President Obama picked up a modest post-convention polling bump yesterday, but experts don’t expect it to last. Three separate polls showed Obama making slight gains in the wake of last week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC, with Rasmussen’s tracking poll revealing a 2 percentage-point lead. “Convention bounces almost always disappear,” said Larry Sabato, a political-science professor at the University of Virginia.
You don't have to have your television on very long to get a 30-second reminder that Virginia is one of America's most hotly contested political battlegrounds.. "There's a real potential for corruption in politics if you don't know where cash is coming from," said Bob Gibson, executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia. "People can take money and make bargains, and they can be making bargains with an unseen entity."
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan spoke at the Jefferson Innovation Summit Friday in Charlottesville. During her speech she encouraged other leaders to get out of the single-discipline mindset and to push themselves to work together to take their learning and teaching to new levels.
Enrollment for the University of Virginia Darden School's open online course "Grow to Greatness" is growing fast. The course is a joint venture between U.Va.'s business school and Coursera, a company that partners with universities to offer online courses to anyone, for free.
Continuing support of entrepreneurs, big thinkers and science, technology, math and engineering programs will position Virginia’s business climate for continued growth and innovation, Gov. Bob McDonnell said Friday. McDonnell’s remarks, delivered outdoors in Flagler Court at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, capped the 2012 Jefferson Innovation Summit for the Commonwealth, a day-long event that brought together 60 business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, educators and legislators from around Virginia and the nation.
Sen. R. Creigh Deeds and Del. David J. Toscano, joined by Del. Steve Landes, will host a town hall meeting to discuss university board governance and potential legislation for the 2013 General Assembly session.
Ralph Sampson is a Naismith Hall of Famer. The 7-foot-4 former Virginia star was the first of a dozen inductees to speak at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony at Springfield Symphony Hall on Friday night.
A commentary By Kyle Kondik, Larry J. Sabato and Geoffrey Skelley of U.Va.'s Center for Politics.
Eric Herrold expected catcalls as he walked in his Penn State shirt for 30 minutes on the way to the University of Virginia's Scott Stadium this morning. "I didn't hear a negative word," he said. "They were very respectful -- more respectful than normal, actually."
Commentary from Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman, law professors at, respectively, UCLA and the University of Virginia. and the authors of “The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation.”
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan has a message for students as the school year starts: Please stop trying to climb the scaffolding around the Rotunda.
Eliza Gilligan is Book Conservator for University Library Collections at the University of Virginia Library in Charlottesville, Virginia. Fine Art at About.com invited Ms. Gilligan to discuss book conservation and how to build a career in art conservation.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said there are eight swing states and has predicted that Virginia is likely to decide the race.
The Cavalier Marching Band hosted a tailgate to launch a fundraising campaign before the University of Virginia took on Penn State Saturday. Moonbounces, slides and giveaways played a part in the official launch of the, "Marching Into the Future Campaign." The effort raises funds to provide scholarships and maintain uniforms and instruments for the band.
After nearly three decades of nurturing Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest and leading the historical site into the 21st century, U.Va. alumna Lynn Beebe is taking her cue from the Founding Father and transitioning into her own personal retreat.
There is a place in Charlottesville that soothes the most tired of souls. It is enclosed in serpentine walls, impervious to stress, to-do lists and life’s unpleasantries. It has perpetually open, white-painted gates, through which lovers wander over paths of fine gravel under the moonlight, still too shy to hold hands. This place is in the University of Virginia Pavilion Gardens, which will render you hyper-aware of beauty, goodness and transcendence in this lush landscape of peaceful wonder.
September 6, 2012 The Travel and Leisure Magazine ranked the University of Virginia has one of the world’s most beautiful universities. The magazine cited Thomas Jefferson’s architecture, the nearly two acre lawn surrounded by the academic village and the Rotunda.
The University of Virginia is one of the schools leading the charge in a highly competitive program. Fifty-five UVA graduates joined the Teach for America program this year.
Three local businesses on Thursday were named winners in the University of Virginia Darden Business School's Tayloe Murphy Resilience Award Competition.
The University of Virginia Department of Drama will be counting down to the spring opening of the new 300-seat Ruth Caplin Theatre with a busy season of plays and musicals.