Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said there’s little chance Christie would give up the governorship of his home state for anything less than a sure thing. “I don’t believe there is much of a chance that Christie will resign as governor unless he is actually elected president or vice president,” Sabato said. “He relishes the governorship and isn’t about to give it up voluntarily just to run for the GOP presidential nomination.”
Five-year-olds who drink sugar-sweetened sodas, sports drinks or juices every day are more likely to be obese than those who have sugar-sweetened beverages less often, according to a new study. Although the link between sugary drinks and extra weight has been well documented among teens and adults, researchers said that up until now, the evidence was less clear for young children. "Even though sugar-sweetened beverages are relatively a small percentage of the calories that children take in, that additional amount of calories did contribute to more weight gain over time," said Dr. Mar...
In “Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch” (404 pages, Norton, $27.95), Charlottesville resident Barbara A. Perry, a senior fellow in the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, explores the life of the woman who gave birth to a president, two would-be presidents who served in the U.S. Senate, an ambassador to Ireland and five other exceptional children.
(Editorial) Virginia is the only state that frees families from any government oversight once a religious exemption is granted. This was highlighted in a report released last September by the University of Virginia School of Law’s Child Advocacy Clinic. The report, while recognizing the need to protect the rights of families to practice their religion and beliefs, pointed out the flaws of a law that subjugates the independent interests of a child in his or her education, also a fundamental right, to the beliefs of the parent.
If college is, as many people are wont to say, the greatest four years of your life, what are the next five years supposed to be? For former Virginia star Sean Singletary, they’ve been like the old Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock song, “Joy and Pain.”
“It’s indisputable that this is a year when many thousands want an alternative to the two major-party candidates,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Any analyst hears this constantly from Virginia voters who are dissatisfied with the choices.”
The question of whether state employees should accept gifts has received little attention, said Kyle Kondik, communications director at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "There's this kind of gray area where just because it's legal doesn't mean it's OK," Kondik said. "I think it's reasonable for the public to read about the tickets and say, 'That seems fishy.'"
Students entering the University of Virginia’s AccessUVa program starting in fall 2014 will have loans included in their financial aid packages. In a 16-1 vote Saturday, the Board of Visitors rolled back the “no loans” policy under the school's signature financial aid program.
Babies who regularly spend nights in another person’s home will be less securely attached to their primary caregiver parent as they grow up, a University of Virginia study found. Samantha Tornello, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology at UVa, studied 1,000 children whose parents didn’t live together at the time of the child’s birth.
Charlottesville's Westhaven community gathered together on Saturday for its annual community day. And along with the good food and music, dozens of kids had an opportunity to get a free check up. Volunteers from the University of Virginia Children's Hospital were on hand to give children free sports physicals.
A Charlottesville business is sharing its successful model of working with veterans with other central Virginia employers. Shine Systems and Technologies is hosting a Virginia Values Veterans training day at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business on Wednesday. The event is for employers.
Getting algae to wipe out pollution in a cost-effective way from, say, a coal-fired power plant is where the real challenge lies. "The reason that we don't have algae ponds next to all our power plants is that the devil's in the details," said Andres Clarens, who researches carbon management as an assistant professor with the University of Virginia's civil and environmental engineering department.
In his Aug. 1 analysis, Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center on Politics in Charlottesville, pointed out that generally speaking, the president's party pays a price for holding the White House and that like other parties of presidents, the Democrats may be in a weaker position in the states, as well as Congress, when President Barack Obama leaves office in 2016.
Keeping health science research discoveries flowing down the laboratory-to-market pipeline requires sustained federal funding, a local biotechnology executive told a congressional subcommittee. Brian Wamhoff was one of three people invited to testify recently before the House Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
In previous studies, Professor Bankole Johnson and his team at the University of Virginia have shown that variations in genes that encode the serotonin transporter, a protein that regulates the concentration of serotonin between nerve cells, can significantly influence drinking intensity. They have also shown that the effectiveness of ondansetron therapy among people with alcohol dependence is influenced by variations of the serotonin transporter gene.
At the University of Virginia, economist Amalia Miller calculated that for every year a woman delays motherhood, she makes about 9 percent more in lifetime earnings. A decade of delay could mean nearly doubling her income, Miller has extrapolated — a windfall that makes it much easier to buy all those diapers.
When faculty at the University of Virginia Women’s Center were brainstorming new ideas for programs to help university women, Edith “Winx” Lawrence had an idea that would take their efforts beyond the campus and into the community. “I suggested maybe the best way to help college women would be to teach them to help younger women feel good about themselves,” Lawrence says. Those discussions led to the creation of the Young Women Leaders Program, which Lawrence cofounded with Kimberly Roberts in 1997.
Minus the two-a-days, the IV drips, the soft tissue muscle pulls and the fatigue, Chris Long has actually become a fan of training camp.