Robert H. “Bob” Mincer, the second generation owner of a family-owned and -operated business that has been a fixture on the Corner for nearly 65 years, died of cancer at his home Monday.
“There’s no real way to keep candidates from returning to their own agendas,” said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. “I thought Bob Schieffer did a superb job. He facilitated the discussion without dominating it or siding with either candidate.”
The game was a special one for senior Paige Selenski and she ended up having a special game for the University of Virginia field hockey team. The Cavs defeated Wake Forest 4-0 last Saturday in Charlottesville. The game was chosen by the Virginia players to raise awareness of ovarian and breast cancer and it was dedicated in the memory of Paige’s mother, the late Judy Selenski. Paige scored two goals and had an assist in the game.
A team of researchers led by Shahriar Nirjon at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville embedded a microphone into a set of headphones that listens to the throb of arteries in your ear. That data, as well as activity levels gathered using an accelerometer, is sent over the internet to a recommendation engine which chooses the next song based on the user's current and desired heart rate.
By the 1960s, the state’s rural character had forever changed with more than half of Virginia residents living in urban settings, according to ‘‘Red State, Blue State,’’ an analysis published in July by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
“It’s certainly not going to convert anybody, but President Obama’s problem right now is that Democrats are less excited about this election than Republicans,” said Larry J. Sabato, University of Virginia professor and head of the school’s Center for Politics.
The president was perceived by many to have won the third, but perhaps a tweet from Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said it best. "Glancing down Twitter," he tweeted. "Shocker: All D's think O won, all R's think R won."
“Obviously if you are an incumbent president, you will welcome any good news, and this is good news just two weeks before the election,” says Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “But, and this is a big but, the vast majority of voters have already decided, so a small tick-down in their state unemployment rate is not going to change their minds.”
His voting record in the House qualifies Murphy, 39, as "a standard Democrat," said Kyle Kondik, a political scientist at the University of Virginia Center for Politics and a specialist on the U.S. House.
Nearly 40 percent of the University of Virginia’s arts and sciences professors could retire later this decade, a wave that could carry the school toward an academic crossroads.
The University of Virginia has hired a former executive at Ernst & Young to be its new executive vice president and chief operating officer, a key position that fell vacant this past summer in the wake of the leadership turmoil at the university.
The University of Virginia has been recognized twice this year for its recycling program. Last month the institution received a Bronze Excellence Award for Recycling Systems from the Solid Waste Association of North America.
A longtime corporate executive will be the University of Virginia’s new executive vice president and chief financial officer. Patrick D. Hogan, 60 and a former Ernst & Young executive, fills the spot left by Michael Strine, who resigned after last summer’s leadership crisis at UVa.
Half a century ago, Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev and U.S. President John F. Kennedy squared off in a battle over the balance of world power that came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. How close did we all come to dying? Last night, Khruschev's son Dr. Sergei Khruschev and experts on Soviet-American relations met at the University of Virginia to discuss those 13 days in October, 1962. Their conclusion? We came really damn close.
Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who does research on DNA exoneration, argues that there is a “racial component” to arrest in the United States, so DNA databases may not accurately reflect the population.
The University of Virginia’s governing board most likely will have to meet as a whole the next time it wants to accept a president’s resignation. The proposed new rule, which stemmed from last summer’s leadership crisis at the university, went through the Board of Visitors’ special committee on governance and engagement and its executive committee Friday, but has not yet been approved by the full board. It was one of a raft of changes discussed Friday.
Students at the University of Virginia are getting out their spatulas and heating up their griddles. The ninth annual Pancakes for Parkinson's fundraiser is Saturday.
All of that dust was brought through the Tennessee Valley because of a low pressure system that hovered over the Great Lakes most of the day, said Jerry Stenger, the director of the University of Virginia’s Climatology Office.
Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the US, with 66.7 per cent growth from 2000 to 2010. The percentage of Muslims has grown the most in the highly contested swing state of Virginia, said political scientist Michelle Claiborne of the University of Virginia's Cooper Center.
(Commentary) Even thoughtful and careful historians have taken to referring to Hemings as “Jefferson’s concubine” without an “allegedly” before the phrase. But is it true? Against the prevailing headwinds, it takes guts even to ask. But a team of scholars headed by Robert F. Turner of the University of Virginia School of Law have done so, poking holes in the case and laying out the strong possibility that Jefferson may indeed be innocent of the charges.