Brad Wilcox
Director of the National Marriage Project and sociologist
Larry Sabato
Director of Center for Politics
Where would Speaker Boehner cut spending?
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) / Sept. 2
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GOP will take over House, political guru Sabato predicts
Miami Herald / Sept. 2
and
New prediction in battle for the House
CNN Political Ticker (blog) / Sept.
... Although the report's authors did not have information about population decreases at the county level, a 2009 University of Virginia study of the legislation's effect on Prince William showed a decline in the number of children enrolled in ESOL classes and in the number of uninsured mothers giving birth.
Technology firm BandyWorks LLC was among five companies honored last night in Charlottesville for hanging tough during difficult economic times. The companies received the Tayloe Murphy Resilience Award handed out by the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
Alzheimer's expert Steven DeKosky, dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, uses this metaphor: The active brain is like a piece of good wood ...
Phil Plait, a U.Va. alumnus, writes this blog, "Bad Astronomer," where he talks about this project: ... my friend Nicole, aka Noisy Astronomer. She's a young grad student studying radio astronomy at the University of Virginia (my alma mater!), and she's very gung ho about astronomy outreach.
H. Eugene Lockhart
Chairman of the Darden School Foundation Board of Trustees
Governor appoints five new trustees to state museum board
Virginia Business / Aug. 31
Larry Sabato
Director of Center for Politics
Tea Party gets a boost with Joe Miller's victory in Alaska
USA Today / Sept. 1
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Western races may hold key to Senate control
San Francisco Examiner / Sept. 1
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Chiles Out No Slam-Dunk for Sink
National Review / Sept. 1
Ruth Stornetta, Ph.D
Professor of Pharmacology and a member of Bike Charlottesville, a cycling advocacy group
The future of cycling
"Virginia Insight" o...
Researchers at Sheba Medical Center’s new Tamman Cardiovascular Research Center expect that in another two or three years, heart patients will benefit from their discoveries, among them the production of adult stem cells from a small amount of adipose (fat) tissue around the heart, to produce hormones that repair damaged hearts. ...The center has cooperation agreements with other Israeli institutes and with foreign ones including the University of Virginia.
The Virginia Supreme Court on Tuesday announced its selection of Justice Cynthia Dinah Fannon Kinser as its new chief justice -- the first woman to ever attain that position.
...Contrary to the common stereotype that bullies are unhappy, unsuccessful misfits attempting to compensate with their fists, those who rule the hallways are typically seen as cool and accomplished. Based on responses from nearly 400 middle school students, researchers at the University of Virginia observed that bullies were overwhelmingly considered to be the more popular students in class.
... Stotsky is not alone in understanding that patient care is better because of EMRs (electronic media records). Researchers from the University of Virginia and MIT’s Sloan School of Business found that the use of EMRs reduced infant mortality.
... Although these futuristic “predictions” are derived from The Bay Game, a simulated game of logic developed by the University of Virginia (UVA), they are based on real stakeholder decisions, real-world impact of those decisions, and the environmental reality that nobody wins unless everybody wins.
UVa has rolled out its official free iPhone app — nicknamed “The Good Ol’ App” — to offer quick and easy access to a voluminous amount of content for students, alumni, faculty, staff, visitors and Cavalier sports fans.
... Put agreements on paper. William Quandt, a University of Virginia professor who worked at the National Security Council under Carter, says that proved crucial in the Israeli-Egyptian peace accord of 1979.
By Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman, a professor of Law
...As we argued in a recent Op-ed in The New York Times, because there is almost nothing new under the sun in fashion, some designers question whether the proposed law would matter. We agree: if the legislation were strictly applied, it would matter very rarely. But in the real world, the law will almost surely expand in a way that harms many designers and consumers.
By Daniel Willingham, professor of psychology
To mark the new school year, I asked a dozen teachers this question: “If you could magically make parents do ONE thing this coming school year to support their child, what would it be?” The most frequent answer (by far) was “make sure that kids come to school having had a good night of sleep.”
Vital Signs is a community health promotion column sponsored by Martha Jefferson Hospital, Region Ten, Thomas Jefferson Health District, and the University of Virginia Health System.