“Historically, Catholic hospitals were always more likely to provide uncompensated services and care for vulnerable, stigmatized populations that for-profit hospitals wouldn’t touch,” said Kenneth White of the University of Virginia, who wasn’t involved in the study. “When patients see mergers in their small communities, they often don’t realize what that means or how services may be affected,” he said in a phone interview. “Information about ownership, mission, vision and values should be upfront in any hospital, regardless of affiliation, displayed both online and in the hospital.”
Lois Shepherd, professor of public health sciences and co-director of studies in reproductive ethics and justice at the University of Virginia, discusses misrepresentations and other flaws in Georgia's fetal heartbeat bill.
Two UVA researchers want to know what's preventing faculty members, including some who have used the services of UVA's Center for Teaching Excellence, from actually changing the way they teach. What they've found is helping them shape future research and design more-effective support systems.
Kathleen Flake, a professor of Mormon Studies at the University of Virginia, said the opening of the temple has “enormous cultural significance” for Mormons.
The University of Virginia is almost ready to begin building a conference center, while Charlottesville and Albemarle County also are thinking about a larger convention center.
"I'm proud that when her time comes, my kid will get admitted the old fashioned-way: by choosing parents wealthy enough to afford a house in a good school district and an SAT prep course." Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, reacting in a tweet to the college-admissions scandal.
One event on Wednesday examined how social media undermines democracy. Media scholars have been trying to answer that question since the 2016 presidential election. On Wednesday evening, University of Virginia professor Siva Vaidhyanathan and University of Pennsylvania professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson shared their thoughts at a UVA Center for Politics forum.
A study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of British Columbia and the University of Virginia found that moderate background noise enhances consumer "creativity" – meaning they will see the range of benefits of buying a new, innovative product, for example. A medium level of music volume will help reduce distraction for your customers so they can think about their purchase choice this way.
The National Center for Health Statistics report relies on information from death certificates, which don’t always specify the type of drug that caused the overdose. Previous research, including a 2017 study from the University of Virginia, has estimated that opioid mortality rates might actually be 24 percent higher than stated in official reports due to incomplete reporting on death certificates.
The University of Virginia is now ranked second on a list of major colleges that provide Peace Corps volunteers. UVA had 74 volunteers serving in the Peace Corps last year. The only school with a higher total is the main campus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. It had 75 volunteers.
The FCC builds its coverage maps using data that ISPs report twice a year in what's called the Form 477. There are two main problems with this report. "Form 477 just creates this wildly distorted image of a competition in broadband that's nonexistent," said Christopher Ali, a UVA assistant professor of media studies and a former FCC employee who's writing a book about rural broadband policy.
“You can typically track ancestry back to the 1870 Census, when the vast majority of African-Americans in the United States are listed as individuals in the U.S. census,” UVA history professor Kirt von Daacke said. Before then, he said, “enslaved people show up as statistical references.”
Spring on Neptune is twice as long. The planet experiences distinct seasons, but “I don’t think we’ve been able to observe Neptune long enough with enough detail to say for sure how spring in one hemisphere differs from any other season in terms of atmospheric activity,” says Anne Verbiscer, a UVA planetary scientist.
They were four kids, baby faced and slender, wide-eyed and talented. They were barely of legal driving age. But they had grand visions. One summer 2016 afternoon, as they walked from John Paul Jones Arena to the old Cavalier Inn, Kyle Guy, Ty Jerome, Jay Huff and De’Andre Hunter contemplated their future. What if, the four Virgina freshmen imagined, they could help Virginia be among the best teams in the ACC in three years time? Fast-forward to March 12.
Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit, which is now ranked the sixth-most popular website in America. Ohanian was dubbed "the mayor of the internet."… You're making the right choice when you walk into the history department first semester of your first year at the University of Virginia to declare your major, shocking the department head at how early you commit. Trust your instincts.
Alpha-gal is familiar to many scientists because it is responsible for an enduring disappointment: Its ability to trigger intense immune reactions is the reason that organs taken from animals have never successfully been transplanted into people. The puzzle was why the drug recipients were reacting to it. A team of allergy specialists led by Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills at the University of Virginia scrutinized the patients and their families for anything that could explain the problem. The reactions appeared regional – patients in Arkansas and North Carolina and Tennessee experienced the hypersens...
Why did Facebook air live video of the New Zealand mosque shooting for 17 minutes? Didn't anyone alert the company while it was happening? Facebook says no. According to its deputy general counsel, Chris Sonderby, none of the 200 or so people who watched the live video flagged it to moderators. In a Tuesday blog post, Sonderby said the first user report didn't come until 12 minutes after the broadcast ended. "When we see things through our phones, we imagine that they are like a television show," said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. "They ar...
Heightened sensory perception in toddlers with autism predicts sleep problems at around age 7, according to a new study. The findings suggest that sensory sensitivities interfere with sleep in children with autism. They also hint that adjusting for these sensitivities – by minimizing background light or noise at bedtime, for example – could ease the children’s sleep difficulties. “If you’re hearing noises or are really bothered by light or touch, it might make it harder for you to fall asleep,” says lead investigator Micah Mazurek, associate professor of human services at the University o...
The students' project is a tool that will analyze data of satellites in space. The satellites will then send that info back to ground stations at Virginia Tech, University of Virginia and Old Dominion University.
High school students in Albemarle County got a chance to tackle real-world health issues by teaming up with the University of Virginia. Students from the Health & Medical Sciences Academy, a magnet program at Monticello High School, faced off Tuesday in a competition at the Darden School of Business.