Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics, was in Philadelphia for the convention. “Tim Kaine is a natural at extemporaneous speaking,” he said. “He’s less effective with a prepared text.”
One source of distrust is Clinton’s use of a private email system during her time as secretary of state, which was the subject of a congressional investigation and a probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Kyle Kondik of the UVA Center for Politics said the issue is a lingering question for voters and one she might have been wise to mention in her speech Thursday. "I did not hear any kind of contrition or acknowledgment of the questions about her email server," Kondik said.
Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist, does try to look over the horizon, and by his current reckoning, Clinton has it in the bag – with 347 college votes that are safe, likely or leaning to her; by contrast, Trump has only 191 votes that are safe, likely or leaning to him. But Sabato hedges, "If the election were held today, it would almost certainly be closer than that – and Trump could very well win. But the election is still about 100 days away [and] we still see Clinton with an edge."
Gender and experience are not the key determining factors in an election – it’s party identification, said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “People always misinterpret election statistics, including the gender gap,” he said. “Republican women are not going to defect to Hillary Clinton. Democratic men are not going to defect in large measure to Donald Trump.”
A smartphone application is helping patients prepare and recover from extensive surgery. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery is educating patients treated at the UVA Medical Center, and improving their outcomes after surgery.
As governor, Kaine assisted in the creation of UVA’s Center for Telehealth, widely considered a model for the telemedicine industry. Founded in 1994, according to University officials, the center has since facilitated over 50,000 patient encounters, in more than 40 specialties at about 150 sites throughout the state.
Dr. Robert Emery, a UVA psychologist and internationally recognized expert on divorce, wants to see divorced parents bring a co-operative spirit to raising their kids after a relationship ends. “Parents who arrive at an agreement in traditional ways – through lawyers, through courts – once you finally get to a schedule, people can just be locked into it because they don’t want to go through it all again,” he said.
UVA's Apprenticeship Program honored its newest graduates and inductees on grounds Thursday morning. The 2016 Apprentice and Education Recognition Ceremony honored four new graduates and welcomed 14 new inductees.
(By Kirt von Daacke, assistant dean, professor of history and co-chair of the President's Commission on Slavery and the University) After First Lady Michelle Obama acknowledged that she, an African-American woman, "wake[s] up every morning in a house that was built by slaves," pundits responded by attempting to diminish the horrors of slavery. They remind us that we have so much work yet to do.
GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump urges Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails
Trump’s comments do not appear to be treason, one legal expert said. “Treason consists only in levying war on the U.S. and its enemies,” UVA law professor John Harrison said.
Since 1960, the vice-presidential “home-state advantage” has "potentially swung four national elections," suggested UVA researchers Boris Heersink and Brenton Peterson in their February 2016 study published in the journal American Politics Research.
When Tim Kaine was running successfully for governor in 2005, he headed out to Hardy, an unincorporated community near the Blue Ridge Mountains, to blast clays with fellow skeet shooters. Kaine had come up in politics as the mayor of Richmond, and he was eager for rural voters to see that he was no gun-grabber, and was in fact handy with a shotgun himself. “I think 2005 and 2012 Virginia are two very different animals,” Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, tells The Trace.
The Obamas have set a high bar for speechcraft this week, and Clinton's address will inevitably be compared to Barack Obama's soaring oration on Wednesday. But that doesn't mean she should pump up the volume. "Clinton usually comes off best when she is calm and measured," said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics. "What she doesn't want to do is pull a Rudy Giuliani."
Early findings from an initiative involving higher education institutions in West Virginia suggest that texting may be useful in helping keep prospective college students and those already in college on track and perhaps help them graduate earlier. Researchers from UVA’s Center on Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness studied the program, and their preliminary findings suggest that students who signed up for the texting initiative were likely to attempt and complete more college credits than students not enrolled in the program.
Filming is taking place in Richmond for “Permanent,” a new feature film starring Patricia Arquette and Rainn Wilson. The writer and director is UVA alumna Colette Burson, co-creator and executive producer of the HBO series “Hung.”
UVA football player Eric Smith is working with Albemarle County police to help at-risk youth get on the right track.
Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton of the University of Virginia, the executive director of The North American Menopause Society, agrees that lifestyle factors and genetics are likely behind the link between later reproductive milestones and longevity.
Just like he did at BYU, new Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall is pushing for his team to wear throwback style uniforms, though Mendenhall said the concept hasn’t been approved by the university yet.
The voter registrations for more than 100 Charlottesville-area residents are in limbo after the Supreme Court of Virginia threw out Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s order restoring voting rights for convicted felons across Virginia. A.E. Dick Howard, a UVA legal scholar who supported McAuliffe’s decision, said Monday that he disagrees with Lemons’ ruling.
Several law professors noted that cases typically rise and fall on the facts, not the prowess of the lawyers involved. Kimberly Ferzan, a professor at the UVA School of Law, added that youth can be a positive when it comes to trial work. “It can bring energy to a case,” she said.