(By Dr. Michael Williams, chief of the University of Virginia Cancer Center Hematology/Oncology Division and director of the Hematologic Malignancies Section) Blood cancer research long has been a base of discovery for new cancer treatments, beginning with chemotherapy, which was first used to treat leukemia. Unlike solid tumors, blood is easier to collect, and cells are easily isolated for study. In recent years, this research has led to the introduction of new, targeted agents that are part of a global push toward personalized medicine.
(Editorial) Then, on Friday, the Post reported another angle of the investigation: whether Maureen McDonnell received free cosmetic dental surgery from a wealthy Richmond doctor who, in 2010, was appointed to the Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors. As University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato said, “It’s just plain bad judgment, and the latest sign that we have a governor whose sense of propriety is lacking.”
Karsten Nohl, the chief scientist who led the research team and will reveal the details at Black Hat, said the hacking only works on SIMs that use an old encryption technology known as DES.
The technology is still used on at least one out of eight SIMs, or a minimum of 500 million phones, according to Nohl.
The ITU estimates some 6 billion mobile phones are in use worldwide. It plans to work with the industry to identify how to protect vulnerable devices from attack, Touré said.
Once a hacker copies a SIM, it can be used to make calls and send text messages impersonating the owner of the phon...
The last name Kennedy is always going to be a draw. For Barbara A. Perry, it's her livelihood. The author, Kennedy scholar and presidential historian at the University of Virginia, has made Rose Kennedy the subject of her latest book, Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch” (*** out of 4).
Researchers at the University of Virginia are also undertaking a four-year, randomized study of the program's impact.
For his part, McDonnell’s defense is that he’s just playing by the rules that are in place. Larry Sabato, who leads the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, succinctly pointed out why that’s not very satisfying. “For a moment, forget partisan politics,” he tweeted July 13. “Under VA’s very lax gift laws, our pols can be wholly owned subsidiaries of one or few rich.”
Dr. Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia, said the report clearing Cuccinelli helps him distance himself from a broader political scandal engulfing McDonnell. "By no means was the report a vindication of Cuccinelli," Sabato said. "He was sloppy in his gift reporting, and arguably shouldn't have been indebting himself to someone like Jonnie Williams. But Virginia's gift laws are very loose."
Virginia has a more difficult road than most states to repeal its ban. "In order to get that on the ballot," said Kyle Kondik, with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, "the General Assembly has to vote in two straight sessions to put it on the ballot." And with a strong Republican majority in the House of Delegates, Kondik says that's not likely to happen soon.
Larry Sabato of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia noted that King is “well-known, at least to the political community, and he’s clearly associated with terrorism and national security issues. Those are all pluses.”
The University of Virginia has sent notices alerting more than 18,000 students that their Social Security numbers were exposed.
In a game often associated with routine, there hasn’t been a lot of sameness from game to game this baseball season for Richmond Flying Squirrels outfielder Jarrett Parker.
When Robert Chapel was planning this season's lineup for Heritage Theatre Festival, he wanted it to be balanced and offer something for nearly every taste. To close out the 2013 season, he decided on "Next to Normal," because he wanted to present a thought-provoking play that could educate as well as entertain.
Normally, this outer cocoon of hot gas would prevent astronomers from peering inside the disk where the gas had frozen out. “It would be like trying to find a small, sunny patch hidden within a dense fogbank,” said Karin Oberg, a researcher with Harvard University and the University of Virginia. The astronomers were able to pierce the intervening CO fog by instead hunting for a different molecule known as diazenylium. This fragile molecule is easily destroyed in the presence of CO gas, so would only appear in detectable amounts in regions where CO had frozen out, and is hence a pro...
Calvin Lai and Brian Nosek at the University of Virginia recently challenged scientists to come up with ways to ameliorate such biases. The idea, said Harvard University psychologist Mahzarin Banaji, one of the researchers, was to evaluate whether there were rapid-fire ways to disable stereotypes. Groups of scientists "raced" one another to see if their favorite techniques worked. All the scientists focused on reducing unconscious racial bias against blacks.
University of Virginia Center for Politics analyst Kyle Kondik says the rental agreement between McDonnell and Romero has the appearance of impropriety at a time when that's the last thing the governor needs. "There may be a good excuse for the governor in this particular instance, but it's easy to be skeptical about it in light of everything else," he says.
While you're checking out the candidates and turning in your ballots Tuesday evening, you might be expecting the same old song and dance. But thanks to the cast of "The Marvelous Wonderettes," classic pop songs from the 1950s and '60s will sound fresh again. Each audience member filing into the University of Virginia's new Ruth Caplin Theatre next week will receive a ballot with the playbill. Don't misplace it, because you'll be asked to cast your vote for prom queen pretty early in the Heritage Theatre Festival musical, which can be seen at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, Wed...
In a striking development, President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated Nisha Desai Biswal, an accomplished Indian-American administrator, to head the South Asia bureau in the US state department.
Jackson faces two challenges, said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
A third-party mail vendor violated protocol in failing to review address labels listing Social Security numbers on brochures sent to 18,700 University of Virginia students, a health insurance provider said Thursday.
Public policy professor William M. Shobe of the University of Virginia said the true cost of carbon dioxide emissions -- accounting for damage to the environment -- is more than $10 per ton. The lower price at which allowances are traded reflects an early belief by policymakers that the federal government would establish a national cap-and-trade program, he said.