“It's Paul's four pillars that make him unusual,” said University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato on Wednesday. “The Tea Party, a bit of libertarianism, a willingness to reach out to non-Republicans including African Americans, and a hesitation about U.S. involvement in foreign wars.”
The Minnesota Senate race is emerging as potentially competitive, despite receiving less attention than other battleground contests. This week, University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato moved the Franken race into the "Leans Democratic" category, calling it a potential sleeper contest.
Steve Israel (D-NY), chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, recently stated his predictions for the top Democratic House target districts to the Christian Science Monitor. Though speaking in an informal setting, Israel forecasted that CA-31, CO-6, FL-2, IA-3, NJ-3, NY-11, and VA-10 all should be controlled by Democrats in November. The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics is incredulous that this will be the case. Managing editor Kyle Kondik quoted Israel’s predictions in a recent tweet.
The column discusses “one of the most incisive books written about the American college admission system,” “Summer Melt: Supporting Low-Income Students Through the Transition to College” by Curry faculty member Benjamin L. Castleman and Lindsay C. Page.
(Video) Curry School professor Ben Castleman is one of three winners selected by the White House for his work in studying the impact of college advising on first-generation college students.
Among a slew of new books joining the already crowded scholarship about Nixon and his activities is “Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate,” by University of Virginia historian Ken Hughes. Hughes, who helps run the Miller Center's Presidential Recording Program at the University of Virginia, said that a year before the Watergate break-in, Nixon's aides drew up plans to cover up a crime Nixon committed during his 1968 campaign.
People in Southwest Virginia often think of Northern Virginia as a foreign territory, a place where demographics and politics tend to differ in dramatic ways from their part of the commonwealth. Of course, Southwest Virginia is also an animal unto itself, one where some communities limp along when compared with the state’s more prosperous and bustling regions. And that’s especially true when the Roanoke Valley is excluded from the equation, which was the case in a demographic analysis released last month by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Christian theologian who opposed the Nazis, was hanged by the regime on the grounds of a concentration camp. Nearly seven decades later, his theological writings and work continue to engage and inspire readers. In a comprehensive new biography, scholar Charles Marsh reconstructs the pastor’s life, providing intimate details using documents that recently have been made available. Earlier this month, Marsh spoke with Managing Editor Tiffany Stanley about the book, titled “Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,” which was pu...
New onset postoperative atrial fibrillation (AFib, or abnormal heartbeat) occurs in one-out-of-five heart surgery patients and is associated with an increased risk of additional complications, including double the risk of death, according to a study in the August 2014 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. "New onset postoperative atrial fibrillation is the most common complication following cardiac surgery," said lead study author Damien J. LaPar, MD, MSc, from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. "If we could find ways to reduce the incidence, we could see better o...
The state has settled the $40 million lawsuit filed by University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly for $212,500, officials announced late Wednesday. Daly in March filed a 12-count complaint in Richmond Circuit Court against the state and seven Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control agents, alleging violations of her constitutional rights and excessive use of force by the plainclothes officers who surrounded her SUV outside of the Harris Teeter grocery store in the Barracks Road Shopping Center last spring. The agents mistook a crate of water one of Daly’s sorority sisters was carrying for...
Nicholas “Nick” Wall is proof that hard work does pay off. The 18-year-old who graduated from Andover High School this spring is one of only five men and women from Maine, New Hampshire and eastern Massachusetts to earn an impressive full scholarship for the Naval Reserve Officer Training Course. He will begin embarking on the course this fall at the University of Virginia, one of the colleges around the country where the Navy offers the scholarship.
Eugene Monroe is right where he wants to be: anchoring the left side of the Baltimore Ravens offensive line. The Ravens hope he stays there a long time, as evidenced by the five-year, $37.5 million contract they gave him in March.
It was a tough break for Mississauga’s Brent Urban today who had to be carted off the field after suffering what’s believed to be a knee injury at the Baltimore Ravens’ training camp. Urban, 23, played his high school football with the Lorne Park Spartans before heading down to the United States to play for the University of Virginia Cavaliers. In May, he signed a four-year contract with the Ravens for $2.52 million.
The first four practice days of training camp presented a personal dilemma for Jets offensive lineman Oday Aboushi. A practicing Muslim, Aboushi dutifully observes Ramadan, the ninth month on the Islamic calendar, when adherents are required to refrain from eating or drinking from sunrise to sunset, though children, the elderly, pregnant women, and others who medically should not abstain from food or water are exempted.
A University of Virginia graduate has been on a mission in part of Africa and now, her work has led to trying make a big difference in the life of one little girl from Uganda. Kate Casaday has been working as a missionary in Uganda since 2011. Three years later, she’s bringing a little girl named Lily home with her, at least for a while.
Greg Merritt, a tireless journalist with an independent streak who became synonymous with area high school athletics during a 25-year run as sports editor of the Eastern Shore News, died on Wednesday morning after a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Tuition jumped by 5.2 percent on average at public four-year colleges and universities and by 4.6 percent at community colleges, according to data released Wednesday by the State Council on Higher Education for Virginia. According to Kirsten Nelson, a spokeswoman for the state council, also known as SCHEV, tuition rose in part because universities did not have a clear picture of how much money they would receive from the state because of the General Assembly budget impasse.
Many elite public schools are top schools at a better price than their private counterparts. At No. 37, California has the top-placing state school in the U.S., University of California, Berkeley, and is followed by University of Virginia (No. 40), College of William & Mary (No. 41) and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (No. 45).
Members of the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors are considering a policy that would limit their own ability to speak freely about decisions the board makes, including when members disagree with those decisions.