Below is a video of Dr. Bruce Greyson speaking at a conference that was held by the United Nations. He is considered to be one of the fathers of near-death studies, and is a professor emeritus of psychiatry and neurobehavioral science at UVA. In the video he describes documented cases of individuals who were clinically dead, but observing everything that was happening to them on the medical table below at the same time.
“Both houses are doable for Democrats. But the Senate is obviously much easier for them, and even that isn't a slam-dunk,” said Larry Sabato, an election analyst at UVA. “In both cases, the prerequisite is a large Clinton victory margin.”
Larry Sabato, the UVA political scientist, doesn't "see how you can understand what's really going on without reading them each morning. Maybe less has changed in the political media world than we've all thought."
It's especially difficult to project turnout this year, said Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, the UVA Center for Politics’ newsletter on campaigns. Polls show Americans are watching the race more closely than previous ones, but are also more turned off by what they see, he said.It's especially difficult to project turnout this year, said Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, the UVA Center for Politics’ newsletter on campaigns. Polls show Americans are watching the race more closely than previous ones, but are also ...
UVA’s Miller Center found that by 2024, Medicaid’s share of the total state spending would be 14.3 percent, up from 11 percent in the 2013 fiscal year.
A popular UVA tradition is back Saturday, just in time for Homecoming Weekend, and it’s stacking up plenty of intergenerational appeal. The 13th annual Pancakes for Parkinson’s event will serve up fresh pancakes from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday on the UVA Lawn. The flapjacks are free, and all donations will go to the Michael J. Fox Foundation to help raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease and support research to find a cure.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded more than $14 million to institutions including UVA to fund innovative approaches to combat antibiotic resistance, including research on the use of microbiomes – naturally occurring microbes in the human body – to predict and prevent infections caused by drug-resistant organisms.
The “Free Speech on Campus” symposium kicked off Thursday at the UVA School of Law. The two-day event, created by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, focuses on issues of free speech surrounding colleges and universities, and tackles tough topics, such as preserving open spaces and protecting all types of free speech.
Community leaders from all over Central Virginia are gathering to sign off on new protocols for dealing with sexual assault that center around getting law enforcement involved faster in the aftermath of reported sexual assaults. The document will encompass the city of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia, among others.
Among the 100 newly funded projects are a joint effort at the University of West Virginia and University of Virginia to make a wearable positron emission tomography brain scanner – a device that can be used for monitoring a person’s brain function and their overall health.
Local Food Hub will host a community-wide celebration of the 2016 Community Food Awards on Thursday. UVA’s Greens to Grounds will receive an award for making local foods more accessible to students and developing a culture of healthy eating on Grounds.
Over at UVA’s Rapid Prototyping Lab, students are scanning, modeling and 3-D printing Greek vases. UVA Art History professor Tyler Jo Smith and graduate student Greg Lewis have teamed up with digital resources coordinator Leah Stearns and collections manager Jean Lancaster of The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA. The real value of printing out Greek ceramics is pointed out at the end of the article: “Unlike the original, students pick up, handle and measure the replicas as often as they wish, creating a tactile learning experience not often found in the study of ancient art.&r...
On Thursday, nearly a dozen agencies came together to sign a new memorandum of understanding for the Charlottesville-Albemarle Sexual Assault Response Team, which now includes the University of Virginia. The new agreement is the first in Virginia to include a local university after a change in law on July 1.
Accumulating evidence suggests that economic growth actually kills people. Christopher Ruhm, a UVA economics professor, was one of the first to notice this paradox. In a 2000 paper, he showed that when the American economy is on an upswing, people suffer more medical problems and die faster; when the economy falters, people tend to live longer.
A panel of university presidents, past and present, talked about the future of higher education at a discussion at UVA’s Curry School of Education on Thursday. Online education, affordability and state funding were all topics of discussion.
Congressional race analyst Kyle Kondik, who works for UVA’s Center for Politics, said that Republicans also have to worry that Trump's own war against the GOP could also have down-ballot effects. "That would be a real problem if voters took him up on that," Kondik said.
“Donald Trump’s candidacy is a slap in the face to what was called the ‘autopsy report,’” says Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst with UVA’s Center for Politics. “When he declared his candidacy, he talked about Mexican rapists and has made additional comments since then that can only push away Latino voters, which is really at odds with what the Republican Party said it needed to do to win elections after it lost in 2012.”
Powel, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus , has been anything but Democratic – just four years ago, it voted for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by 23 points. But it's a county to keep an eye on during election night. It's the fastest-growing county in the state, yet it was Trump's worst county in the Republican primary, meaning results here could give an indication of how the night unfolds, wrote Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics and author of “The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President.”
(Co-written by Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at UVA) Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton added an important detail to her family agenda this week, outlining a plan to double the child tax credit for families with children 4 and under from $1,000 to $2,000. This new offering comes on the heels of an earlier campaign rollout of a plan to make child care more affordable by capping families’ expenditures on child care at 10 percent of their income, with no commitment to extending similar support to families with a stay-at-home parent.
UVA’s College Republicans chapter voted to rescind its Trump endorsement. A number of other College Republican affiliates have also backed away, agreeing to write in candidates or vote their "conscience."