Gillespie, a former Republican National Committee chairman, ran an aggressive campaign to tie Warner to Obama, saying Warner had voted for Obama's agenda 97 percent of the time. That undercut Warner's reputation in the state as an independent and a moderate. "He really was hurt by the ads saying he voted with Obama," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
By Judge Glock, a Miller Center Fellow at the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. candidate in history at Rutgers University.On Oct. 20 federal regulators eased credit requirements on new mortgage loans that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will buy. This shows that the Obama administration believes these two lumbering giants—still operating under federal conservatorship—should continue to play an essential role in the housing market.Yet government guarantees, implicit or explicit, are a bad idea with a checkered past. Consider the Federal Land Banks, created in 1916 during the Woodrow Wi...
... The incoming president said he also will look for ways to work more with the University of Virginia Medical Center. “We share space in the same community, so looking at how we can collaborate and serve the community is a great opportunity,” he said.
The University of Virginia Department of Systems and Information Engineering developed the initial prototypes for demonstration under research sponsorship from the Defense Department and the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund.
The financing provides MSi the means to commercialize technology and intellectual property licensed from the University of Virginia’s Licensing and Ventures Group, and prototypes developed out of the University of Virginia’s Department of Systems and Information Engineering. ... System-Aware Cybersecurity has shown great success in early stage demonstrations in autonomous vehicle cyber attack and protection scenarios and protections of intelligence gathering and exploitation systems.
Carroll, along with Balázs Kovács, from University of Lugano, Switzerland, and David W. Lehman from the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, chose the dining domain to examine the link between authenticity and consumers’ value ratings.... When Carroll and his cohorts crunched the data, they confirmed that even when controlling for quality, restaurants regularly referred to in consumer reviews as authentic received higher ratings on average, often by a half star or more. They also found that family-owned and independent restaurants received higher consumer value ratings than chains...
Urban Legend: A penny dropped from the Empire State Building will kill a personReality: FALSEProfessor Louis Bloomfield of the University of Virginia wanted to prove this, but because the myth is so embedded in our brains, no building would let him. Instead, from hundreds of feet up, he dropped a small helium balloon tied to a penny dispenser that would spit out the pennies on the way down. Although he didn’t catch a single penny, he was hit in the face. The result? “It was like getting hit by a bug … it was noticeable, but nothing more.”
The great economist Gordon Tullock, who contributed greatly to the intellectual zeitgeist of libertarianism thanks to his role, along with Nobel Prize-winning economist James Buchanan, in developing the "public choice" school of economics, has died at age 92, his colleagues are reporting on Twitter. ... Tullock was, among other accomplishments, the intellectual father of the concept of rent-seeking ...The Buchanan/Tullock public choice approach also came to be known as the “Virginia School” of political economy because of Buchanan’s formative years teaching at the U...
In her book “Managing Challenges in Multicultural Teams,” Kristin J. Behfar, an associate professor at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, identified four main challenges faced by multicultural teams: ...
An analysis by James Wyckoff at the University of Virginia found, “There’s a really dramatic shift after 2003 to a really different workforce in New York City [schools] than there had been in place before that.” In particular, Wyckoff determined that the SAT scores and college grades of our incoming teachers were significantly improved and that we substantially closed the gap in qualifications between teachers being hired in the wealthiest and poorest schools.
One of the fundamental truisms of American life is this: Your kids will have a better life — more opportunities, more creature comforts, more whatever — than you did/do. Except that people don't believe that any more, according to preliminary exit polls. ... Those are stunning — and depressing — numbers. And they are far from the only evidence that the American Dream is, if not dead, certainly dying in the eyes of many Americans. In 2013, the Post did a major survey alongside the Miller Center at the University of Virginia that sought ...
DES MOINES, Iowa — Middle School students may not be old enough to cast a ballot, but they still got hands on experience voting this Election Day. About 750 Merrill Middle School students in Des Moines participated in a national mock election. Teacher David O’Connor says, “It’s the largest one in the country. It’s done through the University of Virginia’s Youth Leadership Initiative. There are students all over the country who are participating in it.”
More than three years after a freak football accident altered his life forever, and two years after he made national headlines by returning to the field as the first high school quarterback with an above-the-knee amputation, Rainey’s days are still consumed by football. They begin with a 7 a.m. team meeting. ... Rainey, as of now, is not able to play major college football. So the 225-pound sophomore spends most mornings at Virginia’s football facility, learning the ropes as a coach during practice and staying in shape with daily workouts before heading to class, his mind on a goal...
Reports of forcible sex offenses at the flagship public universities of Virginia and Maryland doubled last year, according to new federal data. There were 19 such reports at the University of Maryland in 2013, up from nine the year before, and 27 at the University of Virginia, up from 11. The increases, echoed at many colleges and universities, reflect growing awareness of sexual assault on campuses across the country.School officials and others familiar with the issue say schools with rising totals of sex offense reports should not be perceived as being more dangerous than they were before. R...
This year, The Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at the University of Virginia school of law is taking on what could potentially be a huge case; Elonis v. the United States. "It basically asks whether to be convicted of a true threat the person who made the threat had to subjectively intend to put the victim in fear or whether it's enough that the victim reasonably enough was put in fear," said Daniel Ortiz, Michael J. and Jane R. Horvitz Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
To develop an objective standard to measure lawmaking effectiveness, a pair of political science professors, Alan Wiseman at Vanderbilt University and Craig Volden at the University of Virginia, have tracked all legislation introduced in Congress since 1973 and developed an index that takes into account a member’s seniority and awards points for how far his or her bills get in the process.
Seattle Storm associate head coach Jenny Boucek will spend much of the offseason with the Dallas Mavericks, where she will be an unofficial assistant coach on the staff. Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle has praised Boucek where he declared in another piece to Monroe that she will "be the next female NBA assistant coach. She's the most qualified." This is isn't the first time that Boucek has had a chance to work with Carlisle, who like Carlisle graduated from the University of Virginia. She struck up a professional relationship with him and had a chance to work with the Mave...
When she was 14, her father became chairman of the Republican National Committee. When she was 15, her family moved across the country to live in Washington, where she met President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan. When she got married in Ireland, the guests included members of the famed Irish rock band U2. Leslie Fahrenkopf Foley ‘94 has led a multi-faceted life with a rare insider's view as the daughter of a national political insider and as an attorney who has held high-level posts all the way to the White House.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week not to take on gay marriage — instantly paving the way for same-sex couples to wed in Virginia and four other states — surprised analysts on both sides of the issue. With extensive comments from U.Va. law professors A.E. Dick Howard, Kim Forde-Mazrui and Margaret Foster Riley.