UVA researchers are working to understand how salmonella knows that it's been ingested and is inside the human body. Their findings suggest that salmonella relies on a chemical to fuel its destructive activity.
Experts say it's not unimaginable that Christie soldiers on, but that it's unlikely, given how little campaign funding remained before the lackluster results and how much his campaign has already endured. "Cruz, Bush, and Rubio aren't far ahead," cautioned Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, but he added that he had "no clue whether Christie has the money to go on."
Following advice to sleep in the same room with their infants – but not in the same bed – does not appear to discourage new mothers from breastfeeding, according to a new study conducted by researchers at UVA, Boston University and Yale University.
UVA graduate students are preserving the past in 3-D. Last summer, Gorham took part in an team excavation project in Sicily. Gorham now spends time in the lab recreating those objects in 3-D.
(A Commentary By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley, at the University of Virginia) Last week, we wrote that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are the favorites to win New Hampshire, and while there have been plenty of fireworks between then and now (Monday afternoon), our overall assessment hasn’t changed. Polling in the New Hampshire primary is often far off the mark — the electorate has a remarkably high number of late-deciders and switchers — but keep this in mind: Trump has appeared strong in New Hampshire for more than half a year. Since mid-July, he has le...
When Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.) announced last month that he would leave Congress at the end of his term, it came as such a shock that Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.) called to ask if he was sick. He wasn’t. Both he and Rep. Robert Hurt (R-Va.) are young (for congressmen), healthy, popular and perched on powerful committees. Both were expected to win reelection easily this fall. Instead, both are stepping down. “Both are by nature civil and reasonable in their approach to legislating. Both went to Washington to get something done,” University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato s...
“In scores of ways, Americans are figuring out how to take advantage of the opportunities of this era, often through bypassing or ignoring the dismal national conversation,” Phillip Zelikow, a professor at the University of Virginia and a director of a recent Markle Foundation initiative called “Rework America,” told me. “There are a lot of more positive narratives out there—but they’re lonely, and disconnected. It would make a difference to join them together, as a chorus that has a melody.”This is the alternative melody we would like to introdu...
Unskilled people have few employment prospects. As a result, there is currently a youth unemployment crisis in this country. The youth unemployment rate is more than triple the overall one and is much higher than that in certain parts of the country. In Washington D.C., whose schools are notoriously bad, the current youth unemployment rate is 30 percent.The value of early-career work experience is well covered. On the flip side, Christopher Ruhm of the University of Virginia and Charles Baum of Middle Tennessee State University conclude that those with early-career work experience — even...
In this video, Sonia Jones, Sonima's founder, sits down with David Germano, Ph.D., a professor of religious studies and the director of the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia, to discuss the school's newest online course on Buddhist meditation in the modern world. The six-week program -- led by Germano and fellow UVA professor Kurtis Schaeffer, Ph.D., author of nine books and co-editor of Sources of Tibetan Tradition, the largest anthology of Tibetan literature in English -- is open to all, not just UVA students, and will be completely free.
Any woman that's used a tampon has likely heard about toxic shock syndrome – but what exactly causes it? And are you at risk? In order to get TSS, four factors must be in place, explains Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, professor of obstetrics & gynecology and director of midlife health at the University of Virginia Health Center. According to Pinkerton, it is very rare that all four factors will occur.
Any changes in air temperature or soil characteristics that happen over hundreds of kilometres on flat ground appear across hundreds of metres in the mountains, making mountain forests more susceptible to small climatic changes. Now, a 3D simulation has shown that temperature changes of less than 2°C are likely to shift the boundaries of the Siberian boreal forest. "We found that if the warming observed during the 1990–2014 time frame continues for the next couple of decades, the forest belts on the southern slopes in Siberia will recede upslope and, depending on the height of t...
There's at least one thing about Tuesday's New Hampshire presidential primary that most political experts agree on: It's crucial for Republican front-runner Donald Trump. "Trump has to win — not ifs, ands, buts about it," said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. "Losing the first two contests after being ahead in all the polls would wound him badly."
(By W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia) When it comes to the health of the Oklahoma economy, virtually all eyes have been on the struggling energy sector. That's because recent declines in oil prices have exacted a toll on Oklahoma's economy. But policymakers, civic leaders and ordinary Sooners shouldn't lose sight of another factor dampening Oklahoma's fortunes: the health of Oklahoma's families.
Hundreds of people danced the night away Saturday at the annual University of Virginia Children's Hospital Gala. Guests enjoyed refreshments, games and a silent auction Saturday evening at Keswick Hall. Money raised from the Gala will support pediatric research at UVA.
The severity of metabolic syndrome -- a cluster of health risk factors such as belly fat and poor cholesterol levels -- among U.S. teens has been improving, and researchers believe that healthier diets may be the reason why. But not all the news from the study was good. Teen obesity levels rose during the 13-year study period. The investigators also found no changes in average physical activity levels. "While we don't know for sure why these improvements occurred, we saw that over time, children have eaten healthier diets, eating fewer calories overall, less carbohydrates and more foo...
Richard C. Schragger of the UVA School of Law writes that the water poisoning scandal in Flint, Michigan, has revealed a lot about our cities.
Lately, the news about children and obesity hasn’t been good. Yet in a study reported in the journal Pediatrics, researchers led by UVA’s Dr. Marc DeBoer found encouraging news about some of these obesity-related health conditions.
Pamela Sutton-Wallace, CEO of the UVA Medical Center, said the Health System is honored to receive the award because it is the community saying they have been good partners, a partnership that they have worked to build over the past few years.
Presidential candidates are wrestling over a basic workforce question: Should employees get paid time off to tend to newborn children, an acute illness or an ailing parents? A study by Charles Baum of Middle Tennessee State University and Christopher Ruhm of UVA found a 15 to 20 percent increase in the likelihood a new mother would return to work in the first year, and a similar rise in her hours and weeks of work, if she received a year’s paid leave after giving birth.
“Rubio did poorly in the critical opening section of the debate, when the pressure was greatest and most people were watching,” UVA politics expert Larry Sabato said. “Any viewer could see he was taken aback and rattled.”