The core of this research is from Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago and Erin Whitchurch of the University of Virginia. Together, they took pictures of study participants and then digitally changed the image to be more attractive or less attractive. The participants were then told that they would be shown a series of images—the original image of them, and the altered versions. Finally, they were asked to identify the unmodified picture. Low and behold, participants tended to select the image that was enhanced to make them look more attractive. However, when they were asked to id...
It's not a monolithic group. Some have been more activist and conservative than others. Some seem politically secure; others appear to be endangered. Taken together, they would seem to offer no single political model for GOP success in swing states. "Any way you look at it, it's a mixed bag," says University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, who tracks gubernatorial campaigns and wrote a study of the modern governorship.
Stepping outside his family home in Warm Springs, John Phillips could see Virginia here and West Virginia there, the Appalachians over here and the Alleghenies there. “Our backyard,” he said, “is essentially a mountain.” Phillips has got more than just a little mountain man to him, starting with the fact that he’s built a bit like one at 6-foot-5 and 251 pounds. Lest anyone misinterpret the term “mountain man” to mean anything derogatory or suggest a stereotype, understand that Phillips also earned his sociology degree in only 3 ½ years at one o...
You may never have heard of aniridia, a genetic disorder that robs people of their vision. But researchers studying the condition say it could give insight into some common health problems – from cataracts and glaucoma to diabetes and obesity. Those researchers, along with doctors and aniridia patients, are gathering this week at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville for a conference on the latest advances in understanding aniridia.
"The stereotypical position on restoration of voting rights for felons is that Democrats would generally be more supportive than Republicans," said Kyle Kondik, analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "We're not necessarily seeing that in this particular instance because the governor has been for it."
"Summers' main strength is that the guy who makes the decisions, who sits in the Oval Office, appears to favor him," says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Most people think [the economy]'s still lousy, and Obama hasn't gotten much credit, so he wants somebody who does what needs to be done."
Ultrasound treatments could be used to prevent a common kidney complication than can arise after major surgery, University of Virginia researchers suggest.
Human trafficking for drugs or prostitution is on the rise. For many victims, captivity frequently ends in death, but one 16-year-old victim owes his life to two University of Virginia law students.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said it looks like a preview of what voters may see in the 2016 presidential primaries. “It helps both of them tremendously,” he said. “It almost defines the fight in 2016 three years early. They have managed, by engaging about a big issue, to construct a nominating battle between themselves. They’ve cut out all the other contenders.”
The assistant coaches of the Iroquois Nationals men's lacrosse team that will be competing in the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse World Championships in Denver will include University of Virginia associate head coach Marc Van Arsdale.
As Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia, explains, “A Democrat is only going to win in Georgia like they did in Indiana or Missouri, when the Republicans really screw up. And they could.”
William H. Lucy, a professor of urban planning at the University of Virginia, published Confronting Suburban Decline in 2000 and has been looking at suburban poverty ever since. He says that a decade ago, many typical suburbanites were turning their noses up at the modest housing stock of the close-in suburbs (around 1,100 square feet for the average home built in the 1950s) in favor of newer homes that tended to be double the size of those built 50 or 60 years ago. They moved to the further-out "exurbs" for newer, bigger houses, despite the fact that "the two things these [olde...
A bitter billing dispute with her electric company changed environmentalist Keya Chatterjee's life. Battling Pepco over charges for electricity at her Washington, D.C., row house in the dead of winter six years ago, Chatterjee eventually just ordered the utility to shut off the power. She and her husband lived in the dark and cold for a few months, an experience that convinced them that even when they turned the lights back on, they could use less power.
The type of candidate the parties choose to run for the Senate seat will vary depending on how the parties decide to select their candidates, said Geoff Skelley, political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
The result is a campaign where the two Republican candidates are keeping their distance. “Jackson received a very blunt private message from the Cuccinelli campaign: Keep up the controversies and you’ll be rebuked publicly by the leader of your ticket,” says Larry Sabato, the director for the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Jackson can be useful to the GOP in certain places, like evangelical churches, but on the whole, the less he’s seen, the better.”
Enrollment in non-credit continuing education classes at the University of Virginia begins this month. The university’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies is holding an open house next week to help guide newcomers through the registration process.
(Commentary) “For Christie, his big problem is that he’s not perceived as a real Republican by most of the base activists,’’ said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist who tracks presidential races. “This issue is made to order for him because it fits his philosophy and his persona. He’s a tough guy. Americans, certainly Republicans, want a tough guy in the situation room … taking the difficult foreign policy decisions and aggressive actions that they, the Republican base, want.” - See more at:
“This is sort of an octopus story now,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said Wednesday. “There are a lot of tentacles out now that have nothing to do with the chef.”
Still, many large universities do not have the time to conduct thorough online research. Jeannine C. Lalonde senior assistant dean of admission at the University of Virginia, a school of roughly 21,000 students, said there just isn’t enough time and manpower. Virginia does not look up every applicant online, but if admissions officers come up with suspicious information that prompts a quick Google search or an inappropriate tweet, it may hurt the applicant’s chances of getting in.
University of Virginia Professor Robert Grainger talks with CBS19 about Aniridia, a rare condition.