A new study released this week by SoFi shows there are attractive options other than the familiar high-end law schools. UVA is listed among other well-known schools with favorable salary-to-debt ratios.
UVA musicologist Karl Hagstrom Miller said he sees Twenty One Pilots as a perfect example of how bands are changing from the rock/punk, guitar-bass-drums model to “other configurations of musical collaboration.”
FiveThirtyEight’s Ben Casselman had asserted that more young adults were now moving from cities to suburbs than vice versa, claiming, “Whether by choice or economic circumstance, young Americans are still more likely to leave the city for the suburbs than the other way around.” UVA’s Luke Juday pointed out that the data that Casselman used effectively missed millions of young adults, disproportionately those living in cities. Juday’s analysis shows that actually the reverse is true – young adults are increasingly moving to cities.
Miniature galaxies have been discovered with the help of theoretical and computer models. The sizes of these galaxies are 10 to 1,000 times tinier than the Milky Way. Sabrina Stierwalt from the University of Virginia said that the Lambda Cold Dark Matter paradigm is predicted to be an outcome of smaller matter fusing together to form the bigger matter, Seeker reported.
(By Aditya Bamzai, UVA associate professor of law, and Saikrishna Prakash, UVA professor of law) Now that Donald Trump has been sworn in as president, one vital question is whether he will fire the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray. As director, Cordray wields vast authority over the economy via regulation of mortgages, credit cards, and student loans.
For its UVA residency, the quartet’s working through a raft of graduate students’ compositions and exhibiting the pieces Friday. Greenberg said members of the group already have given the works an initial perusal, noting that the music touches on a broad array of styles and includes some theatrical elements.
For people with insomnia, help falling asleep may soon be available online: A recent clinical trial found that a web-based course of treatment for insomnia was effective at helping people get more sleep. The findings suggest that internet-based CBT-I "could reach previously unimaginable numbers of people," according to the study authors, led by Lee Ritterband, a professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral science at the UVA School of Medicine.
The Affordable Care Act helped make recommended cancer screening more affordable and accessible for millions of Americans, according to new UVA research.
The University of Virginia went “three-for-three” in the latest reports from the major credit rating agencies. Moody’s Investor Services, Standard and Poor’s, and Fitch have given UVA “AAA” debt ratings.
At least five other elite educational institutions have released reports of their own on the topic. Brown University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, University of Virginia and Yale University all have websites with information about how the institutions historically benefited from slavery in America.
The UVA Health System is recognizing those who embody the teachings of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center hosted the 2017 MLK Awards on Tuesday, celebrating staff and faculty who express King's teachings and values in their work.
UVA’s Center for Politics will celebrate the 100th birthday of President John F. Kennedy, and the upcoming release of sealed documents related to his assassination, with a series of classes and symposia.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends against using these high-tech baby monitors in healthy infants, said Dr. Rachel Moon, who chairs the academy's Task Force on SIDS. The academy’s main concern is that there's no evidence the devices even work, said Moon, head of pediatrics for the UVA School of Medicine.
Voting for round two of the Infiniti Coaches Charity Challenge is now underway and UVA men's basketball Coach Tony Bennett needs help to win for the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.
Donald Trump’s mournfully transparent attack on the press guarantees a short-term political gain. UVA political scientist Larry Sabato is not sure whether this is all a long-term strategy or a tactic designed to divert attention from self-generated controversies.
The anything-goes reaction on social media to Barron doing nothing more than attending the inaugural could be a sign of things to come in a social media universe dominated by Twitter, said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. “This is certainly the first incoming president with a pre-adolescent child in the Twitter age, not just the internet age,” said Ms. Perry.
Trump's attorney, Sheri Dillon, has argued that the emoluments clause does not apply to fair-value transactions, which would theoretically put Trump in the clear, as long as he wasn't accepting quid-pro-quo bribes or getting paid more than the market rate for goods and services rendered by the Trump Organization (a tough standard to actually enforce). Dillon's assessment isn't totally without support: Andy Grewal at the University of Iowa College of Law published a position paper just last week supporting that analysis, and University of Virginia School of Law's Saikrishna ...
"We're getting a snapshot of galaxy evolution in a phase that we haven't seen before," said study lead author Sabrina Stierwalt, an astrophysicist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the University of Virginia. "My group found one of the clearest examples of evidence to back up this theory of how structure formed."
(By Dr. Michael D. Williams, surgeon and director of the UVA Center for Health Policy) As the White House changes hands, the “unknowns” far outnumber the “knowns” in discussions about federal health policy and the planned repeal of the Affordable Care Act. But even as repeal is discussed, a better way forward for U.S. health care is contained in the ACA.
The Affordable Care Act likely extended the lives of thousands of seniors who took advantage of free screening exams and were diagnosed with treatable, early-stage colorectal cancer, a new UVA study suggests.