Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center of Politics, has written a 10-point summary of the literature on ballot order effects. Overall, the research suggests that there is an advantage to being the first name printed on the ballot. There’s also an advantage to being the last name on the ballot in a large field, as we have in the GOP presidential primary this year.
Republican front-runner Donald Trump can win the GOP nomination if he continues making shocking statements, builds an effective get-out-the-vote campaign, captures early primary states and convinces his angry working-class supporters to actually show up at the polls, experts told the Herald. Win early. Even if he loses Iowa Feb. 1 to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, he could bounce back quickly with a victory in New Hampshire eight days later, said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia.
(By W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia) It’s a message we hear more and more: Religion is bad. And certainly recent headlines — from terrorist attacks perpetrated by radical Islamists in Paris and San Bernardino to the strange brew of warped Christian fundamentalism that appeared to motivate alleged shooter Robert Dear at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs — feeds the idea that religion is a force for ill in the world. But in “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason,”...
When we think of a person suffering from malnutrition, we typically believe that the solution is more food. However, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine say this may not always be the case. A research group at UVA is working with malnourished children in an urban area of Bangladesh. They say that food alone is not enough. All signs point to a damaged gut as part of the problem.
Scientists don't like to admit it, but they love attention from the media. Stories about their work raise their professional profile, leading to better grants and better jobs. Some scientists had to put their work on the back burner to deal with the media deluge. "It was completely overwhelming, despite having prepared for weeks for it," says Brian Nosek, a psychologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville who led a massive replication of psychological science published in Science in August—No. 5 on Altmetric's list.
Looking at why providing food is not always enough to treat malnutrition in developing countries, researchers have discovered that damage to the gut from an infection can cause malnutrition and vaccine failure. It has been estimated that if every nutritional measure known to be helpful were applied to every child in the world, global malnutrition would be decreased by only a third, the study said. ‘We found that the longer that the child suffered from inflammation, the worse was their nutrition, suggesting that the body's immune response may be the root cause of the problem of malnut...
Ames, Iowa, is the top-ranked college town in the US, according to a new list from American Institute for Economic Research (AIER). The city of roughly 60,000 people earned the top spot thanks to its affordable cost of living and ample employment opportunities in the fields of science and technology. The rankings are calculated using 11 criteria including economic vitality, availability of entertainment, and rent. No. 4 on the list is Charlottesville, Virginia — home of the University of Virginia.
It wasn't that long ago that college meal plans were pretty simple, three meals a day, whatever was being served, inside a dining hall. Now, a new plan that adds culinary options for University of Virginia students and their meal plans could help pump new revenue into restaurants all along the university's Corner district. A dozen restaurants on the Corner are offering menus for the Elevate Meal Plan. It's a startup from two UVA graduates who want to give students more options to get some food beyond campus.
Gift giving "is an expression of truly seeing the other person and knowing what they want," said Allison Pugh, a sociologist at the University of Virginia who studies consumption.
UVA’s JoAnn Pinkerton, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, says she talks about Addyi every day but hasn’t written many prescriptions for it yet.
Denis Nekipelov, an associate professor of economics and computer science at UVA, addresses the skills tech firms want from today’s graduates. The answer is simple and daunting.
Her career culminated as Director of the Innovation Lab (i.Lab) at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, where she mentored dozens of budding entrepreneurs.
Author [and UVA alumna] Jeanne Martinet joins the program to discuss the art of mingling during the holiday season.
Hoos in Recovery, created at the University of Virginia in 2007, is the longest-established program in the state, offering free lunches every Monday to students who may need help. “We’ve had a number of students where that was their first step in recovery,” said Susie Bruce, director of the Gordie Center for Substance Abuse Prevention at UVa.
"[Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell is a party man,” said Kyle Kondik, a campaign analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Dewey Cornell, a professor of education at the University of Virginia and co-author of a 2013 report by the American Psychological Association on predicting and preventing gun violence, said approaches that “do more than just address guns and provide prevention programs, counseling services and threat assessment … that's a very promising development.”
The Virginia Festival of the Book has confirmed three nationally renowned authors for the 2016 program, featuring some of the most essential African American voices of our time.
Following Donald Trump’s call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, Muslim students at the University of Virginia decided to fight Islamophobia through hugs.
Students are preparing for a robotics competition at the University of Virginia and both students and robots are geared up and ready to go.
Judge Barry G. Williams, 53, graduated from the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland School of Law.