... bringing us some very cold air,” said Jerry Stenger, director of the state climatology office at the University of Virginia, who projects snowy weather on Monday.
... their post-World War II batting averages in all three categories,” said election analysts Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of the University of Virginia.
... in the TV age have been conscious of appearances and have to be,” said Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, sounded skeptical when asked by TPM about Clinton's ability to break through with that ...
... they think about it: The presidential election actually starts in just 14 months,” said
Bruce Williams of the University of Virginia's Department of Media Studies, argues humour is gaining more and more importance as a way to transmit politics in times when seriousness has come to be seen more and more as mere posturing by both politicians and journalists.
At the time Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, himself one of the richest men in America was advocating a scientific basis for taxation, “the use of economic theory to identify the tax rates that would maximize revenue yet burden productive capital as little as possible,” according to George K. Yin at the University of Virginia Law School. In short he was proposing an infant Laffer curve.
Research suggests that, on average, couples who remarry are more likely to divorce than those who marry for the first time, said W. Bradford Wilcox, American Enterprise Institute visiting scholar and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. Children can play a key role in whether remarriage lasts, in some cases making it more challenging, he said.
At Vatican Radio, an interesting interview with Professor Gerry Fogarty, S.J., of the University of Virginia on anti-Catholicism in the U.S. at the time of World War I, ...
Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, says the diocese's assertion is a "perfectly sensible argument." Laycock, who has successfully argued numerous religious liberty cases before the Supreme Court, notes there is precedent for immunizing certain organizations from trial, although not necessarily under Title VII's religious protections. "I think it's going to be a hard sell," he says. "But I don't know that it's 'extreme.'"
3. Say Hello to YogurtCold and flu viruses might have an Achilles' heel: Greek yogurt. In a study published in Clinical Nutrition, people who consumed a specific strain of probiotics daily reduced their risk of catching one of these bugs by 27 percent. Aim to eat at least one serving a day of a Greek yogurt with live cultures, suggests Spencer Payne, M.D., an associate professor of rhinology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
By Bob Gibson, executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.... A.E. Dick Howard, the University of Virginia law professor who helped draft Virginia’s 1971 revised Constitution, agrees that the issue is massively important.“If the mandate of one-person-one vote was the generational issue of the 1960s, then eliminating political gerrymandering may be the issue of our time,” Howard said in the January issue of Virginia Business magazine.... Gerrymandering distorts Virginia’s electoral maps, reduces or eliminates competition in November elections, ...
By Susan Kools, the Madge M. Jones Professor of Nursing at the School of Nursing.A long-time advocate of adolescents, she has studied the health and development of adolescents in foster care, and aims to improve the outcomes of young people aging out of foster care.... With National Adoption Day soon to arrive, we'll hear a lot about American families that generously open their hearts and doors to children in need, as well as heart rending statistics about how many more children are still waiting for a permanent home. But behind the gleam of adoption lies a darker truth about its sister so...
The festival is presented by the University of Virginia. More than 100 films were showcased during the 2014 Virginia Film Festival, including “Big Stone Gap.
If you’re looking for a light-hearted theatrical romp, don’t go looking in the Ruth Caplin Theatre at the University of Virginia — at least not this weekend or next. The second show of the UVa Department of Drama’s fall season is Lanford Wilson’s brutal “The Rimers of Eldritch,” which opened on Thursday in the Caplin.
The University of Virginia Klezmer Ensemble, directed by Joel Rubin, will perform repertoire from Rubin's recordings “Beregovski's Wedding” and “Midnight ...
As a result, Connor's parents turned to the University of Virginia Hand Center, where they consulted with doctors who would perform digit pollicization, a surgery ...
Some cases of autism may result from glitches in immune cells in the blood: This provocative idea stems from a series of unpublished mouse studies presented yesterday to a standing-room-only crowd at the 2014 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington, D.C.Mice lacking white blood cells known as T cells show abnormal social behaviors, excessive brain connectivity and hints of brain inflammation, according to a slew of new studies from Jonathan Kipnis’ team at the University of Virginia. All of these patterns have also been observed in people with autism.The findings are part o...
The news: The stereotype of the "magical Negro" didn't vanish with the Antebellum South. New research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science has found that whites continue to hold superstitious beliefs about black people. In America.