But Larry Sabato, the director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Virginia, termed Reed’s tendency to pay his taxes late “foolish” and “not acceptable,” and said it would certainly be a major issue in his re-election campaign. “If you’re a public official, you’re going to be held accountable,” Sabato said. “Both parties have actively got opposition researchers looking into disclosing all of your flaws. Why in God’s name would you let yourself be in this position?”
University of Virginia Provost John Simon’s recent announcement that administrators would have to make “hard decisions” on research funding has sparked a dialogue on Grounds that he says will likely go on the rest of the year.
Julian Bond, professor emeritus at the University, shares his thoughts on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
“Maybe everybody’s wrong, but analysts of all stripes have categorized this race as safe for Northam,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
"When I traveled from Atlanta to Washington, we drove straight through," Julian Bond said of his journey to the nation's capital for the march. Bond, chairman emeritus of the NAACP and a professor at both the University of Virginia and American University, was raised in Jim Crow-era America, when laws both official and unspoken dictated travel conduct.
Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said he was recently watching news reports on policy rollouts from McAuliffe and Cuccinelli. “The candidates were trying to be substantive, but I found my mind wandering and wondering, what does this have to do with their scandals?” he said. “And there you have it. We’ve become fixated on the numerous embarrassments accumulated by these two gubernatorial contenders.”
A pair of new reports has ranked the University of Virginia Medical Center for its patient care. U.S. News and World Report names UVA one of the best hospitals. Consumer Reports doesn't rank the Medical Center as high, giving it a low score for surgery.
Dr. Bob Ashby understood Danville better than most Danvillians. He grasped the complexities – and contradictions – that make this such a unique place. It was his understanding and appreciation for Danville’s potential that helped him work with others to steer the community through its greatest challenges.
(By vascular surgeon Dr. Ivan Crosby, co-director of the UVa Heart and Vascular Center) With an aging population comes an increase in cardiovascular disease. In fact, the prevalence is as high as 70 percent in U.S. men and women between the ages of 60 and 79, according to the American Heart Association. Among the most common problems as we get older are diseases of the blood vessels, or vascular system.
It’s a question many professors may be asking themselves this month, as they prepare for another academic year: “Why teach?” Mark Edmundson, professor of English at the University of Virginia, answers the question in a new book, Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education, out next week from Bloomsbury.
Before they fill Scott Stadium, University of Virginia football fans are filling John Paul Jones Arena. Hundreds of Cavalier supporters flocked to Sunday's Meet the Team Day 2013.
Edward Zellem had learned the Dari language in Afghanistan as a member of the AfPak Hands program created in September 2009 to develop military and senior civilian experts specializing in the language, culture, processes and challenges of Afghanistan and Pakistan. During his time there, he began collecting traditional proverbs.
Priyal Gandhi, for example, lives the life of a normal American teenager: She drives, uses a cellphone and is enrolled as a freshman at the University of Virginia this fall. She goes to temple when she can, but for her, being Jain means the simpler things: Taking the long way to avoid trampling the grass, praying quietly at home before bed and avoiding onions, potatoes and garlic in addition to meat because root vegetables are the life source for an entire plant.
A decade from now, the library will become the repository for the vast trove of materials used by the University of Virginia for its 90-volume The Papers of George Washington project to which the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association donates $25,000 annually. More than 60 volumes have already been published, based on approximately 135,000 copies of Washington’s letters and documents gathered from 300 libraries and archives worldwide.
The University of Virginia Library has launched a digital archive of television news footage from the civil rights era. The archive includes 20 years of news broadcasts from WSLS-TV in Roanoke during the period 1951 to 1971. According to the Library of Congress, only about 10 percent of the television news footage from this period has been saved.
(Audio) Dewey Cornell, professor of education at the University of Virginia and doctor of clinical psychology, joins the program to talk about school threat assessment teams in Virginia.
Stepping outside the classroom and onto a busy construction site can be a daunting and exhilarating experience. For our final intern profile, we find out what Serena Zahrah, a civil engineering student from the University of Virginia, learned when she left Charlottesville for the bustle of our 11th Street Bridge project in Washington, D.C.
(Editorial) The rivalry between University of Virginia and Virginia Tech goes well beyond the football field. It pervades every corner of the state. That's why it was so gratifying to see the presidents of those two universities coming together in Newport News this week to launch a new joint education center.
“McAuliffe isn’t doomed by GreenTech any more than Cuccinelli is finished” because of his ties to the same McDonnell donor, says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “My summary of the Virginia governor’s race so far: I’ll see your scandal and raise you an embarrassment.”
You’re in your last year of college. Sure, you’ll end up with that neato degree from Swarthmore or Berkeley, but what if the only job offer you get is a 6-month, unpaid internship, doing development and fundraising work for a large nonprofit? Ugh. I get it. No one has a job and everything in the economy sucks and you just want to swim around in hummus. Well, if swimming in hummus is your passion (and you somehow devise a way to profit from that), why not start a company around that concept? For Charlie Miller and other young entrepreneurs, transforming these primary interests into ...