Kim "Kylla" Dylla is not your average fashion designer. She's also not your average academic or heavy metal musician, and yet she's all of those things. Dylla makes custom stage and ready-to-wear clothing for musicians and their fans out of her Charlottesville, Virginia, home. ... That was about three years ago, while Dylla was still working in digital humanities at U.Va. creating three-dimensional models for Rome Reborn, an international initiative that uses computer technology to bring the ancient city back to life.
Former retirement system board member and current University of Virginia economics professor Ed Burton voiced skepticism that full funding will ever come to fruition.“It’s a tradition that one group of politicians promises something is going to be done by a future group of politicians … and there’s always a reason they can’t do it,” he said.
Oppenheimer now starts each semester by describing his research on note-taking, and very few students go on to use laptops in his class. Some instructors go even further. University of Virginia history professor James Loeffler banned laptops from his classrooms a few years ago, fed up with how the devices turned even attentive students from big thinkers into transcribers. “My policy stems from my own critical reasoning—precisely what I am trying to teach students—not social science data,” he said by e-mail. But, he added, “It’s nice to have some reinforcemen...
Kyle Kondik, managing editor for Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said endorsements probably don't matter very much. They can be a way for campaigns to get good press, but he said they probably are not meaningful unless they come from someone prominent or someone from the opposite party.
“They certainly know that the Clintons take note and keep score,” said Larry Sabato, a political historian at the University of Virginia. “This is not a couple that easily forgives and forgets. So this is kiss-and-make-up time for most of these people.”
“It’s an oldie but goody,” says Larry Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, noting that Democrats won the Senate back in 1986 in large part on the strength of their promise to protect those programs.
Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, echoed that assessment, saying a black candidate would have a good chance of winning the Democratic nomination with 40-45 percent black voter pool.
They practically write themselves," said Larry Sabato, who heads the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Gillespie's success as a political insider who helped shape public policy in Washington while earning millions as a lobbyist or consultant is indicative of how the political system works in America today, said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political science professor.
"Christie's got far more serious national problems than this," said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia.
By Larry J. Sabato, university professor of politics and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics
There have been 316 post-conviction DNA-based exonerations to date in the United States. University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett studied the first 250 and published his findings in 2011. Among the findings were that 76 percent of the cases involved at least one mistaken witness identification, and 36 percent of the cases involved mistaken IDs from multiple witnesses.
A 2009 study from the University of Virginia also recognized malnutrition as an “enteric infectious disease with long-term effects on child development.” Enteric means intestine-related.
According to recent research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, researchers determined exercise during pregnancy prevented a damaging epigenetic effect of the mother’s obesity, believed to put chemical marks on genes and lead to diabetes in the offspring.
A company with ties to the University of Virginia plans to start a business in Danville that could bring 127 jobs to the Southside city. The Virginia Tobacco Commission this week approved a $2 million research and development grant to Fermata Energy LLC, a Charlottesville-based corporation created by UVa researchers. Fermata is developing vehicle-to-grid bidirectional chargers that will enable electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids to provide energy storage, according to documents posted on the commission’s website.
May is Tick Borne Disease Awareness month and you may be aware of diseases such as Lyme disease which can result from a bite. But researchers at the University of Virginia's School of Medicine say they have found a connection between multiple bites from lone star ticks, which despite its name can be found in the Mid-Atlantic, and a red meat allergy. Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, with the University of Virginia's School of Medicine, believes an unknown substance in ticks' saliva can make some people allergic to the alpha-gal sugar, which is found in red meat.
As is common with parasites, the fly larva may be triggering a mechanism that already exists in the host species, according to the study, by the University of Virginia’s Rosemary L. Malfi and her coauthors. Young bumblebee queens, having mated, normally dig an underground hibernaculum to wait out the winter, and they emerge again in the spring to start a nest. But worker bees aren’t supposed to dig, and they never get to emerge.
Rather than view rap lyrics as fictional or poetic, judges and prosecutors often treat them as literal statements of fact or intent. Now, in the face of recent opposition by the government, legal scholars from the University of Florida, the University of Virginia and Pennsylvania State University are urging the Supreme Court to hear Anthony Elonis’s case, U.S. v. Elonis, so the Court can decide how posting rap lyrics to a social media site affects the analysis of threats cases — and, in the process, provide clarity to “true threat” jurisprudence, an important area of th...
A new study finds about one third of children in Virginia are living in or near poverty. The study by the University of Virginia found 13 percent of kids lived in poverty and another 18 and a half percent lived near it.