Some of America’s biggest corporations are bailing on this year’s Republican National Convention. “Of course it’s because of Trump,” said Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist who has studied party conventions for more than 30 years. Business executives, he said, don’t want to alienate customers who may be offended by Trump’s statements. ”
“With four months to go in the 2016 general election campaign, national polls suggest that it’s quite possible that the Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump clash may well set a new record for partisan differences between the sexes,” wrote Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a website run by UVA’s Center for Politics.
Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics, lists 18 Democratic vice-presidential possibilities on his “Crystal Ball” politics website. He puts U.S. Sen. Timothy M. Kaine at the top of the list and U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner in 12th position.
Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics, lists 18 Democratic vice-presidential possibilities on his “Crystal Ball” politics website. He puts U.S. Sen. Timothy M. Kaine at the top of the list and U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner in 12th position.
(Co-written by By Nicole Hemmer, a research associate at UVA’s Miller Center) It might seem surprising that the former speaker of the House of Representatives has become one of Trump’s most high-profile foot soldiers and is on the presumptive nominee’s shortlist for vice president. But the two men have far more in common than it would appear.
Using data from the American Bar Association, StartClass created an Acceptance Index to determine which law schools are the toughest to gain admittance to. University of Virginia Law is the hardest public law school to get into.
The UVA Police Department is welcoming six new police officers to the force. Monday morning is day one of police academy.
Ranking fourth was the South, although it had the most overall schools on the list – 202. And many of its institutions, including Georgetown, Duke, Emory, UVA, Johns Hopkins and the University of North Carolina, have excellent reputations.
A discovery by UVA researchers could hold the key to treating a common hospital-acquired infection. Work being done at UVA’s Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health could lead to a new treatment by the end of the calendar year.
Some UVA students stood together in silence to reflect on the tragedies of this week. Two students organized an hour of silence at the McIntire Amphitheater on Grounds Friday evening. The hour was a chance to reflect, pray and breathe during such a turbulent time.
UVA rising senior swimmer Leah Smith is headed to Rio, Brazil after qualifying for the United States Olympic Team in the 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle, and the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. She is the first American UVA swimmer to qualify for three events and the first to qualify for two individual events.
(Editorial) Critics such as House Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford) assert Mr. McAuliffe overreached by forgoing a “case-by-case” review, but those words do not appear in the constitution. That’s also the view of the commonwealth’s foremost authority on the constitution, UVA law professor A.E. Dick Howard, who, as director of the commission charged with revising the constitution nearly 50 years ago, was its primary draftsman.
Veteran political scientist Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics, said he expected most Sanders voters to rally to Clinton. “The polarization we’ll see in the fall will be as intense as we’ve ever seen,” he said. “It’ll push the right to Trump and the left to Clinton. You’ll see consolidation, especially on the Democratic side – the idea of Trump as president will make anyone even slightly left of center vote for Clinton.”
Three Virginia schools made the top 50 in Forbes' 2016 college rankings, which put an emphasis on return on investment. Washington and Lee University topped the state. Close behind were the University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary.
Here is a new wrinkle in the homework research debate, an analysis of a new study on homework written by cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a UVA professor of psychology.
Prior to heading to Omaha for the U.S. Olympic Trials two weeks ago, UVA swimmer Leah Smith said she wasn’t sure if she would glance into the crowd come race time.
Irving Gottesman, a pioneer in the field of behavioral genetics whose work on the role of heredity in schizophrenia helped transform the way people thought about the origins of serious mental illness, died on June 29 at his home in Edina, Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis. Gottesman wrote 17 books and more than 300 papers, and held faculty positions at Harvard, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Virginia and elsewhere.
Murrells Inlet native Natasha L. Mikles receives dissertation fellowship from University of Virginia
Murrells Inlet native Natasha L. Mikles has been awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Virginia. Mikles, in the Department of Religious Studies, is a doctoral candidate and is among 20 national recipients of the fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
In his new book, Ohio native Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics combines history and statistics to explain that the state stands out among its swing states as a bellwether because of its remarkably reliable record of mirroring national sentiment.
Before it broke in March, one month after launch, Japan’s Hitomi X-ray satellite managed to gaze at the Perseus galaxy cluster – one of the Universe's most massive objects, 250 million light-years from Earth. And researchers discovered that superheated gas at the cluster's heart flows much more placidly than expected. Understanding how turbulence roils this gas allows astronomers to explore how galaxies form and evolve. “Clusters are one of our most important probes of cosmology,” says Craig Sarazin, a UVA astronomer who was not involved with the work.