Lois Ann Lovern, 75, of Charlottesville died July 5. She began her career with at UVA in June 1958 in the Department of Physics as administrative assistant to the Physics chair, Jesse Beams. In 1974, she moved to the President’s Office, where she worked for four presidents.
James Richard Rubin, 64, died July 6 at UVA Medical Center of injuries sustained from a fall at home. He spent his entire academic career at UVA – first as a graduate student, teaching writing and literature classes in the English department, and then at the Darden School of Business, where he became area coordinator for the management communications course.
The i.Lab at UVA has expanding its boundaries beyond Central Virginia by going virtual. The Virtual i.Lab went live this summer, and it allows entrepreneurs who are currently in the incubator class to connect with UVA mentors and resources around the world.
Irving Gottesman, a psychologist whose groundbreaking studies of twins in the 1960s helped reveal a genetic link to schizophrenia, a finding that upended the prevailing but deeply flawed view of the disorder as a consequence of bad parenting, died June 29 at his home in Edina, Minn. He was 85. Dr. Gottesman taught at the University of Virginia from 1985 to 2001.
Sen. Bob Corker gave up his shot at becoming vice president, but he could still have a future at Donald Trump’s side. Corker’s dealings with Trump, who called Corker “a great friend of mine, somebody respected by everybody,” obviously made a strong impression and have given him influence in Trump’s sphere, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Professor Rachel Harmon of the UVA School of Law points out that police officers cannot know or care within a split second whether a gun in the hands of a suspect comes with a permit, or whether it’s illegal: “Police fear legally carried weapons as well as illegally carried ones. Since generous carry laws likely mean that police will encounter more armed individuals, even randomly, as in a traffic stop, it’s time to think a lot more about the role gun carry laws might play in police fear and police shootings.”
Some of America’s biggest corporations are bailing on this year’s Republican National Convention. “Of course it’s because of Trump,” said Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist who has studied party conventions for more than 30 years. Business executives, he said, don’t want to alienate customers who may be offended by Trump’s statements. ”
“With four months to go in the 2016 general election campaign, national polls suggest that it’s quite possible that the Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump clash may well set a new record for partisan differences between the sexes,” wrote Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a website run by UVA’s Center for Politics.
Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics, lists 18 Democratic vice-presidential possibilities on his “Crystal Ball” politics website. He puts U.S. Sen. Timothy M. Kaine at the top of the list and U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner in 12th position.
Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics, lists 18 Democratic vice-presidential possibilities on his “Crystal Ball” politics website. He puts U.S. Sen. Timothy M. Kaine at the top of the list and U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner in 12th position.
(Co-written by By Nicole Hemmer, a research associate at UVA’s Miller Center) It might seem surprising that the former speaker of the House of Representatives has become one of Trump’s most high-profile foot soldiers and is on the presumptive nominee’s shortlist for vice president. But the two men have far more in common than it would appear.
Using data from the American Bar Association, StartClass created an Acceptance Index to determine which law schools are the toughest to gain admittance to. University of Virginia Law is the hardest public law school to get into.
The UVA Police Department is welcoming six new police officers to the force. Monday morning is day one of police academy.
Ranking fourth was the South, although it had the most overall schools on the list – 202. And many of its institutions, including Georgetown, Duke, Emory, UVA, Johns Hopkins and the University of North Carolina, have excellent reputations.
A discovery by UVA researchers could hold the key to treating a common hospital-acquired infection. Work being done at UVA’s Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health could lead to a new treatment by the end of the calendar year.
Some UVA students stood together in silence to reflect on the tragedies of this week. Two students organized an hour of silence at the McIntire Amphitheater on Grounds Friday evening. The hour was a chance to reflect, pray and breathe during such a turbulent time.
UVA rising senior swimmer Leah Smith is headed to Rio, Brazil after qualifying for the United States Olympic Team in the 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle, and the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. She is the first American UVA swimmer to qualify for three events and the first to qualify for two individual events.
(Editorial) Critics such as House Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford) assert Mr. McAuliffe overreached by forgoing a “case-by-case” review, but those words do not appear in the constitution. That’s also the view of the commonwealth’s foremost authority on the constitution, UVA law professor A.E. Dick Howard, who, as director of the commission charged with revising the constitution nearly 50 years ago, was its primary draftsman.
Veteran political scientist Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics, said he expected most Sanders voters to rally to Clinton. “The polarization we’ll see in the fall will be as intense as we’ve ever seen,” he said. “It’ll push the right to Trump and the left to Clinton. You’ll see consolidation, especially on the Democratic side – the idea of Trump as president will make anyone even slightly left of center vote for Clinton.”