(Video) University of Virginia Center for Politics director Larry Sabato on the post-debate shift in swing state polls.
Syndey Shivers could think of more enjoyable ways to spend a midweek evening. But, right now she’s in a windowless basement, cold-calling voters around Virginia to persuade them to vote for Barack Obama.
Larry Sabato, a veteran political analyst at the University of Virginia, estimates a 49-45 Democratic edge, with six races in real contention: Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, North Dakota and Wisconsin.
"All you can say at this moment is that it's a race worth watching," says Larry Sabato, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia.
Intellectual property law encourages innovation when we design and enforce it with a focus on future innovation, not a fixation on rewarding past victories, writes Siva Vaidhyanathan, chairman of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.
Many liberal arts colleges are evolving into career-oriented "professional colleges" where a large number of students major in professional fields such as business and nursing. The trend was highlighted in a 1990 study by David Breneman -- a University of Virginia professor and former president of Kalamazoo College, a liberal arts college in Michigan -- and replicated this year by Baldwin and colleagues.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise have named the college’s science facility for Leonard W. Sandridge, a longtime UVa administrator and now adviser to the UVa Board of Visitors.
The University of Virginia formally announced today that it is creating a “Richard Lyman Bushman Chair of Mormon Studies” in its Department of Religious Studies, which is housed within the University’s College of Arts & Sciences.
The Dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine has said that he will step down from the post when his term expires July 31. Dean Steven T. DeKosky will remain on the faculty, according to a news release from UVa.
“I think in times of economic struggle, people are more inward-looking,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
There is plenty of blame to go around at UVa, but none of it falls on FOIA. The problem was too little transparency, not too much.
SXSW Eco 2011 keynote speaker Philippe Cousteau Jr. announced that the Bay Game, a water management system developed by the University of Virginia, is being expanded to include the Texas water system as its new simulation. Cousteau said, "From the beginning, we've envisioned the potential of this game to expand globally, of this game to model watersheds around the world and help us come together and solve the defining crisis of the 21st century."
Remember how Alice feels when she finds herself unable to squeeze through a miniature garden door? It isn’t necessary to tumble down a rabbit hole to experience this acute frustration: plenty of normal two-year-olds do so all the time. University of Virginia psychologist Judy DeLoache and her Northwestern University colleagues David Uttal and Karl Rosengren first addressed the phenomenon in 2004.
TurboCombustor Technology Inc. has joined the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing as an industry member. The 60,000-square-foot facility completed last month will do research for a group of manufacturing companies under a partnership with Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and the University of Virginia.
“We put Indiana in the toss-up column because what little polling there has been find the race is a dead-heat,” said Geoffrey Skelley, an analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center on Politics. “At the end of the day, it’s easier to see Mourdock winning just because (GOP presidential hopeful Mitt) Romney will win the state. But we’re being careful — Mourdock will likely do worse than Romney, which creates more uncertainty.”
The study, written by John Burger, an economics professor at Loyola University, and University of Virginia professors Francis Warnock and Veronica Cacdac Warnock, noted that some emerging market economies received more investment than others because U.S. bond portfolios tilted toward markets that provided more potential diversification benefits, such as lower correlations to U.S. bonds, and where expected returns were more positive.
Goodness knows, plenty workers have reason to complain these days. And yet, most every office has a couple people who take that right a little too liberally -- they are, as a rule obtrusively upset. They are what management expert Rob Cross, a professor in U.Va.’s McIntire School of Commerce, calls "de-energizers."
Ferrum College’s Alumni Sports Hall of Fame will induct five new members, including the late Dr. Frank McCue, an orthopedic surgeon and head of U.Va.’s Sports Medicine program for 41 years.
Guest Columnist Kathryn Young, University of Virginia School of Law Class of 2013, argues that gambling can effectively increase states' revenue and should be viewed outside of its negative connotations.
In 2007, after Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane selected the Universiyt of Virginia's Sean Doolittle with the 41st overall pick in the draft, he kidded his newest player that part of his appeal was built-in insurance.