Kinesiology is now a full-fledged department at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. Kinesiology, the study of physical activity and its impact on human health, has been a four-year program at Curry since 2011.
Former President John F. Kennedy still has a powerful hold on America's imagination 50 years after his assassination, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted by Hart Research, is part of a new book by University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, "The Kennedy Half Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy." Kennedy was killed on Nov. 22, 1963.
University of Virginia students, faculty and staff will have a full-service office of the Department of Motor Vehicles on Grounds on Oct. 24. DMV is setting up its mobile customer service center, DMV 2 Go, in the T4 parking lot of Scott Stadium from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The office provides customers with complete DMV services, including driver’s licenses and identification cards, vehicle titles, license plates, decals and disabled-parking placards.
"The bar acts like a giant mixer for our galaxy," says Steven Majewski, a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia and the principal investigator for the APOGEE project. "As the bar rotates, it churns up the motions of nearby stars. Over time, this mixing should have a large effect on the disk of our galaxy, including in spiral arms where we live, but this effect is not well understood. This new sample of definitively-identified bar stars gives us a unique opportunity to learn more about exactly how this giant blender mixes up our galaxy."
But this is a special election in more than one sense. For starters, there's the fact that it's on Wednesday. I asked Larry Sabato, the nationally-known political analyst from the University of Virginia if he knows of any precedent to predict turnout on this one. He laughed. "Honestly, in my entire lengthy career of political analysis, I can't remember many other Wednesday elections for anything," Sabato said.
For all of their accomplishments — more than 200 victories in Steve Swanson’s 14 seasons as woomen’s soccer coach and an ACC title last year — the Cavaliers have fallen short of a national championship. But 2013 carries the promise to end the absence and add fresh color to Klockner’s ribbon of champions.
As the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination approaches next month, polling released Tuesday as part of a new book about Kennedy’s legacy shows that he remains one of the most highly rated presidents of the past 50 years. The findings, from a survey of more than 2,000 adults conducted this summer, were released Tuesday to coincide with the release of a new book from University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, which takes on evidence of popular conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s assassination and analyzes his lasting legacy.
(Commentary) In November 2012, 1.4 million more Americans cast their votes for Democratic House candidates than voted for Republicans. But Republicans managed to retain a big House majority. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said, "Gerrymandering saved them."
Tanya Holland is the executive chef and owner of Brown Sugar Kitchen and B-Side BBQ in Oakland, Calif.. Holland is known for her inventive takes on modern soul food, as well as comfort classics. The author of “New Soul Cooking: Updating a Cuisine Rich in Flavor and Tradition,” Holland is perhaps best known for her role as a host and expert on Soul Food for the “Melting Pot” series on Food Network.
A VCU graduate student has scribbled his way into business with the world’s largest retailer. Tumi Oredein and his Skribs customizable wristbands on Tuesday were named among the winners of Walmart’s “Get on the Shelf” competition. The victory, which came after several days of online voting, scores Skribs a spot in Wal-Mart’s online store. “It means everything,” said Oredein, a 26-year-old University of Virginia alum. “This is the first effort I’ve done to get a customer, and I got Walmart.”
Kyle Kondik, a House analyst for the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, says that if (and he stresses a big "if") Republicans eventually suffer because of the shutdown, it will not be Tea Partiers who are hurt. "While the Republican brand is poor, the president isn't particularly popular - his approval is only in the low to mid 40s, according to polling averages," said Kondik. "There would have to be an incredible amount of revulsion with the Republicans to deliver the House to the Democrats."
University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato said it's Cuccinelli's positions on social issues taken over the years as a state senator and then as attorney general that have now put him at odds with a far more moderate Virginia electorate, especially in vote-rich Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads. "The mistake was made years ago in taking positions that no longer sell in a moderate swing state," said Sabato. "Ken Cuccinelli's positions don't fit Virginia at least on the social side that's the fundamental error."
For five decades, the number of shots fired at the presidential motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, has remained one of the greatest mysteries of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, because it made the difference between the one-shooter theory and a conspiracy. On Tuesday, Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, unveiled a comprehensive study of police radio transmissions from the day of the assassination, debunking the theory of the fourth shot, hence supporting the official account that Lee Harvey Oswald alone had killed the president.
Claire Kaplan, whom U-Va. hired in response to those student and faculty demands, remains in that position 23 years later, and she still admires Cuccinelli’s energy and dedication. “He was not afraid to be an outsider,” she says.
The University of Virginia Medical Transportation Network is celebrating its recent national accreditation by letting CBS19 get a closer look at what they do every day. The Pegasus helicopter and critical-care ground transport units have earned a three-year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems.
''The governor's race usually gets the most attention in an election year,'' says Geoffrey Skelley, the associate editor of ''Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball'' at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. ''However, it is possible that with two controversial candidates in the governor's race, the races further down the ballot could be overshadowed.''