Members of a team that won a design contest earlier this year to come up with new ideas for the replacement of the Belmont Bridge have expressed concern that they were not contacted to help turn their entry into a reality.
Any time you need to have surgery to treat cancer, it's serious business, and can be a scary proposition. But a new technique at the University of Virginia is allowing doctors to treat patients quickly, and with much less pain.
Many Kentucky parents don’t realize that their children are obese or overweight, or at least aren’t willing to acknowledge it. That is the obvious conclusion to draw from the latest results of the Kentucky Parent Survey. The survey, taken by land-line and cell telephone from July 19 to Aug. 22 by the Center for Survey Research at the University of Virginia, interviewed 1,006 Kentucky parents, step-parents, grandparents, foster parents or other legal guardians of children in Kentucky selected at random.
In addition to Gibson, R-N.Y., the DCCC has targeted five other Republican representatives with video ads — Gary Miller of California, Dan Webster of Florida, Tom Latham of Iowa, John Kline of Minnesota and Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington. All six are considered vulnerable in 2014 according to Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
If lawyers from outside the Birmingham bar “start with an assumption that someone who practiced in West Virginia and is now a judge in Alabama is not sophisticated enough, they are in for a rude shock,” said Frederick Schauer, a longtime Harvard professor who now teaches the University of Virginia’s law school, of his former student.
"The report certainly isn't the 'hail and farewell' Hillary Clinton hoped for, and it isn't pretty. But two points: Clinton has been in the national public eye for 20 years, so any new piece of information is put into a much larger context. That will help her," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
National political experts say Scott is the most imperiled governor in the nation, even though Florida has been dominated by the GOP for the last 18 years. "In the entire nation, he's the incumbent governor in the worst shape," said Larry Sabato, Director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
The 2012 winter season begins today. Should we expect plenty of snow? Will there be chilling temperatures or will it be a mild winter? According to Jerry Stenger, the state climatologist at the University of Virginia, nobody knows.
Last month, the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture released survey results assessing the “Culture of American Families.” One of the results, based on interviews with thousands of parents nationwide, was that parents often delude themselves when it comes to their own children’s behavior.
After the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors called for the forced resignation of the school’s president, Teresa Sullivan, during the summer, students, faculty and alumni continually gathered on the lawn outside the campus’ Rotunda in protest.
Politics professor Larry W. Sabato, director of U.Va.'s Center for Politics, discussed the National Rifle Association's apparent willingness to discuss some gun law reform.
(Commentary) Only 15 schools earned FIRE’s “green light” rating, meaning that they don’t maintain any codes that violate First Amendment standards. Some prominent institutions, including the University of Virginia, Dartmouth, and Penn, have polices entirely friendly to free speech, but green light schools represent just 4 percent of the campuses surveyed.
A study done by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, released in February 2011, said the recession had brought “greater commitment to stay married,” which is one way to spin it. The report acknowledged that financial strains had created “diminished marital happiness” for many, which led 38 percent of respondents to “table or cancel their plans to divorce or separate.”
Ramya Viswanathan, a graduate student at the University of Virginia, is now prepared with a one-minute rendition of her research in case she should briefly encounter a prospective employer or her department chairman. Her fellow U.Va. graduate student, Manisha Menon, also tackled the challenge of making her work on the internal architecture of cells interesting to a wide variety of people.
There are hundreds of multiple-casualty shootings every year, says forensic psychologist Dewey Cornell, director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project. People have become so desensitized to the horror, however, that they pay no attention.
APOGEE's identification of which stars are part of the bar will allow astronomers to study how stars in the bar and in the rest of the galaxy react to one another. "The bar acts like a giant mixer for our galaxy," says Steven Majewski, a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia and the principal investigator for the APOGEE project.
According to a report that came out earlier this month from the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, less than a quarter of US moms and dads believe this is a great time to be bringing children into the world, and most say it is tougher to raise children today than it was 50 years ago. But in a twist, researchers found that most parents in the U.S. think their own kids and family are doing just fine, thanks. It’s the other families out there that are the problem.
A company repositioning drugs used to treat high blood pressure for use in improving chemotherapy has secured $3 million from investors to carry its lead candidate through Phase 1 trials. Tau Therapeutics is repurposing the calcium channel blocker mibefradil for use alongside chemotherapy in patients with solid tumor cancers, starting with brain cancer. After having its investigational new drug application accepted in February, the University of Virginia spinout has just closed a $3 million round of equity financing to support a Phase 1b study in collaboration with the National Cancer Ins...
"Marriage in middle America is at a tipping point, with unwed childbearing threatening to become a new norm," Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, wrote in the study.
A University of Virginia Darden Business School course is capturing the focus and freeing the minds of some unlikely students in Fluvanna County. The Darden School is guiding inmates at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in the direction of business ownership.