(Commentary by UVA President Jim Ryan) In the first week of the new year, two news stories caught my attention. On the surface, these stories don’t appear to have much in common: one a reason for hope, the other a cautionary tale. But both can be traced back to a single trend: the explosion of data.
The proposed legislation is based off two pilot studies conducted at the UVA Memory and Aging Care Clinic. These studies found families and patients who had an accessible dementia care case manager realized significant cost savings, decreased their health care utilization and had improved health outcomes.
(Video) Researchers at the University of Virginia are getting a big salute for a brain discovery that could help people with Alzheimer's disease.
(Video) Clark Hall at the University of Virginia is being recognized for its sustainability efforts.
UVA President Jim Ryan was carrying big news when he traveled to Suffolk last month to meet with the chairman of the Virginia House Appropriations Committee in his pharmacy there. The state’s flagship university was preparing to launch a new school of data science, funded with a $120 million gift from a Charlottesville philanthropist, to help educate more students in advanced computer skills required by Amazon and other big technology companies that are taking root in Virginia, in large part, because of its higher education system.
It’s shocking to think how many “fool-proof” methods of forensic science have sent innocent people to prison. Many such convictions have been overturned by DNA evidence, and the “fool-proof” evidence on which conviction was based turns out not to be so reliable after all. The number of false convictions thus exposed is frightening. In 2016, the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia’s Law School helped free a man who had spent 27 years in prison for a rape he maintains he did not commit. It was one of the cases the group took on because of the forensic tool of hair microscopy, which h...
It’s shocking to think how many “fool-proof” methods of forensic science have sent innocent people to prison. Many such convictions have been overturned by DNA evidence, and the “fool-proof” evidence on which conviction was based turns out not to be so reliable after all. The number of false convictions thus exposed is frightening. In 2016, the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia’s Law School helped free a man who had spent 27 years in prison for a rape he maintains he did not commit. It was one of the cases the group took on because of the forensic tool of hair microscopy, which h...
The University of Virginia on Friday announced it is launching an interdisciplinary school of data science with the help of a $120 million donation, the largest private gift in the institution's history. The gift came from a foundation funded by Jaffray Woodriff, co-founder of hedge fund Quantitative Investment Management.
Most of the time when we examine diversity, we do so along racial or gender lines, perhaps even national lines. A fascinating new study from UVA’s Darden School of Business attempts to take a fresh take on matters by exploring whether class diversity has an impact on the workplace.
The work of civil rights icon the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was honored locally at the sixth annual “Continuing His Dream and Works” event Monday. Keynote speaker Jeanita Richardson, a professor of public health sciences at the UVA School of Medicine, spoke about the importance of black residents pushing for action and not just discussion in the wake of the racist rallies of 2017.
“By keeping compensation secret, we might obscure structural inequalities and enable inequalities to persist,” said Morela Hernandez, a researcher and associate professor of business administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business. In the big picture, it’s easy to see how these biases might contribute to a wage gap, but it’s harder to prove wage discrimination on an individual level.
UVA officials said a majority of government contracts with some organizations, like the National Institutes of Health, and federal student aid are unaffected, but research funding from organizations such as NASA and the National Science Foundation has been deferred.
Former UVA basketball star Malcolm Brogdon (2011-2016) is having his best season in the NBA with the Milwaukee Bucks.
“Ocasio-Cortez has clearly become a figure of derision in the conservative press – and a figure of great interest and even admiration in the liberal imagination – and the attention she has garnered has led to her quite quickly becoming a major national figure,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
This Saturday, for the third year in a row, women across the country and around the globe will take to the streets and march for equality. And once again, the Women’s March is facing controversy in the background. “When you’re literally bringing together millions of women, it makes sense tensions emerge, but I think people are struck by them because we still think about women in politics as though they’re cohesive,” said Jennifer Lawless, a UVA politics professor who studies gender.
A new election could be the year’s only congressional contest, guaranteeing national attention and money. Two announced Democratic presidential candidates — Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand — already made fundraising appeals for McCready.“Inevitably it will be seen as a referendum on the contest between (President Donald) Trump and congressional Democrats,” said UVA political scientist Larry Sabato.
Virginia lawmakers are considering a bill that would define remote patient monitoring and include it in the commonwealth’s telehealth and telemedicine guidelines. The bills improve the connected health landscape in a state that houses several large health systems using telehealth and telemedicine, as well as the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center at the UVA Center for Telehealth, one of 12 regional and two national resource centers blanketing the U.S.
(Video) People in Louisa County are among the most food insecure in the commonwealth, according to a new study from the University of Virginia.
Members of the community are being asked to prioritize several issues facing the Central Virginia area. A working group made up of UVA faculty, staff and students, as well as local community members, created a list of the issues, and UVA President Jim Ryan is now asking the community to prioritize them.
South Africa’s iXperience and the University of Virginia – a top-ranked American university – are collaborating to pioneer a new paradigm of learning in South Africa and beyond. iX Immerse — a new 10-week, 10-credit program created by iX and UVA — aims to combine humanities courses and concepts such as history, politics, arts, and social justice, with the practical, and most in-demand skills necessary to succeed in the modern workplace.