(Commentary) As Brad Wilcox of the University of Virginia exclaims, it doesn't just take a village to raise children. It takes a married village.
Republicans "smell victory. It's amazing what the prospect of a good election will do for party unity," said Larry Sabato, who heads University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Sometimes it's just a papering over the differences until after the election," Sabato said, predicting that there will be plenty of time after November's vote to see party divisions re-emerge.
In a more recent study of more than 3,750 high school students, University of Virginia psychologists found that even when students were personally threatened, they tended to keep mum. Among the 12 percent of students who reported being threatened at school, only 26 percent told a higher up, such as a teacher or school officer, the study found (Journal of School Violence, 2012). "Kids get caught up in the code of silence that is so strong, they fail to see the larger picture," says study coauthor Dewey Cornell, PhD, who directs the University of Virginia's Virginia Youth Violence ...
Not many people who will attend Super Bowl XLVIII at Met Life Stadium can say they played against Denver Broncos star quarterback Peyton Manning. Riverside resident Patrick Kerney sure can.
Geoffrey Skelley, an analyst for the Crystal Ball project at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said the party discord is serious and is not helped by Spiker's opposition to and bad-mouthing of Republicans who don't share his libertarianism.
“The Mississippi river delta is many, many times larger than the Eberswalde crater delta, the primary one that we see on Mars,” said Alan Howard, a geo-morphologist at the University of Virginia. “But it is similar in size to some smaller deltas formed by rivers on earth.”
University of Virginia employees donated almost $1 million to charity this year through the Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign, according to a UVa news release.
Fourth-grade students at Venable Elementary School in Charlottesville showed off their engineering skills with several hands-on projects Friday. The classes wrapped up a week of science, technology, engineering, and math - or STEM - lessons developed by the University of Virginia.
That acknowledgement could fuel the cold-hearted calculation prevalent among some major Democratic donors and strategists to shift attention to protecting what they have in the Senate rather than going for broke in the other chamber. "The legitimate part of it is to send a signal to party contributors that it's essential for Democrats to save the Senate," said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia professor who has tracked congressional races for years. "President Obama's last two years will be pure hell if he has neither house."
While most NFL players' focus is the Super Bowl this weekend, Jacksonville Jaguar linebacker LaRoy Reynolds gave a lot of attention to something that will last beyond the big game. Reynolds worked side-by-side with his father as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity South Hampton Roads.
All of the localities in the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission’s service area have experienced population growth over the last three years, with the city of Charlottesville having the biggest increase. That’s according to data released last week by the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia.
Money certainly doesn’t guarantee success at the ballot box. “You can’t just buy these elections,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “There are all sorts of other factors that go into it.”
A prominent art collector is introducing Charlottesville to one of his favorite artists. Jordan Schnitzer has been collecting pieces by Jasper Johns for years. Saturday he displayed several of them at the University of Virginia's Fralin Museum.
Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, said he didn't think the letter "justified the headlines I saw in the evening news last night." The claims don't imperil Christie's chances as a presidential candidate, Sabato said. But that would change, he said, if proof emerged that he lied during last month's nationally televised news conference.
Uncertainties over the federal health care plan abound, but hospital officials say this much is clear: Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake in Virginia’s Medicaid expansion debate. The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association estimates hospitals around the state face a $1.1 billion funding gap over the next two years if lawmakers don’t approve the expansion of Medicaid to include 400,000 more recipients. Locally, the University of Virginia Medical Center estimates it would lose about $40 million a year without expansion. Martha Jefferson Hospital would lose about $2.6...
In her first start for the national team, just weeks after she received the Hermann Trophy as college soccer's best player, Morgan Brian contributed 90 minutes of solid play that helped give the Americans a head start on 2015 and the World Cup those same neighbors will host.
(By Dr. Brandy Patterson, a cardiologist at University of Virginia Heart and Vascular Center) We all know exercise is good for the body, mind and spirit. However, most of us still are not making it part of our daily lives. According to the American Heart Association, less than half of Americans get the recommended amount of aerobic and strength exercise.
A few organizations came together Saturday to "Elect Her," a program created to give women a tool kit to run for elected office in the future. More than 60 undergraduates from Piedmont Virginia Community College and the University of Virginia gathered at the Darden School of Business to take part in the political training.