The veneer of friendship between Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio is beginning to peel. Bush has started taking swipes at his former protégé, who has emerged as a serious threat to his presidential aspirations as a fellow establishment candidate who appeals to the same pool of donors seeking to keep the likes of Donald Trump and Ben Carson off the November 2016 ballot. "Suppose it's a close vote; both will survive to fight elsewhere," says political scientist Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. "Of course, neither candidate will be able to explain away a decisive l...
Karen McDowell, an information security analyst for the Information Security, Policy and Records Office at the University of Virginia, spoke with Bob Beard about October being cyber security month and steps people can take to protect their devices and their information from phishing attacks.
Kate Tamarkin plans to retire as music director of the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia in May 2017. The current 2015-2016 season is the final one for which Tamarkin will program and conduct all of the symphony’s Masterworks concerts.
Members of the University of Virginia’s 1980-81 Final Four basketball team will be honored Saturday at a scholarship fundraiser at the Virginia Historical Society. “Remember the Titans” will begin at 6 p.m. with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, followed by a panel discussion at 7. The evening’s theme is “Strength through Diversity.”
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) has named University of Virginia Health System as one of 11 Palliative Care Leadership Centers™ in the U.S.
Endometrial cancer affects nearly 55,000 women annually in the United States and one of the risk factors for the disease is obesity. Now, a study conducted at the University of Virginia Cancer Center has found that bariatric surgery, resulting in a drastic reduction in weight among obese women, eliminated precancerous uterine growths in those who previously had them.
A question is dividing the scientific community: Is there a value to public health in spending time and money to replicate long-completed, peer-reviewed studies? Two recent high-profile papers that scrutinize older research have raised questions about the fundamental reliability of scientific findings. With a peer-reviewed publication, “I’m making the presumption that it’s an accurate report of what actually occurs in the world,” says Brian Nosek, a co-author on the Science paper. He is executive director of the Center for Open Science and a psychology professor at...
The top 10 schools all have similarly outstanding employment statistics, though you’ll find that some of the median salaries differ slightly. For instance No. 9, University of Virginia School of Law, has a median starting salary of $135,000, while No. 10, Georgetown Law, like every other school on the list, has $160,000.
Hours after Republican Ed Gillespie conceded in a nail-biting election nearly a year ago, Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., returned home to Alexandria to consider what had just happened. Warner, who had left office as Virginia’s 69th governor riding a wave of a 71 percent job approval, escaped defeat by a mere 17,727 votes, or less than 1 percentage point. “Warner has been very cautious. His near-defeat has chastened him, and he knows his long honeymoon with Virginia voters is over,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
It drives you CRAZY (!!!), but silencing them only holds them back in life. Here's why ... "Kids talking back" is a perennial complaint in parenthood. When your kid starts talking back or mouthing off, it pushes your buttons! Staying calm feels incredibly hard, even though you know — in theory — that a calm response is best for everyone involved (as well as your blood pressure). Psychologist Joseph P. Allen, who headed a study for the University of Virginia, says: "We tell parents to think of those arguments ...
Dr. John Risher saw his first University of Virginia football game when he was 9 years old. He didn’t have the 25-cent admission fee to get in, but discovered that he could climb the stairs in his apartment building to get a bird’s eye view of Lambeth Field and the game. That was in 1919. He’s been hooked on Virginia football ever since. Risher, who turned 105 on May 11, still exuberantly reports to Scott Stadium’s press box, where he has been part of the game day statistics crew since the early 1960s.
A large collaborative science initiative called the Reproducibility Project at the University of Virginia recently reran 100 psychology experiments and found that only about one in three studies could be replicated. The results were rapidly disseminated in mainstream and social media with most commentators concluding that psychological science shouldn’t be called a science at all.
A study evaluating the effects of bariatric surgery on obese women most at risk for cancer has found that the weight-loss surgery slashed participants' weight by a third and eliminated precancerous uterine growths in those that had them. The study speaks both to the benefits of bariatric surgery and to the tremendous toll obesity takes on health. "If you look at cancers in women, about a fifth of all cancer deaths would be prevented if we had women at normal body weight in the U.S.," said Susan C. Modesitt, MD, of the University of Virginia Cancer Center.
Jonathan Bartels, a trauma nurse at the University of Virginia Medical Center, has seen many deaths throughout his career, but one still haunts him. A young woman was brought into the hospital’s emergency department after being struck by an SUV on U.S. 29. About 20 hospital workers tried to save her, but it was, as Bartels put it, “one of those situations in which the injuries overwhelmed our capacity to heal.” Bartels recalled the way workers left the woman’s lifeless body on the table, silently leaving the room in preparation for the next patient. The next time Bartel...
(By Allan Stam, dean of the University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia) January 2017 will bring new leadership to the American presidency. It is hard to imagine the White House inbox will hold more complex challenges than those that confronted first-term senator and president-elect Barack Obama. No president since Harry Truman has been dealt such a difficult hand. Future presidents most certainly will.
More than 250 government and business leaders packed Newcomb Hall at the University of Virginia recently to learn about a creative financing tool aimed at solving social problems. “Social entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia is really interested at looking at how we can collaborate across sectors,” Dr. Christine Mahoney, associate professor at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at UVa, said at last Friday’s conference.
After Mormon prophet Joseph Smith was killed in 1844, most members of his church chose to accept Brigham Young as their new leader and eventually followed him west to Utah. Members who had chosen not to follow Young remained scattered across the midwest. They officially established a new church in 1860 and designated Joseph Smith III, their deceased prophet’s eldest son, its leader. This new church was anti-polygamous, and defined itself primarily in opposition to the Mormon church’s practice of polygamy. “This is complicated by the fact that there was a historic argumen...
(By Michael A. Livermore, an associate professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law) This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revised its air quality standard for smog (or ground-level ozone), meeting, by a matter of hours, a court-ordered deadline to do so. The EPA tightened the existing standard of 75 parts per billion (ppb), set by the George W. Bush administration, to 70 ppb, the least stringent of the revisions it was considering.
(By Lisa Messeri, an assistant professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia) This week, NASA announced that researchers have found evidence of intermittent flowing water on Mars. The Internet was immediately disappointed. Those who follow the space sciences had already surmised what the announcement was going to be, while those who may have been surprised by the news had to read the coverage very closely to understand why this discovery was a big deal.
While people in emergency medicine often acknowledge how exhausting it is to be in such proximity with tragedy, few hospitals incorporate ways to address death into standard procedure. Trauma workers at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville have been doing something different, however. They have started taking a moment of silence after their efforts at bringing a patient from the edge fail in an attempt to ground themselves and acknowledge the magnitude of these moments.