The medicines needed to treat opioid addiction require complex in-person procedures and regular follow-up, limiting what can be done via telemedicine, noted Richard Merkel, a UVA associate professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral science. The university, as part of the USDA initiative, will be providing remote mental health and addiction treatment to 11 rural community health centers. Both the prescribing and monitoring of those medications have "to be done face to face, by a physician who has been licensed [by the Drug Enforcement Administration].”
Shirley MacLaine will return to her Virginia roots as part of a trio of film legends at the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville Nov. 3-6. The festival lineup will offer more than 120 films ranging from beloved classics to some of the hottest new titles on the festival circuit. Legendary film icons will meet up-and-coming filmmakers from around the world and around Virginia.
New research says most of the causes of childhood diarrhea, the second-leading cause of death for children around the world, are pathological. Dr. Eric Houpt of the UVA School of Medicine's Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health says the roles of pathogens like bacteria, viruses and parasites has been vastly underestimated. The research suggests that nearly 90 percent of childhood diarrhea cases are caused by pathogens, up from about 50 percent.
Students choose a college for all kinds of reasons, but in dollars and cents, the best measure of a good college is what happens after graduation. One example of outcomes strength is the University of Virginia. It tied for 56th in our overall ranking, but comes in at No. 32 on outcomes thanks to a cap on loans it expects students to take out, a solid proportion of graduates who enter engineering and business fields, and among the best six-year graduation rates of any public institution.
A 2013 report by Caroline Hoxby of Stanford University and UVA’s Sarah Turner examined an experiment they conducted with high-achieving, low-income students. A number of interventions – including offering them fee waivers to 171 selective colleges – were conducted to make these students more aware of their options. The students in the program were more likely than similar students outside the program to apply to more colleges, and to more competitive colleges.
A 2013 report by Caroline Hoxby of Stanford University and UVA’s Sarah Turner examined an experiment they conducted with high-achieving, low-income students. A number of interventions – including offering them fee waivers to 171 selective colleges – were conducted to make these students more aware of their options. The students in the program were more likely than similar students outside the program to apply to more colleges, and to more competitive colleges.
The bulk of the media declared Hillary Clinton the winner of the most watched debate ever, but they may be once again demonstrating their failure to understand what makes Donald Trump voters tick. “Clinton and Trump are talking to two very different countries, and political analysts and reporters are generally in the country Clinton, not Trump, inhabits,” UVA politics professor Larry Sabato wrote.
UVA media studies professor Jack Hamilton describes how rock ’n’ roll went from an art form pioneered by black musicians and rooted in rhythm and blues to being overly simplified as "rock," a genre symbolized by a white man with a guitar.
In only three of the 11 past elections that included televised debates would the outcome possibly have differed if not for the debates, concludes Larry Sabato and colleagues at the UVA Center for Politics.
Research from the University of Virginia published this year confirmed the shift parents have been feeling: Kindergarten has grown far more academic, with an increasing emphasis on literacy and math and additional exposure to standardized tests in preparation for more later in their schooling.
When First Lady Michelle Obama and former President George W. Bush were captured on camera sharing a warm hug at the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture over the weekend, there was a collective national "aww." "It's a great photo that demonstrates genuine bipartisanship," said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics and a longtime White House watcher. "At one time they were political enemies, but they came together for a good cause. In the midst of a nasty election season, people are hungry for anything that can ...
Donald Trump is trouble for young Republicans, with a capital "T." "Trump is a very controversial candidate right now," said Joanna Ro, the chairman of UVA’s College Republicans. Recently, the group decided to endorse Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, but by a narrow margin.
UVA professor Larry Sabato agreed that Mrs. Clinton was the “clear winner,” but said the outcome might not matter. “He is the change candidate and will automatically get the votes of tens of millions who hate Hillary Clinton, but perhaps this will stop Clinton’s drift downward in the polls.”
A shooting is simply a gun being fired, not someone being shot or killed, said Dewey Cornell, director of UVA’s Virginia Youth Violence Project. The city’s numbers are striking, but Cornell said violent crime in Chicago is much lower than it was 20 years ago, mirroring the national trend.
Robert O’Neil, former president and professor emeritus of law at the University of Virginia, said a “compelling” basis for presidential reversal struck him as “imprecise” and in need of clarification. Yet he described even his own experiences with overturning faculty-approved personnel actions at different institutions over his long career as “varying widely.”
UVA political scientist Larry Sabato observed in post-debate analysis: “During a discussion on cybersecurity, Trump failed to bring up Clinton’s use of private emails as a potential cybersecurity issue. That was the equivalent of ‘missing the biggest, easiest softball lobbed right down the heart of the plate,’ as our Twitter pal @EsotericCD put it.”
Rice University researchers show they can estimate day-to-day pollution in Chinese cities by mining key words from social media posts. "There's a lot of discussion about censorship in Chinese media, including in Dan Wallach's work, but one of the things we like about this particular study is that it relies on data that are almost never censored, the most innocuous terms of all," said co-author Aynne Kokas, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and an affiliate of Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
In talking about lost manufacturing jobs, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, Trump was talking directly to the voters most likely to vote on the trade issue. “To the extent Trump had effective moments, they were on trade,” he said.
"It is dangerous to offer confident predictions of how the public will react to a debate immediately after it is concluded," wrote UVA analysts Larry Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of Sabato's Crystal Ball.
At a Monday conference at the University of Virginia hosted by the Virginia Department of Education and Jobs for the Future, education researchers and officials from around the country lauded Virginia’s efforts to have school divisions work individually on alternative testing.