(Commentary) Larry Sabato and Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics note that, since the Civil War, the average turnout in presidential elections has been 63 percent and in midterms 48 percent.
Lindley remembers well the day she was diagnosed by Dr. Ted Burns, her neurologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. “And he came in,” she continued. “And I thought Ted was going to cry. … And he sat down, and lowered his head, and gathered himself, and looked up and said, ‘You have a motor neuron disorder.’ I said, ‘ALS?’ And he said, ‘Yeah.’ I said, ‘Anything we can do?’ He said, ‘No.’ He said, ‘The good news is … that it’s moving like molasses. You’re going to be the...
“Democrats won in a lot of states typically unfriendly to them,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the nonpartisan Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Half a century later, redskin began circulating. It was used at the White House when President James Madison requested that various Indian tribes steer clear of an alliance with Britain. No Ears, a chief of the Little Osages, spoke in reply and one of his statements was translated as, "I know the manners of the whites and the red skins." Only in 2004, however, when the Papers of James Madison project at the University of Virginia reached the year 1812 did this and another use of redskin from the same meeting come to light.
A state senator has filed a bill that would reduce the number of University of Virginia Board of Visitors members appointed by the governor and give some of that authority to the institution’s alumni.
Q&A with Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, recently elected to the World Affairs Council of Greater Hampton Roads Board of Directors. The longtime diplomat and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom is the James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center, University of Virginia.
(Commentary) Evil is defined differently across religious traditions and humanist perspectives, yet most agree an evil act causes suffering and deprives others of life, dignity and freedom. "Children are not meant to be abused and murdered, but loved and protected," says University of Virginia religious studies professor Charles Mathewes, who researches and lectures on evil and sin. "Students aren't meant to be massacred in their classrooms. They're there to learn. Moviegoers aren't meant to be shot down. They're there to eat high-calorie popcorn and watch whatev...
University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly has filed notice of a claim against the state stemming from her arrest in April by state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents who mistook water for beer.
As is often the case with bottom-up movements, the action has begun in politically sympathetic areas. All of the states that have enacted paid family leave are blue, and not coincidentally, paid family leave is typically branded a liberal issue. But it shouldn't be cast in such a narrow light, says University of Virginia's Christopher Ruhm. Paid family leave is a family values issue, although he admits the conservative politicians who employ that phrase aren't typically referring to the kind of work-life balance that, in his opinion, paid family leave allows.
Incoming state Attorney General Mark Herring on Jan. 2 announced the appointment of Stuart Raphael of Arlington as the commonwealth’s solicitor general.
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 that doesn't happen, he says. "My unit essentially pays attention to the life cycle of the digital object."
When Anthony Poindexter drove his family over the state line into Connecticut and arrived in the frozen city of Storrs, he finally was able to exhale after a few pressure-packed weeks where he admittedly hasn’t slept well. Leaving Charlottesville, leaving the University of Virginia, which has been his home for most of his adult life, was one of the most difficult decisions he’s ever had to make.
Say a child has memories of being a Hollywood extra in the 1930s. Is it just an active imagination, or actual evidence of reincarnation? Jim Tucker, a psychologist at the University of Virginia studies hundreds of cases like this and joins NPR's Rachel Martin to share his research on the science behind reincarnation.
Buried within the concreted ordure of political and institutional obfuscation and disinformation, lies medical care’s seemingly forgotten truth. “When you think of medical care, you think of the insurance issues, the costs and how expensive it is, but when you’re in the hospital you find that what’s important is the people there and how they treat you,” said Howard Miller, of Free Union.
(By Dr. Adam Shimer, an orthopaedic spine surgeon at University of Virginia Spine Center and co-director of the Spine Fellowship) In most cases, the back, leg or arm pain associated with conditions like arthritis of the neck or lower back can be treated effectively without surgery. However, when all conservative treatment approaches have been exhausted (such as medication, exercise, physical therapy and spinal injections), your physician may recommend spinal surgery to help alleviate discomfort or improve mobility.
For instance, the early 20th-century upper crust framed the conditions of poverty this way: the deprived were laggards on the evolution toward modernity, and they needed aesthetic inspiration. So arose the City Beautiful Movement, whose premise, according to Julie Rose at the University of Virginia, “was the idea that beauty could be an effective social control device.”
Kyle Kondik, a campaign analyst with the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, says Rigell's seat will be a key indicator in the 2014 campaign. The congressman maintained the seat even as the president won his district, but Kondik says he's dubious of Democrats' attempt to use the Virginia model to excite voters. "The big problem for Democrats is that just generally speaking their voters don't turn out in midterms the way they do in presidentials. We saw that in 2008, 2010 and 2012 – Democrats win two presidential races and sandwiched in between it is thi...
"An open science is a more credible science," said Brian Nosek, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, a founder of the Open Science Framework and another of the article co-authors.
Kyle Kondik, a campaign analyst with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, says he’s dubious of Democrats’ attempt to use the Virginia model to excite voters. “The big problem for Democrats is that just generally speaking their voters don’t turn out in midterms the way they do in presidentials. We saw that in 2008, 2010 and 2012 – Democrats win two presidential races and sandwiched in between it is this horrible, horrible loss in 2010.”