Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics says Republican legislatures have been solidly against expanding Medicaid, even though it had some support among Republican governors.
One of the most important systems in the human body is the lymph system, through which immune cells travel to places where they’re needed to fight pathogens. But one crucial part of the body, scientists thought, was cut off from the lymph system: no connection had ever been found between lymph vessels and the brain. Now, UVA scientists have discovered lymph vessels in the brain, along with evidence that these pathways could allow the immune system to control behavior and personality.
Dorrie K. Fontaine – dean of UVA’s School of Nursing, Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing and associate chief nursing officer at UVA Health Systems – is at the forefront of a cutting-edge initiative to find and implement remedies for what ails nurses and doctors.
In “Virginia’s Millennials and the 2016 Election,” published in the UVA Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Virginia News Letter, authors of the article addressed how the state’s millennials could be significant players in this election.
Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, pulled Neilsen ratings for conventions going back to 1960 and compared them to who went on to win. Of the 14 conventions held during this time frame, the ratings winner prevailed at the polls seven times, according to his analysis. "Based on the past results and ratings, there really isn't reason to see convention ratings as predictive of anything," Skelly said.
UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato said Pence doesn’t bring any electoral votes with him, but, looking at recent history, not a single VP nominee from 2000 to 2012 brought any swing states to their party. “We don’t have normal years anymore. He’s a governor. Why not?” Sabato said. “The only unusual part of it is that he was running for re-election.”
The ad hoc tribunal handling the South China Sea arbitration has no legal relationship with the Permanent Court of Arbitration, experts said at the Public International Law Colloquium on Maritime Disputes Settlement held here at the weekend. The ad hoc tribunal is rather an arbitration set up under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Myron Nordquist, professor of the University of Virginia, said Saturday.
While Trump has made some unorthodox to-dos, many of his pledges are fairly conventional. Promises to cut taxes and fight terrorists are the type of promises any politician might make, said Larry Sabato, who directs UVA’s Center for Politics. “But this has been overshadowed by his unusual profile and approach,” Sabato said.
“This speakers list is very different, that’s for sure,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “There are some regular pols on there, and most nominees feature their family, but this is more like a family gathering or a minor celebrity fest or a variety show than a political convention.”
Observers are hopeful there won’t be confrontations anywhere near the level that erupted at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, but any conflict between protesters and police – or between Trump’s supporters and his critics – will bring in viewers. “There’s bound to be some scuffling and some fighting and some tear gas,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “How much of the coverage will be of that? Will the cameras break away from the podium and go to 10,000 people battling with police?”
Steamy love letters. Jazz. Scandal. Psychics. Newspapers. The Hope Diamond. In the newest episode of the Presidential podcast, historian Nicole Hemmer of UVA's Miller Center helps guide us through the wild life and presidency of Warren G. Harding.
UVA political scientist Larry Sabato said parties set up counter-conventions to keep up with the 24-hour news cycle. "You have to respond quickly and thoroughly," he said. "If you don't, it will get away from you. The press will move on to a dozen other things."
Forecasters are nearly unanimous in thinking the race for Iowa’s six electoral votes will be close. Only the Crystal Ball, a well-regarded project of Larry Sabato and the UVA Center for Politics, lists Iowa as “leaning Democratic.”
For meeting national guidelines to provide fast, high-quality stroke care, the UVA Health System’s stroke program received two national awards from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.
UVA researchers showed blocking a key immune molecule in mice turned them less social and made their brains hyperactive.
(By Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History Emeritus) Black lives have always mattered. How they mattered throughout American history, from the first colonial settlements onward, tells us who we are as a people.
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Legal experts widely disagree that Religious Freedom Restoration Acts allow legal discrimination against LGBTQ people. As Douglas Laycock, a UVA law professor who specializes in religious liberty laws, wrote, "There are hardly any cases about discrimination, and nobody has ever won a religious exemption from a discrimination law under a RFRA standard" in the decades this kind of law has existed.
"Despite the heavy focus on Pence and the eventual Democratic running mate, it's good to remember that the vice presidential choice usually makes very little difference in the end," said Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Who would have predicted this year that there was enough anger out there to make real estate mogul turned reality TV star Donald Trump the presumptive 2016 Republican presidential nominee? “The pundits didn’t do any better than the press,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “The political scientists didn’t do any better than the press. We all missed it because it was hard at least at first to take him seriously.”