Great Bridge High graduate Chelsea Adams was one of three UVA athletes to receive postgraduate awards from the ACC, the conference announced Wednesday. Adams, a member of Virginia’s rowing team, was among those selected for the Weaver-James-Corrigan Award, which provides $5,000 toward athletes who plan to pursue a graduate degree. The honor is for outstanding performance in the classroom, in a sport and in the community.
At UVA’s Memory and Aging Care Clinic, associate professor Scott Sperling says he’s never heard of the Virtual Dementia Tour, but he agrees that it might promote a new way of thinking. “Anything that would provide a greater window into what somebody’s day-to-day experience might be a step in the right direction.”
The New Hampshire results may also increase the chances of Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor, entering the race as an independent. “Bloomberg still has to grapple with an immense partisan divide in American life – even with Sanders and/or Trump as the nominees, it seems doubtful that Bloomberg would win a single state, let alone the election,” said Kyle Kondik, a UVA politics expert. “Clinton continuing to struggle might persuade Bloomberg that there is an opening … even if in reality he would probably just be a spoiler.”
“I’ve known him for many years and in that time American politics has evolved to the point where labels like moderate no longer apply in the way they did some years ago,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, who predicted Kasich will not do well in the next contests in South Carolina or Nevada.
Born and raised outside Pittsburgh, John Kasich moved to Columbus in 1970 to attend Ohio State University and has been a Buckeye ever since. If Gov. Kasich is elected president, what will be listed as his home state, Ohio or Pennsylvania? The short answer: Probably both. "It certainly helps John Kasich to say he's from Ohio," said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. "But Pennsylvania has a lot of electoral votes as well."
Since the election of Warren Harding in 1920, many Ohioans have tried – Robert A. Taft, John Glenn and Dennis Kucinich among them – but none have succeeded. Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, said the nation's demographic shift is part of the reason Ohio and the Midwest no longer carry the clout they once did.
(By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics) That Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire was not a surprise. That he won by so much is. It’s a tremendous shot in the arm for his campaign and a jarring setback for Hillary Clinton.
U.S. teens are eating healthier diets and showing less severe metabolic syndrome – a cluster of conditions like high blood pressure and elevated blood sugar that can lead to cardiovascular disease, stroke and diabetes – a new study suggests. "We found that the decrease in severity of the metabolic syndrome was driven by favorable changes in triglycerides and HDL cholesterol," said senior study author Dr. Mark DeBoer of UVA.
UVA’s Child Development Lab and the Virginia Discovery Museum are partnering to study how children think and learn. Children ages 3 and older can take part in games and activities that show how much they retain information. Researchers will collect data during the process for further study.
Additional proceeds from the potential bond issue also would go toward various construction projects at public universities, including a renovation of UVA’s Gilmer Hall.
Valentine’s Day is not always a holiday full of sweetness. A UVA cybersecurity professor, Angela Orebaugh, says it is a prime time for cyber-based attacks against the lovelorn.
What are the specific behaviors that get couples through the decades? For starters, long-lasting couples adopt a commitment to “marital permanency,” says UVA sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project.
ESPN features the living arrangements of UVA basketball standout Malcolm Brogdon, who embraces his home on the Range -- even if it does not have air conditioning or full indoor plumbling.
Should Virginia's right-to-work law become part of the state constitution? Voters will get the final say this November, when the issue will be on the ballot in key 2016 swing state. "It's important to remember that it's essentially going to be a down-ballot item," says Geoff Skelley, analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics. "So it will be impacted by the shape of the race at the top of the ticket for sure."
Bernie Sanders “is in a position to make this last for a while,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, citing Sanders's small-donor fundraising power. “Do I think he can win? Unlikely, but I do think that he’s in a position to stick around and to make Clinton work for it longer than she wants to and perhaps push her to the left on a lot of issues more than she wants to.”
On seeing the numbers, UVA politics professor Larry Sabato tweeted, “No way Hillary can declare herself the comeback kid. The Clinton coalition from 1992 and 2008 has collapsed.”
Donald Trump made good Tuesday on the resounding overall lead he has enjoyed in opinion polls since last summer, earning more than a third of Republican votes in New Hampshire. "The Republican leadership wanted the field of non-Cruz and non-Trump candidates to be reduced," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of UVA’s online political newsletter, Sabato's Crystal Ball.
UVA researchers are working to understand how salmonella knows that it's been ingested and is inside the human body. Their findings suggest that salmonella relies on a chemical to fuel its destructive activity.
Experts say it's not unimaginable that Christie soldiers on, but that it's unlikely, given how little campaign funding remained before the lackluster results and how much his campaign has already endured. "Cruz, Bush, and Rubio aren't far ahead," cautioned Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, but he added that he had "no clue whether Christie has the money to go on."
Following advice to sleep in the same room with their infants – but not in the same bed – does not appear to discourage new mothers from breastfeeding, according to a new study conducted by researchers at UVA, Boston University and Yale University.