Geoffrey Skelley, an analyst at University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said Obama’s lead in Minnesota is probably safe (the Center's Crystal Ball rates Minnesota “likely Obama,” with no change on Monday), and even if Romney manages to win it, Minnesota’s electoral votes probably wouldn’t be the deciding ones.
There is also a major expansion under way at the University of Virginia Health System, where in June construction began on the $141 million, seven-story Battle Building at U.Va.’s Children’s Hospital.
Thanks to Will Nelligan for alerting me to this: Kent Germany of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center has produced an online exhibit giving – thanks to Lyndon Johnson’s proclivity for taping his telephone conversations – a fascinating view into LBJ’s response to Hurricane Betsy, a Category 4 storm which made landfall in New Orleans in September 1965.
End of month trading is just one reason University of Virginia business professor Marc Lipson expects ample activity on Wall Street. "Combined with a flow of news related to the storm and all that pent up information that still is being digested on business, there's gonna be a lot of people very interested in establishing positions," Lipson says.
Water sounds begin and end "Auksalaq," a new work by IU Professor Scott Deal and the University of Virginia's Matthew Burtner that premiered at IUPUI and several sites other sites in the U.S. and Europe on Monday.
Caution, dire forecasts and a directive from the governor drove decisions to cancel classes in the face of Sandy, the superstorm that mostly spared Central Virginia, school officials said Tuesday.
The Boar's Head Inn, owned by the U.Va. Foundation, is hosting a lower-level professional tennis tournament this week. The article raves about the "world-class" facility and adds, "Here, hospitality is key. Whether it’s to its players, spectators or media, the tournament knows how to treat its guests. Whats more, the fans themselves are some of the friendliest and most tennis-knowledgeable individuals I’ve ever encountered at a tournament."
The site was started in 2005 by two fresh University of Virginia graduates, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, after they couldn’t finance a previous brainstorm: an online food-ordering site.
They are among about a million students nationwide voting between October 22nd and November 1st, using what’s described as “a state-of-the art online voting system” in a program sponsored by the Youth Leadership Initiative, a national civic-education program based at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Quotes U.Va. students Peter Restrepo and Matthew Voda.
As Thomas Philippon of New York University and Ariell Reshef of the University of Virginia, argued in a seminal 2009 paper, changes in regulation have played a major part in the sharp swings in financial sector pay since the 1990s. "When you have a deregulated financial services industry, there's a lot more scope for creativity and complexity and that's going to attract smart people who want to be compensated," Mr. Reshef told me. "Moreover, in a complex world, banks may have to provide incentives so that workers don't make mistakes."
John Edwin Mason, a writer on photography and associate chair of history at U.Va., offered two anecdotes about occasions when pointing out the blinkered view of certain jurors and gatekeepers helped raise awareness about the lack of diversity among the photographers they promoted.
Greg W. Roberts, the dean of admission at the University of Virginia, answers readers' questions about early admissions.
The University of Virginia canceled classes Monday because of Hurricane Sandy, but the school did not shut down completely.
And early on, the optics may favor Obama, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "The more people affected by this storm by the end, the better the response, the better Obama is going to look," Sabato said. "The worse the response ... the worse he's going to look. This presidential moment could help or hurt him."
When it comes to developing attitudes in the Dan River Region — a place hit hard economically over the years — University of Virginia professor Tim Wilson said it is important for individuals to ditch a negative mindset and be optimistic.
Despite the cold, windy weather Monday Project Access partnered with the University of Virginia to give local women free mammograms.
The University of Virginia said it would accept applications for early-action admissions through 11:59 p.m. Sunday. With Sandy wreaking havoc on the Eastern Seaboard, Dean of Admission Greg Roberts said U-Va. wanted to give families more time “if in fact this is going to be as devastating to some areas as some people think.”
For the second day in a row -- and for just the fourth time in a decade -- the University of Virginia has canceled classes in response to the anticipated affects of the former Hurricane Sandy.
Many of the state's colleges and universities opted to shut down Monday based on the dire forecast of rain, wind and snow, but others weathered the uncertainty and chose not to call off class.