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The University of Virginia field hockey team defeated archrival North Carolina 4-2 on Sunday to win the 2016 ACC championship. It’s the first league title for a Cavalier field hockey team in the school’s history.

Some others saw a much tougher side. “Look, there’s no question that she was smart, she was dedicated, she understood the issues and people were intimated by her,” former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta says in “Inside the Clinton White House,” a newly published oral history of the administration by Russell Riley of UVA’s Miller Center. “There were several meetings where she basically walked in and let everybody have it, very different from what the president would do. If she thought something was going wrong, she’d say it. She was much m...

Professor Sidney Milkis is based at the University of Virginia, which is in a swing state that both candidates desperately want to win. He said that tensions were higher than he had ever known in his 37 years at the institution.

American politics won’t get any sunnier after the polls close Tuesday, as the new president will face an even bigger challenge than getting elected – governing a polarized country and dealing with a gridlocked Congress. Presidential historian Barbara Ann Perry compares the task facing either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump to the one Abraham Lincoln confronted in 1860 as the nation lurched toward civil war. “That’s the last time the country has experienced a time when it was ungovernable,” said Perry, director of presidential studies and co-chair of the Presidenti...

As Dr. Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, told The Straits Times: "It's like trying to put toothpaste back into the tube. At best she (Mrs. Clinton) can hope that, if she still continues to lose votes over the issue, this exoneration would stop the bleeding."

The shifting demographics have reshaped the presidential map and taken some of the shine off Ohio’s status as a bellwether in presidential elections: The state has picked the president in every election since going against John F. Kennedy in 1960. “Ohio is both A) historically a little more Republican than the nation and B) demographically friendly to Trump because it’s whiter than the nation, and its white electorate has a slightly lower education level than the white electorate nationally,” said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics and author of “The B...

Jesuit Fr. Gerald Fogarty, who teaches religious studies and history at UVA, also said Francis’ earlier selection of Tobin as a new cardinal shows that the pope “is trying to moderate the extreme division within the [U.S.] hierarchy.”

Student volunteers from UVA’s Darden School of Business are building a better community, providing a makeover to Virginia's oldest preschool and a camp for children with special needs.

"Ballot initiatives often are leading indicators of trends, especially on social issues," said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center of Politics. "The ultimate trend-setter is California, partly because it is a mega-state that has so many ballot issues every year."

(Commentary) The $112 million partnership to bring a UVA School of Medicine campus to the Inova health care complex in Fairfax is an important addition to an emerging industry in the greater Washington region.

John Risher is a member of UVA’s football statistics crew, an unpaid position he has held for over half a century. But his connection to Virginia football goes beyond numbers and long precedes his involvement with the statistics crew.

A teacher crisis could be coming as soon as 2020, according to some education industry leaders. Gov. Terry McAuliffe has highlighted the importance of education, preparing students for jobs in Virginia and keeping those students here when they graduate. But recruiting and retaining teachers is becoming a big problem in the commonwealth and across the country.

The University of Virginia has set the benchmark for success at the collegiate level and that prosperity is translating to the professional ranks this week at the Charlottesville Challenger. The contingent of talented Cavaliers, led by freshman Carl Soderlund, are sending a message to the established veterans and surging #NextGen stars on the ATP Challenger Tour.

Judith White, a virologist at the UVA School of Medicine who was not involved with the work, praised the two complementary studies’ findings as “quite credible” and said it was “surprising that so small of a change could cause that much damage.”

A forecast Thursday by Larry Sabato, an election analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, also said Clinton was favored to win, finding 293 electoral votes leaning toward or safely in her column, compared to 214 for Trump.

Inova Health System and the University of Virginia announced a new partnership on Wednesday to bring a genomics and research institute and medical school to Inova’s Merrifield campus, a move that county officials say will turn Fairfax County into a leader in medical research and the personalized health industry.

Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key Administration posts: Elizabeth K. Meyer – Member, Commission of Fine Arts. Meyer is the Merrill D. Peterson Professor of Landscape Architecture at the UVA School of Architecture.

An October study authored by Geoffrey Skelley, the associate editor of UVA political scientist Larry Sabato’s website, “Crystal Ball,” found that “Clinton and Trump have the highest unfavorable ratings of any major party nominees in modern history,” which complicates life for each when they linger in the limelight for lengthy periods.

The challenging electoral terrain is something Trump has inherited, said Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist. “The Republican path to the White House is always narrow, at least in the modern era,” Sabato said. “So 29 votes – there’s no way for him to make it up on this (2016 electoral) map. He just can’t do it.”

Falls Church-based Inova Health System and the University of Virginia formed a research- and education-based partnership.