(Commentary) The 2012 elections surprised both sides and hit a reset button on the Obama administration. Here are 10 conclusions ... 5. Serious analysts, not political entertainers, are the ones to watch for REAL predictions. The accuracy of New York Times' Nate Silver, the University of Virginia's Larry Sabato, and San Diego political scientist Samuel Popkin again demonstrated why they're the best in the business.
As Hamas and other groups in Gaza continue to launch rockets into Israel, and the Israeli Defense Forces bomb Gaza in turn, it's hard to remember that there have been moments of reconciliation, and promises of peace, between Arabs and Israelis. U.Va. politics professor William Quandt is among today's guests.
Mecklenburg County has increasingly favored Democrats over the past several election cycles, and Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia recently pointed out that the county was one of many of the nation’s largest to turn increasingly blue in recent history.
Prior research had also reached that conclusion, but University of Virginia psychology professor Shige Oishi called the new work the best evidence yet. “Wow,” Oishi said in an email. “This is a very strong paper” in its approach.
Andrew Kaufman, lecturer in Slavic languages and literature at the University of Virginia and the author of "Understanding Tolstoy," was to be a guest today to discuss the latest film version of "Anna Karenina."
The new Chief Operating Officer of the University of Virginia says he's quickly learning the challenges that his job involves. Patrick Hogan is the latest successor to Executive Vice-President Leonard Sandridge, who joined the UVA payroll in 1967 and retired last year.
At yesterday’s breakfast for D.C.-area college counselors, UVa’s Dean Greg Roberts announced a major increase in the number of early action applications received by the Commonwealth’s flagship university for the fall of 2013.
U.Va. ranks No. 22 in the nation. One reader commented, "Honestly, the best people that I've seen in the industry have been from Stanford and UVA."
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart could support setting an employment level that would trigger central bank discussions about whether to move interest rates, he told reporters Friday. "It's possible to get to a threshold number for unemployment, as long as we present it as indicative of a broader evaluation," Mr. Lockhart told reporters after a University of Virginia Investing Conference.
William H. “Bill” Wood died holding his wife’s hand Friday. Wood, 69, was at home in Birmingham, Ala., where he’d moved recently to be close to family. Wood, who worked for years in newspapers, was well known in Charlottesville as the founding director of the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, where he was an advocate for civility in politics.
For some University of Virginia students and faculty, taking their ideas to the next level can literally pay off. The University hosted its fourth annual Entrepreneurship Competition, or E-Cup, Friday afternoon.
The Virginia ACLU plans to examine the sexual-assault policies of the state’s public colleges and universities to see if they comply with federal guidelines lowering the standard of proof required to hold a student accountable in a campus disciplinary proceeding.
(Editorial) The people whose work is in these columns strive to make a difference. In this community, in the commonwealth, in the country. We try to identify and celebrate solutions. We encourage debate. We do that with as much grace and insight and wit as we can muster. Bill Wood, who edited this page for a decade, set that standard.
William H. Wood held several professional titles: Reporter. Editor. Editorial page editor. And executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.
Robert Swap of the University of Virginia has been named as the state's professor of the year. Swap, a research professor of environmental sciences, received the award this week from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
Five college students recently paced the dimly lit Imperial Tobacco Warehouse snapping pictures and taking measurements. Call it homework for a lofty project. University of Virginia architecture students used Danville as a base for a design project in the masters level program, which requires re-imagining and reusing an old landmark.
A seven-member team of University of Virginia students took top honors in an annual business concept competition for student entrepreneurs. The team received a $20,000 prize for their work on PhageFlag, a rapid diagnostic test for bacterial diseases, at the close of UVa’s Entrepreneurship Cup late Friday.
Charlottesville’s namesake, Queen Charlotte, may have been the United Kingdom’s first black queen. Allan Ramsay, a Scottish-born artist who once served as principal painter to King George III, painted several portraits of the queen that have lead historians to question Charlotte’s ethnic heritage. Douglas Fordham, a University of Virginia art history professor, said he is “less persuaded” by evidence suggesting Queen Charlotte is of African ancestry.
The next time the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors wants to kick out a sitting president, they’ll have to have a full meeting and a vote, thanks to changes recently made to the board’s governing rules.
“I think there is a tremendous capacity for forgiveness in the American public, especially when a flawed leader can overcome their flaws,” said Bob Gibson, executive director of the Sorenson Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia.