Central bank efforts to save the world economy after the 2007-2009 financial crisis were much lauded by pundits these past few years. But now researchers are digging up evidence that some of their actions resulted in significant unintended consequences. Sometimes the results were the opposite of those desired by the policymakers. It happened over the period 2015 to 2017 and the problem was revealed through a recent working paper titled "Central Bank-Driven Mispricing" by researchers at Research Center SAFE - Goethe University Frankfurt and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Stern School of Busi...
Also moving forward are bills to offer reduced tuition to students from the Appalachian region who are enrolled in the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.
Beating its neighbor MIT, Harvard University was once again emerged as the best institution of higher learning in the world, that’s according to the latest Webometrics ranking. The University of Virginia is among the top 500 higher education institutes worldwide, 2019, ranking No. 60.
The Restoration of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia involved the repair of what is often considered Thomas Jefferson's most significant architectural achievement. Despite the 200-year-old building's historical value, it was in dire need of restoration, with a leaky roof and poor quality previous work that needed undoing. John G. Waite Associates worked with multiple specialists to replace its roof with a new copper unit and restored the original exterior metal moldings dating back to the 1890s, among other improvements. The interior was overhauled too, with Jefferson's original finish...
A UVA associate professor and poet is using the power of writing to help cancer patients and survivors.
UVA is offering early admission to fewer out-of-state students and more of those who would be the first in their family to attend college.
Former UVA basketball star Joe Harris’s journey from unemployed castoff to indispensable starter mirrors the rise of the Brooklyn Nets, a team reconstructed through savvy draft picks and second-chance signings.
Trump has an 88 percent approval rating within his own party, and his overall approval rating has never really found a ceiling or a floor outside of its typical 35 to 45 percent range. “Will he lose? Get real,” said Larry Sabato of the UVA Center for Politics. “I can’t believe after 2016 anybody is writing Trump off.”
There's nothing particularly alarming or surprising about Peters' numbers, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball newsletter at the UVA Center for Politics. "He’s not very well-known, but his numbers are decent. It’s not like he’s underwater on favorability," he said.
National forecasters have noted Bevin’s poll numbers were anemic coming into 2019 after a year of battling the teachers’ union over pension reform. The most recent survey, conducted by Morning Consult in January, showed Bevin had a 51 percent disapproval rating, which makes him the least popular governor up for re-election this year. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, said polling can't be given too much weight because Bevin was considered a slight underdog for governor four years ago, according to surveys at the time.
“I’m all for aspirational goals,” he said last week at a University of Virginia Center for Politics conference on President Trump. But, he added, “it’s time we get some realism into the discussion today.” McAuliffe has been on his realistic kick ever since leaving office this year, and he is picking up some support for it. A couple of times during the conference, for example, UVA’s political guru, Larry Sabato, embraced the likelihood of a McAuliffe 2020 campaign.
The economic explanation for white working class malaise only goes so far anyways. University of Virginia researcher Christopher Ruhm finds in a recent study that the rapid rise in drug-related deaths isn’t fully or even mostly explained by worsening economic prospects. Among other things, he points out people suffering prolonged hardship in other first world countries aren’t overdosing at anything like the same rates.
Virginia’s population continues to grow, but at a slower rate than the national average. According to the report from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, Virginia’s population has grown by 6.5 percent since the 2010 Census. While that may sound significant, the state’s annual population growth this decade is actually the lowest it has been since the 1920s.
Unlike most of her Republican colleagues, Chase’s relationship with illegal immigration is complicated. Chase’s district encompasses most of Chesterfield County, which according to demographic researchers at the University of Virginia, has a Hispanic population that’s growing faster than the Hispanic population statewide.
The exhibit features portraits by Charlottesville photographer Tom Cogill and text panels by Emma Edmunds, who is the primary researcher for the project. There is also a video slideshow with footage of Danville during the Civil Rights Movement. The video was gathered from the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia and assembled by Wenn Harold, the museum’s education and technology facilitator. Harold says it's important to give people the chance to learn more about the history of the city.
The University of Virginia on Tuesday night confirmed cases of norovirus among its students. The virus is highly contagious and causes vomiting and diarrhea, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 2016, Charlottesville caught national notice when Entrepreneur magazine named it the fourth-best city in the country for entrepreneurs to live in and launch companies, based partially on the work done by UVA’s W.L. Lyons Brown III Innovation Laboratory. Fast forward to today, and work continues to make the region even more hospitable to area startup hopefuls.
If you want to really understand the State of the Commonwealth, we refer you to the latest population estimates from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. They a much truer picture of what’s really happening.
UVA President James E. Ryan has received more than a thousand suggestions for how to change a 200-year-old institution he describes as an “unfinished project.”
A new state population estimate finds Virginia's population is continuing to grow, though more slowly than the nation. UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service estimate finds that the commonwealth's population has grown by 6.5 percent since the 2010 census, which means the state is now home to more than 8.5 million people in 2018.