ‘silent coup’ of plotters determined to destroy Nixon’s legacy and policies.”
Then we cut to the next scene, where a journalist is reporting from the scene of a car accident involving a young woman. In the segment, the journalist cites research by the University of Virginia’s Center for Applied Biomechanics, which revealed that female drivers are 47% more likely to be seriously injured in a car crash than men.
(Video) School of Nursing staff, faculty and students are folding origami cranes in an effort to declare peace, unity, and compassion. The craft is part of the Hoos Inclusive Campaign that deals with issues of equality and inclusion at the school.
“This is the first time I’ve seen this, or anything like this,” said Larry J. Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics. “If you read it carefully, it’s clear that it is a GOP product, but of course, many people don’t read carefully.”
How can a White House manage a major investigation and still make policy? Bill Clinton’s experiences in 1998 and early 1999 as his administration faced independent counsel Kenneth Starr’s inquiry into the Clintons’ Arkansas investments, which expanded to Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky, are detailed in a recent volume on the Clinton presidency, which draws on oral histories collected by UVA’s Miller Center.
Which universities were most common among the F100? The results were quite different from their choice of undergraduate schools. At the graduate level, the universities attended by two or more of the F100 CEOs include: Harvard (attended by 7 CEOs), University of Pennsylvania (5), Columbia (3), University of Virginia (2), University of Wisconsin (2), Stanford (2), and Northwestern (2). Importantly, the count was aggregated across the university.
Three schools. Three days. One fight for a cure. For over five years, Relay for Life at Virginia Tech, University of Virginia, and James Madison University are participating in the “Trifecta Challenge”, a competition to see which school can recruit the most people to sign up for Relay for Life in three days.
University of Georgia leaders say they want to know more about the school’s history concerning slavery and are committing $100,000 for faculty to submit research proposals. Since the early 2000s, several dozen colleges and universities have done similar research. Led by the University of Virginia, 56 colleges and universities are part of the Universities Studying Slavery commission. UGA is not part of the commission.
Blevins also assists in managing Tech’s role in a $23 million project funded by National Institutes for Health in which Tech, Carilion Clinic, the University of Virginia and Inova Health System are working together to quicken the pace of bringing medical discoveries out of the lab and into physician practices.
University of Virginia’s Class of 2020 is hoping to spread gratitude on and off grounds. It’s launching a Class Giving campaign with a week of projects that give back to the community.