The Education and Darden schools announced Tuesday a new joint dual-degree program which aims to stimulate education reform.
Republicans increased their majority in the Virginia House of Delegates in Tuesday's election to 66 out of 100 seats, claiming the largest majority in the House's history.
[caption id="attachment_47768" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="University students gathered in Clark Hall last night to discuss plans to build a memorial honoring enslaved laborers.
The University Health System and 27 other participating universities published a study last week about a new, noninvasive prenatal blood test which can detect Down syndrome in a fetus. The test, which was released in 20 metropolitan regions last week, can reduce the need for risky diagnostic procedures which may put the health of the mother and the fetus at risk. The study, published in the journal "Genetics in Medicine," found that a noninvasive method using blood tests may be a safer alternative to the normal screening process, said Glenn Palomaki, a lead researcher on the study and senior research associate in the division of biology and medicine at Brown University.
[caption id="attachment_46765" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="English Prof. Michael Levenson will head the new Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures.
[caption id="attachment_46580" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Smith Aquatic Center received LEED certification Tuesday.
A statewide poll released yesterday by Quinnipiac University showed high approval ratings for Gov. Bob McDonnell along with other Virginia politicians. McDonnell's job approval rating stands at 61 percent with 21 percent disapproval, according to the poll. Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said the University conducts polls for seven states: Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Among those states, "McDonnell's are the best approval ratings that a governor has." McDonnell is not only popular among Republican voters but among Democratic voters as well, Brown said. Kyle Kondik, director of communications at the University Center for Politics, said he does not think the poll results are surprising because McDonnell has enjoyed a comfortable time as governor. The unemployment rate in Virginia is currently 6.1 percent - 3 percent lower than the national rate, according to the Virginia Employment Commission. "A combination of a low unemployment and low controversy, I'd say there are a lot of things going his way," Kondik said. The approval ratings are not only high for McDonnell, but also for four other state officials included in the Quinnipiac poll. U.S.
The job market for political scientists is recovering from the trials of the economic recession, according to a study by the American Political Science Association. "Even during 2009
