“There’s no historic precedent for Republicans winning the White House without winning Ohio,” said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia, author of the forthcoming book “The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President.”
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Walker “passed his first test” — in part by showing he could go through a two-hour debate without a major gaffe.
By Robert F. Turner, a University of Virginia professor who was chairman of the Jefferson-Hemings Scholars Commission and is editor of “The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy” (2011). Turner says the assumption that Thomas Jefferson was pro-slavery is not close to the truth.
The University of Virginia’s policy calls on the vice president of research to make the call in cases where it may not be clear-cut. According to the policy, U.Va.’s administration “normally will relinquish any claim to an invention or discovery which is judged by the Vice President for Research not to be the product of University research.”
Dr. Matt Trowbridge, a University of Virginia physician and professor, and research partner Chris Pyke, of the U.S. Green Building Council, aim to take the concept of building for health and apply it to the mainstream construction industry. The U.Va. School of Medicine recently was awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to begin this work.
The scores provide a snapshot of what a student knew in a particular subject, but school leaders and parents should delve deeper to learn more, according to Tonya Moon, a professor in the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education.
Five years ago, the federal government announced it would begin fining hospitals if Medicare patients had to come back after being discharged. Some hospital administrators feared they would lose millions, but the University of Virginia’s Medical Center reports dramatic reductions in readmissions.
Led by assistant professor of radiology Jason Druzgal, researchers recommend that the NCAA follow the lead of the NFL, which, in conjunction with the players’ union, limits teams to essentially one full-pad, full-contact practice per week.
Tyler Scott Drumheller spent part of his childhood in Germany before attending the University of Virginia. He graduated in 1974 with a history degree and did postgraduate work in Chinese at Georgetown University before being hired by the CIA in 1979.
Val Brelinski recently released her first novel, “The Girl Who Slept with God.” She graduated from Northwest Nazarene University and the University of Virginia’s Creative Writing Program and was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
University of Virginia Director of Politics Larry Sabato discusses Jon Stewart’s last show and his political legacy. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Matt Miller and Pimm Fox on “Bloomberg Markets.”
As geoscientist Howard Epstein of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville puts it, “what happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic.”
Many political analysts from the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato to data analyst Nate Silver said Fiorina distinguished herself from the other six candidates.
‘Only Trump bombed.’ By Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics
Robert O’Neil, former president of the University of Virginia and a free speech scholar, said he agreed with the judge’s finding that a contract [for Steven Salaita at University of Illinois] existed, and that its terms were “unambiguous.”
The University of Virginia Health System has been honored for the second year in a row with a national award for treating heart attack patients.
A study from the University of Virginia (UVa) School of Medicine details the number and severity of head impacts during an entire college football season.
If you’re aware of the ongoing introvert/ extrovert war, now in its third or fourth generation, you’ll like this. The University of Virginia has come up with a simple test between two photos. One’s a beach and one’s a picture of the mountains.
The office of state Sen. Chap Petersen, D-Fairfax, said Thursday he will introduce a redistricting plan Aug. 17 designed to make six of the state’s 11 congressional districts “highly competitive” or “generally competitive.” The plan is based on a map drawn by University of Virginia students in 2011 that won a competition in which groups were charged with drawing up fair congressional districts.
The video of Johnson’s speech introducing the bill, kept by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, is definitely worth watching today if you have time.