And there’s this from Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics: “On the whole, it is a good thing to reach out, entertain the legislators, get to know them,” he says. “Ask Mark Warner; he used the mansion well to get what he wanted from the General Assembly. But positions and party lines have hardened since then. McAuliffe is doing what Obama has been criticized for not doing, yet I doubt it yields very many additional votes on the big-ticket items.”
We’re thrilled to announce the appointment of three new Deputy Editors-in-Chief for PLOS Computational Biology: Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Jason Papin and Olaf Sporns. … Jason Papin is on the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia.
In West Virginia, long-serving U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall, a Democrat, was the subject of the most political ad buys during 2013's off-year, according to Kyle Kondik at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. The campaign included two weeks of advertisements by the pro-petroleum nonprofit American Energy Alliance alleging that his support for the federal budget bill was a support for a carbon tax. The 13-termer, one of four Democrats to join Republicans in a 2011 effort to stop the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases, is considered unlikely to h...
Perhaps this study out of UCLA, Harvard, and the University of Virginia can help explain it. The authors, Daniel T. Gilbert, Matthew D. Lieberman, Carey K. Morewedge, and Timothy D. Wilson looked at how people processed insults from "partners" versus "non-partners." They would never see the non-partners again, but had to continue working with the partners. The researchers found that people would forgive their partners and have more positive feelings towards them, even after being insulted. In fact, witnesses who observed the insults had stronger negative feelings towards th...
In 2011, two Nobel Prize winners were among hundreds of scientists, faculty colleagues, students, friends, and family who gathered at the University of Virginia School of Medicine to celebrate Joseph Larner’s 90th birthday. One was Alfred Gilman, who won the Nobel Prize in 1994. The other was Ferid Murad, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998. Both had earlier worked under Larner, who was the longtime chairman of U.Va.’s pharmacology department.
“Our understanding of major processes involving this important component of the earth system is evolving rapidly,” agreed atmosphere researcher Bill Keene of the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia Health System is now part of a national network designed to explore new treatments for neurological diseases. The first clinical trial UVA is taking part in tests whether one medication for progressive multiple sclerosis will work.
National political analysts have noted the change. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, has moved the race from “likely Democratic” to “leans Democratic,” commenting that “Gardner should give Udall a stiffer challenge than the other Republicans in the field.”
The Saffir-Simpson scale, which assigns 1-5 ratings for hurricane intensity, has become a household term each summer and fall when destructive tropical tempests threaten our coastlines. On Saturday, meteorologists from as far away as Florida and Texas convened for a luncheon in Washington Saturday to celebrate the visionary behind the scale, Robert Simpson, a former U.Va. faculty member.
For nearly 15 years, Randy Lichtenberger has been shedding light on the long-buried secrets of the Lynchburg region's history.
It's one thing to get a college education and quite another to get a job with that degree. Now, the University of Virginia is trying to better connect students with the real world that will be waiting for them once they've graduated.
In honor of Women’s History Month, MTS had the opportunity to interview a woman of strong, righteous character. Ms. Monica Wright. Monica is a prominent female basketball player who has excelled on the collegiate level setting records at the University of Virginia, and in the pros with already two WNBA champions (2011 & 2013) in her young, promising career (3 years pro, Minnesota Lynx).
Gregory Holt is serving a life sentence for burglary and domestic battery in Arkansas, one of seven states, including Virginia, that bars prisoners from growing a beard. His lawyer says that's a problem, because Holt is a Muslim. "There are hadiths, which are sayings of the prophet and people close to him that say you're not supposed to shave your beard," explains Douglas Laycock, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Virginia.
In 1989, German graffiti artist Dennis Kaun painted a mural on four panels of the Berlin Wall. The mural, titled “Kings of Freedom,” depicted two kings – one blindfolded and painted in gray, representing communist East Germany, and the other painted in bright red and yellow, representing capitalist West Germany. Just days later, the wall came down, allowing East German citizens to cross over in to West Germany for the first time in more than 28 years. Next month, students and local residents will get the chance to see the wall on Grounds at the University of Virginia.
The Virginia men’s basketball team knew all along it would have an unusual eight-day gap between games to end the regular season. But coming on the heels of a 75-56 romp over Syracuse last Saturday, a victory that propelled the No. 5 Cavaliers to their first outright ACC regular season title since 1981, this break in the schedule before Sunday’s regular season finale at Maryland has also allowed for reflection: On how far the program has come in five seasons under Coach Tony Bennett, how far it could go this season and, perhaps most significantly, how it arrived here after appearin...
(By Robert Bruner, dean of the Darden School of Business) The 2014 Winter Olympics games are now behind us. The cascade of newly created celebrities sparks a reflection about the winner-take-all phenomenon: The asymmetry of rewards, where the winner reaps an outsize share of the rewards in the game, leaves little or nothing behind for the others.
(By Tomicah Tilleman, senior adviser for civil society and emerging democracies at the U.S. Department of State; Teresa A. Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia; and Taylor Reveley, president of the College of William & Mary) Thomas Jefferson, our first secretary of state, a graduate of William and Mary, and the founder of the University of Virginia, frequently reminded his contemporaries that freedom and good governance depend upon an educated, engaged citizenry. In the spirit of Jefferson, the State Department, the University of Virginia, and William and Mary partnered earlie...