A study by the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders says that if scientists understand what causes chickens’ cells to redevelop they could one day replicate the process in humans to reverse hearing loss. Jeffrey Corwin of the university said that if both a human and a hen were to be exposed to a sound loud enough to destroy the ability to hear a certain pitch, the outcomes would be very different.
One in three children in Virginia is living in poverty or near-poverty, according to a study from the University of Virginia. Researchers at UVa began a statewide poverty report last year, using a wider range of data than just the federal poverty line. UVa researcher Annie Rorem co-wrote the report with Megan Juelfs-Swanson, doctoral candidate in sociology.
Annie Rorem, a researcher with the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center, joins Les Sinclair to discuss a new report revealing that one in three Virginia children live in economic insecurity.
A recent research paper published in the prestigious Science journal seems to have created a stir by suggesting that people from rice-growing regions tend to be more inter-dependent and less individualistic compared to others. The study, co-authored by social psychologist Thomas Talhelm of the University of Virginia found that ‘rice-growing southern China is more interdependent and holistic-thinking than the wheat-growing north.’
One intriguing aspect of Nearing Death Awareness is the tendency for some of the dying to hallucinate visions of deceased family members, friends, and iconic spiritual beings in the days and hours leading to death. Forty-one percent of the dying patients in a study done by the University of Virginia psychologist Emily Williams Kelly reported a “deathbed vision.”
A 2013 long-term University of Virginia study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood shows that skim milk actually makes children heavier than whole milk. Drs. Mark DeBoer and Rebecca Schafer evaluated data from 10,700 children between 2 and 4 and concluded that “children given skim or one-percent milk were more likely to become overweight and obese.”
Dr. Ian Stevenson (1997–2007) of the University of Virginia Medical School was a pioneer researcher on the topic of reincarnation. He studied many cases in which people, and especially children, seem to remember their past lives in such detail that the facts can be verified. Walter Semkiw, MD, and Jim Tucker, MD, are carrying on where Dr. Stevenson left off. In this short video, they discuss the research of Dr. Stevenson, as well as some other cases, including that of Barbro Karlen.
When James Leininger of Louisiana was 2 years old, he began having horrific nightmares of crashing in a plane. The boy said he was shot down by the Japanese, that his plane took off from the Natoma ship, and that he had a friend named Jack Larson. He also identified the site where he crashed, Iwo Jima, from a photograph. ...This boy’s case was recounted by Dr. Jim Tucker at the University of Virginia, a leading reincarnation researcher.
The University of Virginia did a study in 2011 and found that 38% of couples considering divorce before the recession decided to put it off, most likely because of the high cost of maintaining two separate households.
The Democratic Party will have a difficult time retaining its Senate majority in the 2014 midterm elections, and the party is facing long odds of winning Senate races in Kentucky and Georgia, Larry Sabato's Center for Politics at the University of Virginia predicted.
The University of Virginia's Corks and Curls yearbook hasn't been printed since 2009. (A 2013 effort to revive it has been unsuccessful so far.)
Proceeds from the Men's Four Miler benefit the University of Virginia Department of Urology.
Finally, university president Teresa Sullivan enlisted [Dean Paul G. Mahoney] to deliver the diploma to Ted Kennedy’s family. He planned to send it to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, an organization that seeks to educate the public about government. “Then it dawned on me that, because the students had invited his grandnephew, it might be fun to personalize the transfer,” Mahoney said. “I think the audience enjoyed it.”
By Kathan Shukla, a PhD student in Educational Research at the University of Virginia.A decade-long anti-Modi campaign from India’s political left has fueled the new prime minister’s rise.
"When you want the money somebody might show up in the U.S. with a bag full of cash and give you some of the funds from your account'," said Andrew Hayashi, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Mary Faith Marshall, a bioethicist and professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, speculates that it’s probably a combination of a doctor’s hubris and a hospital lawyer not knowing the law.
For more reaction, we bring in our panel tonight, from The Weekly Standard, Steve Hayes is with us, Fox News political analyst Juan Williams, and from the University of Virginia Center for Politics, Larry Sabato is with us.
In the US, negative campaigning goes even further. “Most parties spend 70 cents in every dollar on negative adverts, and in the last election a total of $7 billion was spent on campaigning,” says U.Va. Professor Larry Sabato.
“If ever a president could benefit from firing somebody, it’s Obama,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist. “We don’t expect a president to know everything that’s going on in their administration,” he added. “But we do judge them for the actions they take once they learn of a problem.”