The University of Virginia announced Thursday a project to add to and update the campus – part of which is a UNESCO World Heritage site – with new markers, portraits, photographs and digital tours.
After the Affordable Care Act went into effect in the U.S., some states that did not immediately expand Medicaid – Virginia, South Carolina and Nebraska – allowed residents with HIV to get therapy and medications through state-run programs that used federal funds to create ACA-compliant health plans. These programs, though they did not offer as many residents the full health benefits that could have been available through Medicaid expansion, improved health outcomes and saved costs, a new UVA study suggests.
Southern University Law Center is the latest of more than 40 schools to join the Universities Studying Slavery consortium. Organized through the University of Virginia, the consortium addresses historical and contemporary issues related to race and inequality in higher education as well as how the complicated legacy of slavery still shapes modern American society.
Cyntoia Brown-Long, a woman whose story of injustice in the criminal justice system gained national attention, spoke Thursday at UVA. Brown-Long was 16 in 2004 when she was sentenced to life in prison in Tennessee for shooting and killing a man who bought her for sex. She was granted clemency in August.
The current number of geriatricians is inadequate in the U.S., a seemingly hidden shortage that could have a substantial effect on the rest of the health care sector. With that looming shortage in mind, the question is whether home care providers can play a part in picking up the slack geriatricians are leaving behind. Someone is going to have to, said Dr. Laurie Archbald, a geriatrician and UVA associate professor of medicine.
Cameron Cox, vice president of UVA’s College Republicans, said Republican students regard immigration as a more complicated issue than their national leaders do, especially as it involves “Dreamers” – undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.
Chris Long, who played football at the University of Virginia and then the NFL for 11 seasons with the then-St. Louis Rams, New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles – winning Super Bowl titles with the latter two teams – lent his assistance as the founder and president of The Chris Long Foundation and Hometown H2O.
When carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is dissolved in seawater, it forms carbonic acid and releases hydrogen ions. Acidity or alkalinity is determined by the number of hydrogen ions (H+) dissolved in water and is measured by the pH scale. These hydrogen ions bond with available carbonate ions (CO3-) to form bicarbonate (HCO3-), depleting the available carbonate in the oceans. "Right now we're releasing about 10 billion tons of carbon per year into the atmosphere and roughly 2½ billion tons of that goes into the ocean," Scott Doney, a UVA professor of environmental sciences said.
Presidential scholar Barbara Ann Perry argued that Trump’s defense threatened to set a dangerous precedent for presidential authority. Among other things, the president’s lawyers argued that abuse of power is not an impeachable offence and that Trump was justified in taking any actions to help his re-election because he believed his victory was in the national interest. “This raising of the bar on what is impeachable is frightening to me,” said Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. “That leads to authoritarianism.”
“I think it’s done one good thing for Democrats. It has awakened some of the activists to the very real possibility that Trump will win a second term,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
An insurance industry group that hired the Rolling Stones last year to help promote annuities is undertaking a new venture, a research initiative it announced Monday.The institute will receive advice from at least 10 scholars, including the American College of Financial Service’s Wade Pfau and Brookings Institution senior fellow Bill Gale. The group is led by Jon Forman, from the University of Oklahoma College of Law; Leora Friedberg, associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Virginia’s economics department and Frank Batten School of Leadership and Publi...
Robert F. Turner, a professor of law and co-founder and associate director of the Center for National Security Law in the School of Law at the University of Virginia, plans to retire.
National political analyst and head of UVA’s Center for Politics Larry Sabato said the entire spectacle was unprecedented in all his years of political study. "I was stunned and disgusted because there were so much bitterness and partisanship and frankly outright hatred on both sides. You can't run a country that way," Sabato said.
Although he was never formally impeached, President Richard M. Nixon also faced the specter of Congressional ouster, said Larry J. Sabato, founder and director of the UVA Center for Politics and author of “The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy.” “Nixon shouldn’t be left out because, unlike Clinton and Trump, he really would have been ousted by the Senate,” Sabato said.
“Time since surgery has been shown to be the most common factor used when making decisions for return to sport after [ACL reconstruction],” Stephan G. Bodkin of UVA’s Department of Kinesiology and colleagues wrote. “Time following any surgery should be considered, given the healing processes of involved tissues; however, it is often the only criterion used, ignoring the symptomatic state of the patients or objective measures of strength and performance.”
In 2013, a study by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service identified Youngstown, Ohio, as one of the 20 most racially segregated cities in the country. While the study specifically looked at housing trends, there is plenty of evidence to show that poverty, measures of health and wellness and other economic indicators also follow these trends.
UVA’s Center for Politics and Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy will sponsor the “Democracies in Crisis” discussion on Feb. 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. in Garrett Hall.
The University of Virginia Foundation has hired Maryellen Dolan as director of real estate asset management, the organization announced Wednesday.
Let’s start with what most people agree on: “It would severely limit the ability of governments to make decisions explicitly on the basis of sex,” says John Harrison, a professor at the UVA School of Law. But how this principle would be applied in actual laws and court cases is unclear, though there are some ideas.
“It’s the big discussion in election forecasting and political science right now,” said Kyle Kondik, communications director at UVA’s Center for Politics. “As I look at it, there are just a lot of different things going on in the electorate. The more you learn about this stuff, the less you feel like you have a grasp on it.”