“The office’s contact with patients revolves around using the Pap as a reason to get the patient in,” said Dr. Mark Stoler, a professor of pathology, cytology and gynecology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. “You’re used to filling your office five days a week with people who are coming in for annual screenings, so that you can also touch base with them on other health issues.”
As the Justice Department probes the police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old in Missouri, history suggests there's no guarantee of a criminal prosecution, let alone a conviction. … But investigations are complicated by the fact that police officers are given latitude in their use of force, including in circumstances where an officer reasonably believed the force was necessary to capture a dangerous fleeing felon or had a good basis to fear his life was in imminent danger, said Rachel Harmon, a University of Virginia law professor and former Justice Department civil rights prosecut...
In “Why Read?”, University of Virginia professor Mark Edmundson discusses the practice of student reviews of a teacher, then writes: “As I read the reviews, I thought of a story I’d heard about a Columbia University instructor who issued a two-part question at the end of his literature course. Part one: What book in the course did you most dislike? Part two: what flaws of intellect or character does that dislike point up in you? The hand that framed those questions may have been slightly heavy. But at least they compelled the students to see intellectual work as a confr...
Other political analysts aren't so sure about Republicans' chances. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, co-authored a piece in Politico arguing that while Republican candidates will likely pick up seats this year, several candidates have "not yet opened up a real polling lead" in key toss-up races.
The race has already become a very negative contest. But Larry Sabato, a political scientist from the University of Virginia, said a negative campaign will not necessarily drive voters away from the polls. “The research on that is mixed,” Sabato said. “Sometimes a highly negative campaign can spur turnout because people feel so strongly about stopping X or Y.”
“Remember, this is a midterm with low turnout,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of the Center for Politics.
... If a majority of North Carolina voters approve the measure, the state will be the last state in the U.S. to allow criminal defendants the choice.Jeffrey Welty, a professor in UNC’s School of Government, released a report on the amendment earlier this month that he co-wrote with Komal K. Patel, a law student at the University of Virginia. The report was designed as a guide to understsanding key aspects of the amendment. Welty said he hadn’t heard of the amendment until recently.
... We welcome the long-overdue effort to bring the issue of sexual assault on college campuses out of the shadows. ... We are confident that, by using the federal suggestions and developing ideas locally, Virginia can be a national leader in sexual violence prevention.
In 2013, the school approved The William and Mary Promise, which guarantees that in-state tuition will remain constant for a student’s four years of undergraduate study. W&M is the only public institution in Virginia that makes that guarantee. Chadwick is paying a total $53,000 a year for his sons, one a senior and the other a sophomore, but he says, at least it’s predictable.“That’s wonderful. I can budget for that,” Chadwick said. And, he’s quick to add, the value of education in the commonwealth is among the best in the country. U.S. News this y...
Cooney and his colleagues -- Daniel Gilbert, also of Harvard, and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia -- wanted to explore the social costs of enviable adventures. ... The results, reported in a forthcoming article in the journal Psychological Science, were clear. The volunteers correctly predicted that lucking into a special opportunity would make them feel good, better than having a more routine experience. But they failed to realize that this unusual experience would leave them feeling worse later on, after mixing with a group of peers. In short, people are not very good at predict...
Last week I wrote about a study that looked at marital quality (essentially a measure of how happy couples were a few years into their marriage) in light of couples’ premarital histories. The report, which tracked 418 young couples in the several years following their marriage, found that certain prenuptial behaviors (like having kids out of wedlock) were associated with lower marital quality. One association the authors identified was particularly unsettling: “the more sexual partners a woman had had before marriage, the less happy she reported her marriage to be.” The...
As for parents who give their kids skim milk due to worries about weight gain, these efforts may actually backfire: A recent study by the University of Virginia School of Medicine actually found that kids who drink 1% or skim milk have higher Body Mass Indexes than those who drink 2% or whole. Researchers theorize this occurs because whole milk provides a greater sense of fullness, so kids don't get hungry and eat more later.
The University of Virginia has topped the Daily Caller's list of best colleges in America.
Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, spoke at the University of Virginia on Tuesday about the increasingly strained relationship between these two countries, along with the hopes of how it can be fixed.
Kislyak spoke to a packed auditorium and took, I think, well over an hour of questions. He spoke frankly, and the questions he was asked by students, professors, and other participants were polite and for the most part far more intelligent than he would have been asked on, for example, Meet the Press.
The Russian ambassador to the United States spoke in front of a packed crowd at Newcomb Hall Tuesday night, defending his country's actions in Crimea and Ukraine.