The latest polls suggest that Northam, Virginia’s lieutenant governor, still has a slight edge on his GOP rival. But Republicans believe Gillespie can rally their conservative base to pull off an upset. “The concern for Democrats has to be that Republicans are pretty united on some of the issues that have taken center stage in this race,” UVA political analyst Geoffrey Skelley said, citing issues like immigration and the controversial debate over protecting Confederate statues.
Some political watchers see the Virginia race in particular as a referendum on President Trump. “Here & Now’s” Jeremy Hobson talks with Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, about what's going on in the state.
Experts from across the United States are joining forces to eventually grow replacement limbs and organs. On Monday, UVA's Center for Advanced Biomanufacturing invited experts in both the medical and engineering fields to explore how to make regrowth of limbs a reality.
An international business publication has released its ranking for the Top 100 full-time international MBA programs, and Darden is at the top again. For the seventh year in a row, The Economist has listed UVA’s Darden School of Business as No. 1 in the world for education experience.
The University of Virginia has significantly increased the cultural and financial diversity of its student body in recent years.
An interview with Michael Slon, director of the Oratorio Society of Virginia and director of choral music at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia ROTC held its annual 24-hour vigil to remember prisoners of war and those who are missing in action on Monday in the McIntire Amphitheater.
The use of a general court martial, as opposed to the less serious special court martial, is a sign that the initial charges against Kelley carried the potential for both dishonorable discharge and more than a year in confinement, said UVA law professor Benjamin Spencer, a reserve officer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the U.S. Army.
The Cavaliers have six wins for the first time in six years, and with three games left in the regular season, they still have a shot at the ACC Coastal Division Championship.
In a driving rainstorm, 10-point underdog Virginia battled back twice to pull off the upset and become bowl eligible for the first time since 2011. The few remaining rain-soaked fans rushed the field in a celebration that only Wahoos would truly understand. This is what Bronco Mendenhall had dreamed about.
Virginia has hired Jim Booz as its news deputy athletics director for administration, the school announced on Monday. Booz will follow incoming Virginia athletics director Carla Williams from the University of Georgia to Charlottesville.
Campaign donations “influence the officeholders’ choices whether they know it or not,” said Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics. “Not every donation is a quid pro quo, but you are probably going to listen to those donors a little more when big issues come up.”
The question of this election season is whether progressive and establishment Democrats in Virginia can set their differences aside to keep a Democrat in the governor's office (incumbent Terry McAuliffe is termed out) and pick up seats in the legislature. “Anytime that you’re the party that’s out of power, divisions can begin to get glossed over,” says Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “If Hillary Clinton were in the White House and not Donald Trump, we might be seeing more open tension in Virginia.”
In the past, Democrats wrote off tough districts. Two years ago, two-thirds of incumbent Republicans didn’t even face opponents. That’s changed, said Geoffrey Skelley with UVA’s Center for Politics. “Democrats are running in 88 seats, which is many more than they have in the past two gubernatorial cycles,” said Skelley. “I think you have to tie that to the president.”
UVA historian Larry Sabato complained that many of the documents in the latest release were still heavily redacted. He tweeted about a 144-page record, titled “Material Reviewed at CIA headquarters by House Select Committee on Assassinations staff members,” that had writing on only a handful of pages.
Barbara Perry, director of the Center for Presidential Studies at UVA's Miller Center, says Trump has used his dominance to change the traditional relationship between a president and his party.
The late stages of the campaign — in which polls show Lt. Gov. Northam to be a slight favorite — have been dominated by Gillespie’s push on immigration, crime and Confederate statues; and a controversial ad aired by a pro-Northam group showing a Gillespie supporter chasing minority children in a truck. (The ad was meant to evoke the deadly Charlottesville white supremacist rally; it was yanked from the air after the truck terror attack in New York.) “Gillespie has tried to make this a late-’80s, early-’90s style Republican law and order race,” says Kyle Kondik, of UVA’s Center for Politics. “I...
If one party has a strong performance at the top of the ticket, the gubernatorial race, it could help members of that party in any partisan election, according to Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
In 2015, a new approach. Jefferson County Public Schools partnered with the University of Virginia to begin the Compassionate Schools Project, a seven-year undertaking that will measure whether dedicating 100 minutes of class time per week to “mindful” lessons will help students grow into kinder, more focused – maybe even smarter – kids.
The packed Virginia Film Festival schedule offers all kinds of events for filmgoers to choose from – panel discussions, special events and screenings of more than 150 films.