Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, doubts that the New Hampshire primary will winnow the field. He also believes Christie’s record simply won’t sell in South Carolina and that other candidates have also established their own teams of “very influential people” in Virginia.
“With Donald Trump, you can't rule anything out,” said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. “He’s the candidate with a surprise an hour.”
Excessive city volume “causes fatigue, it causes stress, it causes disruptions in sleep patterns, and that has long-term ill effect on health,” says University of Virginia architecture professor Karen Van Lengen. Van Lengen has spent the past decade studying “the relationship between sound and space.”
Ned O’Gorman, a fellow this year at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, writes more about Reagan and outer space in “The Iconoclastic Imagination: Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11,” published by the University of Chicago Press.
University of Virginia Cancer Center has joined the 68 other National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers in releasing a joint statement supporting vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) to help prevent HPV-related cancers.
The Black Dog Institute worked with teams at the Australian National University, University of Sydney, and the University of Virginia for the trial, which was published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry. It involved the trial group using a web-based program for six weeks. It’s called SHUTi, which stands for Sleep Healthy Using The Internet.
A core part of that support is the Jefferson Education Accelerator’s work arranging high-quality research on vendors’ products, conducted by scholars at the University of Virginia – which is an advisor to the accelerator – and others around the country.
Central Virginia’s population grew 4.2 percent from 2010 to 2015, according to estimates from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Fourth-year student Russell Bogue is one of just 32 Rhodes Scholars in the United States for 2016.
UVA's Emily Couric Cancer Center is calling for human papillomavirus vaccinations for boys and girls entering adolescence.
According to demographers at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, Virginia’s population growth has moderated.
First-year UVA football coach Bronco Mendenhall, tasked with turning around Virginia’s struggling football program, faces a challenging schedule in his first season.
(By Anne Guarnera, a doctoral candidate in Spanish at UVA) If you’re looking for ways to improve your teaching this year, I’d like to suggest a digital strategy that is both incredibly awkward and incredibly productive: record yourself teaching in the classroom. Recording yourself is a powerful tool for reflection. It is relatively easy, low-risk, and most importantly, totally customizable. You are the one who decides which areas of your teaching to focus on and plan the recording and reflection accordingly to provide the most feedback on those issues.
For a president who “pushed hard” for expansion, Madison rarely spoke about Indians, said John Stagg, UVA professor of history and editor of The Papers of James Madison. Instead, he deferred to policies put in place by his predecessors that called for the continued pressuring of Indian nations to give up more of their homelands.
The University of Virginia took 30 percent of its applicants last year and had a better graduation rate than Stanford, Cal and each of the other UC campuses. Eighty-seven percent of its 2010 freshman class graduated on time. It even beat Harvard (86 percent)!
Asked about the ideological linkages between Mr. Sanders and the former Rough Rider, UVA historian Sidney Milkis noted that “Sanders is not a democratic socialist; maybe he once was … but his rhetoric and policies fit within the American progressive tradition, which was advanced importantly by the 1912 Progressive Party campaign.”
"This is great support, and another study, showing that being sedentary is not only not good for your health, it is not good for your menopause symptoms," said Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of the North American Menopause Society and a UVA professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
Four Virginia universities -- George Mason University, James Madison University, the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech -- have joined together in the 4-VA consortium to expand access to specialized classes for students.
Just four countries – the US, China, India and Brazil – are responsible for almost half of the world’s total nitrogen pollution, a new study finds. The new research maps the nitrogen ‘footprint’ of 188 countries, and finds that around a quarter of emissions come from making products that are then traded internationally. Making consumers aware of their nitrogen footprint may encourage them to take steps to reduce it, say Professor James Galloway from the University of Virginia and Allison Leach from the University of New Hampshire ...
"I think an exchange program is a great opportunity to have a longterm cultural immersion in another part of the world while continuing studies," says Marc Johnson, Executive Director of Global Affairs at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, which offers exchange programs with partner schools such as Stockholm School of Economics, Melbourne Business School and the Indian School of Business.