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.”
Before the theater’s free live simulcast of the Emmy- and Golden Globe award-winning drama, Richard Will will be on hand for a special VIP reception. Some may know Will as a pretty good bluegrass fiddler. More probably know him as the chair of the University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music. Will, who joined UVa’s staff in 2001, will talk about the music of “Downton Abbey” and discuss how the selection of music contributes to the series. He also will join several of his UVa students to play some music of the era.
Maybe visual arts interest you more. If you like learning about different time periods and art movements — and enjoy talking about these topics with others — keep in mind that the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia trains community members and students alike to serve as docents.
There has been a standardized patient program at the University of Virginia Medical School for years. Actors pretend to be patients suffering from different ailments. They would be assigned a condition, and then examined by medical students that would try to diagnose their symptoms. Jim Malloy and his wife Louise have both worked as actors to help the students learn how to work with patients. But on the day Jim was pretending to have an abdominal aortic aneurysm, third-year medical student Ryan Jones was examining him and noticed something wrong.
Larry Sabato, professor of politics at the University of Virginia, said the high level of belief in creationism and its rapid rise in Republican ranks shocked him. ‘‘I knew it was bad, but I didn’t know it was this bad,’’ he said. According to Dr Sabato, who is a leading American political analyst, the increase in the number of Republicans believing in creationism is a product of the continuing polarisation of politics in America.
Virginia’s governor-elect has chosen a former newspaper publisher and government official as his secretary of commerce and trade. Democrat Terry McAuliffe announced the selection of U.Va. law graduate Maurice Jones at a news conference Thursday.
Seth Lurie Eichenthal, 23, died in an accident while on vacation in Austria. Seth was killed almost instantaneously after being struck by a car while walking alongside a road in the Innsbruck region of Austria in the early morning of Jan. 1. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 2012.
People with ties to Charlottesville and Albemarle County are among those who will work to help better mental health services in Virginia. Gov. Bob McDonnell's newly created task force includes Albemarle County Delegate Rob Bell, University of Virginia School of Medicine clinical operations vice chair Dr. Scott Syverud, and emergency services director Buzz Barnett of Charlottesville.
University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock, a leading expert on religious liberty, said he was not convinced that the Little Sisters of the Poor had a strong claim. "The question is whether it's a substantial burden under the free exercise [of religion] clause," he said. "This doesn't look very substantial to me.'" Laycock said he doubted the justices would vote to hear the case next week.
Parents and grandparents may anguish over the amount of time kids spend playing video games or watching videos on YouTube, but a University of Virginia student offers reassurance. 21-year-old Patrick Carney decided to take some time off from college to focus on YouTube. He launched one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels, devoted to a popular video game called “Clash of Clans.” He now has 325,000 subscribers and a stable of big-name advertisers, but the program served as a springboard for something even more amazing. Carney entered a contest to attend space camp and compete for...
(Podcast) Interview with Benjamin Ginsberg, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and author of “The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters.”
U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby had been on the bench just six months when he was assigned Kitchen v. Herbert in March. Since Shelby’s decision in the case Friday, which made same-sex marriage legal in Utah, legal observers and regular folks alike want to know more about him.
A federal judge has allowed gay marriage in Utah to continue, making Utah the 18th state plus the District of Columbia where gay and lesbian couples can marry. Judge Richard Shelby on Monday denied a request by the state that sought to halt gay marriage until the appeals process plays out. Shelby graduated from the University of Virginia law school in 1998.
A local college student will be heading into space, and it's a free ride. Patrick Carney beat out more than 1 million other contestants for the chance of a lifetime on board the XCOR Aerospace Lynx spacecraft. He says that plans haven't been finalized, but it could happen late next year or early 2015.
Here at home BGF has partnered with students from the University of Virginia Darden School to make critically needed repairs to 60 homes in Charlottesville.
(By Erika Hayes James, a business professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and Rebecca Goldberg) The big idea: Diversity in thought and perspective can bring unique “ways of seeing” to the development of strategies and products. Nowhere is this ability to see differently more poignant than in the stories of leaders who are also blind. James A. Kutsch is an engineer, executive, father, innovator and philanthropist – and serves as the first blind president of The Seeing Eye, the organization established in 1929 to train dogs to lead blind people.
(By Brandon L. Garrett, professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law) On Monday, in a case called Salinas v. Texas that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves, the Supreme Court held that you remain silent at your peril. The court said that this is true even before you’re arrested, when the police are just informally asking questions. The court’s move to cut off the right to remain silent is wrong and also dangerous—because it encourages the kind of high-pressure questioning that can elicit false confessions.
Richard J. Bonnie, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who specializes in mental health and criminal law, called Hazel’s recommendations “sound and comprehensive.”