If the governor wants some slack, he should ditch the gifts as well, pronto. “I think he might consider returning those or donating them to charity,” said Kyle Kondik, political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “If (Tuesday’s) decision by him was an admission of at least the appearance of impropriety existed, the way you mitigate it is you do a little more than McDonnell did (Tuesday).”
Republican leaders in the House of Delegates announced Tuesday they are open to some reforms, like reporting gifts to family members and training politicians in disclosures. But some will not likely support an all-out ban on gifts. "There's a tremendous amount of resistance among the legislators," University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato said.
If a draft paper he co-authored with Quinn Curtis, a law professor at the University of Virginia, is any indication of the things to come in his research, the news is pretty dark for companies that have excessive plan fees. Using a legal argument that overpriced plans are breaching an employer’s “fiduciary duty,” Ayres and Curtis examined “fiduciary losses,” that is, situations in which the employer wasn’t looking out for the best interests of employees. Some 60 percent of such losses were due to “excess fees.”
Researchers at Knopp, formed in 2004 to discover possible treatments for ALS, have long been interested in dex, a compound identified by a University of Virginia researcher that may work by increasing the efficiency of mitochondria, which produce energy in the body's cells.
Former President Jimmy Carter, a leader of humanitarian efforts in the three decades since leaving office, has received more death threats than any other former commander-in-chief, a new book by University of Virginia political science guru Larry Sabato claims.
Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia Center for Politics said the McDonnell's efforts to put some distance between himself and the Star Scientific scandal won't put an end to the questions about his relationship with Williams his nutritional supplements company. "The questions are going to be waiting for him when he comes back," Kondik said. "If he wants to recover from this he probably needs to be a little more open about what happened than he has been previously."
Some of the military's top brass are embarking on a year-long mission in corporate America after a business boot camp at the University of Virginia. The Corporate Fellows Program wrapped up Wednesday at the Darden School of Business. It's part of a four-week-long Department of Defense training program to prepare 15 leaders from the military's branches to work alongside CEOs in the private sector.
The outcome of the election could sway the Medicaid panel, said Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “It will tell the legislators which way the wind is blowing in the state, and the election’s outcome might push members one way or the other,” Kondik said in an email. “So voters, in making their choice for governor, might effectively be making a choice about Medicaid expansion, too. Whether they realize that, though, is a different story.”
Jason Odell Williams doesn't yet know if he'll attend the 65th Emmy Awards on Sept. 22 or even for sure if he'll receive his own golden statuette. When the Columbia native got a text message July 18 from an executive producer of National Geographic Channel's popular "Brain Games" TV series that read simply, "Congratulations on your Emmy nomination," he thought it was a practical joke.
(Analysis) While myriad challenges face higher education these days – from pressure on finances to innovations in educational technology to questions about shared governance – only one group in the academy is charged with addressing all of them: the governing board.
University of Virginia political scientist Brantly Womack is a long-time watcher of US-China-Vietnam relations. “When Vietnam feels insecure, who is it going to feel insecure about? Laos? Cambodia? Thailand? The United States is too far away … so is China,” he told VOA
European klezmer was never even given the chance to evolve - because entire populations of Yiddish musicians and their audiences were wiped out. "If you pose these weird historical questions like what would klezmer music have sounded like in Europe if there hadn't have been the Holocaust, we don't really know, but I am quite certain the music they would have been playing in the 50s and 60s would have sounded quite different," says Joel Rubin, assistant professor of music at the University of Virginia. Rubin played a central role in the revival of Klezmer music in the United S...
University of Virginia Health System Dr. Jeffrey Barth, who served as the center’s primary neuropsychology consultant, said he was disappointed to see the center close. “Our job at [the Brain Injury Center] was to help to normalize these folks … to introduce them [back] to daily activities,” said Barth.
Meredith Woo, dean of the University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will receive the 2013 Elizabeth Zintl Award from the UVa Women’s Center.
University of Virginia researchers and seven local biotech companies will share more than $1 million in state funding from the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund, university officials announced on Wednesday.
“I think when people think about it, they’ll ask, ‘How do we know Spitzer is over his problem? Did this leopard change his spots? Maybe he’s just like Weiner,’” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Architect Magazine bestowed its 2013 Research and Development award to the ecoMod project, which consists of two demonstration homes on Poplar Creek Street. The high-efficiency, low-cost modular units were named the R&D award winner in the July edition of Architect Magazine. The two houses represent a collaboration by the Virginia Tobacco Commission, the University of Virginia School of Architecture, and Cardinal Homes of Wylliesburg. University faculty and students developed the homes with the assistance of a $1.2 million Tobacco Commission grant, and Cardinal Homes is manufacturing the m...
In the ensuing decades, as the national divisions over slavery sharpened, the South escalated its resistance to federal activism, opposing even non-controversial matters like disaster relief. As University of Virginia historian Brian Balogh noted in his book, A Government Out of Sight, Southerners asserted an extreme version of states’ rights in the period from 1840 to 1860 that included preventing aid to disaster victims. Balogh wrote that the South feared that “extending federal power” – even to help fellow Americans in desperate need – “might es...
The dizzying varieties of American religious experience, scholars say, has roots nearly as deep as old-time religion. At the University of Virginia, Matthew S. Hedstrom teaches a popular class called “Spiritual but Not Religious,” which traces the evolution of American spirituality from the 19th-century Transcendentalists to Alcoholics Anonymous, yoga and “the gospel of Oprah.”
Larry Sabato, the University of Virginia’s political sage, says that Republicans aren’t likely to change course in reaction to their internal divisions because redistricting in 2010 made congressional seats resistant to national trends. “I see it playing a much bigger role in 2016 than 2014,” Sabato said. “I think it’s likely that Republicans will gain seats in one or both houses and they’ll misinterpret those gains. They’ll see this as a validation of their positions when, in fact, the presidential election will reopen their problems.”