That leaves Republicans needing to win at least three of the seven closely contested races for seats now held by Democrats, while holding off Grimes and Nunn in Kentucky and Georgia. If either of them wins in November, the task for Republicans will be more difficult. "It's moving a little in the Republican direction," said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. His Crystal Ball website rates the Senate as a toss-up. "Republicans will pick up Senate seats, probably three or four. The question is, will they get that wave in October that carries them to the six they need?&...
The Virginia men's tennis team will be honored Monday at the White House as President Barack Obama recognizes the NCAA Champions from the 2012-13 season. The Cavaliers will be one of 19 Division I collegiate champions to take part in the ceremony.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe says he will call lawmakers back to Richmond on March 24 for a special session to continue budget negotiations. "There's no alternative. There has to be a budget or you could have a government shutdown in Virginia for the first time," says Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst with the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
In New Jersey's 2nd District, which Obama won by more than eight percentage points, GOP Rep. Frank LoBiondo has succeeded in staying in his job partly by forming strong relationships with Atlantic City unions, which typically back Democrats. "They become so entrenched and they build up relationships,'' says Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "These guys are pretty talented politicians.''
(By Gerry Yemen, senior researcher at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business; George (Yiorgos) Allayannis, business professor and associate dean; Matthew Dougherty, Darden graduate; and Andrew Wicks, business professor) As big banks became a “one-stop shop,” increased leveraging in the sector contributed to higher returns during the boom and deeper financial troubles during the 2008 global financial crisis. The response was a revised global banking regulatory framework — Basel III. It aimed to make the global financial system safer by increasing bank capital and...
(By R. Edward Howell, vice president and chief executive officer of the University of Virginia Medical Center) The disagreement in the General Assembly surrounding Medicaid expansion has escalated as we approach the scheduled end of the session. Much of the controversy has overlooked or misconstrued the facts. This is unfortunate, as the facts are critically important in the decision-making surrounding this issue, and the decision has significant implications for residents of Virginia.
Tobacco Free Community Coalition partner organizations, such as the University of Virginia, already have started making changes within their own organizations that could impact thousands of employees. UVa began distributing a non-tobacco-use reward of $120 annually ($10 per month) to employees who live in tobacco-free households, along with offering free cessation classes for all students, employees and their spouses.
"You can make the case that the Tip O'Neill trope 'all politics is local' has changed," says Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the Crystal Ball, a website run by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "If it was ever true, it's less true now than it was."
(By R.K. Ramazani, professor emeritus of government and foreign affairs) President George W. Bush persistently invoked the primacy of the goal of globalization of democracy as the centerpiece of American foreign policy. … Looking at the mammoth crisis engulfing the entire Middle East region – from Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya to the rest of the region – President Barack Obama has taken a decidedly different approach to foreign policy, seeking to create a method calibrated to each society on its own terms.
Greg W. Roberts, dean of admission for the University of Virginia, asked to assess the significance of the revisions, said: “Hard to say at this point. Could be pretty significant, but the devil is in the details.”
The city average for homeowners is 0.8 percent, according to a report prepared for the CBC by Andrew Hayashi, a professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Law.
Access to cheaper computers is one reason for the rise in Internet adoption, says computer science professor David Evans from the University of Virginia.
Prolonged singlehood may bring self-doubt and indecision, according to a report last year, "Knot Yet: The Benefits and Costs of Delayed Marriage in America," sponsored by, among others, the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
“Republicans are going to pick up seats. It’s just a question of how many,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and editor-in-chief of Crystal Ball, a website focused on forecasting election outcomes.
A University of Virginia professor spoke in Albemarle County Sunday morning on the history of Monacan Native Americans in the area. Jeffrey Hantman gave a presentation called “Monacans and the Rivanna River” at the Ivy Creek Educational Building.
Franklin Billings Jr., an iconic political and judicial leader who helped reshape how the state of Vermont was governed, died Sunday at the Woodstock home where he was born. He was 91.
Dr. Amita Sudhir responded from her North Downtown home after the 6-year-old girl stepped from behind a parked car into the path of a pickup on Nelson Drive. “There is no life that I wish as hard that I could have saved as the life of the child that was killed that day,” the University of Virginia Medical Center emergency physician recently told the City Council. “Not just because she was a kindergartner like my own daughter, not just because she was crossing the street where my husband parks his car and my kids cross the street every day, but also because my 5-year-old daugh...
The feds put a cap on residency funding in 1997, effectively freezing the number of residency slots at hospitals. Unless that changes, some medical school students graduating in the next few years could be left out in the cold, said Dr. Susan Kirk, associate dean of graduate medical education at the University of Virginia Medical Center. “They’ll have pretty high education debt and they will find themselves without a job — which was very, very unusual 10 or 20 years ago,” Kirk said.
A recent study indicates that students who have support on social and emotional levels are better academic achievers. The three-year study was conducted based on controlled research led by Sara Rimm-Kaufman, professor at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education.
(Audio) Interview with Bruce Holsinger, who teaches medieval literature at the University of Virginia and is the author of “A Burnable Book,” a debut historical thriller set in Chaucer’s England; and Simon Vance, who narrates the audiobook version.