“This suggests the criticism that Obama has no compelling second-term agenda was taking hold — and may be keeping some remaining undecideds from moving Obama’s way,” said Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia.
"This fight is going to be fierce all the way to Nov. 6, and neither side will concede Virginia," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, noting that the state is critically important to Romney, especially if he can't gain ground in Ohio.
(Post by Lauren Scott Miller) I serve on the University of Virginia's museum advisory board where I'm working with a group of fellow alumni to create a NYC-based UVA collectors group, the Mad Toms, which will directly support and raise awareness for this budding art museum and its programming.
It is also supported by the work of the economic historian Alan Taylor, of the University of Virginia, included in a recent paper entitled "The Great Leveraging."
The University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service is conducting a study of the economic impact of agriculture in the Dan River Region.
As long as your mobile phone is turned on, it emits radiation that enables it to communicate with base stations, according to Louis Bloomfield, PhD, professor of physics at the University of Virginia and author of How Everything Works: Making Physics Out of the Ordinary. “The radiation emitted, however, is stronger and more frequent when you’re talking or messaging.”
"It's been great. It's actually started a lot of great political discussions, a lot of people watching the debates, just with how close it is. I think if it wasn't this close, that there wouldn't be as much of an active political discussion about it, " said Marley Hall, a University of Virginia student.
During his introduction of guest speaker Dr. David Brenin, a surgical oncologist at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville and the UVa Specialty Care-Culpeper facility, Kirk said thanks to the partnership between CRHS and UVa Health System, “quality service is available right here in Culpeper.”
A Q&A-format interview with U.Va. history professor and Civil War expert Gary Gallagher, who keynotes a conference in Boise on "Why the Civil War Matters" on Thursday.
Kyle Kondik, of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, says polls show Tisei is in the lead. “It seems like there’s kind of a perfect storm brewing in which Tisei might actually be able to win — in fact is favored to win at this point — although I wouldn’t count Tierney out,” Kondik said.
"Virginia’s educational level among whites is higher than Georgia’s." -- Larry Sabato, a national political expert at the University of Virginia, in an Oct. 16 article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. We rate Sabato’s statement "True."
After two decades of dealing, a sprawling Charlottesville-area farm recently came into the possession of UVA, practically completing a sort of university-owned western wall around Charlottesville and stoking development concerns in the surrounding neighborhoods.
TIME’s cover package this week is on reinventing college in general and specifically on whether a new breed of online megacourses can finally offer higher education to more people for less money. That story dives deep into Udacity, which was co-founded by a former Stanford professor. I’ve been looking into rival Coursera, which has partnered with dozens of prestigious schools, including Princeton, Duke and the University of Virginia.
The website On Being a Black Lawyer has published its Black Student’s Guide to Law Schools. Included in the guide is a list of the 25 law schools which it editors believe offer the best opportunities for Black students to succeed in law school. Harvard ranked first in the rankings. Historically Black Howard University School of Law ranked second followed by the Georgetown University Law Center. Other law schools in the top 10 include Columbia, the University of Virginia, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Alabama, Northwestern, and Stanford.
Henry Martin was reportedly born into slavery on the day that Thomas Jefferson died and went to work at the University of Virginia as an enslaved janitor. He would later win his freedom– as well as the affection of generations of faculty and students– in his long-running role as UVA's bell-ringer. Over the last summer break, 102 years after he retired, Martin was commemorated with a plaque embedded in a sidewalk on the historic Grounds.
You can't judge a book by its cover. That's how the old saying goes, but experts at the University of Virginia Rare Book School say maybe you can. Julia Miller conserves rare books and studies book bindings. This week, she's paying a special visit to UVA to teach the community about why a book's cover matters.
Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said McMahon's decision to go after Obama voters makes sense. "Obviously if she's going to win, she needs people to do what people in the ad say they're going to do: vote for Obama and for her," he said. "The polls indicate President Obama is 10 to 12 points ahead in Connecticut."
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia, says: “The area is diverse in race, origin, etc, and thus is more politically liberal.”
As the third presidential debate got under way Monday night, some University of Virginia students said they had no interest in watching, while others said they did want to hear what the candidates had to say about foreign policy.
The University of Virginia’s accreditation status will be reviewed in the wake of this summer’s leadership crisis. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, SACS, has been looking into the summer’s events and whether the university met standards for integrity, governing boards and the faculty’s role in governance.