"This will be remembered by Buono and all of her people – many of whom will be delegates to the state convention – because she's been abandoned by many other Democrats," said Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. While she has made recent gains in the race toward next month's election, a poll this week still showed her trailing by 24 percentage points. "He'll get a lot more out of backing Buono than he did Cory Booker, who everybody was behind," Sabato said.
He’s one of the most recognized advertising icons in the world, but Mr. Peanut once was just an idea in the head of a young Suffolk teen named Antonio Gentile.
¨I have many dreams. I dream that I can help this nation make the leap to the Jetson’s age, in terms of the intersection of drones and flying cars,¨ explains Missy Cummings, 46, a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and one of the Navy’s first female fighter-pilots. ¨I hope to be an inspiration to young people to show them that engineering can actually span the arts and sciences, and is deeply rewarding and worth the investment. And I dream that I can do all this while raising a healthy and happy daughter as a single mother.¨
For Augusta County native Matt Wertman, the real work in the Virginia governor's race on college campuses started two months ago. "We've been on all the major campuses in Virginia trying to assess which way students lean,'' said Wertman, a University of Virginia architecture student and chairman of the College Republican Federation of Virginia, which has chapters on 30 Virginia campuses. … Geoffrey Skelley, the media relations coordinator for the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the campaigns are using the partisan affiliated groups like Wertman'...
Heather Warren, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, said the Methodist Church has a growing number of pro-gay members but was still more divided than other denominations, such as the Episcopal Church or United Church of Christ. "Definitely in comparison to some of the other mainline churches, it is still more polarized," she said, adding that the debate often plays out through trials or at individual churches that have committed to promoting gay rights rather than on an international level.
But will there be enough demand to support three projects that cater to students? UVa recently hired the firm Brailsford & Dunlavey to conduct a survey of students to determine their housing needs. More than a quarter of students took part.
The Virginia Port Authority is joining an effort to help industry and government agencies change how they do business. The agency is joining the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems. The center focuses on streamlining and strengthening operations and improving products and services. The university partners for the new center include Longwood University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia State University.
Charles Wright, poet and emeritus professor of English at the University of Virginia, received The Literary Lifetime Achievement Award Saturday from the Library of Virginia.
Texans are charting their own course once again in what outsiders often describe as an alternate political universe. “The bumper sticker says it all – 'Don't mess with Texas,'” said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at University of Virginia. “Maybe it's in the nature of being the only state that has ever been an independent nation.”
Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, said one of the campaigns may have pushed harder for Sarvis’s exclusion. “In particular, Cuccinelli was probably pressuring the host to not include Sarvis, because Sarvis is hurting Cuccinelli a little more than McAuliffe,” Skelley said.
The global apparel retail industry is valued at about $1.3tn. It’s a hugely competitive market from which only the lucky few will emerge as success stories. At London Fashion Week it’s possible to see upcoming young designers whose ability has earned them a much coveted place in the Emerging Talent section of the Designer Showrooms. This September just 130 designers were selected in the categories of jewellery, shoes and ready-to-wear. A collection that caught the eye in the ready-to-wear section was showcased by Bahraini native Hind Matar.
University of Virginia politics professor Larry Sabato’s new book, “The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy,” also has an app coming with audio of the Dallas police dispatch from the day of the shooting.
The Barnes & Noble bookstore at the Barracks Road Shopping Center will be collecting children’s books to benefit the University of Virginia Medical Center starting Nov. 1.
Two area firms - Container First Services and Roberts Awning and Sign - have won the 2013 Tayloe Murphy Resilience Award from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business' Institute for Business in Society.
Jarvis Corenell Brown, 22, was never without a smile, his relatives said. They described him as a happy man and a hard worker. They said he loved his daughter, Shayleigh, and he called his mother every day. Brown, of Albemarle, was found dead of a gunshot wound around 3:15 a.m. Thursday in the 2500 block of Woodland Drive, after police responded to a 911 call there, according to Charlottesville police. He was an employee of Aramark, working at The Crossroads in the University of Virginia’s Observatory Hill dining hall, university spokesman McGregor McCance said.
A new PBS documentary, “The Kennedy Half-Century,” directed by local filmmaker Paul Roberts for WCVE Richmond, highlights the impact of the 35th president on the nation’s political culture and on the nine presidents who followed him. The film, which accompanies the book of the same title by Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, will screen at the Library of Virginia in Richmond on Tuesday before going on nationwide television rotation in the weeks leading up to the 50th anniversary of the assassination on Nov. 22.
Patients undergoing abdominal surgery at the University of Virginia Medical Center are going home two to three days sooner, thanks to a new regimen to reduce complications.
(By Daniel Willingham, professor and director of graduate studies in psychology) The overall message is not that surprising. Students learn more when their teachers know the content, and when they can anticipate student misconceptions. Somewhat more surprising (and saddening), low-achieving students are especially vulnerable when teachers lack knowledge. High-achieving students are more resilient.
Larry Fitzgerald, the vice president for business development and finance at UVA hospital, said the $180 million in federal funds that hospitals in the state receive for providing their indigent care services is expected to be cut in half over the next six years. UVA Chief of Internal Medicine Mohan Nadkarni said the hospital is going to have to change the way it does business with Charlottesville and Albemarle’s poorest patients, but the indigent care services will always exist.
The Write Stuff is a series of interview profiles conducted by Litseen, where authors give exclusive readings from their work. Austin Smith grew up on a family dairy farm in Illinois. He has published four chapbooks of poetry, and his first full-length collection of poems, Almanac, was published by Princeton University Press in September. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University.