Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine has made the short list of potential vice president picks for Hillary Clinton. The UVA Center for Politics says picking Kaine as her running mate might give Clinton Virginia on Election Day. "It would be a really good way for Clinton to almost certainly lock up Virginia," explained Geoffrey Skelley of the Center for Politics.
Heading into the convention, Trump's favorability numbers made him the most unpopular presumptive presidential nominee in the history of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. While there have been highly polarized party conventions before, this one is definitely much worse than usual, according to Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Dr. Jose Gurrola II, a doctor at the UVA Health System, has been using 3-D-printed skulls at his otolaryngology clinic to teach students how to perform a nasal endoscopy: inserting a camera with a long scope down a patient’s nasal cavity.
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a hot topic for the area as people debate the safety, need and effects of a new natural gas pipeline in the area. Which is why the University of Virginia and James Madison University are teaming up and tapping into what people think about the situation.
Head football coach Bronco Mendenhall blew into Charlottesville with his own vernacular, talking of creating a culture of “earned, not given” and of building “will before skill.” He said he’s been surprised by how quickly his team has increased its “work capacity” and embraced his way of doing things.
Once they get a taste, little kids may obsess about any given thing, such as Thomas the Tank Engine, dinosaurs or princesses. "In some cases, [an intense interest] is just enjoyable. It's [just] something they like," said Judy DeLoache, a UVA professor of psychology. "It's perfectly normal. There isn't anything weird about it."
Richard Nixon’s secret White House tapes, archived and analyzed at UVA’s Miller Center, offer new insights into his fraught relationship with his vice president, Spiro Agnew. But more than that, they capture a moment in the new executive vice presidency that shows just how much the office has changed – and that help better evaluate Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s running-mate decisions.
Another potential candidate in the race, Prince William County Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart, hasn’t raised any money yet, which leads Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics to say he’ll have a hard time making the case that he has the resources to mount a strong campaign.
(Co-written by Janet Herman, a UVA professor of environmental sciences) Some characteristics of limestone aquifers, in contrast to porous media, make them particularly susceptible to contamination. Sinking streams and sinkholes provide a rapid route for unfiltered contaminants from the land surface to the underlying aquifer. This characteristic, along with swift groundwater flow in conduits that have been widened by mineral dissolution (karst aquifers) and difficulty characterizing and monitoring the highly heterogeneous karst subsurface, contributes to an elevated risk for degradation of wate...
Newly discovered immune vessels in the brain appear to control social behavior, a finding that could have future implications for neurological disorders such as autism, say U.S. scientists. The discovery debunked the belief that the immune system is external to the brain. Further research by UVA scientists has found these immune vessels controlled social behavior in mice.
Along with otolaryngology resident Dr. Robert Reed and design lab engineer Dwight Dart of the UVA School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Rapid Prototyping Lab, Dr. Gurrola has created 3D printed skulls that allow procedures such as endoscopy to be practiced and perfected before residents ever have to perform them on a patient.
(By Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball newsletter, produced by UVA’s Center for Politics) Now that the conventions are upon us, recent history suggests that both major-party presidential candidates will, or at least should, narrow their travel.
Schools and colleges spend billions of tuition and tax dollars on digital teaching tools and other educational-technology products, yet they rarely demand rigorous evidence that those products are effective. "It’s a circle of gridlock," says Bart Epstein, chief executive of Jefferson Education at the University of Virginia, which has begun a project aimed at cutting through the excuses and breaking open that logjam.
McAuliffe argues he has the power under the Virginia Constitution to restore voting rights to felons who have fulfilled their debt to society, and UVA Law School professor A.E. Dick Howard, whom McAuliffe calls "Virginia's foremost constitutional scholar" in the state, came to a similar conclusion.
UVA political scientist Larry Sabato doubts that Christie’s call to arms will convert anti-Trump Republicans into supporters or draw fence-sitters into the Trump camp. Despite polls showing Trump closing the gap against Clinton, Sabato believes most voters have already made up their minds. “The establishment donors, and party machinery, is just not going to be there for him,” he said.
Not feeling very social these days? Your immune system could be the culprit, according to a new study that might change the way doctors diagnose and treat conditions such as schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders. For the study, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the University of Virginia tracked an immune system molecule called interferon gamma in lab mice to see how it affected their social responses to one another.
Do you really know the racial make-up of your community? Here’s a “racial dot map,” an interesting tool developed by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Using data from the 2010 census, the project placed 308,745,538 dots – one for each person in the U.S. – and colored each by race and ethnicity.
A study in Nature by a joint team of researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the University of Massachusetts Medical School presents evidence that the immune system can produce what one might call a "social molecule" that promotes interactivity with others. This suggests that some cases of social dysfunctionality may be linked to problems in the immune system.
Charlottesville's "Signature Yearbook Camp" is underway. One of only four offered in the country, it allows students to learn about design, photography and the latest trends. The camp is a partnership between Herff Jones, Varsity Brand and UVA.