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Thousands of UVA voters took a few minutes from their lunch breaks or class breaks to cast their primary votes. Precinct chiefs say the turnout for this primary is the highest they've seen in a decade.
UVA men's basketball coach Tony Bennett raised $10,000 for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville in the ESPN Infiniti Coaches' Charity Challenge.
UVA psychologist Daniel Willingham says that there is ample evidence that children learn more when parents read to them. “The research indicating that being read to makes a young child smarter is much, much stronger than the ‘Mozart Effect’ research,” he writes.
Virginia was slumping. The Cavaliers had blitzed through non-conference play, save for a hiccup against a senior-laden George Washington, and seemed prepared for another efficiency-fueled run through the ACC slate. Three losses in four games changed that perception by mid-January, and Virginia had dropped out of the Top 25. Then everything changed.
As for the Republican contest, “the commonwealth may hold a great deal of meaning,” Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, wrote in a preview on the website run by UVA’s Center for Politics. Skelley wrote that while Trump is the favorite in Virginia, the state might be Rubio’s best chance to beat him on Super Tuesday.
"If [Rubio is] going to do it, he's got to be able to win in a state like Virginia," said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. "As the de facto establishment candidate, he needs to do well, particularly in Northern Virginia, to have a shot."
As a Super Tuesday state, the Old Dominion doesn't offer the most delegates; that distinction belongs, not surprisingly, to Texas. Yet its credentials as a marquee state are beyond dispute: few modern-day candidates have won the White House without capturing the state’s 13 presidential delegates. “In the context of Super Tuesday, it’s one of the more important states,” says Geoff Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
It's not just where the votes are – it's who shows up. Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says exit polls in 2008 and 2012 showed a trend in Virginia. "College graduates formed a larger percentage of the electorate than in any of the states that have gone so far this cycle," he says.
Treatments that zap the brain with magnets or electricity are rising in popularity, and some evidence suggests they can help lift depression. But scientists are starting to wonder whether they could be hitting the wrong place in left-handed patients. Now, two small studies suggest this could be the case. “This is the kind of question that’s been desperately needed for many years,” says Jim Coan, a UVA clinical psychologist who was not involved in the project. “Most researchers in this area, including myself, have selected samples that are strongly right-handed, just in ...
Virginia boasts multiple major metropolitan areas and a higher percentage of Republican voters with college degrees – factors that could benefit Rubio, said Geoff Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
According to a recent poll by Christopher Newport University, 40 percent of Democrats say they're likely to vote and 50 percent of Republicans say they're likely to vote. Geoff Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics says that could mean a record year for the Virginia presidential primary. "Turnout has been up everywhere on the Republican side," he said. "So why wouldn't it be close to that record primary turnout we saw in 2008 on the Democratic side? That is certainly a possibility."
The top hospital on the list is VCU Health System in Richmond, which had revenue of $1.36 billion, and second was the UVA Medical Center with $1.24 billion.
Phoebe Willis, a second-year student at the School of Law, has been named the new student member of the UVA Board of Visitors.
Three schools in Maryland and Virginia fall within the country’s top 20 public colleges. UVA ranks No. 3, the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg ranks No. 6 and the University of Maryland in College Park ranks No. 11, on a list of 477 institutions.
Last year, UVA retained its first-place ranking in terms of the market value of its endowment among all Virginia institutions of higher learning. The $6.18 billion UVA’s various foundations managed as of June 30 represented an almost 4 percent increase from the $5.94 billion reported in 2014, according to the survey.
In 2015, UVA employees gave back in a big way. Now, area charities have funds for this year's work. Employees donated almost $1 million to the Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign, a statewide fundraising drive that donates to 1,200 charities.
UVA cornerback Maurice Canady was in Indianapolis for the NFL combine when he learned of the murder of a Prince William County police officer. On Monday, as he was set to run the 40-yard dash, he scribbled “Officer Guindon 2/27/16 Never Forget” onto his orange cleats and took the field.
Apparently, making the half-court shot during ESPN’s “GameDay” is now tradition at Virginia. For the second year in a row, a Virginia student won $18,000 by nailing the half-court shot promotion that usually closes out the pregame show. This year, it was senior Andrew Board, a economics and media studies double-major from Ashburn, who wowed the crowd by making the shot on his first attempt.