“In a rather archaic tradition,” says Kyle Kondik, a tie throws the presidential decision to the House — which has a current GOP majority. Each of the 50 state delegations casts a single vote and the candidate who wins the most votes wins the White House, said Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia.
A candidate “gets face time on the news broadcasts, and he gets written up in the newspaper,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Whatever sound bite is produced out of the visit will be repeated on television.”
Anthrax has the unexpected ability to grow and reproduce while lurking in soil — increasing the deadly bacteria’s chances to infect cattle and other mammals, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered.
According to Dr. Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, “the president won this debate over Romney”, though he added that it was not as “decisive” as Romney’s triumph in the first face-off.
"It gives her more exposure for as long as she wants it," said University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato. "She can always resign the position to run for office."
"It's panic time," said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia. "The notion that a company as powerful as Amazon has such a tremendous amount of influence on what we read, how much money authors make, and the formats that books appear in is really scary to the book industry and other industries as well."
Guest post by Eugene Geh and Andrew King of U.Va’s Darden School of Business.
Ahead of a sold-out benefit concert in Charlottesville, one University of Virginia student is getting the "give back" message out there. The Avett Brothers are teaming up with Cheerwine to present a concert that will raise money for charities including UVA's Children's Hospital.
Over on the University of Virginia’s admissions blog, Senior Assistant Dean of Admissions Jeannine Lalonde got fed up with the misinformation she was seeing on forums and message boards about how many recommendation letters to submit to a college.
A big ticket auction is being held to benefit a historic landmark at the University of Virginia. You can now bid on items that will help pay for the multi-million dollar restoration of the Rotunda, and many of the rare items up for grabs can't be purchased anywhere else.
Michael Corbat is the new chief executive officer of Citigroup after Tuesday’s shocking power transfer that saw Vikram Pandit resign out of the blue. But after yesterday’s stunning events, it seems like the man who is really in charge is Citigroup Chairman Michael O’Neill.
Cary Koch, a Baton Rouge native and Dunham High School alumnus, played wide receiver at Tulane University and the University of Virginia. After just missing out on the NFL, Koch didn’t hang up his cleats.
The standards were inspired, in part, by a movement to improve children’s reading abilities by replacing standard elementary school pabulum with a rich diet of history, geography, science and the arts. University of Virginia scholar E.D. Hirsch Jr. has written several books on this. He established the Core Knowledge Foundation in Charlottesville to support schools that want their third-graders studying ancient Rome and their fourth-graders listening to Handel.
"I'm sure this will be the most expensive Senate race in Virginia history," said Geoff Skelley with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Diane Whaley, Ph.D., director of the Lifetime Physical Activity Program at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville says, "The positive peer pressure can get us to do things we might not normally feel like doing."
The director of Utah State University’s Religious Studies program said the creation of a Mormon chair position at the University of Virginia is an encouraging sign that LDS studies is being increasingly embraced by academia across the country.
"I'm sure you'll see more lawsuits," said Thomas Hafemeister, an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who specializes in health care. "This is pretty devastating stuff, and it is stuff that everyone assumes shouldn't have happened."
University of Virginia psychiatry professor Janet Warren concluded that "there was little information in the files concerning the techniques used…to 'groom' their alleged child victims" and no clear risk factors to help screen out molesters.
Scott Stephenson, 47, is an affable man whose passion is his work and whose work is his passion. He has a doctorate in American history from the University of Virginia, and has served as a consultant to Colonial Williamsburg as well as a variety of museums and historical societies. He is director of collections and interpretation for the American Revolution Center, which is planning to build the Museum of the American Revolution ain Philadelphia by 2016.
Romney would face a rude awakening if he took on the office of the presidency with the mindset of a Massachusetts governor, University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato believes, but former longtime Republican congressional staffer Mike Lofgren argued the circumstances that would likely accompany a Romney victory in November would be more prone to fuel a workable Congress than would an Obama second term.