A team including UVA’s Dr. Kwon-Sik Park identified a gene that promotes tumor development by supercharging the machinery that cells use to churn out proteins. In preclinical models of SCLC, a drug inhibitor of the protein-production process slowed the progression of small-cell lung tumors.
At SUNY Buffalo and UVA, professors fear that too many requirements and not enough thought about them may detract from students’ learning. Both move toward more thematic approaches to general education.
For the past few weeks, Sanders has increased his attacks on Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, and mentioned topics he deemed off-limits earlier in the primary, such as the Clinton Foundation. “The contest is over, and Clinton's romp in California added an exclamation mark. There isn't any real justification for Sanders to continue,” said Larry Sabato, a politics expert at UVA. “Will he withdraw? … The ego is in orbit, and few politicians want the roar of the crowd to cease. Perhaps Obama can talk sense to him.”
Forcing students to stay in unlocked classrooms while a gun-wielding murderer stalks the hallways sounds like a horror-movie scenario. The real horror, though, is that it doesn't appear to be a violation of any existing standard for safety. "I'm not aware of any rules that speak directly to the ability to lock doors," J. H. Verkerke, law professor and director of the Program for Employment and Labor Law Studies at UVA’s School of Law, said.
From a purely theoretical perspective, the idea of a Bernie Congress makes sense: Sanders ran up some massive margins over Hillary Clinton in congressional districts across the country – often in districts whose representatives endorsed Clinton. "If we see that start to change, maybe you see some movement designed to push the party to the left," said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics. "But right now Democrats are generally more supportive of their party's leadership than Republicans are."
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are running for president facing historically negative views from voters. Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics said Americans always complain about their presidential candidates. “It’s in the American character,” he said. But this year is different.
The risk for Clinton is that Sanders overplays his hand or feels shunned – and continues his insurgency. "Clinton finds herself in a shaky position she could not have imagined last year," said Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics. "Weakened by the self-inflicted wounds of her email controversy and her inability to generate enthusiasm in major parts of the Democratic coalition, Clinton has been forced to spend precious time, money, and energy fighting Sanders right to the end."
It is no accident the Buckeye State is Clinton's first stop the week after she gained enough pledged delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination. Donald Trump will be in Ohio before long. The reasons are simple but profound. Just ask Kyle Kondik, a native of Independence who now works at UVA’s Center for Politics and is managing editor of political forecasting newsletter Sabato's Crystal Ball.
“For now, Sanders has pulled the party to the left, but we’ll see. Things can fade,” says Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. In the short run, though, Sanders will “directly influence” the platform, as well as Clinton’s choice of running mate, Sabato says.
Expanding access to pre-K is only one piece of a big early-childhood education puzzle, said Bob Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education.
According to Robert Wilder, a physician and UVA’s director of sports rehabilitation, water walking forces you to labor more against the resistance of water. It helps build muscle and improves cardiovascular health.
Using the military records of all 975,057 soldiers who served during a six-year period, researchers have developed an algorithm they hope can help prevent severe, violent crimes by identifying those at greatest risk of becoming perpetrators. An intensive violence-prevention program “would make sense only if the interventions are shown to be highly efficient – something that has not yet been demonstrated,” said study co-author John Monahan, a UVA law professor.
The UVA Police Department and the Sexual Assault Resource Agency are teaming up to prevent sexual violence. A three-day instructor training program kicked off Wednesday at UVA with 18 people learning how to teach self-defense classes in their communities.
(By Larry Sabato, the director of UVA’s Center for Politics ) As we find ourselves at the end of the primary season, we can all look back in wonder: What hath the voters wrought?
A group of researchers at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Virginia, seeking a deeper analysis of the transition from friendship to dating, recently conducted a study focused on high schoolers – the age at which many folks learn about the bitter pill that is unrequited love for the first time.
“Sanders will never be president, but he has clearly moved the Democratic Party to the left,” UVA political scientist Larry J. Sabato said Monday. “Probably the platform and maybe even the vice presidential candidate will reflect Sanders' influence.”
Why would a Uighur militant be a part of Al Qaida? In the 2013 report "Terrorism in China," UVA Assistant Professor Philip B.K. Potter traces it to "China’s ongoing security crackdown in Xinjiang [forcing] the most militant Uyghur separatists into volatile neighboring countries, such as Pakistan, where they are forging strategic alliances with, and even leading, jihadist factions affiliated with al-Qaeda and the Taliban."
A host of health care organizations and individual health care providers that advocated for expanded telemedicine want federal budget and Medicare payment advisers to look outside the Medicare program for evidence of the benefits of telehealth. The UVA Medical Center is among the organizations that signed on to the missive.
Talcum powder, or baby powder as it's sometimes called, seemed harmless enough before. But recently the stuff has gotten a reputation for its connection to ovarian cancer. Now, there is new evidence that use of the powder is strongly linked to ovarian cancer in African American women. According to UVA epidemiologist Joellen Schildkraut, who was the principal investigator in the study, "African-American women have been targeted for use of body powder, and they use it more commonly." Schildkraut started out a skeptic of claims that there was a link between use of the powder and ova...
Petroglyphs left behind by indigenous peoples had never been seen on Montserrat or nearby Antigua. UVA anthropologist George Mentore, who studies the indigenous cultures of the Caribbean and Amazonia, said similar engravings had been found along rivers in the north of South America where Arawak- and Carib-speaking groups live today.