University of Virginia sources for presidential election coverage, including politics professors and experts in election-related fields (implicit bias, voting machines, history, etc.).
Google and a group of publishers announce a $125 million settlement of the publishers' suit, which sought compensation for Google's digitization of copyrighted material without permission of the authors.
Lynn Sanders, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia offers the following take on the Republican Party's nomination of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to become vice president.
The University of Virginia has experts in a variety of disciplines available to talk on various aspects of the effects of hurricanes on people and the environment.
The University of Virginia is a political science powerhouse, home to Larry Sabato's Center for Politics, whose Crystal Ball predictions of the 2006 election results were the most accurate of any prognosticators; the Miller Center of Public Affairs, a national center for the study of the American presidency; and the Sorenson Institute for Political Leadership, hailed as a national model for bipartisan leadership training as explained in the PBS documentary, "Across the Aisle."
Since 2001, researchers at the U.Va.'s Cognitive Aging Laboratory have been testing and tracking hundreds of volunteer participants, ranging in age from the mid-20s to 98 to gain insight to changes in cognition over time, and to possibly discover ways to alleviate or slow the rates of decline. "We will also better understand the processes of cognitive impairment, the declines that may predict eventual Alzheimer's disease or other dementias," says U.Va. Professor of psychology Tim Salthouse.