“On one level, this whole issue helps Biden, because it makes the president look afraid of Biden,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. “But the president has a great ability to drag people into the mud with him, and you wonder if that might happen to Biden.”
(Video) Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia Center for Politics makes the case for why the Democrats would be "wise to act expeditiously."
An already highly-accomplished basketball career now begins a new chapter for Faith Randolph, who recently was named the head girls varsity coach at Washington-Liberty High School. The head high-school coaching position is the first for Randolph, who was a standout player on the prep level at Good Counsel, then in college at the University of Virginia from 2012-2016, where she scored 1,346 career points, was team captain as a junior and senior and an All-ACC player.
(Video) An active wear company that got its start in Charlottesville is expanding. University of Virginia Darden business grads started Rhoback active wear two years ago. It grew faster than Under Armour in its first year and now the company has a new space to continue that growth.
Robert Turner, law professor and distinguished fellow with the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia, was part of a panel that discussed the impeachment investigation.
This week, Walter Hood was one of 26 people to be named MacArthur Fellows, an award often referred to as the “Genius Grant.” Hood previously designed a structure at the University of Virginia that marked the former home of a free black woman who purchased property there in the 1800s.
(Commentary) 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.”
(Commentary by Barbara A. Perry, Presidential Studies director and Gerald L. Baliles Professor at UVA’s Miller Center) Donald Trump often is labeled the “unprecedented president,” but, in at least in one area, he is following a long line of more recent White House predecessors: ease of renomination.
“This is nothing like a conversation between Richard Nixon or Henry Kissinger and a foreign leader,” said Ken Hughes of the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, an expert on Nixon during the Vietnam War and Watergate. “Nixon had very detailed knowledge when he spoke to foreign leaders. He could be subtle in negotiations and still get his point across,” Hughes said. But “when he wanted to dig up dirt on his political adversaries,” Nixon did it at home, he said.
Russell Riley, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said Pence’s cautious approach was reminiscent of vice president Al Gore during Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998. “There is a conundrum with being the vice president of the United States in a controversial administration, because everybody knows that you are the heir apparent in case something happens,” he said. “You have to be exceedingly guarded.”
Charlottesville has lots of coffee shops, but a new one that’s opening soon will offer something much more than coffee and baked goods: It will give jobs to people with disabilities while offering everyone in the community a new way to connect with people they might not ordinarily meet. It's called Kindness Cafe and Play, and it's being launched by a local mom and UVA alumna, Katie Kishore, who's raising two daughters, one of whom has Down Syndrome.
Trump’s efforts to lean on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reminiscent of the way Nixon created a team of secret investigators, known as “the plumbers,” to find incriminating or embarrassing evidence about his enemies, said Ken Hughes, a leading Watergate authority and research specialist at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Democrats should try to go through the process as quickly as possible, as it could spark sympathy for Trump if it drags on, said Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
After a four-year battle with cancer, former Virginia Gov. Gerald Baliles has entered a palliative care program, a statement from his family says. He was hired as the director of the Miller Center, a public policy research institute at the University of Virginia, in 2006. Under his leadership, the center greatly expanded its profile with the addition of “American Forum,” a talk program featuring former and current policymakers, historians and journalists. He stepped down from that position in 2014.
The program left for dead four years ago is 4-0 for the first time since 2004 and has spent time ranked for consecutive weeks (now up to No. 18) for the first time since 2007.
“The logical thing for the average voter to say is, this has nothing to do with my life,” said Larry Sabato, a political analyst and director of UVA’s Center for Politics. Sabato suggested that Democrats proceed expeditiously by making Feb. 3, the day of the Iowa caucuses, their “informal deadline” for an impeachment vote in the lower chamber.
Daniel Willingham, a UVA professor of psychology, said people’s world views and social relationships influence what they believe. People do understand that scientists produce information “that ought to be believed,” but there are other motivations, such as social norms or fear of the unknown, that may affect their views. “They believe them for social reasons – you have been maintaining your relationships with people; holding certain beliefs is part of that,” Willingham said.
In a recent study featured in Springer's International Journal of Social Robotics, two researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Bergamo in Italy have taken a closer look at some of the current arguments and predictions about sex robots, carrying out an ethics-based and critical discourse analysis.
A University of Virginia defensive player is nominated for the award of the top football scholar-athlete in the nation. Fourth-year linebacker Jordan Mack is one of 185 nationwide – and among six in the ACC – chosen as a semifinalist for the National Football Foundation’s 2019 Walter V. Camp Award.
It wasn’t until last month that athletic director Carla Williams finally got to take her co-workers on a field trip. They wound up visiting her alma mater and former employer. Williams, who was Georgia’s deputy athletic director before she was hired away by Virginia in 2017, wanted to show those co-workers how the athletic department looks and acts at a school that wins at football.