Armando Varricchio, Italy’s ambassador to the United States, spoke to UVA students Wednesday about challenges and opportunities in Europe and here at home.
Armando Varricchio, Italy’s ambassador to the United States, spoke to UVA students Wednesday about challenges and opportunities in Europe and here at home.
Andrew Vollmer, who previously served as deputy general counsel at the S.E.C. and now teaches securities law at the UVA School of Law, said the agency would most likely be concerned by Mr. Katzman’s belief that his agreement with Goldman barred him from talking to regulators. “The S.E.C. sues companies that have what it claims to be over-broad confidentiality terms that prohibit an employee from disclosing misconduct to the S.E.C.,” Mr. Vollmer said.
Polls are showing a tighter than normal race for Virginia's Fifth Congressional District. Larry Sabato, the head of the UVA Center for Politics, said the race "leans Republican" in his Crystal Ball predictions.
Dr. Rafael Saenz, the pharmacy board chairman who serves as pharmacy administrator for the UVA Health System, said some of the applicants had agreements with Virginia Commonwealth University to conduct medical cannabis research. Saenz said he serves as assistant dean for the VCU’s pharmacy school’s satellite campus at UVA but that he was not affiliated with VCU’s cannabis research and felt he could remain “fair and impartial.”
The poll showed Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz holding the support of 49 percent of likely Texas voters, well ahead of the 44 percent supporting Democratic U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke. A September version of the poll had shown the two essentially even. “There’s a structural advantage for Cruz that is amounting to five or six points,” said Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist. “This is not a purple state, this is a blood-red state.”
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the Sabato’s Crystal Ball election forecast at the University of Virginia, says there are many signs turnout will be strong in this election, but warns against thinking that all this absentee voting will automatically help the challenger in the 7th District race. “You’d probably think that it would benefit Spanberger, because it would mean she’s activating new voters and they’re coming to support her, but it’s kind of hard to say,” he says. “It may also be that people are becoming more accustomed to absentee voting.”
School administrators and staff are looking for solutions to hold onto its teachers during a retention summit on Tuesday at the University of Virginia. During Tuesday’s summit, leaders discussed possible solutions, such as raising teacher salaries and increasing the number of supportive positions in schools such as guidance counselors, nurses, and assistant principals.
(Subscription required) UVA President James E. Ryan on Friday announced that students from families with an annual income of less than $80,000 will be able to attend tuition-free. Students whose families make less than $30,000 will have room and board covered as well.
On Tuesday, a daylong summit at the University of Virginia gathered education leaders, policymakers and researchers to discuss teacher retention in Virginia. The summit was hosted by the Office of the Secretary of Education.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is running for re-election to the U.S. Congress, representing Texas’ 18th District. Lee was first elected to the House in 1994 and has been described by the Center for Effective Lawmaking at the University of Virginia as the second-most effective Democratic member of Congress.
Virginia’s 5th, 2nd and 7th congressional districts have been garnering national attention this year due to their competitiveness, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of UVA’s “Sabato’s Crystal Ball.” “They have focused on Virginia in large part, I think, because the state has a lot of competitive House races this year,” he said. “I also believe they are trying to hit some races where there haven’t been public polls otherwise.”
“With the populist movement, the idea began to develop that presidents should have a relationship with the people,” says Sidney Milkis of UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. That idea encouraged presidents both to campaign for themselves and to get out on the road to support other politicians with whom they agreed.
“From the U.S. perspective, these immunities protect our diplomats from exposure to foreign judicial systems and ensure that our president and secretary of state can travel abroad without worrying about facing politically motivated criminal or civil cases,” University of Virginia associate law professor Ashley Deeks wrote last year.
Another study, this one sponsored by The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, stated, “In our sample, only 23 percent of the individuals who got married over the course of the study had had sex solely with the person they married. That minority of men and women reported higher marital quality than those who had had sex with other partners prior to marriage. We further found that the more sexual partners a woman had had before marriage, the less happy she reported her marriage to be.”
James E. Ryan, the new president of the University of Virginia, pledged to waive tuition for students in families whose combined income is less than $80,000 a year during his inauguration.
UVA students got a firsthand lesson on how historians are preserving history at James Madison's Montpelier. On Monday, the School of Architecture hosted a roundtable discussion featuring archaeologists from two presidential estates. It was the first of many in hopes of educating students on how new technology can play a role in uncovering history.
Nearly 70,000 voters statewide cast their ballots on Saturday and Sunday, compared to about 27,000 voters at this point during the 2014 midterm election. “Overall it seems like voter turnout is going to be higher than usual,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. “It’s not surprising to me that the turnout is high because I think the interest is high as well.”
The UVA football team has recorded back-to-back upset wins at Duke and against No. 16 Miami and the ’Hoos control their own destiny in the ACC's Coastal Division. Virginia has a record of 5-2 and is one win away from becoming eligible for a bowl game.
"Democrats have lots of opportunities in the House, but not really the Senate," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of a nonpartisan political newsletter at the UVA Center for Politics. "The House and the Senate always seemed likely to produce somewhat differing outcomes, which complicates a 'blue wave' narrative."