A prominent election watcher now says North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race is no longer a “toss up.” Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, shifted the outlook Thursday to call it “leans Democratic,” giving incumbent Kay Hagan the advantage a year out.
“The timing is unfortunate given the need to implement Dodd-Frank,” said Robert Webb, a finance professor at the University of Virginia. The 16-day partial U.S. government shutdown this month also disrupted the agency, and further time off will only make the CFTC’s job harder, he said. “The work has piled up,” Webb said.
Information is often presented in a way that is difficult to translate into easily understood concepts, a sentiment echoed by Daniel F. McCarter, MD, the associate chief medical officer of ambulatory services at the University of Virginia Health System. "The data may be there to figure out the downstream effect but it typically has to be calculated," McCarter said. "In addition, the vast majority of medical education is devoted to the biomedical disease-based model and not to the statistical population model. Therefore, doctors either are not trained or are not used to thinking ...
(By Carolyn Beans, a fourth-year biology PhD student at the University of Virginia) I appreciate that LEGO wants to describe their new woman scientist as a hardworking professional. But I worry that we may lose budding scientists if we continue to depict STEM researchers as people who have no lives outside of their careers.
The latest 2014 election breakdown from the political gurus at the University of Virginia shows that Democrats are positioned to retain control of the Senate and pick up a number of seats in the House. Larry Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics said that the national climate for Democrats has improved thanks to the recent budget stalemate that led to the 16-day government shutdown.
Two men gunning for the Virginia governorship faced off for the final time Thursday night. Terry McAuliffe and Ken Cuccinelli tackled the topics by attacking each other. The University of Virginia Center for Politics says the debate changed nothing in the race and McAuliffe will likely call the governor's mansion home in January.
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics: “It’s hard to imagine that the final Virginia gubernatorial debate moved the needle at all.”
The founding dean of the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy will step down at the end of his five-year term in July. Harry Harding was hired in 2009, when the school had no faculty and was set up in temporary offices in Varsity Hall. He oversaw the hiring of 14 full-time faculty members and the establishment of its first degree programs. The school now has its own home in Garrett Hall and 230 students.
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and former Gov. and Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh will co-chair a University of Virginia Miller Center commission that will focus on job creation in the manufacturing industry.
Is it possible to eat a healthy diet while using the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)? A documentary, called "Food Stamped," is trying to answer that question. The University of Virginia Food Collaborative is holding the first of its 2013-2014 film series Thursday at the Haven in Charlottesville.
(Commentary) Anne Coughlin, who teaches feminist jurisprudence at the University of Virginia, described her reluctance to give this very advice to young women for fear of being “misunderstood.”
(Editorial) Public universities belong to the public, and they should conduct their business in public. What’s so difficult to understand about that? Yet once again we have a state university official complaining about the requirement to abide by the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
Charlottesville business owners and entrepreneurs took part in the second Better Business Challenge on Thursday, learning how to get their businesses through tough times. Professor Jared Harris of The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business did a study on 150 businesses in economically depressed areas of the Commonwealth. Prof. Harris talked to them about what types of hardships they were going through, and how they were helping their businesses survive.
A US business professor says the American economy is in uncharted territory and no one knows which direction the new chair of the US Federal Reserve will take it. Alan Beckenstein says one of the biggest challenges faced by Janet Yellen will be deciding when to dial back monetary stimulus. "There's a concern there that they won't go back to fundamentals," he says, "and the exit strategy from the monetary policy that's been applied for the last four years or so is poor - there's no good exit strategy."
But Michael Livermore, senior adviser at New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity, said the courts are likely to defer to EPA on its interpretation of the statute, rather than try to mine the law’s language for congressional intent. “Basically what you have is a statute that reads a little nonsensically,” said Livermore, who teaches law at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia's Homecomings weekend got a boost from the football team on Thursday evening. UVa Head Football Coach Mike London handed out checks to four student groups that work to raise money for nonprofit organizations. It was part of UVa's Homecomings weekend's third annual Cavalier Cookout. The cookout, which took place at the UVa amphitheatre, rallied spirit for Saturday's football game against Georgia Tech.
Despite the back-and-forth, there is little evidence to suggest that Cuccinelli’s performance resurrected his campaign. “The debate changed nothing, which is good for McAuliffe,” says Larry Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “All a late debate does is solidify partisan choices.”
In a recent meeting with Ed Holland, president and CEO of Mississippi Power, we discussed Mississippi’s energy future and how it will impact people and businesses in the Magnolia State.
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said it would be “virtually impossible” for Democrats to pick up the 19 seats they would need to take over the House.
Buono's continued attack as well as the opposition from social conservatives illustrates what University of Virginia Political Science Professor Larry Sabato said is the "worst of both worlds" for Christie. "Social conservatives that dominate the Iowa caucuses will never forgive him for "giving up the fight"--although they probably wrote Christie off long ago, since he favors gay civil unions. And gay marriage advocates will still regard him as an obstacle that had to be overcome," Sabato said.