Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said he can’t see Iowa losing its No. 1 status.
“But I can see Iowa’s status being downgraded. Already, it is not viewed in the way it once was,” Sabato said. “The Iowa GOP is bedrock conservative, and not much of an indicator of what the GOP as a whole will do — much less the electorate of the country in November. Come to think of it, the Iowa GOP can’t even predict Iowa in most elections.”
Rick Britton's early fascination with maps led him to become an internationally respected cartographer. The Albemarle County resident also is the official cartographer for the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia, as well as the Papers of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello.
A Charlottesville-area father and daughter duo serve in complementary roles, helping students and businesses understand and navigate the world of finance. Lindsay Burton is the founder and owner of Kayo Advisory, a Charlottesville-based company that provides merger and acquisition, capital raising and consulting services to companies. Her father, Edwin Burton, is a longtime University of Virginia economics professor.
Dogs are well known for their ability to scarf down practically anything they can manage to swallow. Humans have also downed some pretty interesting things intentionally, and accidentally.
Ten Charlottesville-area middle school teachers will share a $43,600 award in support of a program that combines geospatial technology, the humanities and science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The 10 teachers selected for the new iSTEM program will work in partnership with the University of Virginia Library’s Scholars’ Lab, LEARN NC at the University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill, and the Virginia Geographic Alliance.
Local farmers and wholesale food buyers will gather at Piedmont Virginia Community College for a free public panel discussion on the aspects of growing local food. Christine Muehlman Gyovai, an associate at the Institute for Environmental Negotiation at the University of Virginia and an instructor with the Blue Ridge Permaculture Network, will moderate the discussion, which will focus on the business, ecological, nutritional and professional networking aspects of local farming and food.
The University of Virginia is auditing its health plan to remove ineligible employee dependents, a move that could clear 850 people from the school's insurance rolls at a projected annual savings of $1.8 million.
(Commentary by Elizabeth Dobbins, a third-year law student) I am a Charlottesville resident for only a short period of time. As my three years of law school come to an end, I have come to love this city, which seems appropriately geographically in the heart of Virginia.
Robert Lynn Canady is an emeritus professor at the University of Virginia and considered the grandfather of block scheduling. "For most people who are leaving it and going to a seven-period day, it's a budget issue as much as anything," Canady said.
The question in the mind of Kyle Kondik, a University of Virginia political numbers-cruncher, is whether the Obama voting bloc is growing too quickly for the Bush bloc to catch up by 2016. “My guess is that the fundamentals will favor the Republican candidate then, if only because historically it's hard (for a party) to win a third term in the White House,” he says.
Coca-Cola was invented in 1886, when pharmacist John Pemberton created French Wine Cola, a copy of a popular wine that contained cocaine, according to University of Virginia professor Grace Hale. When local governments outlawed alcohol, he changed the formula to take out the alcohol — and the Coca-Cola soft drink empire was born.
Mark Sanford says he’s not a career politician, as any student of Thomas Jefferson would know. “You know, I went to the University of Virginia, and everybody becomes a big fan of Thomas Jefferson there. He spent 34 years of his life in and out of public life. I don’t think anybody would describe Thomas Jefferson as a career politician,” Sanford said.
“Bolling could be a contender – emphasis on the ‘could be’ – a real contender,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. Sabato said there is enough unhappiness with the current candidates that a Bolling bid would give “a lot of perplexed people a place to go.”
Paul’s task as a potential presidential contender is uniquely difficult, according to Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “He’s an out-there candidate,” Sabato said of Paul. “He has to mainstream himself without alienating himself with the constituency that views him as different. Good luck with that.”
Desperate to have it fixed so she could exercise again to full capacity, she found the leading vascular surgeon in the country who treats this problem, Dr. Kenneth Cherry, chief of vascular surgery at the University of Virginia.
Plantar fasciitis often strikes runners and serious walkers, especially if they've recently started going much faster or farther than their feet were accustomed to, says Jay Hertel, professor of sports medicine at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Nixon's private comments were not always supportive of gun control, particularly measures that would go beyond handguns. But most of his comments on the tapes, available at the websites of the National Archives and of the University of Virginia's Miller Center, were in favor of stronger gun control.
To Wahoo fans, Dave Koehn is the voice of the Cavaliers, calling Virginia games on the radio. But now he has a new title as the Virginia Big Brother of the Year because of his relationship with 11-year-old Adrian.
In a study slammed for its methodology, funding and academic integrity, University of Texas associate sociology professor Mark Regnerus found that children who grew up in households where one parent had a same-sex relationship (regardless of whether the children lived with that parent or that parent’s supposed same-sex partner) were more likely to experience negative social, psychological, and economic outcomes than children raised by a married heterosexual couple. Records show that an academic consultant hired by UT to conduct data analysis for the project was a longtime fellow of the W...
Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, said their fears are unsupported. "The reality is these RFRA laws have been a disappointment to their supporters," he said.