This town has always been a (sometimes ambivalent) home for ambitious, closeted gay men and women. But now ballot measures, state legislatures, and federal judges are advancing LGBT rights by the day; more openly gay members join Congress every cycle; the issues they and their allies champion occupy pride of place on the political agenda; and even Washington culture has become entirely habituated. A change like this reaches beyond the surface topography, deep into the tectonic architecture of Washington. These shifts have brought about the rise of an entirely new class of D.C. power players. H...
Other top undergraduate programs encourage more diverse course work. At McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, prospective business students don’t apply for the program until sophomore year, usually from the College of Arts and Sciences; course work for the major doesn’t start until junior year.
Hillary Clinton has not declared her candidacy for 2016. That, of course, has not stopped Priorities USA Action – the largest liberal SuperPAC – from fundraising for her campaign. If you are shocked, don’t be. “We’ve had a permanent campaign for many, many years. Really, decades,” says Larry Sabato, professor of politics at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato’s “Crystal Ball” newsletter issued Thursday favors Republicans in four Democratic-held Senate seats that are up in November: Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Arkansas. Three other states with Democratic incumbents – Alaska, Louisiana, and North Carolina – are toss-ups, according to the “Crystal Ball.”
The Browns halted their long, grueling search for a head coach Thursday afternoon by hiring Mike Pettine and delivering some “blunt force trauma” to Cleveland.
One prominent campaign watcher has change his opinion about North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race yet again. Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, now says Sen. Kay Hagan’s seat is a toss up.
Attorney General Eric Holder reiterated his 2009 claim that Americans are a “nation of cowards” on racial issues on Thursday. Holder’s effort to profile the entire nation as cowards came during a friendly interview with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, where was asked if he would take back his 2009 remarks. “I would not take that back,” he replied.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Thursday that he “thinks the world” of former colleague Robert Gates, who has spent the past few weeks peddling and receiving heat for the recently-published memoir about his years at the helm of the Pentagon. But publishing the book, "Duty," while President Obama remains in office was poor form, Holder says. “It’s my view that it’s just not a good thing to write a book about a president that you served while that president is still in office,” Holder said in an interview at the University of Virginia.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder discussed national security, race relations and mass incarceration Thursday afternoon at the University of Virginia. (Holder’s remarks on the Edward Snowden case, new banking rules for legal marijuana operations, race relations and Robert Gates’ new book drew national attention; a sampling of articles is listed in this section.)
Joshua P. Darden, 77, a former University of Virginia rector, longtime school supporter and advocate for higher education, died Wednesday following a long illness.
The new generation of psychologists understands that independent replication is crucial for real advancement and to earn wider credibility in science. A beautiful example of this drive is the Many Labs project led by Brian Nosek from the University of Virginia. Nosek and a team of 50 colleagues located in 36 labs worldwide sought to replicate 13 key findings in psychology, across a sample of 6,344 participants. Ten of the effects replicated successfully.
"In general, there is probably not another person that has had the kind of sweeping impact upon both the region and the commonwealth that he has had in a very long time," Deborah M. DiCroce, president and CEO of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation, said.
Andrew Mondschein, who joined the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Architecture in September as an assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, led a team that found “cognitively active” travelers, those driving a car or walking, have more accurate mental maps than “cognitively passive” travelers, such as car or bus passengers.
There are no straight lines in the evolution of some GOP conventions from proverbial smoke-filled back rooms, but University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato highlights a few turning points in Virginia's evolution.
(Editorial) Tucked amid the bills lawmakers will consider this year to improve Virginia's deeply flawed mental health care system is a modest proposal by a bipartisan group of University of Virginia students. They want the state to require its public universities to devote a webpage exclusively to the mental health resources available to students on each campus. And 13 self-styled Legislators of Tomorrow want to include a mechanism to make sure students know the information and under what circumstances they or others might need to use it.