Victoria is having her fifth baby. It means her childbirth could be a complicated one. But Victoria has UVA nursing students who are helping her deliver her baby. "If a mistake is made, no harm is done," said Violet Horst, a nurse-midwife at UVA. Horst says it is OK if students do something wrong during the childbirth; that's because Victoria is actually a robotic mannequin.
A wide-ranging discussion about immigration in the U.S. includes Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics; David Martin, Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of International Law; and the First Year Project at UVA’s Miller Center.
UVA students got an environmental wake-up call Wednesday. About 75 people packed into the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy to hear from Patrick Regan, professor of peace studies and political science at the University of Notre Dame. His message was simple: Climate change is very real. And we must do more.
When Victoria cried out in anguish during the delivery of her baby on Wednesday, the student nurses surrounding her assured her that it would all be over soon – well, until her next delivery, scheduled to begin about 30 minutes later. The UVA School of Nursing purchased the robotic pregnancy simulator in February and started using her during the school’s summer courses.
Robert C. Vaughan III will step down next June from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, an organization he has led for 43 years. Vaughan has led the foundation since its founding in 1974, and it has grown to be the largest of the state’s 56 humanities organizations.
So, what is one to make of the data that seems all over the map? Experts advise trying to gain some perspective. “I think the best thing to do is not to obsess over any one poll but instead to use the Real Clear Politics and Huff Post Pollster polling averages,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
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Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia predicts Clinton will win 348 electoral votes, including states like North Carolina and Iowa that Romney won in 2012. The Crystal Ball correctly forecast all but two states in 2012.
Former President Bill Clinton’s $17.6 million “honorary chancellor” position at a for-profit university could upset some young voters – many already struggling to tackle college debt – just as they head back to school, political observers said. “The remarkable part of this is the enormous amount of money paid to Bill Clinton, not just by Laureate, but by others,” said Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor. “No former president has ever squeezed so much cash out of the status of his former office. It’s probably just me, but I long ...
Polls have shown Trump is much weaker in Virginia relative to other battleground states, and shifting demographics mean that the swing state is not as amenable to his brand of politics as it would have once been. Since the start of the year, UVA handicapper Larry Sabato has moved his home state from toss-up to leans Democratic to likely Democratic.
UVA researchers say an experimental drug could stop the growth of cancer cells, particularly in patients with melanoma. The drug, pevonedistat, is currently in clinical trials.
UVA students are collecting donations to send to people impacted by the devastating flooding in Louisiana in August. The Student Bar Association is leading the “Wahoos for Bayous” campaign. 
With jobs on his mind and the “future of health care” in his heart, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has gone out of his way to support and promote the budding therapeutic technology of focused ultrasound. He earlier helped guide the state’s investment of several million dollars to launch UVA’s Focused Ultrasound Center.
You might have the best plans and ideas for an upcoming project, but if they are not executed appropriately, the results can be undesirable. This UVA course discusses how to plan a project properly and what course of action to take when things don’t go as planned.
The University of Virginia will receive a $2 million gift from politics professor Larry J. Sabato to launch a $30 million expansion of the Center for Politics. “We need to regenerate interest in and participation in politics,” said Sabato, known for his Crystal Ball political predictions.
UVA alumna Margot Lee Shetterly’s universe always included relatives and family friends who worked in math and science. The women are the basis for Shetterly’s book, “Hidden Figures,” which is being released today and is the basis for a movie to be released in January.
When Justin Trudeau sits down for a meeting Saturday with Jack Ma, he will come face-to-face with the most recognizable captain of China’s ambitious new economy. But the prime minister will also be speaking with a powerful figure who has become useful to the Communist Party in shaping how the world sees China. “The party is very interested in having a wider range of spokesmen, especially some that look impartial like business people,” said Shirley Lin, a professor of political economy at UVA and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics discusses the Republican preparation for a big loss.
For those who wish this long and often dismal presidential campaign were over, help is already here. To the rescue have come the forecasters – political scientists with prediction models that have already called the election, in some cases many months ago. Their work will soon be published collectively in the upcoming issue of the journal PS: Political Science and Politics. Some of their analyses have been carried on Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball website at the University of Virginia.
Polling aggregators, which calculate averages of major polls, have shown that Clinton’s lead has been shrinking for the past few weeks. But in contradiction to the two new surveys, those averages still put her ahead of Trump by between three and six percentage points.  Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said he remained convinced Clinton was ahead. “There has been a closing that’s completely natural,” Sabato said.
While overdose deaths have reached epidemic proportions, one UVA professor thinks the opiate problem is probably even more prevalent than is officially known. In a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Christopher Ruhm, a professor of public policy and economics, found that 20 percent to 25 percent of death certificate records from the CDC in cases of overdose deaths did not specify the types of drugs used.