The Cruz-Kasich agreement is unique in modern presidential politics and signaled panic after Trump's sweeping victory in last week's New York primary, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
UVA’s Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center is receiving funds from a Central Virginia health club.
The world these days seems to be split in two, creating a Christian one and a Muslim one. However, Dr. Larycia Hawkins at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies and Culture says it shouldn't be that way. She says, in her experience, a lot of Muslims in the U.S. know more about Christianity than Christians know about Islam.
New science is casting doubt on forensic evidence, like bite marks or hair, used to convict people of crimes. Now, the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia is raising doubts about the way doctors have diagnosed shaken baby syndrome.
UVA baseball coach Brian O'Connor found a familiar face waiting for his team when the Cavaliers landed at the airport in Miami last Thursday. As he had often done before, Bernard Martin made the long drive earlier in the week on a charter bus loaded with much of the baseball team's gear. But that drive to the team hotel proved to be anything but routine.
Ruffin McNeill doesn't require an alarm clock. "I wake up at 4:15 every morning. No alarm or nothing. Dress, boom, I'm out the door,'' McNeill said. "I can't wait to get here and go to work.'' "Here'' is the University of Virginia's McCue Center, a sprawling athletic complex where the 57-year-old McNeill has started yet another chapter in a college coaching career that is nearly four decades long.
McAuliffe said he consulted with Attorney General Mark R. Herring and A.E. Dick Howard, an expert on the Virginia constitution and professor at UVA School of Law. Howard said unequivocally that McAuliffe has the authority to restore rights for a large group rather than an individual.
“If you look at the makeup of the population being affected by this development, it’s definitely a Democratic-leaning demographic,” said Geoffrey Skelley, an analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “But it’s important not to overstate this. … It’s difficult to know how many of these individuals will register.”
A.E. Dick Howard, a UVA legal scholar and chief draftsman of the state constitution when it was revamped in 1971, advised McAuliffe that his order is legal. He said in an interview that McAuliffe’s action “buries the last ghost” of the 1902 Virginia convention that produced a constitution mandating a poll tax, literacy test and complicated registration requirements.
While civic crowdfunding campaigns are probably not useful for major infrastructure projects, they can fill a niche for small needs, said Tedd Povar, associate director for the Virginia Institute of Government at UVA.
Regina D. Rush, a UVA reference librarian, wanted to learn more about her ancestors, but knew that records for African-Americans before the Civil War are scarce. As it turned out, the answers to some of her most pressing questions lay not far from her desk.
In this week's “Show and Tell C'Ville,” Ravi Respeto talks with Dorrie Fontaine. Fontaine, dean of the UVA Nursing School, says one thing she makes sure her students learn is compassionate care.
"All the money in the world is not worth what a good presidential candidate would be worth," UVA political analyst Kyle Kondik said. “The members who pay the price for extremism at the top of the ticket are not the extreme members."
Gun violence is usually measured in the cold calculation of deaths and injuries. But that familiar yardstick misses a lot. “It’s just not the whole picture,” said Jennifer Doleac, an assistant professor of public policy at UVA, who studies the connection between gunfire and crime. “There’s a lot more gun violence than what is reflected in homicide rates.”
A discovery by a team of researchers at UVA may prove crucial in the creation of a male birth control drug. The team recently found a way to isolate and manufacture an enzyme found only in spermatid cells, which can develop into sperm cells.
(Editorial) With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) did his best Friday to scrap the ban on voting by ex-felons. No less an authority than UVA legal scholar A.E. Dick Howard, the primary draftsman of the commonwealth’s revised, 1971 constitution, said Mr. McAuliffe’s order was legally sound.
Members of the National Eating Disorders Association met at UVA’s Nameless Field Saturday to raise awareness about the treatment and prevalence of the illness.
The Charlottesville Fire Department is going door to door through the Belmont neighborhood as part of a campaign called Project Smoke Alarm. It
The University of Virginia has a new Sustainability Plan that includes specific long- and short-term goals to increase sustainability awareness on and off campus, stewardship and reducing the environmental impact of University operations.
Do curfews really work? New research from UVA’s Jennifer L. Doleac and Jillian B. Carr of Purdue University suggests they don’t, and in fact may be counterproductive to public safety.