Sen. Dianne Feinstein holds a robust, 44 percent to 24 percent lead over state Sen. Kevin de León, according to a new poll of likely voters by Reuters/Ipsos and the University of Virginia Center for Politics, to be released this morning.
U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-El Paso, leads Republican incumbent Ted Cruz by 3 percentage points in the race for a U.S. Senate seat, according to a Ipsos online poll released Wednesday in conjunction with Reuters and the University of Virginia. O’Rourke has been closing the gap over the last several months, but this is the first poll that puts him ahead of Cruz.
In Virginia, following the historic 2017 elections, advocates and lawmakers considered a number of bills to make Virginia more family friendly, and Governor Ralph Northam issued an executive order granting paid parental leave to state executive branch employees. Just last week, the University of Virginia followed suit by announcing a new paid parental leave policy for university system employees; Virginia Tech did the same in August.
Firefighters in Charlottesville are going door-to-door to make sure people have working smoke alarms. Charlottesville’s Fire Department and the University of Virginia are working together to make sure everyone in the city has a working smoke alarm in their home. “It’s more of an educational thing,” said UVA fire marshal Gerald Drumheller. “We’re really trying to be a service to the community because the university is part of the community.
9. Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, Virginia: Boasting small class sizes in a bucolic southern setting, entrepreneurial preparation is woven into Darden’s curriculum. The school offers over 35 electives in entrepreneurship and innovation, and hosts four major entrepreneurial competitions which award more than $370,000 annually. The school also offers a Venture Capital bootcamp. Nearly half of student businesses in its incubator, i.Lab, remain active for over five years with over $13,000 awarded per student company.
Flagship public universities in Texas, Virginia and Kansas reported double-digit gains, driving U.S. endowments to reach record values. It's shaping up to be a second year of strong performance for many endowments, with a number of funds attributing the boost to alternative investments such as private equity and venture capital. The University of Virginia gained 11.4 percent as the state school's endowment reached a record $9.5 billion. The performance, which is gross of fees, was driven by private equity returns of more than 22 percent, according to a report from the school's investment offic...
The UVA Investment Management Co.’s pool of $9.5 billion in endowment assets and other long-term funds returned a gross 11.4 percent in the fiscal year ended June 30, according to an annual report posted on UVIMCO’s website. The return well exceeds the policy benchmark of 7.6 percent.
When UVA Director of Athletics Carla Williams wanted to issue a call to action at the Chamber Business Diversity Council Luncheon on Tuesday, she pulled up an illustration a friend sent her when Williams was appointed to the position in October.
In his first remarks to the Faculty Senate since coming on board Aug. 1, UVA President Jim Ryan said he was deeply committed to improving education and helping faculty do their best work. In an hour-long presentation and conversation with several dozen faculty senators, Ryan outlined administrative goals and asked for faculty input.
The warnings begin in June – hurricanes are coming, but at UVA’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy Professor Jay Shimshack says most people ignore advice to prepare. He studied data from more than 3,000 grocery stores in nine states over a ten-year period -- before and after hurricanes. It’s information compiled by the Nielsen Company, best known for television ratings.
Political scientists say they believe Donnelly was poised to vote for Kavanaugh. "This sort of puts everything in turmoil," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan newsletter at the University of Virginia. "I think what the red-state Democrats are looking for is some Republicans to express concerns so that sort of gives them some bipartisan credibility to say they are also concerned."
A spokesperson for Sen. Kaine’s campaign declined to comment on Stewart’s attacks invoking Tibbetts. But experts suggest that the results of last year’s gubernatorial election likely offer a good indication of how such messaging will play out in Virginia. However, “not every part of the country looks like the three big urban areas in Virginia that rejected Gillespie,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the nonpartisan election newsletter of UVA’s Center for Politics. Kondik suggested that efforts to highlight immigrant crimes like the Tibbetts killing will likely reson...
New research from the UVA School of Medicine may have found a new way to treat multiple sclerosis using the lymphatic vessels in the brain.
Two social justice groups are speaking out against the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Members of the Showing Up for Racial Justice and the University of Virginia's Dreamers on Grounds oppose the county's voluntary policy of notifying ICE when suspected undocumented people are in jail.
The same lab that discovered lymphatic vessels in the brain has published new research indicating that those vessels play an important role in the development and progression of multiple sclerosis and other inflammatory diseases. Researchers in the University of Virginia’s Department of Neuroscience and its Center for Brain Immunology and Glia published findings Monday offering insight into how the brain communicates with the immune system.
Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggest that lymphatic vessels that clean the brain of harmful material may play a crucial role in the development and progression of multiple sclerosis. The vessels appear to carry previously unknown messages from the brain to the immune system that ultimately trigger the disease symptoms.
The causes behind multiple sclerosis, a progressive neurological condition, are unknown. However, a new study has uncovered a key starting point: a strange signal sent by the brain to the lymph nodes. The actual reasons behind why the immune system mistakenly strikes against healthy structures in the brain remain unclear. However, new research by the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests that it may be down to an unexpected signal transmitted by the brain to the lymph nodes.
UVA’s School of Engineering is planning to launch a training program for graduate students to study cybersecurity and Internet of Things. The program, which is funded by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, will operate out of the engineering school’s Link Lab, which promotes the study of cyber-physical systems through a cohort of multi-disciplinary professor- and researcher-led projects.
But “use of capital punishment is declining in America,” the University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett and co-author Ankur Desai wrote in a recent study. “Death sentencing has fallen to a modern low and executions are increasingly rare.”
Roy Wagner, 79, of Charlottesville, died Sept. 10 at his home. He taught at Southern Illinois University and Northwestern University before accepting the chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, where he taught for 44 years until his passing.