The Charlottesville, University of Virginia and Albemarle County police departments have committed to installing police body cameras. The UVA Police Department is the only one of the three to have an operational system for body cameras.
A New York judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine over the magazine’s debunked article about an alleged UVA gang rape. Federal Judge P. Kevin Castel said Tuesday the lawsuit brought by three former fraternity members cited comments that were offered as speculation and hypothesis rather than fact.
Vanessa Dyce graduated from UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science in May with a computer science degree and started a job as a software engineer for Microsoft. As a child, Dyce was good at math and science, but says she didn’t really have a clear idea of what engineering was about until she attended an outreach program of UVA’s Center for Diversity in Engineering aimed at reaching minority high school students like Dyce, who is African-American.
(Commentary by Lisa Woolfork, associate professor of English) While some reviewers of the film diagnose it as suffering from what many describe as a "white savior" complex, "Free State of Jones" is actually doing something much more significant with McConaughey's character.
UVA education professor Catherine Bradshaw is conducting a randomized study on the effects of restorative-justice practices on school discipline. “There’s a lot of energy and buzz around” the practice, Bradshaw said. But, she added, “we can’t find effective ways to reduce violence without taking a systematic, scientific approach to understanding and evaluating the tools that we are using.”
New UVA men's lacrosse coach Lars Tiffany says Monday that his new job at UVA is a dream come true. Tiffany has big shoes to fill replacing Dom Starsia, who led the 'Hoos to four national championships.
Donald Trump's Mormon problem extends beyond Utah and, if it persists, he may find himself scrambling in traditional battlegrounds like Nevada and Colorado and struggling in Republican-leaning Arizona. "I wouldn't expect Trump to lose in Utah, but the margins matter and Utah polling is worth following for what it might tell us about Mormons in surrounding states," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA, a widely watched political handicapping site.
Gary J. Byrne’s book-length hit job on the presumptive Democratic nominee, “Crisis of Character,” won’t be released until Tuesday, yet it is already a massive best-seller on Amazon, vying for the No. 1 spot day by day against J.K. Rowling’s latest Harry Potter adventure. So, could “Crisis of Character” influence the outcome of the Nov. 8 election? UVA political scientist Larry Sabato says probably not. “He’s preaching to the faithful,” Sabato said.
UVA law professor John Jeffries said the Supreme Court was not endorsing McDonnell’s behavior in the scandal, but was bringing clarity to the law. “The court has done the country a good turn by constraining federal bribery law within reasonable limits,” he said.
UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato says the justices’ decision is in no way a declaration of innocence for McDonnell; the high court's decision, while vacating McDonnell's conviction, remains very critical of the former governor's actions.
An updated Electoral College projection from Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball predicts that Hillary Clinton will demolish Donald Trump in the general election this fall. The website, which is run by UVA’s Center for Politics, has the presumptive Democratic nominee beating Trump by a 347-191 electoral vote margin.
Financial Times has ranked UVA’s Darden School of Business as the No. 3 MBA program in the world for entrepreneurship for 2016.
A UVA graduate is doing something that most people wouldn't dream of. From Yorktown to San Francisco, Sam Hitch is doing a triathlon across the United States to raise money and awareness for pancreatic cancer.
(Commentary) The Supreme Court’s McDonnell decision could magnify voter cynicism. Said UVA political analyst Larry Sabato, “The elites are saying this is understandable behavior. But average people were outraged by this. That’s where the jury verdict came from.”
(Co-written by Steven E. Rhoads, UVA professor of politics emeritus) While there are many good things to be said about the professional progress of women and the significant contributions they have made in their fields, good things tend to come with tradeoffs. More women in the workforce means that more children need some form of child care.
(Commentary) Ask anyone within the coaching or analytic realm of basketball their opinion of UVA gradate Malcolm Brogdon and what the Bucks got early in the second round, and the consensus is Milwaukee got an unequivocal steal of a pick.
According to J.H. Verkerke, director of the Program for Employment and Labor Law Studies at the UVA School of Law, even if Lewandowski could shred Trump on the air and then beat him in court, "just the cost of defending a lawsuit would likely be a huge deterrent to testing the limits of the clause," Verkerke said.
The case for upstaging Trump at the convention has several flaws, said Kyle Kondik, who analyzes politics and campaigns at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Technically, there could be a vote to unbind the delegates, but I find it unlikely because for months and months, we’ve heard about the anti-Trump forces coming together, and it just never happened,” he said. “Why at the last minute would the delegates find the backbone that they lacked during the whole primary season?”
The Quinnipiac Poll also took heat from respected political commentator Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics. He said the poll's presidential deadlock in Ohio, and a similar result in Pennsylvania, are inconsistent with several national polls showing Clinton leading by 6 to 8 points.
The case for upstaging Trump at the convention has several flaws, said Kyle Kondik, who analyzes politics and campaigns at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Technically, there could be a vote to unbind the delegates, but I find it unlikely because for months and months, we’ve heard about the anti-Trump forces coming together, and it just never happened,” he said. “Why at the last minute would the delegates find the backbone that they lacked during the whole primary season?”