Still, it’s hard to be a Democrat from more conservative states. “American politics has sorted itself out so that the Democratic Party is more liberal and the base is fine with that,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, independent analysts at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
(By Gosia Glinska, senior researcher at the Darden School of Business) The big idea: Southern Bancorp, a community development financial institution based in Arkadelphia, Ark., serves distressed rural markets that see growing demand for small, unsecured lines of consumer credit. Those markets attract payday lenders, whose same-day loans carry triple-digit interest rates and can trap vulnerable borrowers in a cycle of debt. Southern is testing affordable consumer credit products and ways to educate low- and moderate-income individuals about managing debt and protecting their finances.
Ski jumpers used to hold their skis parallel to each other, but learned that they could catch more of the air pushing up underneath them if they separated their skis, with the tails pointing toward each other. This V shape has been the standard style since the 1990s. "Skiers are trying to play glider," Louis Bloomfield, a physicist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, told Inside Science back in 2010. "You push the air down, the air pushes back, pushes you upward."
University of Virginia employees are pledging Friday morning to lead a heart-healthy life for 12 full weeks. The pledge is part of a kickoff to Heart Month and to celebrate National Wear Red Day.
But Russia is determined to show the rest of the world what it can do, says Gordon Hylton, a professor at Marquette Law School (teaching at U.Va. this semester) whose expertise includes both sports history and Russia.
Albemarle, the district in which Bredder teaches, made a decision to put makerspaces in its middle schools first. Partnering with the University of Virginia, the district has taught middle school engineering teachers to work with core content teachers, training them in mechatronics and rapid prototyping. The goal is to offer the courses across all middle schools and then scale up to the high school level.
A new $4 million gift to support financial aid at the University of Virginia has blunted some of the criticism the school faced after it decided to scale back a landmark grant program for its neediest students. The gift from graduate John Griffin, a professional investor and member of the U-Va. governing board, was announced Monday. It is conditioned on the university’s ability to raise $4 million in matching funds. But the university is sticking by its new financial aid policy despite the likelihood of an $8 million philanthropic infusion.
The most precise measurement yet of a fundamental property of quarks – one of the building blocks of matter – brings scientists closer to finding new exotic particles. The new study, which revisited a decades-old experiment, could help physicists find a theory beyond one of the most successful in physics: the Standard Model.
The legislation proposed in the General Assembly is modeled after programs in Virginia and Florida. Gil Siegal, a law professor at the University of Virginia who studied both programs, said they were successful at reducing malpractice premiums and easing the financial burden on the families of injured babies. The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is reviewing the bill and has not taken a position on it. "More kids are being helped, and in that sense it's a huge social success," Siegal said.
When she was 13, Elizabeth Welsh entered a road race in Norristown. When she saw the huge trophy for the top female finisher, she made a vow: "I'm going to get that." Welsh kept that promise, passing, among others, a fortysomething man to win the overall title. That trophy is in the bedroom of the house where she grew up in Haverford, draped with the many ribbons and medals she has won since in rowing and running contests.
Whether incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, hangs onto her seat could prove central to the success or failure of President Barack Obama’s last two years in office, said Larry Sabato, the director of the highly regarded Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “I’ve been told repeatedly that the Republicans see North Carolina as the key seat,” Sabato said last week. “If the Republican analysis is right, Kay Hagan’s seat could be the critical sixth seat that enables them to take control of the Senate – or not.”
University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock brings a different point of view to the table. Laycock argued for the challengers at the Supreme Court. "We are not asking the court to say that local government meetings cannot have a prayer," Laycock said in comments posted on the University of Virginia Law School website before the Nov. 6 argument. "This is a case about what kind of prayer they can have and how it is presented."
A report titled "Why Marriage Matters, Third Edition: Thirty Conclusions From the Social Sciences," sponsored by the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values and the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, came to these five conclusions, among others, about the important of marriage: Children are less likely to thrive in cohabiting households, compared to intact, married families; marriage increases the likelihood that fathers and mothers have good relationships with their children; married couples seem to build more wealth on average tha...
(Commentary by James B. Murray Jr. and W. Heywood Fralin,, former U.Va. rector) Years before the postwar world took shape, Winston Churchill said the empires of the future would be “empires of the mind.” More than a half-century later, we are seeing the truth of the English statesman’s vision. As leaders of the Virginia Business Higher Education Council and former rectors of two of Virginia’s great universities, we have often invoked Churchill’s wisdom in urging innovation and investment in higher education here in our commonwealth. Today, we have one of the best ...
Last April, Madeleine Maury Downing, a senior at the University of Virginia, received several messages from her father, Edgar Downing, in Mobile. Because she didn’t immediately return his call, she assumed she might be in trouble. And then, when she talked to him, her dad informed her that he would no longer be able to call her “Princess,” his name for her since she was a child – but not for the reason she thought. “He said, ‘I can’t call you princess anymore, because now you’re a queen!’” Madeleine Maury recalled, laughing. She was &...
That Obama would immerse himself in a single city’s crisis is a “classic sixth-year, midterm move” to remain relevant, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Detroit is one of the nation’s premier basket cases right now, and it’s the premier source of Democratic votes in Michigan – it’s not just another urban area,” Sabato said. “He needs to look like he’s doing something. ... his struggle over the next three years is to stay relevant when political conditions are not good for him.”
Baby Basics Moms Club is a collaborative effort of University of Virginia Children’s Hospital and Women’s Health Center, Martha Jefferson Hospital and the PD10 Improving Pregnancy Outcomes Workgroup in partnership with the What to Expect Foundation and the March of Dimes.
One recent study reported that 82 percent of runners get injured at some point in a given year. You could blame training mistakes. But Jay Dicharry, a biomechanics expert at the University of Virginia, blames it on poor running mechanics. If you employ his methods, you might just find yourself among the 18 percent noninjured out there.
DNA testing has helped more people recognize that false confessions happen. In exoneration cases around the country that featured post-conviction DNA tests, false confessions were involved about 20% of the time, said Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor.
That anyone would falsely confess to a heinous crime can be hard to believe. But cases around the country have proved this phenomenon happens. Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor who has published papers and a book on false confessions, said that of 310 convicts exonerated through post-conviction DNA testing, at least 59 of them involved false confessions.