Political experts believe the Kentucky senator can raise the money to run for president. “Someone like Paul, who has the troops on the ground, can get by with spending less,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “But let’s see what the field of GOP candidates looks like. In the past, we’ve almost always seen the price tag go up every quadrennium. I doubt 2016 will be different.”
Val Ackerman has agreed to become commissioner of the Big East conference, adding to a basketball-heavy résumé that includes being the first president of the Women’s National Basketball Association, a source with direct knowledge of the hiring said. Ackerman, 53, a former University of Virginia standout, was chosen by the presidents of the conference’s 10 universities, according to the source.
(By Jennifer Silva, based upon her dissertation in the Department of Sociology) Young working-class men and women are trying to figure out what it means to be an adult in a world of disappearing jobs, soaring education costs and shrinking social support networks. Today, only 20 percent of men and women between 18 and 29 are married. They live at home longer, spend more years in college, change jobs more frequently and start families later.
Smoking cessation drugs are a prime example. In some patients they can cause depression and suicide. Allowing pharmacists to independently prescribe them, he says, could compromise patient safety. But others say that attitude ignores the fact that something must be done to ease the state’s doctor shortage. "You can’t say out of one side of your mouth, 'we’re going to have a huge shortage of doctors,' and then say, 'Oh by the way, you have to see a doctor for these conditions,'" says Jeff Goldsmith, president of Health Futures, Inc. and an associate p...
University of Virginia historian W. Bernard Carlson has shown how Tesla flashed upon the scene of early electrical technology rather like a spark from one of his own coils, only to fade out almost as fast into relative obscurity after about 1910. What is more, Carlson traces the reason for Tesla’s failure to live up to his potential on a conflict between ideal and illusion.
In early June, Tunkhannock graduate and University of Virginia star Mike Papi thought he was headed to Wisconsin for the summer. A conversation with Virginia head coach Brian O'Connor changed Papi's plans. O'Connor convinced Papi he had a shot to represent his country instead. Rather than playing for the Chinooks in a collegiate summer wood bat league in Lake Shore, Wis., Papi went to Cary, N.C., with hopes of making the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team.
Scientists stumbled upon estrogen as a potential weapon against Ebola while looking to find new uses for old drugs. Researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Maryland and at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville screened 2,000 existing drugs, in search for chemical compounds that were effective against Ebola. It was discovered that a number of human-made drugs, including selective estrogen receptor modulators, or SERMS, blocked Ebola's entry into cells in lab cultures and in mice.
Independent Albemarle County supervisor candidate Diantha McKeel announced Monday the formation of a "Common Ground Council" to address county issues. The eight-member committee is a group of nonpartisan community experts dedicated to making Albemarle the best place in America to live. The council consists of people associated with Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, including law professor Jonathan Cannon, civil engineering professor emeritus Nicholas Garber and pediatric cardiologist Dr. G. Paul Matherne.
A broader decision that affects campuses nationwide would have to come in another case. For now, university policies aimed at racial diversity remain constitutional. Said University of Virginia law professor John Jeffries, biographer of Justice Lewis Powell who was the author of Bakke, said of Monday's decision, "It leaves the Powell position (for) diversity ... alive, with a chance to fight again another day."
(Analysis) Robert M. O'Neil, professor of law emeritus at the University of Virginia and former president of that institution, is also a supporter of affirmative action. He said that there could be years of further litigation, and said that the Fifth Circuit might opt to send the case back to a district court for a full trial, leaving open the possibility of an entire additional round of appeals.
Among governors up for re-election in 2014, Corbett probably is the Republican most likely to lose, said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst with the University of Virginia. “Public polling shows him trailing his possible Democratic opponents by at least high single-digit margins, and even a Republican internal poll from a few months ago showed him losing by double digits,” Kondik said.
Minority Leader Tom Delay “was seen as a super conservative, almost slimy Texas Republican; Pelosi as a latte liberal. … Both stereotypes were effective for the opposing party,” says Kyle Kondik, who studies congressional races at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Fred Hayden of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville says that both Tamiflu and placebo patients in the Tamiflu randomised controlled trials were on paracetamol, so it was indeed compared to Tamiflu. It was more effective than either placebo or paracetamol.
Kimberley Hatchett isn't one for taking the easy route. As an Olympic hopeful in the early 1980s, she specialized in the 400-meter hurdles, among track and field's most grueling events and far from its most glamorous. An all-American athlete at the University of Virginia, her dreams of gold were dashed when she pulled a hamstring during the 1984 Olympic trials. Hatchett credits track and field for the fortitude that launched her career at Morgan Stanley in 1991 and pushed her over early corporate hurdles. Today, Hatchett's eight-person team has about 200 clients, with a median acco...
It’s a long way to Nov. 5 but New Jersey’s Republican-held governor’s seat has been declared a safe Republican hold in this year elections by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, with analysts last week saying polls clearly show that Gov. Chris Christie’s opponent, Democrat Barbara Buono, “has become something of an afterthought for Garden State Democrats.” But as for Christie’s expected push for the White House in 2016, the center’s director, Larry Sabato, said the recent history of presidential politics demonstrates that succ...
As Leslie Kendrick of the University of Virginia School of Law explained recently on Torts Prof Blog, “state tort liability for design defect or failure-to-warn is predicated on a judgment that a drug or drug label was not designed safely. But (drugmakers) generally cannot alter drugs or labels without FDA approval. Thus, (drugmakers) argue, it is impossible for them to comply with both tort law and FDA requirements.”
The wife of the honored Marine, Morgan O’Brien, is training to become a hematologist-oncologist. She moved to Charlottesville about a year ago to participate in a fellowship at the Emily Couric Cancer Center at the University of Virginia after completing the residency phase of her medical doctoral studies.
W. Bernard Carlson, professor of science, technology, society and history at the University of Virginia; author of "Technology in World History" and "Innovation as a Social Process," will be the guest on today’s show, which airs at 11:06 a.m.
The University of Virginia Medical Center is listed at No. 78, with annual revenues of $3.03 billion.
Over the next two years, Virginia's Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, at the request of state lawmakers, plans to analyze in depth how expenses at the state's public universities have changed over the past few decades, an endeavor that could result in new ways to control costs and prices, both in the state and nationwide. And the commission's first report, released this month, hints at one area that will be explored in depth in subsequent reports – auxiliary services, including housing, dining and intercollegiate athletics.