Our panelist responds to questions about early admissions at public universities, simultaneously applying early decision and early action at different schools, and...
The Choice has invited Greg W. Roberts, the dean of admission at the University of Virginia, to answer your questions about applying early in the blog’s Guidance Office, a forum for college applicants and their families seeking expert advice. (Part 4 of 5)
But a new and unexpected swing state emerged yesterday after a Susquehanna Polling and Research poll showed Romney and Obama tied in the normally Democratic state of Pennsylvania. Obama’s campaign quickly scheduled another event in Scranton for surrogate Bill Clinton after the results were released. “It’s closer than it ought to be for a Democratic state,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center to Politics.
Larry Sabato, a commentator who directs the University of Virginia Center for Politics, refers to McCaskill as the Senate’s Lazarus and to Akin as this year’s Icarus — the character from Greek mythology who perished after flying too close to the sun.
Politics professor Larry J. Sabato was a guest Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources" program, discussing media coverage of the 2012 election.
Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, was less convinced. "A 50-50 Senate is certainly possible," he said, adding that Democrats "have a decent shot at 52 or even 53" seats.
A panel of political analysts on CBS' "Face the Nation," including U.Va. poolitics professor Larry J. Sabato, dissected President Obama's and Mitt Romney's chances of winning Tuesday's election, and they agree that the president has an easier path to 270 electoral votes.
Edward Smith and Kate Gaziano are examples of voters President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney hope will turn out Tuesday: young, enthused and working to lure others with them.
University of Virginia officials announced Friday that they’ve found what they believe to be an African-American cemetery from the 19th century, saying it may extend under part of the existing university cemetery.
Residents from the University of Virginia's School of Medicine are playing a major part in keeping high school athletes safe on the football field.
At a Virginia Film Festival screening of Alan J. Pakula's 1976 movie, All the President's Men on Friday, November 2, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose investigative journalism formed the basis for that film and wrote the book of the same name, discussed the Watergate scandal and the legacy it left for American politics and culture.
Many current and former members of the Virginia lacrosse family were on hand at Lambeth Field Saturday for the fourth annual Will Barrow Memorial Flag Football Tournament.
James Madison’s Montpelier has a new president. Starting Jan. 1, the home of the nation’s fourth president will be overseen by Kat Imhoff, former chief operating officer and vice president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, owner and operator of Monticello. (Imhoff has undergraduate and graduate architecture degrees from U.Va.)
When renowned musician Boyd Tinsley decided to branch out into making movies, the Charlottesville native had a definite idea how to start: with music. Tinsley, who made his name over the last two decades as the violinist for the Dave Matthews Band, said the music in his film, “Faces in the Mirror,” was written to be front-and-center, rather than background sound. Tinsley discussed his new movie Saturday as part of the 25th annual Virginia Film Festival.
At 21 years old, Zac Grigg is the youngest director in the Virginia Film Festival this year. His film "Willie" highlights a Charlottesville man who has autism and his incredible gift for architecture.
(Editorial) The debacle at University of Virginia this summer may be considered officially over, but the underlying causes of the turmoil remain. So does the need for new leadership.
(Commentary by Michael Gorman, a professor in the Engineering School's Department of Science, Technology, and Society.) In this election year, the importance of federal funding for science may not be at the top of the list of reasons why who wins matters, but it should be.
(Editorial) University of Virginia officials haven't finished dealing with repercussions from June's leadership controversy.
Contrary to popular belief, the Cuban Missile Crisis did not end with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's promise on Oct. 28, 1962, to pull nuclear warheads and long-range missiles out of Cuba. In "The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis," David G. Coleman of the University of Virginia explains why.
“I would think they could warn (Hasan) of that danger, and require him to expressly waive any right to appeal on the ground of bias against his beard, so long as neither the judges nor the prosecutors appealed to that bias,” said Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia with a specialty in laws of religious liberty.