(By Kyle Kondik, political analyst at U.Va.’s Center for Politics) In what order should we expect upper chamber seats to flip? To demonstrate just how Republican this year’s Senate playing field is, consider this: Of the 36 Senate elections this year (33 regularly scheduled and three specials), the Crystal Ball sees 16 as at least potentially competitive at the moment. Of those races, 14 are currently held by Democrats, and just two are held by Republicans.
Over the last three years, Cavaliers Against Cancer has raised over $30,000 and Saturday's goal was to raise an additional $20,000. "We've got three different levels of tournaments -- we've got a beginner, main and high stakes tournament, so folks can come out and have an opportunity to play in a tournament in their appropriate skill level and a chance to win over $10,000 in prizes," said Shawn Brydge, Co-founder of Cavaliers Against Cancer. All net proceeds from the event will be donated to the Rebecca Clary Harris Memorial Fellowship at the University of Virginia Cancer...
1. Love lessens our physical perception of pain and threat: In a groundbreaking experiment, Dr. Jim Coan at the University of Virginia gathered a group of happily married women and put them in a functional MRI machine.
High Point native Anthony Gill partied like it was 1976 with his University of Virginia teammates on the floor of the Greensboro Coliseum on Sunday.
Doctors at the University of Virginia will talk about the latest breakthroughs in blood cancer research at a free public breakfast on Grounds on Thursday. The breakfast, hosted by UVa Patients & Friends, also will feature the new director of the UVa Cancer Center, Dr. Thomas Loughran. It all starts at 8 a.m. at Alumni Hall.
Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said he doubts Republicans, wary of facing primary challengers from their right flank, will hand McAuliffe a win.
Only a few hundred dollars separate the costs of the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University, but the price paid by their poorest students sets the two schools worlds apart. U.Va.’s average total in-state cost — all expenses including tuition and fees, room and board, and books — was $23,986 for the 2011-12 academic year. Yet first-year students whose family incomes were below $30,000 paid a net average price of only $4,405. VCU freshmen in the same income bracket paid more than three times that amount. Their net price of $13,672 was more than half of VCU&...
Nixon routinely used congressmen and senators to do his bidding, to make charges for which he didn’t want to take responsibility, according to Nixon tapes expert Ken Hughes of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program. Nixon sometimes had his aides write speeches or talking points for the lawmakers, who would deliver them as if they were their own, Hughes explains.
The College of William & Mary will host 25 young African leaders this summer, as part of a new program by President Obama to foster communities abroad. The Obama administration selected the college to become a part of the Young African Leadership Initiative’s Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. The new flagship program aims to propel economic growth, prosperity and democracy in Africa. William & Mary is joined in the Presidential Precinct by the University of Virginia and three presidential homes in the commonwealth: Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, James Madison...
Researchers in the US have, for the first time, quantified the amount of freshwater that would be needed to replace marine protein in our diets with protein produced on land. Jessica Gephart and her colleagues from the University of Virginia, US, believe that quantifying water footprints in this way is an important tool for evaluating food and water security.
An Australian research has shed new light on how dead and dying cells are removed from the human body, a breakthrough which can help potentially reduce numerous diseases. The discovery, made by cell biologist Ivan Poon in conjunction with colleagues at both La Trobe University and the University of Virginia, has been scheduled for advance online publication on Nature.com.
The movie “Field of Lost Shoes,” written and produced by Thomas F. Farrell II of Dominion Resources, will make its world premiere in Richmond on April 13. The movie, filmed in Virginia last year, tells the story of seven youthful Virginia Military Institute cadets caught up in the American Civil War, and the fatal charge of their corps at the Battle of New Market. … Working during his spare time from his day job at Dominion Resources, Farrell wrote and produced the movie with fellow University of Virginia graduate Dave Kennedy, who went into the movie industry after a career...
“The Civil War-related holdings of the Museum of the Confederacy and the Virginia Historical Society rank among the richest in the nation,” said Gary W. Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. “The combined resources will attract wide and productive attention from scholars and other researchers.”
Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, told Newsmax that Democrats "are deeply disappointed by this loss, and should be."
Book review of “Rot, Riot and Rebellion: Mr. Jefferson’s Struggle to Save the University That Changed America,” by Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos. The book is reviewed by Luther Spoehr, a senior lecturer at Brown University who teaches courses on the history of American higher education.
“This race is more of an exception than a rule because it was the only game in town yesterday,” said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
What do a Texas Republican women’s organization, an abstinence education project in Georgia, and a border terrier club in Alabama have in common? If you guessed they were all represented at CPAC, think again. According to a new report from Citizen Lab, some popular online filters have miscategorized these groups’ websites as porn. … Other miscategorized sites make no sense whatsoever. The University of Virginia’s German House – an on-campus residence for Germanophiles that organizes poetry readings and “daily haus dinners” – is classified as por...
Despite recent rules designed to make 401(k) plans friendlier to retirement savers, new research suggests that we're still paying too much for investment options that are second rate. "Overall, we find that investors in an average plan pay 86 basis points in fees in excess of low-cost index funds. We estimate in 16 percent of analyzed plans that fees are so high that, for a young employee, they consume the tax benefits of investing in a 401(k)," write Yale Law School professor Ian Ayres and University of Virginia associate law professor Quinn Curtis in a paper shared by the Socia...
The University of Virginia Center for Politics says it will be difficult for Democrats to do well in these midterm elections, and that the Fifth District is likely to stay Republican. “It's going to be very much an uphill battle for any Democrat in this district,” says Geoff Skelley with the Center for Politics. “The national dynamics aren't great for Democrats, and because Hurt is established in the district as more Republican than not.”