Quotes U.Va. politics professor Larry Sabato, director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics.
University of Virginia students are creating winged monsters and gnarly creatures with gaping maws this year. It’s part of a program that teaches them about the art of making movie creatures.
The University of Virginia and Vonage are challenging students to discover the next step in social messaging, and the right idea will pay off big. There is $25,000 up for grabs for UVA students trying to come up with a new social media craze.
You might think that a fight over smartphones has nothing in common with a spat over stilettos. But in fact, both are about a critical frontier in copying and competition: using design to gain control over function – and thereby gain control over markets. (Article by U.Va. law professor Christopher Sprigman and a colleague.)
U.Va.'s McIntire School of Commerce listed among the top 10 in the nation.
“Patriotism is very emotional. When people are scared — and essentially they’re scared about where our country is going — they are prone to relate to that argument,” said Barbara Perry, a senior fellow who studies the presidency at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
At the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, meanwhile, two-year M.B.A. applications rose by 9%. Sara Neher, assistant dean of M.B.A. admissions, says a new marketing plan and higher rankings has led to more, and better-qualified, applicants.
Leave it to a guy who spent his youth in Charlottesville to find a way to bring new life to two art forms most critics have written off as unpopular or dying: the concept album and the American literary novel. (Article profiles Ben Arthur, a former Echols Scholar who is now an author and musician.)
On Monday, University of Virginia staff turned out for the first day of the Hoo's Well@ Biometric Screening event. It is a chance to get their health checked and make some extra cash.
Heywood Fralin recently retired as a member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors. Fralin also won attention in the art world when he and wife Cynthia announced plans to give their collection of American paintings to UVA.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan will present her faculty salary proposal to the UVA Board of Visitors this week. It's a plan that could use some of the endowment fund to cover those paychecks.
Rock the Vote teamed up with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics trying to get young people to vote. They used music, live performances and free giveaways to encourage students and residents to register.
The University of Virginia School of Law's new Transactional Law Clinic is intended as a win-win for participating law and business students. The business students will receive free legal advice on their start-up ventures, while the law students gain experience advising clients about the myriad legal issues that come with starting a business.
The CEO of a major American communications company on Monday challenged University of Virginia students to develop the next generation of social messaging ideas and technologies.
The 2010 study “When Marriage Disappears,” a publication of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Institute for American Values, tells the story. In the 1970s, 73 percent of adults with a high-school degree or some college were in intact first marriages. In the 2000s, 45 percent were. In the 1970s, 50 percent of blacks at that level of education were in intact first marriages. In the 2000s, 33 percent were.
Kyle Kondik, who follows U.S. House races for the nonpartisan Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said national Democrats breathed a sign of relief when DelBene beat Burner.
Congress returns to a transformed landscape since the August recess and political conventions — with President Obama enjoying a bounce after the Democrats gathering in Charlotte and Republican Mitt Romney living through a post-convention thud. Larry Sabato, the University of Virginia political scientist, agrees that the Republicans should "get out of town as soon as possible, and keep a low profile, no gaffes, no outrageous Todd Akin-style statements [about rape], no scandals."
The Chicago teachers' strike is putting President Barack Obama's re-election campaign in a bind, pitting unions loyal to him against officials with ties to the White House. "The Obama campaign and the White House hope Mayor Emanuel will solve the problem quickly, so it will go away," said Larry Sabato, a political analyst with the University of Virginia.
Despite disappointing new jobs data, the latest polls show current US President Barack Obama pulling ahead of Republican rival Mitt Romney. Is it a turning point in the election campaign? France24.com spoke with top prognosticator Dr. Larry Sabato, a U.Va. Politics professor.