On March 16, 2018, the nation watched, stunned, as UVA’s De’Andre Hunter, his right arm wrapped around Kyle Guy’s shoulders, escorted his teammate off the court post-defeat; Guy’s face buried in his jersey, blocking out the cameramen, the fans – the entire world.
The University of Virginia Health System's two endoscopy units are receiving top honors for their quality care. UVA's endoscopy centers at the main hospital and on Monroe Lane are two of the 10 centers in the state to achieve the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy's Quality Star rating. This award recognizes programs that are committed to high quality patient care.
Ms. Pelosi knows that this speakership will be defined by how she handles President Trump. The last time she was speaker, from 2007 to 2011, legislative accomplishments made her reputation. She muscled through bills that bailed out Wall Street and helped arrest an economic free-fall, allowed gays to serve in the military, overhauled the nation’s banking laws and expanded access to health care for an estimated 17 million people. Many say passage of the Affordable Care Act is her signature achievement. But divided government, an unpopular president and wide-ranging, possibly criminal investigati...
Estonia has launched a project to make government administration completely digital. The goal is to reduce the size of the government work force, open up the decision-making process and fuel economic growth. Other countries have a lot to learn, says Siva Vaidhyanathan. He is director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. Estonia took time to build security and privacy into its online model. “It made sure that state accountability is part of the process,” Vaidhyanathan said.
(Audio) New Yorkers just got some good news about the city's streets: Fewer people died in traffic accidents in the city last year. The death toll of 200 was the lowest on the city’s streets since New York started counting traffic fatalities back in 1910 — and ten percent lower than in 2017. Marketplace’s Erika Beras reports on what the city has done to bring traffic related deaths down and what’s next. Listen to hear Peter Norton from the University of Virginia.
This legal authority is almost a century old, said University of Virginia law professor George Yin. "Congress decided that tax information should remain confidential except in two situations," Yin has written.
NASA’s New Horizons team unveiled a striking set of images of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, beamed back to Earth after the spacecraft’s historic flyby on New Year’s Day. “Those moments when you see an image for the first time. It’s something that, instants before, didn’t exist in our minds—now it does. It’s like, boom, there it is: a whole new world to explore,” said UVA astronomer Anne Verbiscer.
Despite the controversy over the University of Virginia’s revisions to its right-to-assemble policies, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has awarded the university its highest free speech rating.
When she is sworn in on Thursday, Ms. Omar will take her place in the history books as one of the first two Muslim women in Congress — and the first to wear a hijab, or head covering, on the House floor. “She’s the epitome of the so-called American dream, but for much of white Christian America, she’s an American nightmare,” said Larycia Hawkins, who teaches politics and religion at the University of Virginia, and lost her job at an evangelical college after wearing a hijab in solidarity with Muslim women.
Valerie Gregory, an associate dean of admission, has worked for nearly 20 years to open the doors of the University of Virginia for underserved and underrepresented students.
UVA law professor Saikrishna Prakash says the Equal Rights Amendment could affect any policy favoring one sex over the other. Currently, it’s legally easier to justify affirmative action based on gender than race, he notes.
Warren will have plenty of competition from women driving the Democratic Party's resurgence as well as liberals and progressives, UVA professor Larry Sabato said. He said that despite her 80 percent name recognition, that did not necessarily translate into actual support. "Some Democrats swear by her and love her blunt style, while others are put off by her and fear she'd lose to Trump. Warren has a lot of convincing to do," Sabato said, adding the same is true of many other Democratic contenders.
This year, we asked a number of writers, technologists, politicians, activists and comedians to answer two questions: What do you predict Mark Zuckerberg’s 2019 personal challenge will be? And What do you think Mark Zuckerberg’s 2019 personal challenge should be? UVA professor Siva Vaidhyanathan, weighs in.
NASA made history early this morning during a close encounter with a tiny and enigmatic ‘minor planet’ lurking at the frozen far reaches of our solar system. Its New Horizons probe sped past a strange object called Ultima Thule at about 5:30 a.m., snapping pictures as it zoomed by at high speed. The first of these images have now been published and are expected to solve a key question about the far-off object, which is floating in a cloud of comets, asteroids and dwarf planets called the Kuiper Belt. “An even more bizarre scenario is one in which Ultima is surrounded by many tiny tumbling moon...
Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of UVA’s Center for Media and Citizenship, says other countries have a lot to learn. Estonia took time to build security and privacy into its model, in contrast with failed efforts by private companies to provide secure online voting systems in the United States, for example.
Many of us see fresh fruit juice as a healthy way to get a mega-dose of vitamins – but is that true? And what does it do to our blood sugar and insulin levels? "There are a lot of nutrients contained in the parts of the fruits, such as in apple skins, that are excluded when you juice them,” says Heather Ferris, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia. “You end up with sugary water with some vitamins." Plus, she adds, it’s not an ideal way to reach the advised ‘five a day’.
The final entry in this year’s most-read list highlights the story of the UVA Health System’s care providers, who began a practice of purposefully pausing their work in silence upon the loss of a patient. The Pause – as they’ve coined the practice, which has reached other health systems – is intended to be paid respects to the life lost, and the best efforts of the care providers in their attempt to save it. It’s also an embodiment of the best stories to highlight health care in 2018: patient-centric, team-oriented and norm-breaking.
The University of Virginia Health System's two endoscopy units are receiving top honors for their quality care. UVA's endoscopy centers at the main hospital and on Monroe Lane are two of the 10 centers in the state to achieve the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy's Quality Star rating.
The UVA Health System and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital are two of the hospitals nationwide that are now required to post their prices online. The goal is to give consumers information and smart options before they choose a care provider.
The University of Virginia School of Nursing recently received a Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, which covers diversity in higher education. This was the first time UVA’s nursing school has been honored and they were among 35 health professions schools nationwide to receive a 2018 HEED Award.