"I guess it will be interesting to see how many women reject Cuccinelli, but vote for Obenshain," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the Sabato's Crystal Ball site at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "People don't pay as much attention to an attorney general's race as a governor's race, and Obenshain has run a superior campaign to Cuccinelli. His daughter has been in more than one of his ads, and I think he's sort of trying to stick to a script that presents him as a moderate candidate."
Developers DDG and Hudson Companies, along with The Real Deal, sponsored University of Virginia architecture students on their journey to New York City to put together plans for one of each developer’s residential sites in the city.
When it comes to reducing the environmental impacts of products and services while maximizing profits, firms sometimes invest in the wrong areas. In Design for the Environment: Life-Cycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Gal Raz and research colleagues investigated which segments of a product's life cycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impacts.
Mr. Cuccinelli is seeking two education-related amendments to the Virginia Constitution: one that would eliminate the existing ban on public aid to religious schools (known as a Blaine Amendment); and another that would allow the state board of education to approve new charter schools. Limiting approval of charters to districts, as Virginia now does, Mr. Cuccinelli argues on his website, is "like Pepsi having to get permission from the board of directors at Coca-Cola to sell a new product." "The campaign is the next stage of what McDonnell set in motion," Robert Pianta, the...
“Let’s suppose that Cuccinelli pulls off the upset,” says Larry Sabato, big-deal political analyst and professor of politics at the University of Virginia. “It really can only have come about in this way: They have chosen to focus on Obamacare at precisely the moment when the rollout disaster was unfolding.”
In a Charlottesville Halloween tradition, the UVa students lucky enough to get a room on the historic Lawn opened their doors to trick-or-treaters. Hundreds of costumed kids took over the Lawn. It was the annual Trick-or-Treating on the Lawn event. University of Virginia students who live in the rooms at the Lawn, as well those from other student organizations, passed out candy.
The nation’s No. 1-ranked women’s soccer team used one zero to preserve another. The latest link in an impressive chain of shutouts enabled the University of Virginia to complete an undefeated regular season at the expense of state and ACC archrival Virginia Tech on Thursday night at Klockner Stadium. The Cavaliers’ 2-0 victory was historic. Virginia (19-0, 13-0) became the first Division I women’s team since Stanford in 2009 and the first ACC team since North Carolina in 2003 to march unbeaten through the regular season.
The former U.S. ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan will moderate two panel discussions at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center on American state-building efforts in the Middle East.
Wearab.ly was developed by Silica Labs CTO Antonio Zugaldia, who formerly worked for the World Health Organization and was the technical lead for emergency response during the Haiti earthquake. The platform’s designer is Stephanie Nguyen, a recent University of Virginia graduate who was featured in AdAge as one of the nation’s Most Promising Minority Students.
Fans who remember “Saturday Night Live” star Will Forte as an elite operative with a fondness for explosives in the “MacGruber” parody sketches and feature film will get a chance Thursday to see Forte make a different sort of impact. In “Nebraska,” a new Alexander Payne drama that’ll be screened on opening night of the 26th annual Virginia Film Festival, Forte makes his dramatic debut playing a son who sets out on an illuminating road trip with his aging father in search of a sweepstakes prize that he’s not sure even exists.
Historically, blackface emerged in the mid-19th century, representing a combination of put-down, fear and morbid fascination with black culture, said U.Va. Engish professor Eric Lott.
(Audio) Maybe you don’t fish or spend much time out in nature. If so, what could efforts to improve the health of Shenandoah Valley streams and waterways have to do with you? Scientists involved in those efforts have an answer. Among the guests: Rick Webb, project coordinator for the Shenandoah Watershed Study and the Virginia Trout Stream Sensitivity Study and a senior scientist in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
George Washington University’s student newspaper, The Hatchet, like many college newspapers with long traditions, has until recently managed to stave off industry challenges that have forced professional news organizations to make deep budget cuts. When print advertising revenue fell 9 percent for commercial newspapers in 2007, college newspapers enjoyed a 15 percent increase. But the student media landscape has been shaken in the last two years by plummeting revenues and changing reading patterns.
With Stanford’s reputation in technology, it is no wonder that computer science is the university’s most popular major, and that there are no longer any humanities programs among the top five. But with the recession having helped turn college, in the popular view, into largely a tool for job preparation, administrators are concerned. The concern that the humanities are being eclipsed by science goes far beyond Stanford. … Some professors flinch when they hear colleagues talking about the need to prepare students for jobs. “I think that’s conceding too quickly,&rd...
The short story “44 True Things About Being Gone,” written by Emma Copley Eisenberg while she lived on 45th and Springfield in 2011, was chosen by writer Maile Meloy as the winner of the 2013 Montana Prize in Fiction and appears in the current issue of CutBank Literary Magazine.
World’s Tallest Man, Sultan Kosen, Gets Married: Should His Gigantism and Acromegaly Worry His Wife?
In 2010, Kosen travelled from Turkey to the University of Virginia Medical Center to follow up on a partial tumor removal he received in his home country. Excess growth hormone release can lead to a raft of health problems, according to UVA researcher Dr. Jason Sheehan. These include “soft tissue hypertrophy, attendant weakening of the heart, diabetes, hypertension, colorectal cancer, and kidney dysfunction.” “However, Mr. Kosen’s intervention at UVA was successful,” Sheehan said. “Thus, he is healthier than he has been in quite some time.”
"We know that in the most important corporate prosecutions, companies routinely seek and get an audience from the highest levels of the Justice Department," said Brandon Garrett, a corporate crime expert at the University of Virginia law school. "You want someone that has experience litigating the most complex corporate crime matters, but you also want someone who isn't going to feel conflicts of interest and feel disqualified from decisions in the most important cases," he said.
On Monday, the Milford School District Board of Education voted to rename the district’s high school after a Milfordian that has made a large impact on the state and the world. The board agreed to rechristen the school the Milford High School Justice Randy J. Holland Campus.
John Harkes, a former D.C. United and U.S. national team captain with deep ties to the Washington soccer scene, is the leading candidate to become head coach of the Virginia Cavalry, a second-division expansion club based in Loudoun County.
Longtime elections expert Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia said the structure of the election favors McAuliffe, with the Libertarian candidate still at 9%, likely drawing from Republicans. “What his margin will be is anybody’s guess,” said Mr. Sabato.