Guesthouses Reservation Services was founded in 1976 by four women who opened their homes to guests when the Queen of England visited Charlottesville. Rachel Penny, a young graduate of UVA’s Darden School of Business, has now purchased the company, maintaining the legacy of women owners.
Twelve years ago, in the fall of its 2003 term, the U.S Supreme Court received a written brief from Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz with a very unusual footnote. Cruz didn’t name the student author in his brief. But if the justices had looked it up, they would have found a surprise: It was a 24-year-old Harvard law student named Ted Cruz. “I think the court would have preferred to know, and might have felt somewhat misled if anyone went to read the note,” says Douglas Laycock, a professor at the UVA School of Law and a leading legal authority on religious liberty. “I w...
One of Trump’s top challengers, Marco Rubio, needs Super Tuesday to yield something he’s yet to find: victory. “You need to win somewhere. That’s the important thing,” says Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
The logical next stop after visiting Monticello is to see the site of his proudest academic achievement, the University of Virginia.
Jennifer Grayburn, a Ph.D. candidate in the history of art and architecture, is using 3-D printers to make archaeological finds accessible to researchers around the world.
UVA is a top research center and home to some of the brightest students in the U.S. Its law and business schools are world-renowned. It seemed like a fine place to measure the direction U.S. politics might take in the coming years.
Virginia hosted ESPN’s “College GameDay” for the No. 3 Cavaliers’ matchup against No. 7 North Carolina on Saturday and the fans at John Paul Jones Arena brought their sign game. At the end of the broadcast, host Rece Davis said the crowd was the most responsive the basketball version of the show has had in its 12-year run.
A UVA fourth-year student is celebrating a royal honor this week after a visit to Walt Disney World. Shannon Crawford won the Disney Princess Half-Marathon in Florida on Sunday. Crawford says she started running for fun three years ago and has only been in two other races.
Donald Trump has argued against the conventional wisdom that if other candidates drop out, their support will gravitate to the other non-Trump candidates. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, sided with Trump in that regard. “Trump will get a share. He might not get a majority, but he’ll get a share,” he said.
Donald Trump has argued against the conventional wisdom that if other candidates drop out, their support will gravitate to the other non-Trump candidates. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, sided with Trump in that regard. “Trump will get a share. He might not get a majority, but he’ll get a share,” he said.
The debate was "actually a brawl at times that didn't put the candidates in the best light. They were egged on by a noisy, out-of-control audience. This has unfortunately become the new standard. Rubio did better than he ever has before, and Cruz was aggressive too ... (but) I'll be surprised if Trump is affected much. He often gave as good as he got, and this was probably a reinforcement debate. That is, people who by and large have already picked a candidate tuned in to root for their guy. They found enough reason to continue their support,” said Larry Sabato, director of ...
Scholarly pundits like those at UVA’s Center for Politics are predicting that by March 15, Donald Trump will have a clear victory for the Republican nomination. Much later in the convention process, because, and only because of superdelegates, Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a UVA-based online publication, explains the real reason behind superdelegates.
Seventh- and eighth-grade students and teachers at Woodglen Middle School participated in the 2016 National Super Student Day Presidential Primary, sponsored by the Youth Leadership Initiative, a national civic education program based at UVA’s Center for Politics. With thousands of students expected to vote nationwide during the voting period from Feb. 22-29, the YLI Mock Election is the largest secure, student-only, online mock election in the nation.
A UVA study found cold viruses don't have to be near you. The cold virus can live on furniture, toys and door handles for more than 24 hours.
Donald Trump's refusal to release his tax returns is the latest example that he is playing the 2016 presidential election by his own rules, and winning because of it. “He has changed his positions on a number of things coming into this election, so why would we expect him to not consider moving around if it suited him going into the general election?” says Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics.
The Tom Tom Founders Festival, presented in partnership with i.Lab at the University of Virginia, will take place April 15 at the Paramount Theater and will bring together a series of innovators from all over for talks, panel discussions and luncheons.
UVA’s Board of Visitors has named Phoebe Willis, a second-year law student, as its new student member for the 2016-17 school year. She attended UVA as an undergrad and played on the varsity field hockey team.
Scientists have long worried that air pollution could amplify climate change by hurting the ability of forests to grow and absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide. But a new UVA study questions that conventional wisdom when it comes to one key pollutant, low-level ozone.
Meat has a greater impact on the environment than almost any other food we eat. But consumers remain largely unaware of this, says UVA’s James Galloway, a leading nitrogen expert. "Everybody knows about carbon, but not so much about nitrogen, in part, because it's complicated," he says.
“I’ll agree that Trump is the very likely nominee toward the end of March if he wins some of the big states that haven’t voted yet,” UVA political scientist Larry J. Sabato said Wednesday. “Only four small states have voted. So let’s resist the temptation to write a review of the play after Act One.”