Hillary Clinton "owns" the Obama administration, no matter how hard she tries to divorce herself from it, says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics and author of the "Sabato's Crystal Ball" blog.
For all the twists and turns, all the controversy and time spent on Medicaid expansion in Virginia, still no one can say what will happen in the state's most divisive political fight."That I feel comfortable saying," University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said Tuesday. "It is impossible to say what's going to happen next." ... In Virginia, attorneys and political scientists point to A.E. Dick Howard as the man to see for answers on constitutional questions. A University of Virginia professor, Howard helped write the state's current constit...
Christ School alumnus Charles Wright, who graduate in 1953, has been named the next United States Poet Laureate.
McCune is one of 29 young adults between age 18 and 28 who share that same desire and are spending the summer as Bike & Build volunteers. The bicyclists, who raise funds for and execute affordable-housing projects in communities along their route, expect to arrive in Seattle on Aug. 15. Tuesday was their 19th day on the road. So far, bicyclists on the Providence to Seattle trip have raised $145,013, according to the organization’s website. Almost three-quarters of the trip remains, but both McCune and Zack Peak, a 20-year-old political and social-thought student at the Universi...
A night after one of Virginia's worst pitching starts of the season, the Cavaliers got one of their best to force a winner-take-all game for the national championship. Brandon Waddell limited Vanderbilt to five hits in his first nine-inning complete game, Virginia knocked out first-round draft pick Tyler Beede in the seventh and the Cavaliers evened the College World Series finals with a 7-2 victory Tuesday night. (With video)
The offense has been there for Virginia in the College World Series finals. The pitching is back now, too. With the Cavaliers’ season on the line, Brandon Waddell pitched a five-hit complete game in a 7-2 victory over Vanderbilt on Tuesday night that forced a decisive Game 3. The teams meet Wednesday night at TD Ameritrade Park, where the winner will earn its school’s first national championship in baseball. Projected starting pitchers are Josh Sborz (6-4) for Virginia against Carson Fulmer (7-1).
Brandon Waddell, the sophomore lefty who on Tuesday pitched Virginia to victory for the second time at the College World Series over a recent first-round draft pick, shares a special connection with Robbie Coman. They're roommates back in Charlottesville.
It will be a winner-take-all at the College World Series tonight in Omaha.
“The fast-track kids didn’t turn out O.K.,” said Joseph P. Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. He is the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Child Development, that followed these risk-taking, socially precocious cool kids for a decade. In high school, their social status often plummeted, the study showed, and they began struggling in many ways. It was their early rush into what Dr. Allen calls pseudomature behavior that set them up for trouble.
The task force has since been gathering data with two primary researchers, University of Virginia Ph.D. students Tammi Walker and Todd Warner, to determine where the disproportionalities are occurring within the juvenile justice system. Their investigation took in information from three sources: community forums, interviews with stakeholders in the juvenile justice system and data collection from the three and a half years ending in 2013. An executive summary of their findings was presented to the City Council last week.
It has become a cottage industry, with the government awarding more than half of corporate monitor positions to former federal prosecutors, according to a University of Virginia law school analysis of deferred prosecution and nonprosecution agreements. “Y
Bruce Greyson, M.D., of the University of Virginia wrote in a paper titled “The Mystical Impact of Near-Death Experiences”: ”In a cross-cultural study in the United States and India, for example, psychologists Karlsis Osis and Erlendur Haraldsson did not find any straightforward relationship between religiousness and deathbed visions, although they did find that an individual’s belief system influenced the interpretation of the experience.” Greyson concluded: ...
In a commentary in Lancet Infectious Diseases, the three experts noted that many questions about MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) remain to be answered, including sites of infection, pathogen dynamics, innate and adaptive immune responses, and host genetic factors. The article was written by Frederick G. Hayden, MD, of the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville; ...
One of those historical stages where the self-image of the United States as the embodiment of what is moral and just was challenged, unbeknownst to the United States public, was the war in South Africa in the 1970s. This war was the platform for the rise of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela into the global stage and which propelled the independence of Namibia and secured Angola’s sovereignty. Given our mythology that the United States is always on the side of truth and justice, the “shining city on the hill,” this counter narrative does not fit the self-image of the U.S. so it is ign...
By Jack Hamilton, Slate’s pop critic and assistant professor of American studies and media studies at the University of Virginia.... The remastering is pretty superfluous: These are, and always have been, three of the most perfect sounding rock albums ever made. The rough mixes of II and III, though, are a revelation, casting light on Jimmy Page’s immense talents as a producer and giving us the opportunity to rediscover this band as they were, four absurdly gifted young people making music together, as opposed to the rock deities they’d forever after be imagined as.
In modern times, of course, the point of those names isn’t to actually terrify opponents so much as to create spectacle and to sell gear with cool logos. As the historian J. Gordon Hylton recounts, the Redskins’ founder George Preston Marshall deserves a lot of the credit for inventing modern mascot pageantry. Marshall was an unapologetic racist of the old school—he was the last NFL owner to integrate his team, and then only under threat of losing his stadium—and it isn’t surprising that he made the name the occasion for a kind of minstrelsy in redface, compl...
A Virginia man who has fathered children with several women has agreed to get a vasectomy to reduce his prison term by up to five years in a child endangerment case that has evoked the country's dark history of forced sterilization. Though Herald willingly — if reluctantly, according to his attorney — signed on to the deal, the agreement immediately calls to mind the surgical sterilizations carried out in Virginia and dozens of other states during the 20th century under the discredited pseudoscience called eugenics, said Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor.&...
Though the opinion is a win for the EPA, environmental law expert Michael A. Livermore said Scalia’s opinion could sow confusion about who really won. That’s because, though Scalia handed a win to the EPA, the rhetoric in his opinion reads as a fiery reprimand of the agency for “laying claim to extravagant statutory power over the national economy.” “I think Scalia is acknowledging that this is the road that we’re walking down” in terms of allowing the government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, but “this is just his personal howl of protest...