Roanoke-based Carilion Clinic generated more than $3.2 billion in economic impact and approximately 24,000 jobs in Virginia in 2018, according to a Carilion-commissioned study released Wednesday from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Center for Economic and Policy Studies.
At the University of Virginia, students in China “were advised to depart” on Monday, the day the CDC and State Department advisories were upgraded, a spokesman told WTOP in an email. “At this time,” he added, the University has “no faculty-led or UVA-administered education abroad programs planned for the remainder of the spring 2020 semester in China.”
A partnership between two University of Virginia publishing groups recently received $1 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The funding will support the Virginia Digital Publishing Cooperative, a cooperative between the Center for Digital Editing and the University of Virginia Press that developed out of a similar grant awarded in 2017.
Negative emissions technologies, which remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, could halt or even reverse the process of climate change – but not without major consequences, according to new research from UVA doctoral candidate Jay Fuhrman and associate professor of engineering Andres Clarens.
(Commentary co-written by law professor Michael Gilbert) Lawmakers in the General Assembly are considering a proposal that would amend the Virginia Constitution to transfer redistricting authority from the General Assembly to a new redistricting commission made up jointly of citizens and legislators.
By 2040, according to a UVA analysis of census projections, half the population will live in eight states. About 70% of people will live in 16 states – which means that 30% of the population will control 68% of the Senate.
It’s been roughly three years since Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian found out he was going to be a father, but he’s still grappling with the profound awareness of his own mortality that came with it. Ohanian and co-founder Steve Huffman started Reddit after graduating from the University of Virginia in 2005 and sold it the following year for a reported $10m to $20m. It’s now one of America’s most popular websites.
Christopher Ali, a UVA associate professor of media studies, sees Liberty Global's possible Univision bid as Malone pursuing scale to more effectively deal with fast-consolidating media rivals. "Every year the M&A activity is heating up. And Malone wants to be part of this. We're seeing CBS and Viacom, T-Mobile-Sprint in telecom," Ali says. "He wants a piece of this M&A action, and Univision is his 'in' to start reassembling what he's had before."
Former foreign policy officials – including some who served in Republican administrations – said in interviews that Trump plays an unusual and at times disturbing role in high-profile criminal and sanction cases involving foreign governments. “What I know about his intervention in the Halkbank case is highly abnormal and quite worrying, actually,” said Philip Zelikow, a UVA history professor who served on the National Security Council staff for President George Bush.
Ken Cuccinelli is being eyed as the next Secretary of Homeland Security after Kevin Mcaleenan resigned as head of DHS on Oct. 11. Cuccinelli holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia, a J.D. degree from George Mason University School of Law (now the Antonin Scalia Law School), and a M.A. in International Commerce and Policy from George Mason University.
Rick Boyer, a Virginia conservative activist attorney and former local elected official, is helping with the so-called “Vexit” push. He said a growing movement of conservative Virginians is serious about leaving a state that he said doesn’t respect their rights. UVA law professor Richard Schragger, whose work includes a focus on the intersection of constitutional law and local government law, said the move would require the consent of both states and Congress.
An analysis by Alan I. Abramowitz at UVA’s Center for Politics found that candidates in the 2018 midterms who supported Medicare-for-all performed worse than those who did not.
An ambitious new study of genes in Asian populations is filling in big gaps in our understanding of human genetics, shedding light on the history of human migration and ultimately aiming to improve our ability to treat disease. Researchers from dozens of institutions around the world, including the University of Virginia School of Medicine, are seeking to address the under-representation of Asian populations in genetic research.
The University of Virginia has advised students to leave their program at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, and continue their studies remotely, said Brian Coy, a University spokesman.
“Environmental federalism gets cloaked in the language and rhetoric of constitutional law, but it’s really a simpler, more pragmatic concept: Who is responsible for cleaning up a toxic waste landfill that’s reached into a nearby river?” says law professor Cale Jaffe, director of UVA’s Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic.
Daniel Willingham, a UVA professor of psychology and author of “The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads,” has argued digital work probably can’t drastically reshape our cognitive systems. But he agreed there are obvious shortfalls to digital reading.
The Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service has a new director. Lawrence “Larry” Roberts, the institute’s fifth director, brings decades of legal and political experience as well as experience serving on business and civic boards.
In addition, with the implementation of lung screening and the increased use of CT scans in general, cardiothoracic surgeons are seeing more patients with small or undefined nodules, so the timing of the availability of technology such as OTL38 is just right, according to Dr. Linda W. Martin of the University of Virginia, who was not directly involved with this research. "In many circumstances, a preoperative biopsy is not practical or feasible, and we are faced with the need for intraoperative identification of these nodules," Martin said.
A new study of genes in Asian populations is filling gaps in our understanding of human genetics, shedding light on history of human migration and aiming to improve our ability to treat diseases, according to a news release from UVA Health. Researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and dozens of institutions globally are seeking to address the under-representation of Asian populations in genetic research.
No. 5 on the list is the University of Virginia School of Law.