Ohio is one of only a handful of states that has never elected a female senator or governor, noted Kyle Kondik, with the UVA’s Center for Politics. “I do think it’s reasonable to wonder, given that and Hillary Clinton’s historically poor performance in the state (in 2016), how comfortable Ohio is electing a woman statewide, to a big statewide office,” Kondik said.
On a Sunday panel show, a Russian politician said U.S. “intelligence missed it when Russian intelligence stole the president of the United States.” The focus of the episode was the decline of U.S. power in the world. In that context, said UVA professor Allen Lynch via email, Nikonov was less stating the extent of Russia's involvement in the 2016 election as mocking the resulting chaos as emblematic of U.S. weakness.
In 2006, UVA researchers turned on the lights in the cages of lab mice six hours earlier than normal once a week for eight weeks, preventing them from resetting their clocks. In terms of light-cue changes, it was as if they’d flown from New York to Paris once a week. The result: Younger rodents got sick and displayed mentally unstable behavior; 53 percent of the older mice just dropped dead.
Dr. Cornel West, a civil rights activist, returned to Charlottesville on Friday after the violence on Aug. 12. This time, he spoke in front of a large crowd at the University of Virginia to talk about race relations.
Besieged by a barrage of hate incidents and propaganda efforts by white supremacists, colleges and universities must lead authentic discussions about troubling aspects of the nation’s racial past in order to secure a better future. Teresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, listed a series of steps her institution has taken to acknowledge the fact that it was “built by the hands of enslaved labor.”
It’s been said that Hillary Clinton lost the election due to sexism and an FBI director’s comments. In a new book, veteran reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes point the finger at the candidate and her failure to connect with fans of Bernie Sanders. The two spoke last week at UVA’s Miller Center; the book is called “Shattered.”
Every year, dozens of University of Virginia MBA candidates – many destined to work for consulting firms on Wall Street or in Washington – help businesses in the Charlottesville area with marketing research and advice.
Group mentoring, in which multiple adults and youth come together either formally or informally, may be a useful model for more after-school programs. One example is the UVA-based Young Women Leaders Program.
(Commentary by Siva Vaidhyanathan, UVA professor of media studies) One thing is clear: Facebook has contributed to, and profited from, the erosion of democratic norms in the United States and elsewhere.
"Chinantec whistled speech is a form of communication where people can really whistle whatever they can say in the spoken language, even though there's more ambiguity in the whistled channel," explains Mark Sicoli, a UVA linguistics professor, noting that the presence and absence of glottal stops, tones and stress patterns make it a particularly productive form of communication.
A recent study by a UVA professor and consultant at the Campbell-Hill Aviation Group cited by the Times found that customers who fly a route also served by a nonstop Southwest flight save an average of $45 each way. When Southwest provides only connecting flights, customers save an average of $17 each way.
Like many rural areas, Southwest Virginia is seeing many of its young adults move away. The GO Virginia report for the region cites a declining labor pool as the biggest obstacle to building a new economy. Demographers at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service compute that even if no one moved out, the population in the coalfields will still decline, at a rate of 1,300 to 1,800 people a year.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe is reaching out to students across the commonwealth to find new ways to get young people involved in local governance. The governor's Millennial Civic Engagement Task Force met with UVA students Thursday to get their ideas.
There is one main reason to do atomic physics in space. "It's all about getting away from gravity," UVA physicist Charles Sackett said.
With the hope of allowing the old and young to benefit from one another, Davidson and her staff set out to find similar care facilities, as well as research that supported their goals. They quickly found Dr. Shannon Jarrott’s research, and went to visit her program at the University of Virginia, where she had started a program with similar initiatives.
UVA students proposed solutions for tackling college voter registration and civic engagement at a Thursday meeting of Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s Millennial Civic Engagement Task Force.
The Dave Matthews Band announced Wednesday that it will host “An Evening of Music and Unity” for Charlottesville on Sept. 24 at the University of Virginia’s Scott Stadium to benefit victims and respond to the fallout of last month’s white supremacist rally in the city.
Some UVA students are rallying following President Trump's decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy.
The Dave Matthews Band is reuniting to honor its roots and help Charlottesville to heal after last month’s violence in the Virginia college town.
The Tom Tom Founders Festival is recognizing nine people who have shaped Charlottesville through their leadership in business, education and community service. The 2017 recipients include Larry J. Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.