Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, put the odds of a Colbert Busch re-election victory next year essentially at zero “unless the [GOP] renominates Sanford or some kook.”
(Co-written by Sheetal Sekhri, assistant professor of economics) In India, as well in other developing countries, there is evidence that the effectiveness of some vast public programmes designed at the national level has been consistently undermined by serious corruption at the local level. Consequently, the intended beneficiaries fail to see benefits from programmes that draw significant amounts of government resources. A pressing policy question – particularly in an era that increasingly emphasises decentralised delivery of public services – is how to mitigate this corruption and...
Fresh out of undergraduate school at the University of Virginia in the late 1980s – and facing a recession – Thomas Woltz leapt at the chance to teach architecture at the school’s summer program in Vicenza. By summer’s end, he’d secured a job with Giorgio Bellavitis Architects in Venice. There, the absence of traditional landscape – of trees, shrubbery or groundcover – shifted the arc of the trajectory of his career.
At the University of Virginia, students have made dumplings their late-night staple at Marco and Luca Dumpling Store in Charlottesville. Karsten Coates, a freshman at UVA, said students like the cheap pricing. “Kids are lined up out the door to get them on Thursday and Friday nights,” said Coates, 19.
“It’s his self-Borking book,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, referring to the former nominee to the Supreme Court whose nomination was scuttled after writings of his came to light. “He wrote it himself so it’s hard to blame anybody for that, but wasn’t there a political adviser around to read the damn thing and say, ‘Hey, you might want to take that out’?”
To infect its host, the respiratory pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa takes an ordinary protein usually involved in making other proteins and adds three small molecules to turn it into a key for gaining access to human cells. In a study to be published May 7 in mBio-, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, scientists at Emory University School of Medicine, the University of Virginia, and Universidad de las Islas Baleares in Mallorca, Spain, uncover this previously unknown virulence factor in P. aeruginosa, one of the most common causes of hospital-acquired pneum...
A group of University of Virginia students presented an in-depth report about poverty in Charlottesville to City Council. The report, called "Ways out of Poverty," outlines what the city needs to do to fix the problem of poverty. It highlights three strategies to help low-income people.
Kyle Kondik, a congressional race analyst at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, says Colbert Busch needs many Republicans to vote for her, something that's not very likely to happen. "All the information I have says it's really close but I favor Sanford in the end because of the district," he says.
Physics professor Lou Bloomfield discussed the physics of everyday life.
Organizations ranging from bakeries to construction companies to educational non-profits have successfully crowdsourced insights into their business operations from more than 50,000 students in the business strategy course presented by the University of Virginia and taught by Darden School of Business professor Michael Lenox. Initial results have been overwhelmingly positive, suggesting that university students can indeed use their learning to contribute meaningful solutions to the needs of established organizations.
Whether this translates into lasting political damage for incumbents who may not face the voters for years is another matter entirely. But it is a good gauge of the passion that surrounds the issue. “We’ve got 18 months before the 2014 general election,” University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato said this week. “The sentiment may be intense but it can fade entirely,” by the election. “I’m not saying it will. I don’t know.”
As an assistant coach at Virginia 25 years ago, Jeff Jones recruited Bryant Stith as hard as he did any player. This time, Stith did the selling. Seeking to break into college coaching, the former U.Va. star and 10-year NBA veteran made no secret of his desire to re-connect with his former coach, standing in the wings in a suit when Jones was introduced as Old Dominion’s new coach last month. For Jones, it wasn’t a hard sell. He hired his former player as an assistant Friday, completing his three-man staff.
The article details the ascension of Virginia baseball under the leadership of head coach Brian O’Connor, associate head coach Kevin McMullan and pitching coach Karl Kuhn.
The University of Virginia's Rotunda could get a fresh coat of new paint as early as next week. Work crews are busy sanding down the new copper finish on the Rotunda dome. They are well ahead of schedule on the renovation project, hoping to finish by graduation.
The father of a U.Va. baseball player offers encouragement to his son and his son’s teammates – from Afghanistan.
“Most of the VCs I’ve spoken with, heard from and been on panels with are going to be very wary of making investments in some new venture that got crowdfunded and now they have to deal with a [capitalization table] that’s full of hundreds of tiny investors who they now have to manage,” says Sean Carr, a lecturer at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. As part of his research, Carr collects and analyzes data from equity-based crowdfunding platforms outside the United States.
What the poll means at this point in the campaign is not certain. Larry Sabato from the University of Virginia sent out a Twitter message saying he has gone back through a series of spring polls in 11 contests for governor in Virginia. Polls in eight of the 11 contests turned out to be incorrect in predicting the eventual outcome of the election.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said the race won’t have national importance. “A Sanford win would simply reflect the massively GOP nature of the district,” he said. The district went for Republican Mitt Romney over Obama in last fall’s presidential election by a 58 percent to 40 percent margin. Ms. Colbert Busch is very likely to be a very short-term member of Congress, if elected,” Sabato said, “assuming 1st District Republicans choose more wisely next time.”
The ACC in Europe? Mike London in London? There’s no question that ACC commissioner John Swofford intends to connect the 15-team conference with opportunities to play football and basketball in Europe and there’s no question that if the right opportunity opens for the University of Virginia, the Cavaliers will gobble it up faster than you can say “Cheerio.”
Three years later, Yeardley Love’s memory lives on through the One Love Foundation and a number of other events at the University of Virginia held in her memory. Love was murdered by her ex-boyfriend George Huguely on May 3, 2010. Now every year around the anniversary of her death, people come together to remember and celebrate her life.