A University of Virginia Center for Politics analysis outlines the loss of the blue-collar segment of the Democrats' coalition in the part of Appalachia stretching south from New York, including chunks of the Rust Belt that were once significant sources of votes for Democratic presidential candidates.
The Charlottesville Hockey Fights Cancer hockey team will be playing the Richmond Hockey Fights Cancer hockey team to benefit the University of Virginia Cancer Center.
But Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center For Politics, said he does not believe arranging for the appointment of herself would be a wise move. “I can’t imagine Haley will appoint herself.,” he said. “That can be political suicide; voters hate it.”
The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission has been awarded a $192,885 grant from the second Strategic Highway Research Program of the Transportation Research Board. The University of Virginia and VDOT are contributing research groups to help TJPDC test methods for raising awareness to the public on transportation issues.
Last spring, lawmakers created the Beehive Grant Program, which offers keepers compensation for their hives. The program was originally thought up by a group of students in the University of Virginia's College Leaders Program.
Simply covering your bedding with mite-proof covers isn’t enough to reduce your symptoms, a recent US study on bedding and allergens concluded. “Covers will work as part of a plan that includes other dust-mite control measures,” says Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills, director of the University of Virginia’s Asthma and Allergic Disease Center in the U.S.
It’s impossible to prove that Obama’s PR blitz has affected public opinion, but if you’re the White House, that’s the safer bet. And so analysts expect the president to keep making his pitch to the public until it really is time to cut a deal. “He feels, and I understand why, that the election was a mandate for raising taxes on the wealthiest, and he doesn’t know how long he’ll have it,” says Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Former NFL running back Thomas Jones was always around guns, long before he became a football-carrying member of that unofficial gun club within the National Football League.
The University of Virginia shared the light of the season with Charlottesville families who are fighting homelessness and trying to get back on their feet.
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have isolated a previously unknown protein in muscles that spurs their growth and increased power following resistance exercise. Other authors are from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, the University of Colorado, the University of Virginia (Nichola P. Greene, Mitsuharu Okutsu and Zhen Yan), and the Mayo Clinic.
The Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012, prompting some to believe the world will end on that date. Ken Seidelmann, a research professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Astronomy, is a guest on the show, discussing that calendar and the many others used through history by different cultures.
Tonight in Cabell Hall Auditorium, the Virginia Glee Club will fill its 72nd annual Christmas Concert with music that ranges from prayerful to playful.
This weekend, folks who think of Ash Lawn Opera as a summer staple under the sun at President James Monroe’s estate or in the air-conditioned relief of the Paramount Theater can get the first look at a new tradition. Two Saturday performances of “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at the Paramount will help the 35-year-old opera festival build a winter presence. The production is directed by U.Va. music professor Kate Tamarkin.
Blue Ridge Chamber Orchestra’s concert this weekend will begin with a focus on 18th-century music and conclude with a tribute to composer and University of Virginia emeritus professor of music Walter Ross.
Profile of Rey Ramsey, president & CEO of TechNet, "the preeminent bipartisan political network of Chief Executive Officers and Senior Executives of leading U.S. technology companies." Ramsey is a graduate of the U.Va. School of Law.
William Johnson, professor at the University of Virginia’s Department of Economics also in Virginia, said people shouldn’t despair over one month’s figures. “In any case, I think month-to-month fluctuations in the unemployment rate don’t have a whole lot of meaning, so if it goes up one month, down another month, there’s a lot of sort of statistical noise there,” said Johnson. “So I would look at a trend rather than one month, up or down.”
University of Virginia officials say more than 7,000 people are expected to attend tonight's 12th annual Lighting of the Lawn ceremony.
A memorial service will be held in the District on Saturday for the University of Virginia student who was killed last weekend in a boating accident in the Caribbean.
The Navy presented its most coveted leadership prize to a submarine skipper and a former destroyer captain at a Nov. 27 ceremony in the Pentagon. The Pacific Fleet winner was Cmdr. Chase Patrick, a 1994 graduate of the University, where he was a member of the Naval ROTC.
Disgust – it’s an emotion we experience when we encounter things that are dirty, impure, or otherwise contaminated. From an evolutionary standpoint, experiencing the intense, visceral sense of revulsion that comes with disgust presumably helps us to avoid contaminants that can make us sick or even kill us. But new research from a team that includes U.Va.'s Gerlad Clore suggests that disgust not only helps us to avoid impurities, it may also make us better able to see them.