Laura Ingraham '91 went to law school at the University of Virginia, which she said stirred her interest in state politics. Before becoming a famous ...
She is not just a successful businesswoman but also an adventure sportsperson. Although her professional life revolves around architecture, design, decor, service and staffing in hotels, Nirupa Shankar has trodden many paths that even men would not dare to venture into.
The Library of Congress is to announce on Thursday that the next poet laureate will be Charles Wright, the author of nearly two dozen collections of verse that fuse the legacy of European modernism with mystical evocations of the landscape of the American South. Mr. Wright, 78, a retired professor at the University of Virginia, has already won just about every other honor in the poetry world, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. But reached by telephone at his house in Charlottesville, he still sounded a bit wide-eyed with ...
At such large public universities as the University of Virginia, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, nonresidents make up 30 percent or more of enrollment, according to the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a Washington, D.C. think tank.
Because of its disparate-impact argument, “the floodgates could open for litigation calling for even greater judicial control over California’s schools,” wrote Joshua Dunn, an associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, and Martha Derthick, a professor emerita of government at the University of Virginia, in a recent online article for the journal Education Next. “Anyone could challenge any law, however neutral in design, with a claim that it was somehow related to an unequal outcome.”
“I’m sure [immigration] contributed to it, but I think being a member of House leadership contributed to it too,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at University of Virginia Center for Politics, joins Les Sinclair to talk about the implications and ramifications of VA’s 7th district election.
Editor-in-Chief of The Papers of George Washington to speak at Bedminster's Jacobus Vanderveer House
Edward G. Lengel, editor-in-chief of The Papers of George Washington and a professor at the University of Virginia, will speak at the Jacobus Vanderveer House on Wednesday, June 11 at 6 p.m. Following his presentation, titled "George Washington: Man of Character," Dr. Lengel will sign copies of his book, This Glorious Struggle: George Washington's Revolutionary War Letters, a selection of the legendary commander in chief’s most important and interesting letters penned during 1775-1783.
Myron Nordquist of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia said maps and additional data should be seen as supporting materials to claims. “You have to do more than just make a claim, you have to demonstrate effective occupation and they haven’t done that,” he said.
Dave Brat, an economics professor from Henrico County, stunned House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Republican primary Tuesday night, a shocking defeat for the veteran congressman who appeared next in line to become speaker of the House. Brat, a Randolph-Macon College professor with little name ID, toppled a Republican heavyweight who had not faced a close challenge since he was first elected in 2000. “This is one of the most stunning upsets in modern American political history,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “This is the ...
The reviews are not fawning, but could this be just the book she needs to position herself for a 2016 run for president? University of Virginia’s Center for Politics director Larry Sabato discusses on the News Hub with Sara Murray. (video)
"It's rare, unless there is an ongoing, hot, unpopular war, that foreign policy takes center stage'' in a presidential campaign, says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center on Politics.