"It's very close. Virginia is maintaining its status as one of the pure toss-ups in the country," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato.
"If you believe in the polling averages, then you would have to say that Kaine is the favorite," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, adding that "what could undo it would be the (Mitt) Romney coattail effect if he won Virginia substantially."
An anti-seizure drug may now have another use: as a non-hormonal alternative to hormone replacement therapy, researchers have found. A study conducted at the University of Virginia analyzed the effect of the drug, gabapentin, on 600 postmenopausal women who had moderate to severe hot flashes. Researchers found that those who used extended-relief gabapentin significantly reduced their hot flashes when compared with subjects who were given a placebo.
The prince of political prognosticators peered into the future Thursday and saw mostly murk. For now, the presidential race is too close to call, Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball website declared. Thanks to Hurricane Sandy, his official prediction will have to wait until Monday.
(Audio) U.Va. politics professor Larry Sabato discusses the popular vote and the Electoral College.
"If it's below eight percent, people shrug it off and go on," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "If it's just eight percent, it gives both sides an argument."
Max Kennedy — son of Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy — plans to attend the Virginia Film Festival this weekend to present and discuss the documentary “Ethel.” The feature-length portrait of the life of his mother is scheduled for a showing at 1 p.m. Saturday in Cabell Hall Auditorium.
African Americans form Virginia’s largest minority — accounting for about 20 percent of the population and a similar share of the electorate. In 2008, the turnout rate among blacks matched that of whites for the first time, said Dustin A. Cable, a demographer at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
The Virginia Film Festival is celebrating a quarter century as organizers kick off a weekend of films in Charlottesville. The festival is screening more than 100 films this weekend at several locations - some on the downtown mall and some at the University of Virginia.
"Basically what he can do is he can give an unlimited amount of money to this organization, and they can go and spend it to support causes he believes in," said Geoff Skelley with the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "In this case, the election of Mitt Romney for president."
A study at the University of Virginia could lead to a cure for tremor caused by Parkinson's disease. It could even be the first step toward treating the symptoms of other movement disorders.
Global trade and financial linkages weren’t strong enough by themselves to have caused the global recession in 2008 that followed the U.S. subprime crisis, according to economics professors Philippe Bacchetta of Switzerland’s University of Lausanne and Eric van Wincoop at the University of Virginia.
The average debt for a bachelor's degree in Virginia rose by more than $1,000 to $24,717 last year, with 59 percent of the class of 2011 graduating with loans to pay off, according to an estimate by the Project on Student Debt.
"If you like gridlock, you're going to see a lot more of it," said University of Virginia analyst Kyle Kondik, who studies the congress.
According to Bob Bruner, dean of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, there is a “diversification discount” the market puts on conglomerates due to their complexity. Investors, he says, are understandably worried that buried in the layers of corporate infrastructure are red flags that they can’t easily analyze.
The memory clip always rolls in Nick Clooney’s mind just as he’s about to drift off to sleep. The wide-eyed little boy is back, still clutching his beloved chicken.
Seventy-five years have come and gone, and this raven-haired beauty still turns heads. Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” already was celebrating its golden anniversary when the Virginia Film Festival, then billed as the Virginia Festival of American Film, rolled out its first red carpet.
Filmmakers don’t need a horror movie to scare them witless. Distribution screenings at which studio execs give a film a yea or nay are immeasurably more terrifying.
All proceeds will benefit the Marty Whitlow Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at the University of Virginia Cancer Center.
University of Virginia researchers found that the very simple eyes of fruit fly larvae, with only 24 total photoreceptors (the human eye contains more than 125 million), provide just enough light or visual input to allow the animal's relatively large brain to assemble that input into images.