Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said it looks like a preview of what voters may see in the 2016 presidential primaries. “It helps both of them tremendously,” he said. “It almost defines the fight in 2016 three years early. They have managed, by engaging about a big issue, to construct a nominating battle between themselves. They’ve cut out all the other contenders.”
The assistant coaches of the Iroquois Nationals men's lacrosse team that will be competing in the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse World Championships in Denver will include University of Virginia associate head coach Marc Van Arsdale.
As Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia, explains, “A Democrat is only going to win in Georgia like they did in Indiana or Missouri, when the Republicans really screw up. And they could.”
William H. Lucy, a professor of urban planning at the University of Virginia, published Confronting Suburban Decline in 2000 and has been looking at suburban poverty ever since. He says that a decade ago, many typical suburbanites were turning their noses up at the modest housing stock of the close-in suburbs (around 1,100 square feet for the average home built in the 1950s) in favor of newer homes that tended to be double the size of those built 50 or 60 years ago. They moved to the further-out "exurbs" for newer, bigger houses, despite the fact that "the two things these [olde...
A bitter billing dispute with her electric company changed environmentalist Keya Chatterjee's life. Battling Pepco over charges for electricity at her Washington, D.C., row house in the dead of winter six years ago, Chatterjee eventually just ordered the utility to shut off the power. She and her husband lived in the dark and cold for a few months, an experience that convinced them that even when they turned the lights back on, they could use less power.
The type of candidate the parties choose to run for the Senate seat will vary depending on how the parties decide to select their candidates, said Geoff Skelley, political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
The result is a campaign where the two Republican candidates are keeping their distance. “Jackson received a very blunt private message from the Cuccinelli campaign: Keep up the controversies and you’ll be rebuked publicly by the leader of your ticket,” says Larry Sabato, the director for the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Jackson can be useful to the GOP in certain places, like evangelical churches, but on the whole, the less he’s seen, the better.”
Enrollment in non-credit continuing education classes at the University of Virginia begins this month. The university’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies is holding an open house next week to help guide newcomers through the registration process.
(Commentary) “For Christie, his big problem is that he’s not perceived as a real Republican by most of the base activists,’’ said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist who tracks presidential races. “This issue is made to order for him because it fits his philosophy and his persona. He’s a tough guy. Americans, certainly Republicans, want a tough guy in the situation room … taking the difficult foreign policy decisions and aggressive actions that they, the Republican base, want.” - See more at:
“This is sort of an octopus story now,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said Wednesday. “There are a lot of tentacles out now that have nothing to do with the chef.”
Still, many large universities do not have the time to conduct thorough online research. Jeannine C. Lalonde senior assistant dean of admission at the University of Virginia, a school of roughly 21,000 students, said there just isn’t enough time and manpower. Virginia does not look up every applicant online, but if admissions officers come up with suspicious information that prompts a quick Google search or an inappropriate tweet, it may hurt the applicant’s chances of getting in.
University of Virginia Professor Robert Grainger talks with CBS19 about Aniridia, a rare condition.
University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock, an expert on religious-freedom issues, agreed that the split appelate rulings made it more likely that the high court would hear the case. But he disputed the Third Circuit’s refusal to consider religious exemptions for businesses. “The court failed to take the Religious Freedom Restoration Act seriously. Congress plainly understood RFRA to apply to for-profit corporations,” Laycock told the Register, while noting that the courts would likely distinguish between the merits of First Amendment cases brought by family-owned b...
Imagine you’re an employer who sponsors a 401(k) plan and one day, out of the blue, a Yale law professor sends you a letter telling you your plan’s fees are too steep as he reminds you of your fiduciary duties under federal law. The letters, which plan sponsors started receiving at the end of June, link to a draft of a white paper written by Ian Ayres and Quinn Curtis, an associate professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, titled: “Measuring Fiduciary and Investor Losses in 401(k) Plans. “As a reminder, fiduciary duties are the most stringent imposed...
Cyanide stops the body's cells from getting oxygen, effectively suffocating them, said Dr. Christopher Holstege, chief of the medical toxicology division and an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia. “There's no energy for the cells, so they die,” Holstege said. “The brain first, then your heart, then your other cells.”
Today’s University of Virginia Board of Visitors meeting, a routine orientation for new members, represents something bigger in the wake of last year’s leadership crisis: a new beginning.
Harry F. Byrd Jr., a conservative senator from Virginia who was appointed to his father’s seat and retained his father’s segregationist views but not his affiliation with the Democratic Party, died on Tuesday at his home in Winchester, Va. He was 98.
Laverne and Shirley. Kate and Allie. Sarah and Beth. Sarah and Beth? Yes. Sarah (Easley) and Beth (Buccini) are the decidedly downtown owners of Kirna Zabête, a designer clothing boutique that opened on Greene Street in 1999 and has moved to new quarters on Broome: larger and slightly grittier, thanks to the lusty belch of traffic to the Holland Tunnel.
Noelle is a perpetually pregnant mannequin who lives at the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing. She has a heartbeat and blood pressure, eyes that open and close, joints at the hip, knee and ankle, a womb, a baby who’s been delivered thousands of times – and thanks to various computer programs, she talks. Noelle is one of seven high-tech mannequins at UVA. She cost $60,000. A male model, who sweats, has seizures and is wireless, cost $90,000. But the lab’s associate director, Linda Peffley-Firer, says it’s a great investment.
Chase Minnifield's brief NFL career consists of zero games but plenty of lost time and money. He'd like to redirect that arc.