Sanders has crested the 64 percent mark on nine occasions, or about 20 percent of the time. For those who say that a 20 percent chance is tough but doable, Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, reminds us that not all primaries are equal. "Sure, Sanders could win California, the biggest prize remaining, but by enough to capture 65 percent of its delegates?" Kondik asked. "Nothing is impossible, but there’s absolutely no reason to think he could do that. Additionally, is Sanders really going to win New Jersey, ...
The Republican nomination race will likely be over if Trump wins Tuesday’s Indiana primary, said Geoffrey Skelley with the UVA Center for Politics. “There’s a decent chance Trump can reach 1,237 bound delegates by the time voting ends on June 7, or at least get to that mark with the support from some unbound delegates from the Pennsylvania delegation who have suggested they will vote for Trump,” he said.
Widely considered the most detested member of Congress among his colleagues, Cruz has picked up only a few endorsements. The party machine, while fearful of Trump, hasn't rallied around him either. And Trump has been on a tear, racking up bigger-than-expected wins in recent weeks. "Indiana really is a must-win for Cruz in order to prevent Trump from winning on the first ballot," said Kyle Kondik of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a website run by UVA’s Center for Politics.
(Commentary) What will the ultimate impact of Bernie Sanders’ campaign be, and has it been as historically significant as it feels to supporters? When I pose this question to Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the UVA’s Miller Center, she credits Sanders' rise with his ability to inspire “[male and female] millennials and women who are not taken with Hillary Clinton.” More specifically, he is “tapping into millennial anger over student debt, lack of jobs, and fear that they won’t be able to equal their parents’ lifestyle, let alone ...
Former Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says he will not run for governor, and Prince William Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart says he will. Geoff Skelley at the UVA Center for Politics says Stewart is facing a difficult race. “If Stewart couldn’t win the lieutenant governor nomination last time in a field that was not terribly strong, the fact that he is running against Ed Gillespie and Rob Whitman, I think that is a much stronger pair of opponents."
(By Anne McClure, UVA nursing student and a critical care nurse at Richmond’s Retreat Doctors’ Hospital) I am a critical care nurse, and a part of my soundtrack is reserved for crises. The playlist is fast-paced to stifle the ER’s cacophony of alarms shrieking about a body’s impending demise. From this hospital intensive care unit, I serve the sickest of the sick, and am honored by it.
The UVA Police Department has created a Facebook page to share alerts and updates with the public. The department is encouraging members of the public to “like” and share the page, but asked people not to use it to report crimes.
It’s a little easier for out-of-town families to afford traveling to Charlottesville for care at the UVA Medical Center. Research teams working in UVA’s labs spent the week fundraising for the Alyssa House, and on Friday presented a check to the charity.
Robert Dolan, UVA professor emeritus, died Sunday. He played an integral role in the 1969 founding of UVA’s Department of Environmental Sciences, where he taught until 2014, and is considered one of the "fathers" of coastal geomorphology.
Dr. Susan C. Modesitt, a UVA gynecological oncologist and researcher, and colleagues found that of 1,482 women who had bariatric surgery, 3.6 percent developed cancer, compared with 5.8 percent of the 3,495 morbidly obese women who had not had bariatric surgery.
Some Central Virginia nonprofits are thousands of dollars richer, thanks to a UVA philanthropy class. The Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy presented four checks that totaled more than $37,000 Monday morning.
Wesley Diener of Vienna is one of five UVA students receiving grants from the University Award for Projects in the Arts program, which provides stipends to work on projects during the summer. Diener, a music major with a drama minor, will use the funding to attend an intense opera-training program in France, where he will sing a full role in a major opera.
Peter Hazel of Arlington is one of five UVA students receiving grants from the University Award for Projects in the Arts program, which provides stipends to work on projects during the summer. Hazel is making a short film examining color and black-and-white film and the effect on emotion and an understanding of beauty.
America is a nation built by immigrants, and its cities are supposed to be melting pots where people of different backgrounds, ethnicities and races interact and learn from one another. The reality, however, is that cities are oftentimes divided by race and ethnicity. This becomes strikingly apparent when using an online mapping tool devised by researchers at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
UVA School of Law Professor Richard Bonnie, who teaches and writes about the law and is well known for his work in forensic psychology, figures insanity defenses account for less than 1 percent of all cases. “It’s really a rare thing,” said Bonnie. But he added that they “are the kinds of cases that tend to get a lot of attention.”
The clashes between Donald Trump’s supporters and protesters, which have often turned violent, have become almost a staple of the billionaire businessman’s campaign and have helped galvanize his base of support. “In the general election, it will cut both ways,” said Larry Sabato, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Republicans will call for ‘law and order.’ Democrats will stress to swing voters that if they vote for Trump they’ll get four years of turmoil.”
City councilors expect to get more advice during its Monday night meeting about the future of Confederate statues. UVA history professor John Edward Mason has told the councilors there are stories from the Civil War era that are not being told.
A.E. Dick Howard, professor at the UVA School of Law, said “there is simply no question” about the governor’s authority to restore voting rights to a large group. Still, legal challenges may be forthcoming.
UVA’s Darden School of Business announces a massive open online course on Marketing Analytics – or how to make sense of and utilize the massive amounts of data available to improve marketing efforts.
(Co-written by UVA law professor Richard J. Bonnie) Over the past dozen years, the Supreme Court, drawing on psychological and brain science indicating that people under age 18 are not yet fully capable of controlling their behavior, abolished the juvenile death penalty and greatly restricted life without parole sentences for crimes by juveniles. As scientists and legal scholars who specialize in these issues, we have welcomed these changes with enthusiasm.