This blog post contains several impresasive images of U.Va., shot for the recent cover story of the New York Times Magazine.
Tickets will go on sale Thursday morning for three main events of the 19th annual Virginia Festival of the Book, which is set for March 20 to 24.
With his new-found free time, Couper says he will focus on volunteering, including with his work on the board of Goucher College in Baltimore, and doing some fundraising for his alma mater, the University of Virginia.
A new portrait of the founding father challenges the long-held perception of Thomas Jefferson as a benevolent slaveholder.
Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia historian and presidential pundit, said that as much as 95 percent of the electorate is so locked into its viewpoint that virtually no individual comment, or gaffe, will change very many votes.
Living in the town where the main campus of the University of Virginia is situated, about every two weeks each fall, I get to see firsthand how the city morphs in preparation for a U.Va. home football game. The hotels book up, the restaurants fill to the brim, there are more people walking around campus, and the main roads in and out of town become a little more cumbersome to traverse.
Thousands of volunteers are taking a day off work to work even harder helping their neighbors in central Virginia. The United Way's Day of Caring continues to support schools and nonprofits in Louisa County as they rebuild from last year's earthquake. "It's very rewarding," said Liz Smith with the University of Virginia Physicians Group. "We're out helping the community, helping the children and in their learning processes."
The University of Virginia Student Council passed a resolution to try and cut out an unofficial addition to the “Good Ol’ Song.”
After Labriola said last month that he was trying to get Romney to come to Connecticut as a battleground state, national analyst Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia said it would never happen because Connecticut would remain as a blue state.
A center based at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, called “Youth-Nex,” awarded $153,715 to four UVa. research teams .
The University of Virginia and Virginia Tech are jointly opening a regional educational center near the entrance to City Center. The University of Virginia Eastern Regional Center at Newport News is slated to open this fall.
This newspaper often reports announcements of million-dollar gifts to Virginia's universities. Benefactors have blessed the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University and the state's other public four-year schools.
It’s hard for Alex Ohanian to believe that just a few years ago he was roughing it in a rented Medford apartment, a time when little more than the Monday night pizza special in Davis Square could tear him away from his pet project: a website called Reddit.
"In my campaigns class, I always tell students that polls finally start to make sense around mid-September," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.
Obama's Virginia strategy works when the population is wealthier and more educated than average and includes a large number of minorities and young voters, said Larry Sabato, political scientist at the University of Virginia.
Margaret Baldwin's acclaimed 2010 play "Night Blooms" — about two families caught up in the civil rights movement in Selma, Ala. — takes its title from a variety of cactus that blossoms, suddenly, after nightfall.
"The most obvious thing at the debate is to not say anything inordinately stupid," said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst with the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
The number of times his administration declined to name China a currency manipulator "is a check on whether Obama administration trade policy has succeeded by the light of his own 2008 promises. It has not," said Philip Levy, a Romney supporter who teaches global economics at the Darden School of Business at University of Virginia.
Quotes Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.