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.
The forecast for Saturday in Virginia Beach calls for sunny skies, a high around 60 degrees and only a slight chance of rain. For the University of Virginia Hullabahoos, this is very good news. After all, the all-male a cappella group was snowed out in January, when they were scheduled to perform at a benefit for the Virginia Beach-based Wings Over America Scholarship Foundation.
"The aggressive name-calling and mocking we have seen on both sides of this campaign has a ripple effect on our society, affecting both adults and children who learn by example how you achieve power and status by belittling your opponent," Dewey Cornell, a UVA forensic clinical psychologist and education professor, wrote in an email. "I expect the effects are not just in the classroom, but in the workplace and in homes across the country."
The votes have been counted and Hillary Clinton has been declared the winner. Of this mock election. Woodglen School seventh- and eighth-grade students took part in a nationwide mock election conducted by the UVA Center for Politics Youth Leadership Initiative.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise dedicated the plaza of its new $37 million library in honor of John T. Casteen III, a former UVA president who strengthened ties between the schools and helped guide enrollment and facilities growth at the Wise campus.
The University of Virginia has announced that it is creating an endowed professorship to honor the late Julian Bond. Professor Bond, who was a civil rights pioneer and led the NAACP for 12 years, taught at the University for 20 years.
The article profiles a virtual driving simulator experience offered by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles in partnership with the UVA Health System’s Virginia Driving Safety Laboratory.
Supermassive black holes are usually hidden away at the center of galaxies. But researchers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have discovered a black hole surrounded by relatively little galactic material. It's nearly naked, they say. "We were looking for orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes, with one offset from the center of a galaxy, as telltale evidence of a previous galaxy merger," James Condon, a scientist at NRAO and UVA astronomy professor, said in a news release.
For more details of the China-Hollywood Film summit and recent development of Chinese movie industry, CCTV America’s Mike Walter spoke with Aynne Kokas, assistant professor in UVA’s Department of Media Studies.
International Business Times called this week the managing editor at "Sabato's Crystal Ball," the UVA Center for Politics' non-partisan campaign newsletter that predicts election results. Kyle Kondik tried to help make sense of the election and the last-minute push from the candidates to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.
Former presidents have generally endorsed their party's nominee, but there are instances of some dragging their feet or distancing themselves, said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
If she is elected, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s distinction as the first female president will almost certainly be accompanied by an asterisk noting she is also the first presidential candidate ever to assume office while under federal criminal investigation. “You will have no honeymoon,” UVA law professor Saikrishna Prakash said. “You will have people who think that a criminal got into the White House again.”
Donald Trump has closed the gap with Hillary Clinton in many national polls, but he faces a far tougher challenge in the Electoral College, analysts said Wednesday. “We still see Clinton winning. You can reasonably argue about the size of the victory – and there are many contrary indications – but she’s still the clear favorite,” said Professor Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Co-written by Aditya Bamzai, a UVA associate professor of law) Is the FBI director independent of the White House? Successful directors are not tools of the president, and they understand that the FBI functions best when it maintains its distance from politics. In the end, though, the FBI director serves at the president’s pleasure.
The 29th annual Virginia Film Festival begins Thursday with more than 120 films to be shown over four days. Festival Director Jody Kielbasa said the event boasts a particularly strong lineup this year.
UVA and the Inova Health System announced a major partnership Wednesday that will include a $112 million research institute and a regional U. Va. School of Medicine campus at Inova.
Inova Health System and the University of Virginia Wednesday announced plans for a new research partnership and plans to bring a regional campus of the university’s medical school to Northern Virginia.
“There is a whole lot of healing that needs to be done after the election,” he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, shortly before he spoke at the University of Virginia, his son’s alma mater. “All this division that has been created needs to be dealt with so we can all recover as a nation, come together and move forward.”