The Landscape Architecture Foundation has announced the two winners and six finalists for its 2018 Olmsted Scholars Program, a leading national leadership award program for landscape architecture students. Elizabeth Camuti, a master’s student at the University of Virginia, was selected as the 2018 National Olmsted Scholar, receiving the $25,000 graduate prize.
Although the overall cost of hypertension rose, the study found that individual expenses remained stable over time. Patient spending, however, shifted from inpatient to more outpatient, perhaps due to better patient access to preventive and outpatient care under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, Kirkland said. “A reduction in inpatient costs is good,” said cardiovascular endocrinologist Dr. Robert M. Carey, vice chairman of the committee that wrote the 2017 AHA/ACC blood pressure guidelines and dean emeritus of the UVA School of Medicine. “It may mean we’re getting a better handle on blood pressur...
He similarly retweeted University of Virginia Center for Politics director Larry Sabato’s Twitter post praising former President George H. W. Bush’s tweet in which he expressed his "regret” for missing a Memorial Day parade. “What a sane, modest contrast to Trump’s narcissistic tweet this morning making Memorial Day all about him,” Sabato wrote. “But then Bush 41 is a genuine war hero who would have served even with a bone spur in his foot.”
The party is unlikely to select a current General Assembly member, according to Larry J. Sabato, a political analyst and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Selecting a current House of Delegates member would upset a delicate GOP majority in Richmond, Sabato said. The party currently holds a one-seat majority in the Virginia House. “There could be 10 to 12 candidates throwing their hats in the ring,” he said. “It’s such a short time before the filing deadline that they could run for as little as $10,000 to $25,000.”
Then there are the more logistical concerns. Brian Nosek, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who was consulted on the training, worried that Starbucks was moving ahead too quickly. Productive sessions, he said, require concrete goals, specific behavioral standards and a clear metric for evaluating performance. “Training to make a caramel macchiato can be quite effective,” he said. “Training to be unbiased toward your fellow human doesn’t achieve any of those criteria.”
Trump’s habit of making unsubstantiated claims has no precedence in modern U.S. history, said Barbara Perry, the director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia. Before Trump, “Richard Nixon was the closest thing we had to a prevaricating president,” Perry said. “Nixon had always been viewed as a shady character. His nickname was Tricky Dick. But Nixon didn’t typically go out to the American people and tell a big lie every day.”
The question-of-the-week is: How do you avoid teacher burn-out? Response from Patricia Jennings: Jennings is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of social and emotional learning and mindfulness in education with a specific emphasis on teacher stress and how it impacts the social and emotional context of the classroom and student well-being and learning. She is an associate professor of education at UVA’s Curry School of Education.
Michigan State University is hiring the outgoing president of University of Virginia as an adviser to the school's board of trustees as it searches for a new president. Teresa Sullivan, an MSU alumna, is set to leave her post at UVA in July when her contract ends.
Teresa Sullivan, the outgoing president of University of Virginia, has been hired by the Michigan State University Board of Trustees to advise the board on its search for MSU's next president.
(Commentary by Chris Lu, a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center) One of the best-known slogans in recent political history is: "It's the economy, stupid." This simple message helped propel Bill Clinton to the White House in 1992 and later sustained his popularity when he faced impeachment. Candidates over the past quarter century have harkened back to this catchphrase – as incumbents running when the economy is strong or as challengers when the economy is weak. This year, Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are banking on the strength of the U.S. economy to defy the history of big midte...
(Commentary) Hundreds of studies on eyewitness identification have been published in professional and academic journals. One study by University of Virginia Law School professor Brandon L. Garrett, found that eyewitness misidentifications contributed to wrongful convictions in 76 percent of the cases overturned by DNA evidence.
A new discovery about the effects of aging in our cells could allow doctors to cure or prevent diabetes, fatty liver disease and other metabolic diseases -- and possibly even turn back the clock on aging itself. The new finding from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests that fatty liver disease and other unwanted effects of aging may be the result of our cells' nuclei -- the compartment containing our DNA -- getting wrinkly. Those wrinkles appear to prevent our genes from functioning properly, the UVA researchers found.
Science is often a piecemeal process, with each small, new discovery adding another insight into the mysterious mechanisms behind how our bodies work. A new finding from the University of Virginia School of Medicine adds another piece to the puzzle of how cells in our body degrade with age. The potentially revolutionary breakthrough reveals how our cells can wrinkle with age, resulting in genes not being expressed properly. And the solution could be a novel cellular anti-wrinkle cream, delivered by custom-built viruses.
Psychologists at Harvard, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington created "Project Implicit" to develop Hidden Bias Tests—called Implicit Association Tests, or IATs, in the academic world—to measure unconscious bias.
Hospitals would pay the proposed provider assessments in taxes on revenues, but it would result in a net benefit of almost $880 million over two years for private acute care hospitals, according to Finance Committee staff members. The benefits would include revenue from expanding Medicaid eligibility to people who currently receive uncompensated care and from raising the reimbursement rate for providers. Public hospitals, such as the VCU and UVA health systems, would not pay the assessments. Sen. Ryan McDougle, R-Hanover, contended that such hospitals would not share in the same benefits as pr...
21. He Recorded More Than 260 Hours Of Private White House Conversations. In the spring of 1962, Secret Service agent Robert Bouck installed secret recording devices in the Oval Office and Cabinet Room of the White House at the request of President Kennedy. Though the president never explained why he wanted to record his conversations, both Bouck and Evelyn Lincoln, JFK’s personal secretary, believed that his reason for doing this was to have a personal record of his time in the White House after he had left. The Miller Center at the University of Virginia has made many of the 260-plus hours o...
What would you do if faced with the threat of a global pandemic — and you were responsible for containing it? Brian Cauley, who just received his master’s degree in public administration from San Francisco State University, and a team of four other students from four different universities took part in a fast-paced, computer-based competitive game at San Jose State University to see which team could best halt the spread of a global pandemic. Cauley’s team came in first place, outcompeting 130 other teams. Each student on the winning team received a $1,500 check and a medal from the competition...
Charlottesville ranks No. 11. “One of the most visually-appealing downtowns in this ranking and the highest-rated amongst ACC towns, Charlottesville is ranked inside the Top 10 nationally in diversity, city access and arts & entertainment, according to AIER. If you're in town for a Virginia Cavaliers game, make a weekend out of it several historical landmarks just outside of the city, including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.”
(Press release) The Top Universities for International Students range from private institutions, such as Columbia University in New York, American University in Washington, D.C. and California Institute of Technology, to public schools, including the University of Virginia, Mississippi State University and East Carolina University in North Carolina.
Most people should start screening tests for colon and rectal cancers at age 45, rather than waiting for age 50, as long recommended, the American Cancer Society said Wednesday. The shift by the cancer society is based on new information about the rise in colon and rectal cancer among younger adults, said Andrew Wolf, a UVA associate professor of medicine who led the group writing the new recommendations.