The general election contest, considered even a year ago, is projected as swinging toward Murphy, according to the Rothenberg Political Report and prominent analyst Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
By Edward D. Hess, a professor at the Darden School of BusinessCreating a “big new” or a “big different” for your business requires innovative thinking, and innovative thinking requires the right kind of organizational environment. That is why innovation is so hard.
A new survey shows that students and teachers feel safe in high schools around Virginia. A team at the University of Virginia surveyed more than 48,000 students and found the overall picture was a positive one. More than 13,000 teachers in more than 300 schools in Virginia were also surveyed.
TUSD also will be participating in a leadership program out of the University of Virginia. Sanchez says it will be implemented at six schools. "Imagine a menu of best practices. And University of Virginia works with us to identify on a campus---out of that menu--which items would best serve the needs of that campus. And so it's years of best practice compiled. I think they're in version 11. So they've done this 11 different cohorts across the United States. So we're getting the benefit of other successes," Sanchez says.
Researchers from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville were interested in identifying independent risk factors associated with inappropriate, empiric antimicrobial therapy for the treatment of severe sepsis. Their retrospective analysis of a prospectively maintained database of all surgical/trauma patients admitted to a tertiary care center appears in the July 2014 issue of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. The investigators analyzed data from 1996 to 2007, looking patients who developed postsurgical sepsis and they identified 2,855 patients who experienced 7,158 infections...
This week, the University of Virginia’s nursing school will begin an ambitious educational effort -- training more than four dozen nurses in how to talk about death with patients and their families and how to provide comfortable care to people who are dying. You might expect nurses to be experts on the end of life, but UVA’s Associate Dean of Nursing Ken White, says that’s not always the case. He’s been studying what nurses know for more than a decade.
Call it career creep: The M.B.A. job hunt now begins in earnest well before students even arrive on campus for orientation. Heck, it starts before they even make it to pre-orientation hiking trips and math camps. ...This year University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business plans to conduct “career kickoff” meetings—45-60 minute advising sessions covering the job-search process and available resources—with two-thirds of its incoming first-year class by the end of the week. That school’s new-student orientation begins Aug. 18.
James S. Brady, the often-irreverent press secretary to President Ronald Reagan who was shot in the head during an assassination attempt on his boss in 1981 and who became an enduring symbol of the fight against unfettered access to guns in American society, died Monday at a retirement community in Alexandria, Va. He was 73. ... “Criminals who use guns typically do not buy them from a gun store or a gun dealer. They get them on the black market,” Cook, one of the foremost authorities on gun control, said in a speech at the University of Virginia law school at the time the study was...
Reprinted from “Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate” by Ken Hughes by permission of the University of Virginia Press.... Since 2000 I have studied the White House tapes as part of the Presidential Recordings Program founded by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. These years of research have convinced me that the origins of Watergate extend deeper than we previous knew to encompass a crime committed to elect Nixon president in the first place. Chasing Shadows tells the story of that crime and its role in the unmaking of ...
“I think the Affordable Care Act to a large degree is already kind of baked into the cake politically,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a political tipsheet published by the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Most voters who are going to be moved by the Affordable Care Act have probably already been moved.”
"The most recent research suggests that serial cohabitators, couples with differing levels of commitment and those who use cohabitation as a test are most at risk for poor relationship quality and eventual relationship dissolution," Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia, said in a New York Times op-ed.
When I watched Eric Holder, Mr. Obama's Attorney General, glibly skim over the issue of the steep increase in mass incarceration of black and brown Americans over the last three decades, as he was being interviewed by Douglas A. Blackmon on a PBS rebroadcast from the University of Virginia's Miller Center, it got me to thinking about the problem Mr. Blackmon (a white Mississippi Wall Street Journal Reporter, who authored the incredibly well-researched Pulitzer Prize winning book "Slavery by Another Name"), had spend most of his adult life trying to get his hands around. ... W...
... Pure and simple, Collier "was a bum," said Michael F. Holt, professor emeritus of American history at the University of Virginia and author of "The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party," a definitive history of that party that was prominent in mid-19th century politics before breaking apart over the issue of slavery.
... But the calls have become standard in American politics. “It’s not new. If you go back and look at every president since FDR, there [have been] calls for impeachment,” said Sidney Milkis, a political science professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
There are about a half dozen Ebola drugs and vaccines in development, several of which have received funding from the U.S. One drug developed by the U.S. Army has shown promising results when tested in monkeys. “We think this may work because of the animal models but until you do the studies in humans, you just don’t know,” said Fred Hayden, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Virginia, who was not involved in the research.
The new findings do suggest some video game play might be beneficial, said Patrick Tolan, a professor of education and psychiatry and director of the Youth-Nex Center for Positive Youth Development at the University of Virginia. “That said, kids playing video games may not be as physically active as others and may not be as engaged as they would be when they talk to someone in person,” Tolan added.
"If it's got sharp edges or if it’s thin it’s going to cause some trouble," Dr. Louis Bloomfield, a professor of physics at the University of Virginia, told The Huffington Post. "The sharp edges are likely to shoot sparks, and if it’s thin, it’s likely to get very hot."
“While some of these students may eventually return to college, our research to date suggests that students from low-income backgrounds are disproportionately less likely to do so,” said Lindsay Page, a research assistant professor of education at the University of Pittsburgh, and Benjamin Castleman, an assistant professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia, in a statement to Diverse. Page and Castleman are co-authors of “Summer Melt: Supporting Low-Income Students Through the Transition to College,” which is slated to be released this Septembe...
“Any entity with a buffer zone law is probably looking at it and thinking about whether they need to tweak it — whether that means showing it’s necessary or modifying the law,” said Leslie Kendrick, a University of Virginia law professor and First Amendment expert.
Watergate remains the gold standard for political scandals, said Ken Hughes, a historian with the Miller Center’s Presidential Recording Program at the University of Virginia and author of “Chasing Shadows.” Those who knew the president well agreed in recent interviews that Watergate changed the way Americans looked at politics and the presidency.... “Nixon was crying, not just because he appreciated Haldeman’s and Ehrlichman’s loyalty,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “He was crying because h...