After a hospital error, two pairs of Colombian identical twins were raised as two pairs of fraternal twins. This is the story of how they found one another — and of what happened next. Virtually wherever researchers have looked, they have found that identical twins’ test results are more similar than those of fraternal twins. The studies point to the influence of genes on almost every aspect of our being (a conclusion so sweeping that it indicates, to some scientists, only that the methodology must be fatally flawed). ‘‘Everything is heritable,’’ says Eric T...
If you were worried the GOP presidential field was going to top out at a measly 17 candidates, never fear: Jim Gilmore is going to be the next Republican to maybe run for the White House. For some reason, Gilmore will wait until the first week of August to make his "formal announcement," the Times-Dispatch reports. University of Virginia political science Professor Larry Sabato predicts that Gilmore's candidacy will be "short or ineffectual."
It’s official: More people are running for a major party’s presidential nomination than ever. Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore said Tuesday that he plans to announce his campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination during the first week of August, making him the 17th candidate on the GOP side. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, noted in a tweet that is a record for the number of presidential candidates for a single political party.
(By Elly Leavitt, a student at the University of Virginia) t’s a stereotype you’re probably all too familiar with: the “spoiled, narcissistic Millennial.” It’s a stereotype is one that people love to toss around — either as a way of dismissing the newer generation or as a way to shift blame for society’s problems onto a new group of people. It is a stereotype reinforced by articles such as the now-famed 2013 TIME story entitled “Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation.” And it is a dangerous stereotype with many holes in its str...
(By Andrew Isaac Burrill, a student at the University of Virginia) With SCOTUS's recent decision to make gay marriage a constitutional right in all states, it obviously became a landmark victory for the gay rights movement for people around the world.
Steve Swanson says he hasn’t yet fully grasped what the U.S. national team accomplished. The United States’ women’s national team wore its traditional colors — white and dark blue — during its undefeated run to the World Cup championship. At no time did the Americans consider changing to University of Virginia navy and orange. But they very easily could have. Three individuals with strong ties to U.Va.’s women’s soccer program played key roles in the Americans’ success: defender Becky Sauerbrunn, who played every minute of every U.S. match; midfi...
Virginia women's soccer coach Steve Swanson is back in his office at UVa, after helping lead the United States national team to the women's World Cup Championship. Swanson was an assistant coach with the national team. He has ties to a lot of the players on the team, but says having former Wahoos Becky Sauerbrunn and Morgan Brian on the team made the championship extra special.
As he arrived at Winnipeg Stadium on June 8, several hours before the United States Women's National Team's World Cup opener with Australia, Virginia women's soccer coach and U.S. assistant Steve Swanson was impressed with what he saw. "I'm very happy for those two," said Swanson of his two former Cavalier pupils, "but I am also very happy because I think the things that I have known and I have seen over the course of my time working with them, I think the whole world now sees. That's a good thing.
(By By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia) The Buzz about Bernie has taken hold on the Democratic side of the 2016 campaign, and it’s easy to see why. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is drawing huge crowds and great poll numbers in the first two states to vote, Iowa and New Hampshire.
Across the nation these days, communities are talking about race — what it has meant in the past, what it means in our lives now and where we go from here. The ARTinstead Festival, to be presented Saturday by Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia, will use workshops, discussions and the pull of art to offer a perspective that’s international, and yet hits close to home.
A new virus in the same family as polio may have caused one of the 100 mystery paralysis cases. The panic that’s resulted from this case study is missing the point: No one has polio. A new case study reported in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases suggests that a different virus may have been responsible for at least one case of virally-induced paralysis. Researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine describe the case of a 6-year-old girl who was admitted to their medical center with weakness of her right arm in fall of last year. When a sample taken ...
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities has received the largest donation to date from an individual to support its award-winning online encyclopedia. Barbara J. Fried, who has chaired VFH’s Board of Directors since July 2014, made the $1 million gift to support Encyclopedia Virginia. Her gift partially endows a critical editorial position for the resource on Virginia history and culture.
The University of Virginia and the U.S. Army have joined forces to address the defense needs of the nation. Together they will tap into resources involving new technology and new research.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of two registered sex offenders cites Indiana's new religious objections law in arguing they've been wrongly prohibited from worshipping at churches that have schools on the same property. Douglas Laycock, a constitutional scholar at the University of Virginia Law School who helped win passage of the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, said he believes the ACLU lawsuit has merit and that making it a crime to attend church services is a major burden on a person's religious practices.
Alon Confino is a professor of history at the University of Virginia and at Ben Gurion University, Israel. Professor Confino received his PhD from Berkley University. He has written extensively and influentially on historical memory, historical method and German history. He has received grants from the Fulbright, Humboldt, DAAD, and Lady Davis foundations, the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University, the Social Science Research Council, the Israel Academy of Sciences, and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
In 1996, the FDA approved the acupuncture needle as a medical device. Ann Gill Taylor, a professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing, says she finds that “practitioners who use acupuncture view the human body as an ecosystem.” Taylor suggests that acupuncture is among the most researched and documented complementary health-enhancing practices.
Communication has always been key to opportunity for the deaf community. But technological advances, which have changed the way everyone communicates, and a growing popularity among college students to learn American Sign Language have removed even more obstacles to the deaf community and the hearing community connecting." Recent technology advances have been very good to bridge gaps between deaf and hearing people," said Christopher Krentz, an English and ASL professor at the University of Virginia, using video-phone technology to speak.
For American soccer fans, the women’s World Cup win was a sweet one. And for soccer fans in the Old Dominion, there was definitely a Virginia feel to the team. Three standouts — Becky Sauerbrunn, Morgan Brian and Ali Krieger — are alumnae of the University of Virginia where each played women’s soccer in the tough ACC. UVa head coach Steve Swanson was a key coaching strategist for the women’s national team, as was former William and Mary player and former UVa assistant coach Jill Ellis.
Amid little fanfare, the University of Virginia has reworked the contract of men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett in a fashion that will make it less tempting to leave Charlottesville.
The University of Virginia has reworked the contract of basketball coach Tony Bennett, complete with a raise and myriad incentives the school hopes will be sufficient in warding off larger programs like Wisconsin.