Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said it would be unfair to characterize Carter’s as a failed presidency.“Carter served at a tumultuous time, both domestically and abroad. It wasn’t an easy time to be president. After Vietnam and Watergate, trust in government and politicians was at a new low, and the so-called ‘imperial presidency’ was over,” Sabato said.
“Individual employees can be exempt, but the county cannot be; someone has to issue licenses,” said Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia who has helped write state religious freedom bills, in an email to HuffPost. “Elected clerks in counties where the whole county is refusing to issue licenses will eventually resign or give in.”
Nearly ten years ago, NASA launched the New Horizons Mission to Pluto. And next Tuesday, July 14th, the spacecraft will reach its closest approach to the dwarf planet before passing by and continuing on to other icy formations far beyond what we have explored before. WMRA’s Kara Lofton talked with Anne Verbisce and Alan Howard, two University of Virginia scientists involved with the mission.
These days, if you have spent much time on a college campus, you have probably heard of microaggressions. The term dates to the 1970s, but only in recent years has it become prominent among campus activists and others on the political left. Microaggressions are remarks perceived as sexist, racist, or otherwise offensive to a marginalized social group. Those popularizing the concept say that even though the offenses are minor and sometimes unintentional, repeatedly experiencing them causes members of minority groups great harm, which must be redressed. But what accounts for microaggression comp...
When the temperatures goes up in the summer, those behind University of Virginia's Pegasus have to constantly monitor the temperature. "We're fortunate with this aircraft, the aircraft is an Augusta 109 which is a high performing aircraft," said Michael Wasilko, Flight Supervisor to the Pegasus, "What makes the Augusta really unique is our gear box." That gear box is especially useful on hot days, with more heat there's less oxygen to burn and less power for an engine. There are also fewer air particles to lift a craft, but luckily for patients lo...
Various researchers have created ways to transmit wireless information from LED light fittings, to act as a form of enhancement to Wi-Fi based networks known as "Li-Fi." But now engineers at the University of Virginia (U.Va) have come up with a new twist on this theme – they claim to have created an algorithm that makes almost any device fitted with standard visible- light LEDs able to communicate with other equipment with similar LEDs.
What happens at college radio stations over the summer. Do they shut down? Are there run exactly the same as during the school year? I mention University of Virginia’s college radio stations and how the quiet of summer led to an increase in community volunteers at WTJU and ultimately led to the creation of a new student-run LPFM station.
The University of Virginia Alumni Association has created a new webpage for job-seeking alumni and employee-seeking employers.
The long journey of NASA’s New Horizons mission began in 2006 aboard America’s biggest, baddest rocket, with every conceivable booster. On July 14, the spacecraft will come the closest to Pluto during this historic flyby. Reporter Charles Fishburne interviews U.Va. geologist Alan Howard about his role in the mission.
After a hospital error, two pairs of Colombian identical twins were raised as two pairs of fraternal twins. This is the story of how they found one another — and of what happened next. Virtually wherever researchers have looked, they have found that identical twins’ test results are more similar than those of fraternal twins. The studies point to the influence of genes on almost every aspect of our being (a conclusion so sweeping that it indicates, to some scientists, only that the methodology must be fatally flawed). ‘‘Everything is heritable,’’ says Eric T...
If you were worried the GOP presidential field was going to top out at a measly 17 candidates, never fear: Jim Gilmore is going to be the next Republican to maybe run for the White House. For some reason, Gilmore will wait until the first week of August to make his "formal announcement," the Times-Dispatch reports. University of Virginia political science Professor Larry Sabato predicts that Gilmore's candidacy will be "short or ineffectual."
It’s official: More people are running for a major party’s presidential nomination than ever. Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore said Tuesday that he plans to announce his campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination during the first week of August, making him the 17th candidate on the GOP side. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, noted in a tweet that is a record for the number of presidential candidates for a single political party.
(By Elly Leavitt, a student at the University of Virginia) t’s a stereotype you’re probably all too familiar with: the “spoiled, narcissistic Millennial.” It’s a stereotype is one that people love to toss around — either as a way of dismissing the newer generation or as a way to shift blame for society’s problems onto a new group of people. It is a stereotype reinforced by articles such as the now-famed 2013 TIME story entitled “Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation.” And it is a dangerous stereotype with many holes in its str...
(By Andrew Isaac Burrill, a student at the University of Virginia) With SCOTUS's recent decision to make gay marriage a constitutional right in all states, it obviously became a landmark victory for the gay rights movement for people around the world.
Steve Swanson says he hasn’t yet fully grasped what the U.S. national team accomplished. The United States’ women’s national team wore its traditional colors — white and dark blue — during its undefeated run to the World Cup championship. At no time did the Americans consider changing to University of Virginia navy and orange. But they very easily could have. Three individuals with strong ties to U.Va.’s women’s soccer program played key roles in the Americans’ success: defender Becky Sauerbrunn, who played every minute of every U.S. match; midfi...
Virginia women's soccer coach Steve Swanson is back in his office at UVa, after helping lead the United States national team to the women's World Cup Championship. Swanson was an assistant coach with the national team. He has ties to a lot of the players on the team, but says having former Wahoos Becky Sauerbrunn and Morgan Brian on the team made the championship extra special.
As he arrived at Winnipeg Stadium on June 8, several hours before the United States Women's National Team's World Cup opener with Australia, Virginia women's soccer coach and U.S. assistant Steve Swanson was impressed with what he saw. "I'm very happy for those two," said Swanson of his two former Cavalier pupils, "but I am also very happy because I think the things that I have known and I have seen over the course of my time working with them, I think the whole world now sees. That's a good thing.
(By By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia) The Buzz about Bernie has taken hold on the Democratic side of the 2016 campaign, and it’s easy to see why. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is drawing huge crowds and great poll numbers in the first two states to vote, Iowa and New Hampshire.
Across the nation these days, communities are talking about race — what it has meant in the past, what it means in our lives now and where we go from here. The ARTinstead Festival, to be presented Saturday by Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia, will use workshops, discussions and the pull of art to offer a perspective that’s international, and yet hits close to home.
A new virus in the same family as polio may have caused one of the 100 mystery paralysis cases. The panic that’s resulted from this case study is missing the point: No one has polio. A new case study reported in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases suggests that a different virus may have been responsible for at least one case of virally-induced paralysis. Researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine describe the case of a 6-year-old girl who was admitted to their medical center with weakness of her right arm in fall of last year. When a sample taken ...