University of Virginia analyst Larry Sabato believes Republicans should be doing better than they are this year, though, given the huge advantage they have in going after so many Democratic Senate incumbents in Republican-leaning states.“This is the best map for Republicans since 1980,” he said. “They should run up a huge margin based on the conditions that ought to be present in sixth year [of a president’s term] election. Ain’t happening so far. It’s just not happening.”
"Given the traditionally understandings about who cares for children or aging parents, what we often see is that women take on those roles," said Annie Rorem, policy associate in the demographics research group at Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. "We often see differences in female and male earnings often that are related to, although I would not necessarily say caused by, family structure."
Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said that the race leans Republican. “Nunn is a strong candidate and Georgia is trending toward battleground status over the long run, I think, but Georgia is still a Republican state and this is shaping up to be at least a moderately Republican year,” Mr. Kondik said.
In a July 17 column in Sabato's Crystal Ball, the website run by Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, Kyle Kondik argues Republicans will have to beat more than two Democratic incumbents to win control – which the party has not done since 1980.
We fear boredom — that we might be bored or, even worse, bore others. One example: In a recent University of Virginia study, participants gave themselves electrical shocks instead of having to sit with their thoughts for 15 minutes.
Some people really don't like to be alone with their thoughts. Indeed, people taking part in one new study chose to receive an electric shock rather than spend 15 minutes alone in a room with nothing to do. “The human mind wants to engage with the world, even, it appears, if that involves pain,” Timothy Wilson concludes.
To be part of the solution, Geri sacrificed part of her summer to participate in an artificial pancreas study sponsored by Stanford University and the University of Virginia last month. Unlike previous studies limited to a controlled laboratory or medical facility, Geri and six other Type 1 diabetics between the ages of 10 and 16 spent four days and three nights together at a hotel in Newark testing the artificial pancreas system.
Unhappiness about pay may be why there is a lot of “churn” in the chief marketing role, said Kimberly A. Whitler, assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, who helped with the study. “The expectation of a CMO and the job’s status has grown significantly but the question is has the compensation also grown as a result?” Ms. Whitler added.
Giving providers easy access to a national or international database of information gathered during the practice of medicine would transform healthcare, said David J. Stone, MD, of the departments of anesthesiology and neurosurgery and the Center for Wireless Health at the University of Virginia.
Doctors at The University of Virginia Medical Center are looking at a new way to treat patients using technology they already have at their fingertips. Dr. David Stone with the university's Center for Wireless Health, describes the "medical internet" as Google for caregivers; a cyberspace destination where they can look up conditions or aliments and see how doctors, around the nation, or even world have treated them.
Now the publisher Robin Robertson, who brought Stoner to Random House in 2003, believes he has found its successor. Breece D’J Pancake was born in West Virginia in 1952. He grew up in an area known locally as “Chemical Valley”, among the region’s many coal mines. An earnest, self-motivated student, he attended Marshall University and taught for two years at a military academy before accepting a fellowship at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. There he wrote 12 short stories, three of which were bought by the Atlantic Monthly (the magazine responsible fo...
Sabrina Pendergrass, a sociologist at the University of Virginia, said historically blacks move where they have the most social connections and those social connections tend to be in the United States. “It’s about kind of the network and institutions that people are tapped into. If you look in the past with some of the African American expatriates who went to Europe or even Sudan or places like that, there were still those institutional mechanisms that helped. They had tours that they did in Europe prior to going over there.” She said being able to imagine yourself living som...
Jerry Brown is a prohibitive favorite to remain as California’s Governor in November, and according to Kyle Kondik, a congressional elections expert at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, Khanna has “a remarkable amount of work to do if he wants to win this race... Has he gotten a ton of traction? I would say no."
“It’s close enough that we shouldn’t be too surprised if Perdue ends up winning,” said Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Republicans said that could help explain why Mr. Kingston has refused to say whether he supports impeaching President Obama.
"It would be someone who had the confidence of the administrator that she believed could help her do the work of the agency," said Jonathan Cannon, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who was briefly acting EPA deputy administrator during the Clinton administration. Cannon was Obama's first nominee for deputy chief, but withdrew his nomination in 2009.
One of the University of Virginia’s research programs is much better off Monday after receiving $35,000 from Panera Bread. The 22 restaurants in the Blue Ridge Panera franchise spent the month of June fundraising for pediatric food allergy research.The check for $35,000 will help UVA’s Pediatric Food Allergy Research Program treat children with severe food allergies.
These stories go well beyond empathy. They are about feeling the pain of a loved one at a distance, without the conscious knowledge that that person is suffering. The first two stories were recounted in Dr. Larry Dossey’s books “Healing Beyond the Body” and “Reinventing Medicine” respectively. The third was told by the late Dr. Ian Stevenson, former chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
The first Western scientist I know who had conducted serious research on reincarnation and birthmarks was the late Dr. Ian Stevenson, head of the Psychiatry Department at the University of Virginia, USA. He investigated around 3,000 cases of spontaneous past life recall by children ages 3-13. He found remarkable evidence of past life memories and wrote around 20 of them in his pioneering book “Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation,” published by the University Press of Virginia in 1974.
“Nixon By Nixon: In His Own Words” draws on the work of Ken Hughes and his team at the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, as well as the work of Dr. Luke Nichter.
In the jungle that is competitive urban life, it may be that having a steady mate is the best protection against being unmanned by stress. James Coan, who runs a neuroscience lab at the University of Virginia, says the simple act of holding hands lowers stress and anxiety.