Two major Virginia children's hospitals, more than 100 miles apart, have all but eliminated the distance between them for infants with congenital heart defects. In a bid to improve its performance in surgical repairs, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters in Norfolk is partnering with the UVA Children's Hospital to shift responsibility for congenital heart surgery roughly three hours northwest to the Charlottesville facility.
The UVA Health System will need to dramatically cut costs to adapt to a changing health care market, said Dr. Richard P. Shannon, UVA’s executive vice president for health affairs. Shannon briefed members of the Medical Center Operating Board on Monday.
New estimates released Monday by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center show the region’s population continues to grow, reflecting a statewide trend of growth in urban areas close to Northern Virginia.
Host Coy Barefoot presents an extended conversation with Bill Antholis, CEO of UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
Host Coy Barefoot talks with UVA anthropologist George Mentore about the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States.
The dismantled remains of one of Richmond’s most charitable companies has started demanding the return of some of its gifts. Steven D. Walt, a professor with the UVA School of Law, said demanding the return of donations is a fairly new trend within bankruptcy law and has grown in popularity in the past 10 years.
A study by economists Gihoon Hong of Indiana University South Bend and John McLaren of the University of Virginia concluded that by raising demand for goods and services in the communities where they take up residence, new immigrants serve to create 1.2 new jobs each and boost the pay of Americans. Cutting down on illegal immigration wouldn't save jobs, on net; it would eliminate them.
Several major fundraising shifts and personnel changes within the past week show the Democratic establishment, long thought to be a centrally controlled power, is uncertain which of the two candidates to support: former Rep. Tom Perriello or current Lieutenant Gov. Ralph Northam. “Northam already has overwhelming backing from the party establishment in Virginia,” said Geoff Skelley, media relations manager with UVA’s Center For Politics. “Therefore, if you want to make a comparison to the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, it would be Northam as the establishment candidate and Perriello as ...
When we looked into Trump’s claim in July 2015, all the experts we spoke with said Trump’s accusation is off base. A year and half later, there’s still no evidence that Christians have a higher bar to clear for entry. UVA law professor David Martin, an immigration law expert who previously held posts at the Departments of State, Justice and Homeland Security, acknowledged that Christian Syrians make up a smaller number of admissions than they do the overall population.
“Unlike the previous president, I don’t think this president is interested in the legal questions,” UVA law professor Saikrishna Prakash said during a panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. “This president came to office as a businessman . . . (who) is going to rely on his lawyers” on certain crucial legal issues.
Researchers with UVA’s Center for Politics have found that the traditional Democratic stronghold of Northern Virginia has proven especially consequential for leftward-leaning candidates, with the region accounting for at least 37 percent of all votes for Democratic candidates in each statewide race since 2013.
Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia and George Washington University are among several schools telling students and scholars affected by the ban to refrain from traveling outside the United States because of worries they may not be allowed to re-enter.
College campuses were also spurred to action Sunday. At the University of Virginia, hundreds of students and community members flocked to the Rotunda, the esteemed centerpiece of Thomas Jefferson's university.
Timothy Beatley, who runs UVA’s Biophilic Cities Project, promotes what he calls the “nature pyramid,” a way of visualizing the recommended amounts of time in different natural environments. Like the famous food pyramid, the nature pyramid can help us to apportion the amount of nature we need.
Money plays a role in the vast majority of relationships, says UVA sociologist Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project.
The hot-button question is what effect NAFTA has had on the American workforce – measured by jobs lost and the damping effect on wages as production has shifted to a lower-paid workforce. “For the average worker, there is not much of an impact, but for certain important pockets of workers, the lowered import barriers resulting from NAFTA do seem to have lowered wage growth well below what it would have been,” John McLaren, a UVA economist said. “This is particularly true for blue-collar workers.”
Author and Darden professor Edward Hess discusses his new book, “Humility is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age.”
The second order is designed to enhance the enforcement of immigration laws within the United States. The language is “remarkably broad” and “takes that notion of ‘criminal alien’ to its farthest reaches,” UVA professor and immigration scholar David Martin says.
“Other presidents have probably watched TV coverage more than they admitted, but this is unprecedented,” said political science professor Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “This is how Trump has been trained. He has been trained to live and die by what is said about him on TV and what the press writes about him for most of his lifetime. This is simply the norm for him – what he has done since he became a public figure. Nothing’s changed.”
For the first time since the Census Bureau has kept records, more people are moving out of Virginia than they are coming in. UVA’s Demographic Research Group has compiled the figures from the Census Bureau. “Virginia grew by a little over 44,000, which is the smallest gain since the 1970s,” said Hamilton Lombard, co-author of the report.