Life improvement is Mendenhall’s M.O. Along with firesides, he’s implemented “Thursday’s Heroes” at BYU, a program that aims to support, encourage and provide financial aid to children and families facing significant life challenges.
“Pluto has greatly exceeded our expectations in diversity of landforms and processes — processes that continue to the present,” said Alan Howard of the University of Virginia.
Law professor David A. Martin analyzes the consequences of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decisions regarding refugee policies.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise announced Dane Damron as the school’s new head football coach Thursday. Damron coached the last seven seasons at Eastern Kentucky University, including the last five as the school’s offensive coordinator. He becomes the fourth head coach in the 25-year history of the Highland Cavalier football program.
Donald Trump’s call to bar Muslims at least temporarily from entering the United States sparked a backlash, including from fellow Republican presidential candidates who said it was unconstitutional and unwarranted. "Carter acted after the Iranian government accepted and defended the action by militants who stormed our embassy in Tehran and took our diplomats hostage," said David Martin, a University of Virginia law professor who has written extensively about immigration law. "It was a classic, major, state-to-state confrontation, based on a flagrant violation of ...
The Arctic is warming at an unprecedented rate, new research suggests. Last year was the warmest on record for the Arctic, and sea ice extent was at an all-time low since record keeping began in 1979. And more than half of the Greenland ice sheet melted in 2015. The tundra is also browning, with less vegetation on land. While one year of browning isn't cause for concern, "we're looking at, depending on where in the Arctic, a two- to four-year consistent drop in vegetation. It's something that's actually just gotten on our radar from a terrestrial ecology perspective,"...
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System found an unexpected connection between two common prostate cancer treatments, and it could help them destroy cancer cells much easier. Researchers screened for proteins that regulate prostate growth, and they found a protein that controls the response of prostate cancer cells to current treatments.
Being in a college town has great benefits for retirees. Charlottesville is home to the University of Virginia, and locals can enjoy all kinds of cultural and educational opportunities (though the city also has a slightly elevated crime rate). Livability points out there are mountains nearby for recreational activities, Charlottesville has one of the longest outdoor pedestrian malls in the country, and its renovated Paramount Theater hosts Broadway shows. Forbes has the median home price at $263,000, and the cost of living is 5 percent higher than the national average. But here's a throwba...
“The significant variable is not the rate hikes, but their effect on the strength of the economy,” said Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics.
UVA’s Ed Diener co-authors an analysis of an article in a medical journal that concluded happier people don’t necessarily live longer.
The University of Virginia has made Kiplinger's 2016 Best College Values ranking, which looks at public schools, private universities and private liberal arts colleges.
There are several ways to handle holiday stress, according to J. Kim Penberthy, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. “Holidays can be a joyous time of celebration with friends and family,” Penberthy said. “But the holidays can also be a hectic time or a time of painful emotions and stress. There are a variety of ways that may help people cope with the holidays a bit more successfully.”
Elevated testosterone levels may raise women's risk for developing uterine fibroids, new data show. Asked for comment, Dana Redick, MD, director of the University of Virginia Health System's Uterine Fibroid Treatment Center in Charlottesville, who was not involved in this latest research, noted some limitations of the study. "It's a small group of women, of which less than half…who started got full follow-up," she told Medscape Medical News, noting also that the women were asked only if they had been told they had fibroids, not whether the fibroids had caused them ...
Gov. Chris Christie’s received mostly positive reviews for his return to the main GOP presidential debate, a drawn-out tussle over terrorism, Middle East wars and “commander-in-chief” issues. “I must say, the news media that Christie loves to bash have given him quite a bump,’’ said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “That ought to help him in New Hampshire. Christie is barely an asterisk in Iowa. Sabato said more success is a double-edge sword that could put Christie on the defensive more often than he has...
Other cities that impose taxes on their residents’ income are now wrestling with the same problem facing Kansas City: Are residents owed an earnings tax credit for tax payments they make to other states? “ ‘The Philadelphia tax works identically to the tax invalidated in Wynne,’ said Ruth Mason, the Hunton & Williams Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. Mason, who focuses on tax law, co-authored amicus brief in Wynne with Penn Law professor Michael Knoll. “As far as the Constitution is concerned, local laws and state laws are essentially the same, s...
Donald Trump and Corey A. Stewart had never met before the front-runner for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination held a rally in Manassas early this month. But people who know the longtime chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors say it makes perfect sense that Trump tapped him this week to chair his Virginia campaign. “There’s some obvious similarities between the two,” said Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ Crystal Ball newsletter. “The overall hard-line position on illegal immigration —...
Donald Trump and Corey A. Stewart had never met before the front-runner for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination held a rally in Manassas early this month. But people who know the longtime chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors say it makes perfect sense that Trump tapped him this week to chair his Virginia campaign. “There’s some obvious similarities between the two,” said Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ Crystal Ball newsletter. “The overall hard-line position on illegal immigration —...
In a news release issued on Monday, it was announced that a research team being led by Jacob E. Resch, assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, had made use of data that was gathered from 76 Division 1 athletes from the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) who had experienced a concussion while participating in the field of play.
One puzzling finding highlighted in the report coauthored by UVA’s Howard Epstein is a trend to tundra “browning” — the disappearance of plants in the Arctic.
A University of Virginia study says the duration of concussion symptoms is as significant as the severity of the injury.