Greek life at the University of Virginia is coming together and putting the letters aside for an afternoon of fun. UVa's Greek Carnival marks the end of the Greek Weekend celebration with lots of games, activities and prizes. Organizers say it's a day for the Greek and the Charlottesville communities to come together.
Hometown actor Billy Campbell visited Charlottesville Sunday as part of the final day of the Virginia Film Festival. The Western Albemarle High School graduate promoted his new movie, "Fat Kid Rules the World."
“Local media in Virginia is thrilled,” said Geoff Skelley, a political analyst with the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “This is the greatest thing ever.”
Monday is the last full day of campaigning, and predictions on the presidential race are rolling in — many of them favoring President Obama. The "crystal ball" at the University of Virginia Center for Politics predicts a 290-248 electoral victory for the president.
The University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato agrees with the accepted wisdom among the D.C.-N.Y. crowd: The president wins a second term, Democrats retain the Senate and pick up three seats in the House.
Still think college degrees earned online are universally cheaper and less esteemed in the job market than traditional ones? In the case of graduate degrees offered by universities collaborating with a company called 2U, you’d be dead wrong.
Bullying and teasing in schools can have a variety of outcomes. On Monday, a new report from the University of Virginia says that one of those outcomes is lower graduation rates.
A scholar at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics says there's an unprecedented level of advertising in this year's elections. But Paul Freedman contends it's only in a relatively small number of swing states: Nevada, Florida, Ohio and Virginia.
(By Wayne Fullen) It's not an option of whether you will vote. You will vote. That is the mindset of many of the college students around the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville on Monday, a day before Election Day.
Widely hailed for his decades of public service and zeal for the law, former U.S. District Judge Glen Williams (and alumnus of the U.Va. School of Law) died Sunday at the age of 92.
Better-than-expected unemployment data last Friday and a well-perceived handling of the emergency following Hurricane Sandy also boosted Obama’s standing in the community, according to analysts from the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “This has been a roller-coaster campaign, though very tight ever since Romney dramatically outshone Obama in the first debate in Denver on Oct. 3. Yet for a challenger to defeat an incumbent, the fates must be with the challenger again and again,” the Center’s political analysts wrote on its blog.
With $1,100 in court costs paid by donations and state fees waived by the governor, a man exonerated of a 1978 rape this year will vote for first time today. Bennett Barbour Barbour could not pay outstanding court costs, so his lawyers with the University of Virginia School of Law's Innocence Project Clinic and student volunteers raised the money over the weekend.
City Council moved forward with one of the largest economic development projects in Downtown Charlottesville in recent decades. Council approved a steering committee to oversee the vision for the new Market District. Charlottesville representatives will travel along with representatives from Albemarle County, the University of Virginia, and local leaders to learn how Austin, Texas developed its entertainment scene and technology industry.
DoDBuzz turned to Kyle Kondik at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics to see which Congressmen and Senators with connections to the military look to be in the most trouble to lose their re-election bids heading into Tuesday.
“[The new law] could be a problem for some voters,” says Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “But it will only really matter if the election is extremely close, which it could be.”
More indicative of the state’s overall lean will be larger counties that offer a combination of suburban and rural areas and have changed hands over the last two presidential elections. Foremost among these are Loudon, Prince William and Henrico counties, according to Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said both Loudoun and Prince William – along with Henrico County near Richmond – have the potential to decide the race. He said they will be Virginia’s most contested counties on Election Day.
The vast expanse of the district and the almost equal number of Democratic and Republican voters, make the race one of the most difficult in the nation to handicap, said Kyle Kondik, a UVA Center for Politics analyst.
The University of Virginia's Larry Sabato sees no net change in the numbers, with Democrats retaining 53 seats and Republicans keeping 47.
"In certain cases, a physician's treatment may be the same regardless of the results of a test," says Mike Hanley, a radiologist at the University of Virginia Medical Center and founder of xrayrisk.com, a website that tells you how much a particular scan increases your risk of cancer. "In those cases, you should question the usefulness of that test." A broken rib, he says, is a good example, "The treatment for a simple rib fracture is some ibuprofen and some rest."