Still, Prince William’s numbers did exemplify the overall lack of change in this election. “The precentage in Prince William was almost exactly the same as it was last time,” noted Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said, “You can’t imagine him being a credible candidate if Hillary Clinton is in the race. I just can’t imagine two major figures from New York running against one another. And Hillary would obviously have the leading role.”
Two University of Virginia researchers have received a grant for a study of adolescents' relationships with non-parental adults.
A portion of 5th Street Southwest will be given the designation George R. Ferguson Way, named after the business owner and former NAACP president who worked to integrate the University of Virginia hospital and local schools, according to city officials.
The number of international university students in Virginia is growing. According to a new study by the Institute of International Education, many of those students are flocking to the University of Virginia.
Monday night's rainy weather is postponing and shortening a vigil to honor veterans at the University of Virginia. Members of UVA's ROTC program will march in front of the rotunda to honor service members for their sacrifices.
After David Petraeus resigned from his post as director of the CIA last week, details of his extramarital affair with biographer Paula Broadwell continued to materialize. Gwen Ifill talks to three guests about national implications of the scandal, including Frederick Hitz, a former CIA inspector general who's now an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia School of Law..
Another topic during the ceremony was the role of the University of Virginia in the community. "We also have to continue to grow and develop the university. The university is going to be an even bigger part our future," said Senator Creigh Deeds.
Students at the University of Virginia are cheering the announcement that political comedian Stephen Colbert will be the valediction speaker this year.
Erika James has been named the new senior associate dean of Darden Executive Education at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. James will oversee custom and open-enrollment programs for Darden Executive Education, which has operated since 1955.
A new student-directed documentary explores the difficulties international students face in attempting to work in the United States after they graduate. The 27-minute film, "Will Work for Words," premiered earlier this month at the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville. The filmmaker, Ayşehan Jülide Etem, is an international student from Turkey: she completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Virginia and is pursuing her Ph.D. in Italian Studies at Indiana University at Bloomington.
U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, last week elected to a seventh term representing West Virginia's 2nd District, has a Master of Educaiton degree from the Curry School.
(Commentary by U.Va. politics professor James Ceaser) The election of 2012 was the perfect status quo event. On November 6 Americans by the millions went through a massive exercise of going to the polls and voting, only to awake the next morning to find that nothing had changed—other than a welcome respite from the incessant phone calls from the campaign headquarters.
The University of Virginia board, which this summer ousted President Teresa Sullivan (and then reversed itself amid the resulting outcry), is extending her contract.
Kathryne Carr has been selected to run the business incubator at the University of Virginia. Carr is the co-founder and managing director at Tall Oaks Capital Partners LLC.
Vince and Suzanne Mastracco look for three things when assessing whether a city is great - art, architecture and history. They may be world travelers, but they always come back to their hometown, and they have made their mark on Norfolk's art, architecture and history.
A man tried to abduct a 19-year-old University of Virginia student as she was walking home on Stadium Road late Thursday night. Police say 26-year-old Matthew Rene Beaulieu, of Palmyra, tailed the victim for several blocks before springing from his vehicle and grabbing her.
This comes from a fascinating crowdsourced study, Project Implicit, which is designed to tease out attitudes that people are unwilling or unable to articulate. Led by psychologist Brian Nosek, an associate professor at the University of Virginia, the project offers dozens of free online tests that let you test your implicit biases – and contribute to science, too.
The city is preparing to review two new designs for the Belmont Bridge replacement. After participating in a design contest earlier in the year, University of Virginia architecture students were consulted as part of the design process.
But can a highly skilled politician, given another four years, float free of partisan squabbling and achieve major policy solutions? In short, can President Barack Obama concentrate on his legacy? Probably not, says Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.