Significant barriers still remain for Bernie Sanders, not least of which is his standing with minority votes. Clinton polls well among African-Americans, especially in the southern states that will hold their primaries in the coming weeks. "Sanders doesn't have much of a chance to beat Clinton unless he improves his numbers with non-white voters,” UVA political analyst Kyle Kondik said.
Disputes could still arise over the election results, and UVA political scientist Robert Fatton told The New York Times, "The old military people that are out on the streets are sending a clear signal to opposition groups: 'If you don't accept this compromise, we are out here, with weapons.'"
With voting fast approaching in New Hampshire, data from political advertising tracker Kantar Media reveal Trump got pummeled on TV in Iowa. "What we saw in Iowa, that was probably a failure of ground game and television," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a non-partisan election newsletter run by UVA.
(By Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics) Hard to believe, considering its history, but Virginia has become the ultimate swing state: Not too right and not too left, at long last representative of the country as a whole – with significant minority populations, burgeoning suburban and exurban regions, surviving Old South and Appalachian rural areas, plenty of college towns and a large military influence in Hampton Roads.
(By Carolyn Long Engelhard, director of the Health Policy Program at the UVA School of Medicine) In late January, the Congressional Budget Office updated its 2016 enrollment prediction to include 13 million Americans purchasing health insurance through state and federal marketplaces. The current CBO estimate is 40 percent lower than the one it made at the law’s inception four years ago.
Elementary school students labeled as gifted are already taking advanced courses at UVA. The Curry School of Education offers the Saturday Enrichment Program. For five weeks, gifted children in kindergarten through fifth grade take upper-level classes to speed up their learning.
A small farming operation run by UVA students has turned to the community to raise money to expand its business. The garden is on a one-acre section of Morven Farm, donated to UVA in 2001 by billionaire philanthropist John W. Kluge.
A new study UVA’s Melinda Adnot, Veronica Katz and James Wyckoff and Stanford’s Thomas Dee finds that the IMPACT system improved student performance significantly. Specifically, when teachers rated effective under IMPACT replaced teachers rated ineffective, student achievement rose. Confounding the predictions of the critics, the system has proven successful at identifying good and bad teachers.
Can a teacher's worth be measured by how much his students' test scores improve? And should teachers who don't move that needle very much be fired? Whether such measures improve student learning has yet to be fully analyzed. But a first stab at it has just been released by researchers from UVA and Stanford.
Last spring, Earl Mark, a UVA associate professor of architecture, began researching ways to create a new type of lightweight, temporary shelter with minimal environmental impact. The importance of his work began to hit home when he visited Europe for a conference at the height of the refugee crisis.
A cannabis-based vaginal suppository claims to help relieve menstrual cramps. But even if you were willing to try this unorthodox therapy, should you? Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of midlife health at the UVA Health System, makes her recommendation.
Two UVA students have created a new social network that emphasizes giving back instead of posting selfies. “Totem” has already raised hundreds of dollars for this week's charity, the City Schoolyard Gardens Program.
It’s unlikely Trump will avoid another debate, said Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “Trump lost Iowa and has himself said his debate decision contributed to it,” Sabato said. “Let’s see what happens in New Hampshire, but I don’t think Trump is going to be in any position to refuse participation in the Michigan debate.”
Larry Sabato, founder of UVA’s Center for Politics, sees Clinton as the favorite in the contest for the Democrats’ nomination, even if Sanders trounces her Tuesday night in the New Hampshire primary.
SevenBar Aviation has announced it has signed a multi-year agreement to provide the UVA Health System’s Pegasus program with Federal Aviation Administration Part 135 services, beginning March 1.
An analysis of 98 psychology papers, published in 2015 by 90 teams of researchers coordinated by Brian Nosek of UVA, managed to replicate satisfactorily the results of only 39 percent of the studies investigated.
UVA is bringing its MBA program to a new location in Rosslyn. The school will offer executive degree candidates the opportunity to pursue either an executive or global MBA with programs slated to start this fall.
The University of Virginia has a long tradition of research, which affected tech startups in Charlottesville. Venture funding in Charlottesville increased from $250,000 in 2010 to $27.7 million in 2015.
The UVA Center for Telehealth was launched in 1994 and has since grown into a national model for the health industry. Since then, UVA and its network of 152 telemedicine partners have enabled more than 51,000 patient encounters across more than 60 specialties, saving Virginians roughly 16 million miles of travel.
A group of talented and gifted students from Nelson County Middle School got a taste of business at UVA’s Darden School Thursday.