Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, sees flaws in the proposals. "I would say the very same thing if Democrats were doing this: This is rigging the system. This is fixing the system, fixing it in the wrong way," Sabato told me. "You cannot justify this. . . . This system, if it's adopted nationally, would permit a candidate to lose the popular vote by five million or more votes and still become president. Can you say the word insurrection?"
Debate around so-called "bump fire" devices that "simulate" automatic fire by utilizing a rifle's recoil to shoot the next bullet have caused some to wonder whether the devices could inspire a bureaucratic reclassification of assault weapons into machine guns, which in turn could lead to a de facto ban without Congress getting involved. That question may be politically sharper now, especially since an all-out assaults weapon ban, according to University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, is "dead in the water."
Charlottesville’s NAPA auto parts store has a new management team under the hood. Joe Weld, who has been in the auto parts business since 1974, and has owned the Culpeper NAPA store since 1988, purchased the Charlottesville store last month.
One of the biggest party weekends of the year for University of Virginia students is coming to an end after a week that saw several students hospitalized for hardcore boozing.
Over the past two years, a series of events have focused researchers' attention on replication and related issues. But as some psychologists see it, these flare-ups are finally bringing light to problems that have needed attention for years. "The fact that our scientific methodology is not perfect, and operates less than ideally, is not a new insight," says Brian Nosek, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia. Now, he and others are leading efforts to increase replication studies and open up access to data.
University of Virginia senior swimmer Lauren Perdue received accolades Sunday afternoon during halftime of the women's basketball game.
Kyle D. Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics gives Mr. Markey the edge right now. “He is much likelier to emerge from the primary against the more conservative Rep. Stephen Lynch, and while it’s possible that other Democrats will now enter the primary field with Scott Brown removed from the equation, Markey has locked up establishment support,” Mr. Kondik said.
In the storage room of the business she runs with her husband, Joy Ragland sometimes operates a small tabletop press that she resurrected from neglect several years ago.
(Commentary by Zach Croft, a second-year law student) The 2013 legislative session has been marked thus far by bills to nullify federal laws with which legislators disagree. This trend is striking primarily because nullification is forbidden under the U.S. Constitution.
Using money provided under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Cincinnati’s public schools superintendent sent the principals of the elementary-initiative schools – along with teacher leaders – to the University of Virginia's educational leadership training program. She chose the University of Virginia program because it promised results, telling Cincinnati that it would be able to help schools make AYP—or gain at least 10 percentage points within two years.
Seven teams of high school students will get an opportunity to see whether they would be good stewards of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
The University of Virginia is preparing to launch a program aimed at increasing the number of female faculty members in science and social science fields.
Other industries have done this. "Think of the iPod," says Michael Lenox, a business professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School, "or pick almost any consumer electronic device. It's imbedded with technology that has a variety of intellectual property. Tech companies are all cross-licensing."
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said Virginia is unique in limiting its governor to a single term. He doesn’t believe this will change soon. “This will probably not get anywhere in the House of Delegates because such a change in Virginia politics would be an extremely significant shift in the institutional politics of Virginia,” Skelley said.
University of Virginia professor of law and public affairs A.E Dick Howard was chief draughtsman in 1971 of the State of Virginia’s current constitution. He dispels the argument that the Second Amendment is intended to protect the states versus the federal government. “I think they have misread history,” he says.
Profiles twin brothers Eric and Evan Edwards, who invented a new epinephrine delivery device, the Auvi-Q, to rival the EpiPen, for those who suffer from severe allergies. Evan, a U.Va. engineering grad, was advised by engineering professor Larry G. Richards.
Research by Saras Sarasvathy, an associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia, suggests that learning to accommodate feelings of uncertainty is not just the key to a more balanced life but often leads to prosperity as well.
Earlier this week I published a tough critique on the Common Core State Standards in regards to early childhood education by educators Nancy Carlsson-Paige and Ed Miller, who said the standards are “a threat” to young students. Here is a response to that piece, by E.D. Hirsch, founder and chairman of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia.
In some ways, Cam Johnson has already arrived. Even if nobody knows it yet. On Tuesday, Johnson walked onto the turf at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome for Super Bowl media day, one of 53 players likely to be active for the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.
Two University of Virginia students have recovered after being put on life support for alcohol consumption. Now the university is cracking down on drinking after what the administration calls an alarming pattern of alcohol related issues in the past week.