"This will test whether debates can really change polls and election outcomes," University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato told The Examiner. "Odds are against it, but it is a possibility."
In the case of this skydive, explains the physicist Louis Bloomfield of the University of Virginia, the surrounding atmosphere thickens dramatically as Baumgartner falls, so the upward drag force exerted on him by the air steadily increases.
Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said even though Romney soared and Obama sputtered during their first verbal showdown, the event was largely unmemorable and likely won’t have much lasting impact.
The Phoenix Suns announced officially the additions of Ralph Sampson and Sean Rooks to the team's Player Development Department.
Experts at the University of Virginia are breaking down the first presidential debate between Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama.
The University of Virginia's UScouts group is opening up registration for its second annual Merit Badge University. Boy scouts ages 11 to 18 are invited to a full day of merit badge training, in areas ranging from archery, wilderness survival, photography and cinematography. Participants will work in small groups with university students and professors to earn badges.
Hundreds of backpacks with a message dotted the University of Virginia's Lawn Thursday, and each one told a tragic story. Every year, 1,100 college students commit suicide, and 1,100 backpacks on the Lawn showed students the magnitude of that number.
The Economist, an influential British news magazine, has ranked the University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business Administration the second-best business school in the world.
State education officials are hoping that a new online tool will allow people to better examine how higher education in Virginia affects earnings, but caution that data remains incomplete, making direct comparisons between schools unreliable. George Stovall, director of Institutional Assessment and Studies at the University of Virginia, called the tool a “first step toward useful data.” The data could be very useful, if SCHEV could find a way to add information from graduate school and employers, he wrote.
A University of Virginia student was taken to UVa Medical Center after being hit by an automobile while crossing Emmet Street on Thursday afternoon, according to Charlottesville police.
“My guess is that Romney’s boffo performance – and Obama’s awful one – will move the needle a bit (in Ohio),” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “But how much and for how long? People are so dug in.”
Manassas City Council members spent hours Thursday thinking about the big picture—what makes the city valuable and what needs improvement. Concise answers to those questions were the objective on the first day of a two-day city council retreat, led by University of Virginia Professor A. Tyler St. Clair and City Manager John Budesky.
In a typical year, Professor Edward Hess of U.Va.'s Darden School of Business figures he teaches no more than 300 students in his courses on managing smaller enterprises and the challenges of business growth.
“Obviously, there is a perception among conservatives that Obama and more specifically the EPA are against coal,” said Geoffery Skelley, a political analyst at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
“You may have deep contempt for Romney, but you should have great respect for his intelligence and debating skills,” said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. “And most of all: A couple more performances as poor as Wednesday night’s, and your ex-Presidency is going to start four years earlier than you had planned.”
Edward D. Hess, professor of business administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia.
A national hospital review lists University of Virginia Medical Center as one of the best for female patients. Becker's Hospital Review puts the Charlottesville center on its latest list of "100 Hospitals with Great Women's Health Programs".
Scott Dudley with the University of Virginia Medical Center said, "Pharmacy is always in high demand, laboratories for us continues to be in high demand, certified medical assistants."
"The president is slightly stronger in Virginia, and it has helped Kaine down the ballot," said Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "We've always been a little suspicious that there might be a few Romney-Kaine voters out there, and maybe that's part of this as well."
Tradition says that golfers who make a hole-in-one buy drinks for those in the clubhouse. When he scored the first ace of his life Wednesday at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm, there was no way for recent University of Virginia graduate Ben Kohles to claim he couldn't afford it.