In the past, Democrats wrote off tough districts. Two years ago, two-thirds of incumbent Republicans didn’t even face opponents. That’s changed, said Geoffrey Skelley with UVA’s Center for Politics. “Democrats are running in 88 seats, which is many more than they have in the past two gubernatorial cycles,” said Skelley. “I think you have to tie that to the president.”
UVA historian Larry Sabato complained that many of the documents in the latest release were still heavily redacted. He tweeted about a 144-page record, titled “Material Reviewed at CIA headquarters by House Select Committee on Assassinations staff members,” that had writing on only a handful of pages.
Barbara Perry, director of the Center for Presidential Studies at UVA's Miller Center, says Trump has used his dominance to change the traditional relationship between a president and his party.
The late stages of the campaign — in which polls show Lt. Gov. Northam to be a slight favorite — have been dominated by Gillespie’s push on immigration, crime and Confederate statues; and a controversial ad aired by a pro-Northam group showing a Gillespie supporter chasing minority children in a truck. (The ad was meant to evoke the deadly Charlottesville white supremacist rally; it was yanked from the air after the truck terror attack in New York.) “Gillespie has tried to make this a late-’80s, early-’90s style Republican law and order race,” says Kyle Kondik, of UVA’s Center for Politics. “I...
If one party has a strong performance at the top of the ticket, the gubernatorial race, it could help members of that party in any partisan election, according to Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
In 2015, a new approach. Jefferson County Public Schools partnered with the University of Virginia to begin the Compassionate Schools Project, a seven-year undertaking that will measure whether dedicating 100 minutes of class time per week to “mindful” lessons will help students grow into kinder, more focused – maybe even smarter – kids.
The packed Virginia Film Festival schedule offers all kinds of events for filmgoers to choose from – panel discussions, special events and screenings of more than 150 films.
An accelerated masters program at UVA is paving the way for veterans looking to advance their careers. This group meets every other week for a year and offers students a master's degree in systems engineering.
Jacquelin Alcius co-founded a business accelerator and incubator in the city of Cap-Haitien, Haiti, soon after the country was left devastated by an earthquake in 2010. Alcius is one of 10 young entrepreneurs from Latin American and Caribbean nations who were placed at Charlottesville-area businesses and nonprofits this fall through the U.S. Department of State’s Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative. Charlottesville’s YLAI Professional Fellows were hosted by the Presidential Precinct, a collaboration between UVA, the College of William & Mary and four presidential estates – Thomas Jeff...
On Saturday, people from all backgrounds came together at UVA to celebrate Culture Fest 2017. The event showcased diversity at the University.
Cadets and midshipman at UVA are preparing to honor service members who went missing in action or are prisoners of war. The students are hosting a 24-hour vigil starting Monday at McIntire Amphitheatre.
In 1863, when the U.S. War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops, James T.S. Taylor became one of about 240 African-Americans from Albemarle County to join the Union Army in the Civil War. During Reconstruction, Taylor went on to be a county delegate at the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868. The Charlottesville City Council on Monday plans to honor Taylor for his service 150 years ago to the state and the country. According to a recent study by UVA’s John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, Taylor was one of at least 240 black men from Albemarle who fought for the U...
With less than two days left until election day, Sen. Mark Warner and Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez stopped at UVA in an effort to get out the vote Sunday night. Warner and Perez spoke on the Lawn at UVA to encourage millennials to vote and to campaign for Ralph Northam.
With the election for Virginia’s governor just two days away, UVA students are working to get out the vote. On Sunday, Democratic Party leaders rallied volunteers in Charlottesville to explain why this election is historic.
The new center is being led by Derrick Alridge, a professor in UVA’s Curry School of Education. Alridge also is the director of “Teachers in the Movement,” an oral history project that explores the ideas and pedagogy of teachers during the civil rights movement.
Derrick Alridge said that hearing the toll of activism on educators during civil rights struggles informs his own teaching and research at UVA’s Curry School of Education, and provided the impetus for UVA’s recently opened Center on Race, Education and the South.
New UVA athletic director Carla Williams has made her first hire, picking a department deputy familiar to both her and the University. Former UVA administrator Jim Booz, who has spent the past six years with Williams at Georgia, will become the Cavaliers’ deputy athletics director for administration in December, the school announced Monday.
“We think within a three-year period, someone could develop an improved, better-engineered, all-purpose helmet. We don’t say engineering is a panacea and will solve everything. It’s a systemic approach,” says Dr. Jeff Crandall, director of UVA’s Center for Applied Biomechanics and chairman of the NFL Engineering Committee.
Larry Sabato is weighing in on the close gubernatorial election for Virginia.
A controversial TV ad targeting Republican Ed Gillespie has been pulled off the air a day after it began running. The commercial was paid for by the Latino Victory Fund, an independent group supporting Democrat Ralph Northam’s bid to be Virginia’s next governor. “It certainly provoked a pretty loud response from the right,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Republicans were very angry with it.” Skelley added that Gillespie’s campaign has run equally negative ads against Northam.