Commentary from Darden professor Ed Hess, author of the new book "Growing an Entrepreneurial Business: Concepts & Cases."
“Far more money is being spent than in 2004 or even 2008, and with the advent of Super PACs there’s a big new ingredient in campaigns,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “So yes, I think it’s fair to say that this year is more intense.”
Scientists are sifting through massive quantities of freely available data scattered across the Internet, aiming to catch potentially deadly problems with prescription drugs more quickly—even ahead of federal regulators. Researchers from the University of Virginia and West Virginia University have developed mathematical recipes that computers use to filter billions of pieces of data from patient comments in online chats, websites and news stories to detect serious adverse drug reactions.
"It's still a lot of money," said Kyle Kondik, director of communications for the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "Maybe Iowa doesn't have the same level of super rich people (as other states), and maybe that explains it."
The University of Virginia's Robertson Media Center in Clemons Library is now home to some amazing new technology, thanks to a school grant. The media center says the possibilities are virtually endless.
(Editorial) Thomas Jefferson's university isn't looking very Jeffersonian these days. After firing then rehiring the president this past summer, the university leadership is looking back to determine what went wrong.
The YWCA of Central Virginia will honor 10 area women for community contributions during a special event Friday. The Academy of Women award, begun in 1986, is presented every two years to women who have generously contributed to their communities in categories ranging from the arts to government to ministry. The honorees include Megan Harvey, a U.Va. student and community volunteer; and Janice Marston, director of U.Va.'s University Professional Development Consortium.
As Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, points out, it’s hard to define an opponent whom voters already know from his four years as governor.
A worker using a torch likely started the fire that sent black smoke hundreds of feet into the air from the indoor practice facility under construction at the University of Virginia, according to officials.
“We invited the two major party candidates and any other who could show 10 percent support in independent polls,” explained debate moderator Bob Gibson, executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia.
Alecko Eskandarian really had no choice but to grow to love the game of soccer. Growing up the son of former Cosmos star Andranik Eskandarian, the sport was a part of Alecko's everyday life from an early age.
Nick Cafero, a third-year government major at the University of Virginia and the president of the UVA Hullabahoos, an all-male group that performs in "Pitch Perfect," described it as almost a “frat-type feel.” “We sing, yeah, and we have rehearsals and concerts and gigs, and we work hard, but that is not even close to being half of what our group is about,” he said. “We’re constantly spending time with each other. We’re brought together by music, but music is not what defines us.”
When a consortium of four Virginia universities began taking shape in 2010, gathering the key players for a meeting was often a scheduling and logistical nightmare. Participants might spend a day on the road for a two-hour planning session at one of the campuses: George Mason University in Fairfax, James Madison University in Harrisonburg, the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. But full-room video conferencing has changed that.
One economist who has studied the liquor industry found Ohio’s increasing sales despite the recession odd. “The work I have done suggest that alcohol sales are pro-cyclical, that means they go up in good times and down in bad times,” said Christopher Ruhm, professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia. “So that would lead me to expect sales to fall during the recent recession.”
"This election reminds me of 2004, when there was a steady, small lead for [President] Bush," says Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "The fundamentals of this race are essentially the same — a polarized electorate, and likely a very close re-election."
(Review) Syllogism: Life is absurd. Theater is part of life. Therefore, theater is absurd. It’s this kind of logic that can be heard discussed with deep and silly seriousness in Eugene Ionesco’s 1959 play “Rhinoceros,” in which an entire French town transforms into a herd of rhinos. The University of Virginia Department of Drama’s take on the play, well directed by Marianne Kubic, opened in the Helms theater on Thursday.
Commentary by James W. Ceaser, professor of politics at the University of Virginia and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
"They served at very different times," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. "It's not like you're comparing apples and oranges, but you're comparing two different varieties of apples."
It’s not all about boosting self-esteem and making children feel good, Stetson stressed, citing the work of Lev Vygotsky, the National Scientific Council Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University and Bridget Hamre and Robert Pianta, researchers at the University of Virginia.
Independent observers like Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics said that Democrats were more likely to see the job numbers as cause for a collective sigh of relief rather than outright jubilation. “Republicans can no longer say that we’ve had 43 straight months of unemployment over 8 percent,” Kondik noted. “This report was a potentially punishing hurdle for Obama, and he’s now past it no worse for wear.”