“Republicans have criticized President Obama for his lack of leadership on this issue, and it’s true he has often appeared aloof, particularly after Omaha, Des Moines, and the greater Kansas City metro area were abandoned and ceded to the swarms,” said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. “But it’s fair to say that the president’s effectiveness in tackling the hornet threat has been hampered by a Congress that invariably stymies his best efforts, such as a White House proposal to fumigate the entire state of Oklahoma in a last-d...
“As a smart operative told us this week, Kansas voters seem to have decided to fire Roberts, but they do not yet know if they want to hire Orman. This is one campaign that truly matters, and the outcome is thoroughly unpredictable,” writes Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the University of Virginia political newsletter Sabato’s Crystal Ball.
Leaving the negative message to outside players, especially those groups that can shield the identity of their donors, allows candidates to insulate themselves from the public backlash that can come with a negative campaign, according to Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.“It’s preferred to have the outside group doing the really brutal stuff,” Kondik said. “Because the candidate can really disavow it or they don’t have to claim responsibility for it.
A Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday for the discovery of “an inner GPS in the brain.” While this function of the brain affects how we geographically map our surroundings, could it also guide us in other ways? ... Grid cells are located in the anterior cingulate part of the brain, which plays an important role in human emotion, said Dr. Bernard Beitman, a Yale-educated psychiatrist currently working from the University of Virginia, after reading some of the prize-winning research. “This emotional aspect of grid cell mapping could make particular locations more highly ...
This past July, Science published a paper with an alarming conclusion: most people would rather give themselves an electric shock than be alone with their thoughts. A slew of news stories followed, seizing on this dramatic evidence of our inability to be content without external distractions.... The University of Virginia psychologist Timothy Wilson and his collaborators began the study with a simple question: When our minds turn inward, “is it a pleasing experience”? In recent years, psychologists have become increasingly engaged with the question of how the mind swivels its lens ...
Recent research at the University of Virginia could help provide an important clue as scientists scramble to find a way to treat the Ebola virus.One day after the first Ebola death in the United States, researchers at UVa announced they had determined the structure of a part of the virus they believe plays an important role in replication — the end of a protein found in the nucleocapsid, the part of the virus containing all of its genetic material.Zygmunt S. Derewenda, a structural biologist, has been working on the project for the past two years. Understanding how the virus works is the...
... Another University of Virginia researcher is using the findings about this Ebola protein in his efforts to pinpoint compounds that can inhibit the infection process and could be developed into drugs to fight Ebola.About 40,000 compounds are being screened by Daniel Engel, of the department of microbiology, immunology and cancer biology.
Oliver Frauenfeld, assistant professor in the Department of Geography, and colleagues from the University of Virginia, Australia’s University of New South Wales and the University of Utah, have had their work published in the scientific journal PLOS One.The team analyzed data from GPS tracking devices placed on elephants in 14 different herds in the Nambia region of Africa and the elephants’ movements were plotted for seven years. The region has a distinct rainy season and conditions are usually hot and dry with little precipitation.The researchers found that elephants can “s...
Purchasing insurance when you’re young and healthy makes it cheaper and eliminates the risk that your health will render you uninsurable down the line. Should you ever marry, you’ll already have a policy to protect your spouse and children that you may have. And should you have children as a single parent, you’ll not belong to the nearly 70 percent of single parents with children at home who have no life insurance policy (according to research by the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and Genworth).
As medical practices of all sizes look at ways technology can increase efficiency while keeping costs under control, the House Committee on Small Business put a congressional microscope on the advances made in telemedicine in recent years.... Telemedicine has become more accepted by healthcare practices of all shapes and sizes, Karen Rheuban, MD, Senior Associate Dean for CME and External Affairs Director at the University of Virginia Center for Telehealth, said in her testimony at the congressional hearing.“Telehealth is an essential tool to address the significant challenges of access ...
By Saras Sarasvathy, a Darden professorthere's this widespread belief that successful entrepreneurs have specific personality traits. ...Actually, research into the traits of entrepreneurs shows little correlation between entrepreneurship and personality traits. For example, one of the most persistent myths about entrepreneurs is that they are risk-takers. But studies published in the Journal of Applied Psychology have found evidence both for and against the propensity of entrepreneurs to take risks. That is, entrepreneurs are like the rest of us.
In many ways, Norman Davenport Askins inherited the mantle of classical architecture directly from Atlanta icons Philip Trammell Shutze and Neel Reid. As a boy in Birmingham, Askins fell in love with traditional style and was a “closet classicist” during his days at Georgia Tech, when modernism ruled the architecture school in the 1960s. Graduate training in architectural history at the University of Virginia was more to his taste, leading to work at Colonial Williamsburg. Askins established his own Atlanta practice in 1977, and his stamp is on many of the city’s finest homes...
This is the fourth time in five years that Booth has captured the top spot in the rankings, which are published annually.Booth was followed by Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business in third place. The rankings including 100 schools. Northwestern's Kellogg moved up to No. 14 from 23 last year.
The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business has taken spot number three from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, which has dropped to number seven.
With the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham fresh on their minds, state leaders in higher education, college students, victim advocates and law enforcement officials convened in Richmond on Thursday to address the issue of sexual violence on campus.Gov. Terry McAuliffe kicked off the first meeting of the task force, telling participants that the students of the commonwealth are entitled to “live and learn in an environment that is free of the threat of sexual violence.”Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring, selected to chair the task force, said...
A state task force on campus sexual assault began its work Thursday mindful of the ongoing search for a missing University of Virginia student and the arrest of a suspect who left two colleges after being accused of rape, but was never charged.Hannah Graham's disappearance "reinforces our mission here today," Gov. Terry McAuliffe told his 36-member task force at its first meeting.
... Law enforcement on the task force said they'd like to see a better interplay between on and off campus police, so that victims don't have to tell their story more than once when an assault crosses jurisdictional boundaries. There were conversations Thursday about best practices for rape-kit tests, and how information should flow when a victim wants to press charges, and when she doesn't.