The climb is significant for Democrats: Part of the district covers Franklin County, home of Columbus, but it also extends into Licking, Morrow, and Delaware counties – which never, ever vote for Democrats. “None of them have voted Democratic for president since at least 1964, and Delaware hasn’t voted Democratic since 1916, the longest Republican-voting streak of any county in Ohio,” Kyle Kondik at UVA’s Center for Politics, who wrote a book on the state’s politics, noted last month.
Only 26 CEOs faced prosecution in 306 cases studied by Brandon Garrett, professor at the UVA School of Law, of companies striking deals with prosecutors on criminal charges. “The corporation appears to be a kind of scapegoat … capable of receiving the brunt of blame and punishment while the individual culprits go free,” Garrett wrote.
Only 26 CEOs faced prosecution in 306 cases studied by Brandon Garrett, professor at the UVA School of Law, of companies striking deals with prosecutors on criminal charges. “The corporation appears to be a kind of scapegoat … capable of receiving the brunt of blame and punishment while the individual culprits go free,” Garrett wrote.
Professional race car driver Quin Houff is on a mission to help find a cure for cancer. The 20-year-old racer from Weyer's Cave was at the UVA Children’s Hospital on Thursday to bring joy to some young fans battling the disease.
When Peter Coughlin was in his sophomore year at James Madison University, he was besieged by a strange and unsettling illness. When he finally went to the hospital in 2016, the doctor tested him for all the usual allergies and was flummoxed by the lack of results. She gave him a strong antihistamine and an EpiPen and sent him home. Frustrated, Coughlin started researching. He found similarities between his symptoms and documented cases of something called alpha-gal allergy. A major study on the allergic reaction had been done right across the Blue Ridge Mountains at UVA.
In a 2013 report from UVA’s National Marriage Project – aptly titled "Knot Yet: The Benefits and Cost of Delayed Marriage in America" – research revealed that the average age at which women get married has hit an all-time high at 27 (29 for men), a number that was only expected to increase in the coming years.
The superintendent for Henry County’s public schools has been honored with a national award. Dr. Jared Cotton received the University Council for Educational Administration Excellence in Educational Leadership Award from UVA’s Curry School of Education on Thursday.
Southwest's presence tends to stir fears about lower airfares. In what's been dubbed the "Southwest Effect," in markets where the airline has nonstop service, its fares are $45 lower than in cities without those routes, a UVA study found.
UVA football recently revealed new uniform designs on its Twitter feed. The Nike jerseys reveal only white pants, bold white helmets with orange and blue patterns, as well as bold orange, white and blue jersey tops.
Sometimes good things come out of bad experiences. That may be the case for three UVA students who plan to spend their summer sharing skills with people who want to start charities, businesses or not-for-profits.
J. Gordon Hylton, a University of Virginia legal historian, property rights expert and sports fan, died Wednesday at the age of 65. Hylton was one of the first graduates from UVA’s J.D.-M.A. program, according to a news release from the University, finishing his law degree in 1977. After being disappointed in the lackadaisical intramural softball league, he and another law student founded the popular North Grounds Softball League.
Virginia men’s lacrosse midfielder Matt Moore has been named the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Freshman of the Year, an honor voted on by the league’s five head coaches. He is the 13th Cavalier to be named the ACC’s top freshman.
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring estimated Wednesday that 1.7 million Virginians may have had their personal information exposed to an outside firm harvesting data for the successful political campaign of President Donald Trump. His announcement came the same day that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that harvested the information collected through Facebook, announced it would cease most operations and file for bankruptcy. Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Wednesday, "I don't think there are any tears being shed over the death of Cambridge Analytic...
A SurveyUSA poll last week showed former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa closing the distance behind fellow Democrat Lt. Gavin Newsom. Meanwhile, a Berkeley IGS poll indicated Villaraigosa falling behind not just Republican businessman John Cox, as he has in some past surveys, but also Republican Assemblyman Travis Allen. But Geoffrey Skelley of the UVA Center for Politics says it’s important to take any individual poll with a heavy grain of salt, particularly in a primary election featuring many candidates and a high level of undecided voters.
As UVA’s Timothy Wilson has argued, our brains are not equipped to handle the 11-plus million bits of information arriving at any given moment. The buzzing and popping triggers a brain-body response called “fight-flight-freeze,” releasing stress hormones that compromise our judgment, communication and memory. We can become more reactive, impulsive or avoidant (to make it stop). We experience greater boundary creep, making us feel like we have less time than we actually do. And, as we know, time is a scarce and sacred resource – especially as Election Day nears.
A senior from Charlottesville High School has been selected for a highly selective scholarship to UVA. Jonah Weissman has won one of 36 Jefferson Scholarships from the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.
For much of her adult life, curator Molly Schwartzburg has had a thing for editorial cartoonist Patrick Oliphant. So she was thrilled to learn that Oliphant, a resident of Santa Fe, was planning to send more than 6,000 drawings, sketch books and scrap books to UVA, where students of history, art and politics will be able to study his unique take on America from the mid- ’60s to 2015. Alas, Schwartzburg says, that’s when he retired.
William & Mary got to keep that 34 percent of out-of-state population it had when the rate was frozen back in 2004. Since that time, it’s been able to add more out-of-state students by adding more in-state students, which allows it to keep the balance without violating the law. Thirty-one percent of UVA students are from out-of-state. At Virginia Tech, it’s 29 percent. All those out-of-state students at UVA and William & Mary aren’t necessarily a bad thing, says Peter Blake, director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.
Jonah Weissman, a senior at Charlottesville High School, has been awarded one of the most highly selective merit scholarships in the nation. The Jefferson Scholars Foundation at UVA selected Jonah as one of 36 recipients of the Jefferson Scholarship.
Even headless fish have been known to 'come back to life' when you least expect it. As strange as this might seem, it can be explained by science, according to Charles Grisham, a UVA chemistry professor.