“Two of the big trends in humanities education now are original undergraduate research and teaching in classrooms with the original textual artifacts,” said Michael F. Suarez, a UVA English professor and the director of Rare Book School. For example, Suarez’s students can find an image of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” on the Internet and then examine dozens of 18th-century versions of the pamphlet in the University’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.
In the midst of a national controversy surrounding racial inequality and civil rights, members of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association unveiled a 150-pound bronze marker July 12 to commemorate the first African-American student ever admitted to UVA.
UVA researchers say students from the high school class of 2014 who received the text reminders attempted a higher number of course credits, earned more credits and completed more courses during their first year of college.
"I'm old enough to have closely followed the 1964 and 1972 presidential campaigns, so I've seen the parties commit suicide before,” said Larry Sabato, a UVA professor of political science. “But in those two years, Presidents Johnson and Nixon were very unlikely to lose, so it wasn't as though a party was throwing away a winnable election. Not so in 2016. With a solid, appealing ticket, Republicans would have had a good shot at retaking the White House. Instead, they nominated an extremely controversial candidate, who appears quite unlikely to win, at least from the...
Hispanic criticism of Trump is as much about style as policy, some analysts said. "It's the way he talks about Latinos," said Nicole Hemmer, a political historian and research associate at the University of Virginia. "That sort of thing lingers on with voters."
UVA media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan was a finalist for dean of the University of Texas’s Moody College of Communications. Due to concerns about campus carry, he withdrew his candidacy. "Classrooms are a special place in the world, not unlike a church or a temple, where we can argue freely and frankly and be unafraid of the sort of change in the environment that a weapon brings," Vaidhyanathan said. “If you’re in a heated discussion with students and you have the faintest concern that someone might be armed, you might dial back your emotion....
Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says Republican legislatures have been solidly against expanding Medicaid, even though it had some support among Republican governors.
One of the most important systems in the human body is the lymph system, through which immune cells travel to places where they’re needed to fight pathogens. But one crucial part of the body, scientists thought, was cut off from the lymph system: no connection had ever been found between lymph vessels and the brain. Now, UVA scientists have discovered lymph vessels in the brain, along with evidence that these pathways could allow the immune system to control behavior and personality.
Dorrie K. Fontaine – dean of UVA’s School of Nursing, Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing and associate chief nursing officer at UVA Health Systems – is at the forefront of a cutting-edge initiative to find and implement remedies for what ails nurses and doctors.
In “Virginia’s Millennials and the 2016 Election,” published in the UVA Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Virginia News Letter, authors of the article addressed how the state’s millennials could be significant players in this election.
Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, pulled Neilsen ratings for conventions going back to 1960 and compared them to who went on to win. Of the 14 conventions held during this time frame, the ratings winner prevailed at the polls seven times, according to his analysis. "Based on the past results and ratings, there really isn't reason to see convention ratings as predictive of anything," Skelly said.
UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato said Pence doesn’t bring any electoral votes with him, but, looking at recent history, not a single VP nominee from 2000 to 2012 brought any swing states to their party. “We don’t have normal years anymore. He’s a governor. Why not?” Sabato said. “The only unusual part of it is that he was running for re-election.”
The ad hoc tribunal handling the South China Sea arbitration has no legal relationship with the Permanent Court of Arbitration, experts said at the Public International Law Colloquium on Maritime Disputes Settlement held here at the weekend. The ad hoc tribunal is rather an arbitration set up under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Myron Nordquist, professor of the University of Virginia, said Saturday.
While Trump has made some unorthodox to-dos, many of his pledges are fairly conventional. Promises to cut taxes and fight terrorists are the type of promises any politician might make, said Larry Sabato, who directs UVA’s Center for Politics. “But this has been overshadowed by his unusual profile and approach,” Sabato said.
“This speakers list is very different, that’s for sure,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “There are some regular pols on there, and most nominees feature their family, but this is more like a family gathering or a minor celebrity fest or a variety show than a political convention.”
Observers are hopeful there won’t be confrontations anywhere near the level that erupted at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, but any conflict between protesters and police – or between Trump’s supporters and his critics – will bring in viewers. “There’s bound to be some scuffling and some fighting and some tear gas,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “How much of the coverage will be of that? Will the cameras break away from the podium and go to 10,000 people battling with police?”
Steamy love letters. Jazz. Scandal. Psychics. Newspapers. The Hope Diamond. In the newest episode of the Presidential podcast, historian Nicole Hemmer of UVA's Miller Center helps guide us through the wild life and presidency of Warren G. Harding.
UVA political scientist Larry Sabato said parties set up counter-conventions to keep up with the 24-hour news cycle. "You have to respond quickly and thoroughly," he said. "If you don't, it will get away from you. The press will move on to a dozen other things."
Forecasters are nearly unanimous in thinking the race for Iowa’s six electoral votes will be close. Only the Crystal Ball, a well-regarded project of Larry Sabato and the UVA Center for Politics, lists Iowa as “leaning Democratic.”
For meeting national guidelines to provide fast, high-quality stroke care, the UVA Health System’s stroke program received two national awards from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.