“That's a good start for Gillespie, but he has a steep mountain to climb in order to beat Warner,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Larry Sabato's “Crystal Ball” at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics continues to shine on Warner. “We've had it as 'Likely D' since Gillespie entered.”
Seventy years afterward, some in central Virginia are shedding light on connections between this city and the D-Day invasion in Normandy. University of Virginia professors offered some insight into an important tie to Charlottesville. History professor Stephen Schuker says, in the second wave of troops that arrived in Normandy after the initial invasion, some of those officers were trained to interact with the French locals. Most of those officers graduated from a school right next to UVA.
Stephen A. Schuker from The University of Virginia’s Corcoran Department of History joins Les Sinclair to talk about D-Day's importance and the role Charlottesville played.
By Ashley Deeks, U.Va. law professorAmid our heavy focus on possible changes to U.S. surveillance laws and policies, it is easy to forget that foreign surveillance quite often violates the domestic laws – including the criminal laws – of the state subject to that surveillance.
"Roughly one in every classroom will have some type of food allergy," said Dr. Scott Commins, a professor at the University of Virginia working in the Allergy and Clinical Immunology Department at the UVa Medical Center. "It's largely a global phenomenon where we have seen increases in allergic sensitizations to food." ... Along with making their restaurant more food-allergy friendly, the Jacksons, owners of the Panera Bread franchise in the Barracks Road Shopping Center, are hoping to raise money for pediatric food allergy research at UVa. ... Dr. Commins has spent the...
Even though Rayvaughn Hines always had big plans, there were naysayers. Being young, black and poor, he says, he'd hear others making dire predictions: "I'm going to be dead or in jail by the time I'm 18 or 21." Last month, at 22, Hines — a Gates Millennium Scholar — earned his psychology degree from the University of Virginia. "Just knowing that I beat those odds is a big deal to me," he says. Hines begins graduate studies at Virginia this fall. He plans to become a school counselor. He credits his own determination — "If I have a goal, n...
In addition to Zhang, the students on the team who will be biking are Weiyi Chen, and Yuchi Che from the University of Southern California; Lili Yao from the University of British Columbia; Linda Sheng of Stanford University; Yu Wang of the University of Virginia; and Tao Liu from North Carolina State University.
Last September a 20-year-old Boston student and 19-year-old from the University of Virginia would suffer the same fate, both dying after ingesting MDMA, both while at a music venue. ... What the results of the new study proved is that the four who died after ingesting MDMA likely had no chance of making it in the first place. “We thought she was just dehydrated,” Dominique Vletter told Katie Couric in an October interview about the death of her 20-year-old University of Virginia roommate, Shelley Goldsmith. ... Dehydration, contrary to what the many reports following Goldsmith&rsqu...
Ben Greenberg's new book, "Natural Virginia: Panoramic Photographs by Ben Greenberg," is replete with photographs of special moments he has captured throughout Virginia.
During his engineering college days in Mumbai, Vikram Joshi quizzed in the Bombay college quizzing circles. He then moved to the USA to join the University of Virginia and then stayed on to work as an engineer in Boston.
The University of Virginia baseball team is one win away from its third trip to the College World Series in six years.
Differences in male-female parenting styles are not imaginary or based on stereotypes, according to an extensive survey released Monday. Instead, differences are rooted in biology. From an evolutionary perspective, men and women share a strong interest in their offspring’s survival but pursue that goal in different ways, say the authors of “Mother Bodies, Father Bodies: How Parenthood Changes Us From the Inside Out.” “Evolutionary success is not based on whether you survive — rather, success is measured by whether you are able to produce offspring who survive, rep...
The report sprang from an unusual collaboration between natural and social scientists at a 2008 conference at the University of Virginia, where participants shared research about pregnancy and parenting. The proceedings were published last year in a book, “Gender and Parenthood: Natural and Social Science Perspectives,” edited by W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at UVA, and Kline. They were principal investigators and wrote the "Bodies" report, released today.
Children with involved fathers are more likely to graduate from college—particularly among middle- and upper-income families but also among those from lower-income backgrounds, a recent study found. According to this new research by Brad Wilcox at the University of Virginia, the family structure that best promotes this involvement is a married, intact family. This is the case for youth from lower-educated homes as well as those from more highly educated homes.
Two readers suggested that a follow-up to last week’s Health section story on ticks should focus on research that suggests a tick bite can cause a person to develop an allergy to red meat. University of Virginia researchers Dr. Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills and Dr. Scott Commins are among the leading experts on this phenomenon.
One glass of red wine three to four times a week may be enough to starve certain cancer cells, according to researchers at the University of Virginia. When resveratrol was given to human cancer cells, it was found to turn off the cancer-feeding proteins, which slowed cancer progression.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors on Friday approved a $2.79 billion budget for the next fiscal year. The plan funds the university from July 1 through June 2015. The budget is an increase of 3.7 percent over the current fiscal year and includes funding for enrollment growth of 155 students, 70 percent of whom will be Virginia residents.