Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said Cantor's loss will have major implications for immigration reform, an issue that Cantor became linked to. "Everybody agrees that if immigration reform was on life support before, they're pulling out the plugs" because no other House Republican will want to end up like Cantor, he said.
Psychology professors Sian L. Beilock of the University of Chicago and Daniel T. Willingham of the University of Virginia have some ideas. Writing in the latest issue of American Educator, a publication by the American Federation of Teachers, they offer recommendations based on their research, including: ...
Elliot Rosenberg is an American who lived, worked, and traveled in Latin America before moving to Rio de Janeiro to start Favela Experience. Elliot graduated with a B.S. in Commerce and a second major in Latin American Studies from the University of Virginia and holds a certificate in Social Enterprise and Impact Investing from the Monterey Institute for International Studies' Frontier Market Scouts program. Favela Experience offers authentic room and apartment rentals to travelers in Rio’s safe and vibrant favela communities. The social venture generates sustainable income for favel...
By W. Bradford Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, and Robin Fretwell Wilson... But obscured in the public conversation about the violence against women is the fact that some other men are more likely to protect women, directly and indirectly, from the threat of male violence: married biological fathers. The bottom line is this: Married women are notably safer than their unmarried peers, and girls raised in a home with their married father are markedly less likely to be abused or assaulted than children living without their own father.
Greg Napps has been serving as acting CEO of Culpeper Regional Hospital since March 1, replacing longtime top administrator Lee Kirk after 18 years of service. In his new role, Napps’ primary focus includes “enhancing clinical and operational integration with the University of Virginia Medical Center; enhancing hospital culture through a business strategy used to maximize value and eliminate waste; and improving patient experience by implementing best practices from the Studer Group and Ritz Carlton.”
Imagine if the walls of your house could talk–and tell you things like who keeps forgetting to turn off the hallway lights, or how many times has your family eaten dinner together in the last month? Kamin Whitehouse is building software to do just that. The University of Virginia associate professor is leading a team that designed a system–enabled by sensors installed in wall panels and other places in the home–to let users monitor the activities of household members and analyze their behavior. Many companies in Silicon Valley have talked about connected devices, such as smar...
The University of Virginia Children's Hospital is now nationally ranked, making the top 100 list in U.S. News & World Report’s "Best Children's Hospitals” guide. The urology department at UVa Children’s Hospital is ranked 37th nationally, while neonatology is ranked 43rd. Across the U.S., 89 children’s hospitals had at least one nationally ranked specialty. ... “Having our programs ranked tells the region and the country that our institution stands toe-to-toe with the best in the land,” said James P. Nataro, MD, PhD, MBA, chair of the Depart...
The University of Virginia rolled out the red carpet to honor some of its employees. The Annual Service Awards Dinner was held at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville on Monday, June 9th. UVa. President Teresa Sullivan gave the keynote speech at the event. People who have been with UVa. for 20, 30, 40, even 50 years received special recognition.
You can support the Ronald McDonald House in Charlottesville through a special Papa John's pizza order. Funds raised through the deal will help families with sick children at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
Judge Herman A. Whisenant, Jr. said he’ll authorize Dr. Scott Bender of the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville to continue evaluating murder suspect Judy Kay Deal, now 60, in an effort to determine her competency to stand trial.
Murder, mystery, and poetry come together in medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger’s (University of Virginia) new novel set in Chaucer’s London.
The biggest religious liberty case coming up in next year’s Supreme Court term is Holt v. Hobbs, which involves a prisoner who is prohibited from growing a half-inch beard in accordance with his faith. Holt is represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and University of Virginia law professor Doug Laycock.
Sara E. Rimm-Kaufman, an educational psychologist at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the study, noted that relatively little had been written about how to make effective use of classroom walls. But she said that if young children were “seeing so much at once, they cannot independently differentiate what is important; they may tune out the teacher.”
"Really, the only two competitive races that are worth talking about are [Eric] Cantor and the open seat for [Jim] Moran," says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
"Republicans I've talked to are chortling," Larry Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told Business Insider. "They think it's one of the cleverest things they've done."
“It’s pretty damaging to Democrats,” said Geoffrey Skelley, who has been monitoring Virginia’s Medicaid expansion saga at Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political blog run out of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “McAuliffe already had a difficult task at hand, now it’s just even more difficult to see him accomplishing this.”
Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the U.Va. Center for Politics, discusses the implications of Democrat Phillip Puckett’s resignation from the state senate.
University of Virginia Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan expressed the reasoning of the protesters, saying, “She looked in our eyes and lied to us. Repeatedly. So 4,400 American service people and 174,000 Iraqis died in an illegal and unjustified war.”