Donald Trump’s strong showing in southeast Virginia was pivotal in blocking Florida Sen. Marco Rubio from winning the state, said Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor and director of its Center for Politics.
When a child is sick, school can be both a concern and a comfort. The UVA Medical Center's Hospital Education Program ensures that kids don't fall behind, no matter how long their hospital stay may be. The director says “there's always tomorrow, and when that tomorrow comes, school is part of it.”
As federal payors continue to push the national health system toward value-based purchasing with financial incentives for coordinated care, major hospital systems are partnering up with businesses that can improve patient outcomes after a discharge. Locus Health is one of those companies that provides coordinated care with remote patient care management technology. The patient care management company has undergone another successful round of funding, raising $4 million at the beginning of the year. A significant investment came from the UVA Health System.
A common blood test already used to measure people's risk of developing heart disease could also predict a patients' risk of having a second ischemic stroke. "The biggest risk of death for someone who has already had a stroke is to have another one," said researcher Stephen Williams of the UVA School of Medicine.
To establish an infection in the urinary tract, bacteria must be able to withstand the tremendous forces of urine flow so they’re not simply washed away. New research is giving scientists a remarkable view of a strange, spring-like shock absorber used by the most common cause of urinary tract infections to survive and thrive where other bacteria cannot. “If something is very rigid, it’s typically very fragile. That’s why airplane wings are meant to flap and skyscrapers actually bend in wind,” explained researcher Edward H. Egelman of the UVA School of Medicine. &l...
A new discovery about ischemic stroke may allow to doctors to predict patients' risk of having a second stroke using a commonly performed blood test and their genetic profile. "The biggest risk of death for someone who has already had a stroke is to have another one," said UVA School of Medicine researcher Stephen Williams. "So it's really important to be able to try and target those individuals who are at the highest risk for the thing that very well may kill them."
For decades, Harry Harding has filtered the academic literature on Sino-U.S. relations. Today, the UVA professor sees hardening positions in Beijing and Washington, as well as on Main Street U.S.A. and from a current perch as a visiting professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
The study out of UVA and Harvard examined the age-old process of playing matchmaker, either romantically or professionally, to determine how connecting others affects well-being. It turns out chronic “yentas” are the happier than the rest of us.
A study from the UVA School of Medicine indicated that the condition of the pregnant women affected the health of their babies – not only when the baby is born, but also throughout his life.
When then-Secretary of State Ralph Mollis led a successful 2011 push to move Rhode Island’s primary from “Super Tuesday” in early March to late April, he predicted the change would make the tiny Ocean State “more relevant” to the presidential nominating process. Larry Sabato, a prominent political prognosticator at UVA, agreed. “It’s a fool’s game for a state to guess the moment of maximum impact in the presidential primary season,” he said.
The present budget talks about entrepreneurship training in 2,200 colleges, 300 schools, 500 government industrial training institutes and 50 vocational training centers through massive open online courses. However, it’s not clear how helpful listening to video lectures would be to achieve that end. One of the more creative – if tougher – ways to create entrepreneurs is through a pilot Padaki is working on along with Saras D. Sarasvathy, who teaches ethics and entrepreneurship at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, said that regardless of black young voters, it is almost certain Clinton will win the state, which she lost in 2008 to President Barack Obama.
“It’s not 2008 anymore,” said Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics. ”She lost to Obama by 2-to-1. Now she has swept in Virginia, and it’s a good early sign for her heading into November.”
“They wanted to try to moderate the Democratic Party, to move it more to the center, so it could win a national election. And that was the origin of Super Tuesday, to put the Southern states in the early part of the calendar, so that, ideally, in their view, a more moderate candidate would receive a big boost from that particular day’s voting,” says Larry J. Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Rubio is now staking his candidacy on winning his home state of Florida on March 15, though Trump is leading in polls there. "Winning Florida is a necessity for [Rubio]," Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA, said.
Clinton’s performance makes it unlikely that Sanders can overtake her, said Larry J. Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “Super Tuesday confirms that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee. She won't win everything, everywhere, but it's already impossible to see how Sanders could manage to dislodge her,” he said.
The GOP race now heads to a possibly decisive battle in Florida in two weeks. "There is clearly a split in the party, but I would caution that a lot of voters will come home even if Trump does secure the delegates he needs to be the nominee," said Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Our genes play an important role in determining our stroke risk, but relatively little is known about the inheritable risk for ischemic stroke. To advance the understanding of ischemic stroke, a massive study has been conducted by researchers with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke's Stroke Genetics Network and the International Stroke Genetics Consortium, including doctors and scientists at the UVA Health System.
Inspired by the way palm trees move in high winds, a group of researchers at UVA and Sandia National Laboratory are developing an extremely long wind turbine blade that could make it possible to construct 50-megawatt turbines – far beyond the power of today’s, which tend to produce just two megawatts.
A ballot measure that could have changed UVA’s 174-year-old honor system fell just short in this week’s student elections, but only a minority of students support the system’s current single-sanction policy.