A week ago Larry Sabato and his team at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics upgraded Ohio Gov. John Kasich's chances for re-election. Now they are pronouncing Kasich a "wild card" contender for the White House.
Political watchers: Ohio Gov. John Kasich is a 'wild card' in Republican presidential field for 2016
Expenses are outpacing revenue growth at many public universities, an unsustainable trend, concludes a new report by Moody's Investors Service that focuses on the health of the nation's public universities. The public flagship universities are better able to leverage their brand names and economies of scale to minimize their financial risks. Unlike most state universities, prestigious institutions such as the University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, University of California-Berkeley and University of Virginia can attract out-of-state residents willing to pay high prices to...
The NBA players union has been rudderless for months, slowing down the business end of basketball. Roger Mason Jr. says he's the man with a plan. The former Wizard and D.C. area native announced via Twitter that is running for president of the National Basketball Players Association.
To find out if I’d ruined my daughter’s life, I called Edith “Winx” Lawrence, a clinical psychologist and professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. “I think it’s generally healthy for kids to see their parents have a range of emotion, as long as it’s not an overload for them,” Lawrence said. “Seeing tears normalizes that sadness is something that occurs and…that you can get over it.”
A Harvard study that sought a new method for ranking U.S. colleges named BYU the 21st most popular university among high-achieving high school students. After surveying more than 3,000 high-achieving high schoolers, the authors ranked Harvard, Caltech, Yale and MIT as the nation's four most popular schools. BYU ranked just after Duke and the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia researchers are using ultrasound in place of traditional surgery, to help patients who have problems with hand tremors. Researchers have found that ultrasound can be used to remove a tiny part of the brain that is responsible for the tremors, without the need for anesthesia or invasive brain surgery.
As state leaders work to slow the pace of tuition increases at Virginia’s colleges and universities, students may soon begin to notice. For the second year in a row, most Virginia students will return to college without experiencing serious sticker shock. Tuition and all mandatory fees for in-state students will increase this year by an average of 4.7 percent, or $468, according to a report released last week by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.
An interactive map from Dustin Cable of the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service has plotted the 2010 census results – 308,745,538 dots for each person in America. Blue represents Caucasians, green represents blacks, orange represents Hispanics, red represents Asians, and other races are represented by a brown dot. The map is not particularly groundbreaking: Chicago still maintains its crown as one of the nation’s most segregated cities, though it is neat to see the visualization of the city’s various highways carving racial enclaves.
How diverse is your neighborhood really? This map by Dustin Cable at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service displays the population distribution of every person in America (as of the 2010 census) along racial and ethnic lines.
A new Racial Dot Map created by demographic researcher Dustin Cable from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia provides a fascinating look into the ethnic composition of America and the Ann Arbor area.
Gov. Scott Walker is ranked as the top GOP presidential contender for 2016 in the latest list put out by University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato.
Albemarle County officials are taking aim at another firing range for county police, only this time they plan to take the noise inside. Staff proposed collaborating with the University of Virginia and Charlottesville on a plan to build a $4.5-million indoor facility at the Milton Field Firing Range, a 172-acre plot located across the Rivanna River from Glenmore.
A study by Daphna Bassok of the University of Virginia and Sean F Reardon of Stanford University, published this year, found no evidence that children with lower cognitive or social abilities were likely to be "redshirted" (as deferral is known in the US). In fact, students who deferred were more likely to be white, wealthy and male.
Non-college-educated and working-class Americans are now less likely to get or stay married, or have children. According to a new study from the University of Virginia and Harvard University, titled Intimate Inequalities: Love and Work in a Post-Industrial Landscape, tying the knot is reserved for the wealthy.
A drop in the number of stable, full-time jobs for people without a college degree means fewer working-class Americans are saying, "I do," new research shows. A study by researchers at the University of Virginia and Harvard University discovered that working-class Americans are less likely to get married, stay married and have their children within marriage than those with college degrees.
Longtime educator Joseph Y. Rowe will be honored Aug. 25 as the second recipient of the Orange County Education Foundation’s lifetime contribution award. Born July 2, 1922 as the second of three boys, he studied math on a four-year scholarship at Western Maryland and later received a masters from the University of Virginia.
Learn more about new Roanoke Times editor (and U.Va. alumnus) Joe Stinnett in our Q&A.
Former U.Va. lacrosse standout Steele Stanwick, a 2011 graduate, has been named an assistant coach for the Johns Hopkins University women’s lacrosse team.
(Video) Darden professor Edward Freeman is interviewed about the very public firing of an employee by Tim Armstrong, chairman and CEO of AOL, on a investors conference call.