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.
Founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819, No. 2-ranked UVA is a public research university dedicated to developing the next generation of leaders. UVA is a good choice because it offers a strong education at a reasonable price, making it a great value for your money.
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.”
Most government investigations into potential wrongdoing at large, publicly traded companies are resolved with agreements that involve fines but no criminal charges, said Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor who has studied corporate prosecutions.
(Commentary By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics) Our own sources in and around Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana have told us what everyone else has been reporting: He appears to be Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick.
Many website-related hacks use malvertising, a hacking technique that takes advantage of ad delivery networks and leverages vulnerabilities on client machines such as bugs in Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. A team from software security firm GrammaTech and UVA are developing an AI-powered task master that can determine which parts of software are more likely to have security bugs and optimize computation resources to analyze those sections.
A team of scientists based at the UVA Health System established just a year ago that meningeal vessels directly link the brain with the lymphatic system. Following up on this discovery, which opened the door for entirely new ways of thinking about how the brain and the immune system interact, the UVA researchers investigated how meningeal immunity could influence behavior.
A study published last year by UVA’s Center for Politics showed a high correlation between presidential and Senate results historically. In 2012, the correlation was 0.78; a perfect correlation is 1.
Correspondence between Martha Washington and her sister, Nancy, reveals that America’s founding mother was acutely aware of her husband’s work. “It speaks volumes about their relationship,” says Lynn Price, assistant editor of the Washington Papers project at UVA, which has published comprehensive editions of the first president’s letters.
According to UVA Career Services, 97 percent of graduates from the UVA’s Darden School of Business have jobs right now. Placement is also high for students in architecture, nursing, and teaching.
It is a pool of money, an investment reserve fund – substantial, to be sure – subject to public audit and a public process for its use. It is entirely open and transparent. It will help protect UVA’s future from the vagaries of legislative whim. Less than 5 percent of the fund may be drawn down and allocated each year.
“Studying sex differences is too important to just tack on to every other research project,” says Douglas Fields, a neuroscientist in Bethesda, Maryland. Fields thinks that requiring all researchers to simultaneously study sex differences and their original scientific question will be quite costly, requiring more time and more animals. And it might not even work. Ani Manichaikul agrees with Fields’ first point. “If there is a difference, you’ll only find it by analyzing the two sexes separately. It’s basically asking researchers to double their sample size,&...
Some are simply uncomfortable saying racism still exists, Doug Meyer said. Meyer, a UVA professor who’s written about racism against queer people, said “all lives matter” is a part of bigger conversation about how some think “talking about race is a form of racism.”
UVA nurses are helping health professionals become better prepared to save a life by taking part in a mock code training course at UVA’s Life Support Learning Center. The session shows nurses how to run their own mock code so that they can teach other hospital employees how to do the same.