For the third time at WakeMed Soccer Park, it came down to penalty kicks for Virginia in the NCAA men’s soccer championship game. UVa had won its last two of its seven titles, in 2009 and 2014, in shootouts here. But the third time was not the charm.
(Commentary by Greg Jackson, 2013 alumnus of UVA’s Creative Writing Program) If the news covered only the proposal and passage of specific legislation – or the proposal and enactment of specific policy – we would have little news, and audience interest would quickly fade. But the work of politicians might become the work of governing. As things are, the job of politicians is to feed the emotional-entertainment industry that we call “news,” which is accomplished by grandstanding and self-promotion.
Denver and Christine Riggleman married in 1989 when they were both 19 years old and moved into her parents’ basement. Three years later, Christine got pregnant. In need of health insurance, Riggleman enlisted in the Air Force. After three years, he won an Air Force Scholarship to attend the University of Virginia. He graduated in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in international affairs.
On Friday, Lincoln Gray, professor of communication sciences and disorders at JMU and adjunct research professor of otolaryngology at the University of Virginia Medical School, spoke during the Graduate School commencement. Gray holds a joint Ph.D. in neuroscience and zoology, and studies hearing in humans and animals.
As a freshman legislator, Rep. Jim Banks, R-3rd, was the second-most effective member of Indiana's U.S. House delegation in 2017-18, according to ratings issued last week by the Center for Effective Lawmaking at the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University. The center scored members of the 115th Congress on 15 metrics related to the importance of their policy proposals and how far those proposals advanced.
Many political analysts believe McConnell is taking the smart and safe route by ending the impeachment drama as fast as possible. That’s because as of now the GOP is united against impeachment. The best way to keep things that way is to avoid possible explosive new disclosures and the political angst that comes with them, according to experts. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, agreed: “They’re stepping all over their own candidates, and that should be a major worry.”
As Brindisi begins his week, he will be the focus of attention on Capitol Hill as one of a handful of vulnerable Democrats who may defect on the impeachment vote. “It makes sense to me that Katko and Brindisi would be two of the more interesting votes on impeachment,” said Kyle Kondik, who analyzes House races at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Arguably, each one has the incentive to vote against their own party.”
“Given Rhode Island’s political culture, there’s a tendency to conclude that the male-dominated government is a result of gender discrimination on the part of voters, donors and even the media,” said Jennifer Lawless, a UVA professor of political science. “The good news is, none of that’s true. Sure, there are sexist voters, sexist donors and sexist reporters. But systematically, when women run for office, they raise just as much money and garner just as many votes as men.”
A new paper from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, titled “Hedge Fund Alpha: Cycle or Sunset?,” has found that risk-adjusted excess returns for hedge funds have averaged -0.8% over the last 10 years. It marked a “strong decline” from the 15-year period preceding the crisis, during which the average hedge fund manager was able to add 3.4% in net risk-adjusted returns. Author Rodney Sullivan, executive director of Darden’s Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management and former vice president of AQR Capital Management, repeated the analysis by focusing just on equity he...
The promise of reparations to atone for historical ties to slavery is new territory in a reckoning at U.S. colleges. Colleges are looking to make amends as they confront modern issues of equality and historical entanglements. At least 56 universities have joined a University of Virginia-led consortium to explore their ties to slavery and share research and strategies.
On Thursday, students at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy helped give out thousands of dollars to community nonprofits.
(Commentary by George Christ, professor of biomedical engineering and orthopedic surgery and director of UVA’s Center for Advanced Biomanufacturing) In America, 53,000 veterans have suffered significant physical injuries from explosions and gunshot wounds. We must confront the reality that we can be far more responsive to the health care needs of both our veterans and our service members in the line of duty.
If Jayakumar Vaidya hadn’t stood up to adversity, it would have trampled him. But he survived. From the slums of Kurla in east Mumbai, he made it to the University of Virginia. He is now a graduate research assistant there, an enviable role even for the privileged.
UVA quarterback Bryce Perkins won the Dudley Award on Sunday night after leading the Cavaliers to the ACC Coastal Division championship and a berth in the Orange Bowl. He won the award, given to the top NCAA Division I college football player in Virginia, for the second consecutive season.
Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Haas of Charlottesville, Virginia, passed away on December 10, 2019. She taught at Piedmont Virginia Community College and then at the University of Virginia where she taught introductory math courses and administered the Math Tutoring Center.
UNC-Chapel Hill's interim chancellor was tapped as its permanent head while the University of North Carolina Board of Governors convened remotely on Friday. Kevin Guskiewicz received a unanimous vote to serve in the permanent role. Guskiewicz earned a Ph.D. in sports medicine from the University of Virginia.
Were Warren to win the nomination, she might be better situated to call out Trump for sexism than Hillary Clinton was because she doesn’t have the baggage of being married to Bill Clinton. “I think she can hit a lot harder,” says Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia.
Democrats would need to find a way to get 20 Senate Republicans to support conviction. Given polls that show Republican voters are still firmly behind the president, experts see Trump’s removal as highly unlikely. “I do not see how in the world you could ever get 20 Republican senators to vote to oust Donald Trump,” University of Virginia analyst Larry Sabato said. “They might as well vote to oust and then announce their resignations, because they won’t be serving for very long once they cast that vote.”
An independent study of Arches in 2018 offered promising, if preliminary, evidence that the approach was working. The program’s participants were approximately half as likely to be convicted of a felony in the two years that followed as similar people on probation who did not participate in the program (though the groups had similar arrest rates). Patrick Tolan, a professor at the University of Virginia and an expert on youth development, wrote in an email that outperforming traditional probation programs “is not a high benchmark to meet,” but that the evaluation suggests that Arches is “a goo...
Margo Smith, director of the University of Virginia's Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, said: "This is a vibrant area of contemporary art that is exploding right now. "When Americans think of Aboriginal art they tend to think of historical artifacts. They are often amazed when they come to a gallery and see such spectacular and relevant contemporary works of art."