(NOTE: Republishing to reflect headline corrected by media source) Noelle is a perpetually pregnant mannequin who lives at the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing. She has a heartbeat and blood pressure, eyes that open and close, joints at the hip, knee and ankle, a womb, a baby who’s been delivered thousands of times – and thanks to various computer programs, she talks. Noelle is one of seven high-tech mannequins at UVA. She cost $60,000. A male model, who sweats, has seizures and is wireless, cost $90,000. But the lab’s associate direc...
The study also looked at national return on investments. Ranked number one is the Georgia Institute of Technology, with an $836,000 return on investment. State University of New York at New Paltz takes second with a $644,500 return followed by the University of Virginia with $620,900.
What is unclear, however, is whether the 2013 recess will lead to the explosive exchanges of 2009 and 2010 that helped Republicans win a landslide during the president's first midterm election. "I don't think the country is in the broiling mood it was in 2009. Times are a little bit better. I don't necessarily think we are going to see the kind of fireworks that we saw four years ago," says Kyle Kondik, a congressional election specialist at the University of Virginia.
Gerald D. Starsia has been named senior associate dean and chief operating officer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
"It's an easy thing for Democrats to caricature in their attacks on Cuccinelli," says Kyle Kondik, analyst for the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "If the Democrats win this election, it will probably be because they have painted Cuccinelli as too out of the mainstream, particularly on social issues."
U.Va.’s School of Nursing makes the five-school list.
Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist who reviewed Castro's interrogation, later testified that Castro had no "mental illness whatsoever" and had been methodical in keeping the women captive and avoiding detection.
Obama has to pass through another congressional election in 2014, and his losses may well pile up. Because, as a new study from the University of Virginia Center for Politics proves yet again, "the president's party almost invariably pays a price for holding the White House, a price that can be measured in the loss of House representatives, senators, governors and state legislators."
Kim Innes, a Kundalini Yoga practitioner and a clinical associate professor at the University of Virginia, recently published a study on how yoga may benefit people who have a variety of health risk factors, including being overweight, sedentary, and at risk for type 2 diabetes.
Married college students are an anomaly today. The median age for a first marriage has risen over the years, according to the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. A generation ago, most couples married in their early or middle 20s. Today, women usually tie the knot at 27; for men, it’s 29. Noting that trend, some campuses have done away with family housing.
The University of Virginia's Board of Visitors convened Thursday afternoon for a new year. The meeting represented new beginnings in a lot of ways: there are three new board members and a new rector.
Dr. Greg Saathoff, a U.Va. forensic psychiatrist who often works with the FBI, said Castro's crimes were "completely unprecedented" given that his victims were unrelated and that they were kept in a neighborhood setting for so long.
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.