Via a MLS weighted lottery earlier today, FC Dallas was awarded 21-year-old Brian Span. Span is a 6-foot-t2 winger who played at University of Virginia before leaving to try out a career in Europe. He signed with Djurgårdens IF in 2012 and later decided to come back stateside where he was placed in the lottery.
His resignation also leaves a hole in Congress. He’s one of the remaining Blue Dog Democrats and handful of white Democratic Southerners still in the game. “That old Southern Democratic contingent is just almost totally gone. McIntyre is one of the last of a dying breed,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
"The truth is that you have to recognize that elections are never one-dimensional. They're always multi-dimensional, and they're layered district to district and state to state," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "The question is which of these issues affect the election. Right now, we'd say No. 1 is Obamacare. No. 2 is income and minimum wage. There are tons of others: gun control, abortion, gay marriage. They'll all play a role someplace or another."
The other surprising player who has been a critical piece to filling the needs left by the injured All-Star center has been Mike Scott. The second year forward out of the University of Virginia showed some promise on the offensive end in limited minutes early in the season when Horford was healthy. Now that Horford is hurt and out for the year, Scott has taken full advantage of his new role with the Hawks as one of the first players off the bench in order to provide Atlanta with a great offensive threat.
Palmer has selected Karen Firehock to serve as the Samuel Miller District representative on the commission. Firehock, the director and co-founder of the Green Infrastructure Center, is an environmental planner and adjunct instructor at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture.
(By Sarah Milov, visiting scholar at Harvard’s Center for History and Economics, who will be an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia beginning in August) The hard-won public health triumph over the cigarette may be under threat from a new player on the scene: the electronic cigarette, a battery-powered vaporizing device that simulates tobacco smoking, supplying nicotine and often flavor, but without tobacco.
Federal health care spending has been getting all the attention, but it's the states that are best equipped to reform the system and contain costs, says a new report organized by the University of Virginia's Miller Center. The report – funded by Kaiser Permanente and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – outlines measures states can take to improve care and reduce cost.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, agreed that Christie was likely to remain a candidate. “I doubt Christie will be forced out, unless evidence later emerges that he didn't tell the truth at his press conference,” he wrote in an email. “But if somehow that happened, then someone would attempt to take his market share – more establishment and business Republicans who are looking for a winner, which by definition means a candidate who can "talk Blue" and win some Blue (Democratic) or Purple (competitive) st...
Presidents of some Virginia universities are going on record strongly opposing a call to boycott Israeli academic institutions. University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan and Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger are among signatories of a statement by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities that says the boycott “is severely misguided and wrongheaded.”
(Commentary) Larry Sabato is a political science professor at the University of Virginia and leader of the online “Sabato’s Crystal Ball.” He recently became a weekly contributor at Politico. On balance, I have found him to be one of the most non-partisan analysts of American politics.
The University of Virginia Cancer Center and UVa. Children's Hospital will soon offer additional treatment options to pediatric cancer patients through a new early-stage clinical trials program.
Such characterizations wouldn't be helpful to Biden if he were to run for president in 2016, a prospect he hasn't ruled out. He's already a "heavy underdog," assuming Clinton runs, and Gates' assertions about Biden's judgment will turn up in debates and television ads, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "This is the kind of criticism that will have an impact in a general election," he said in an email. "Some independently minded voters might be swayed by such a harsh assessment of Biden."
President Barack Obama today nominated coastal geologist Suzette Kimball to be the next Director of the United States Geological Survey. Kimball is currently the survey’s acting director. She earned a Ph.D. in the environmental sciences from the University of Virginia, specializing in the processes that shape coastal zones.
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato emailed The Daily Beast that Christie “was impressive; nothing threw him. He stood up to withering fire for almost two hours. That matters because partisans look for a standard-bearer that won’t wilt during the inevitable crises that engulf a campaign and, if elected, a presidency.”
(Commentary) “He presented himself as a positive, optimistic conservative who wanted to get things done, but in a conservative way,” University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said. “On the whole, he did that.”
For human beings, ciphering the true value of resources at a future date doesn't come naturally, says James E. Burroughs, a University of Virginia commerce professor who specializes in consumer behavior. "Human beings are very short-term oriented," he says. Possibly, because "most of humanity's existence is getting through the here and now," he adds. "So that's how we think." Given a choice between a small, immediate reward now or a very large reward deferred into the future, "human beings will typically take the immediate reward," Burroughs ...
(Podcast) U.Va. astronomer Edward Murphy counts down his picks for the Top Ten Space Stories of 2013: from Voyager One to the movie “Gravity” to the Chelyabinsk Meteor YouTube sensation, it was an amazing and historic year beyond the stars.
(Subscription required) Somebody – or a team of somebodies, often based in academic libraries or digital-scholarship centers – has to conduct regular inspections and make sure that today's digital scholarship doesn't become tomorrow's digital junk. Bradley J. Daigle, director of digital curation services at the University of Virginia Library, calls this "digital stewardship." It's an essential but easily overlooked element in any digital-humanities project. Born-digital work can die. Digital stewardship "involves care and feeding" to make sure th...