Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters announced Tuesday it has formed an alliance with the UVA Children’s Hospital to improve the CHKD heart surgery program.
The Charlottesville area is growing by leaps and bounds. New estimates released by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center show it is the third-fastest-growing area in Virginia.
Schönberg and Boublil will be artists-in-residence at the University of Virginia from Feb. 22 to 24, sharing their experience and creative insights with students, faculty, staff and the Charlottesville community.
Ryan McFadden was in his early 30s when he found his life’s calling. Today, McFadden is a pediatric nurse at the UVA Children’s Hospital, thanks in part to the financial assistance he received under the Conway Scholarship, which allowed him to attend UVA’s School of Nursing.
Two of the UVA’s major student political organizations have issued a joint statement condemning President Trump’s 90-day travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries. The statement from the University Democrats and College Republicans said the order “raises a number of ethical, humanitarian and legal concerns.”
The “one-in, two-out” approach has been tossed around for several years, but it hasn't been adopted because many believe it's not a well-targeted approach to reducing regulatory burden, said Michael Livermore, a UVA law professor who specializes in regulation and cost-benefit analysis. It maintains the status quo, which isn't necessarily something a new administration wants to do.
(By Kerry Abrams, professor of law at the UVA School of Law, and Brandon L. Garrett, Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law at the UVA School of Law) President Donald Trump’s executive order on refugees and noncitizens states that one of its purposes is to ensure that people admitted to the country “support the Constitution.” It’s clear from the rest of the order, which runs afoul of a number of constitutional provisions, that the president does not.
Snowstorms may leave more than a big mess in their wake: New research shows a sharp spike in hospital admissions for heart trouble two days after these weather events. UVA cardiologist Dr. Ellen Keeley, who wasn't involved in the study, said the results are consistent with other smaller, single-center studies. It "highlights the importance of the real association between snowstorms and cardiac events," she said.
Under intense questioning from Democrats during her Jan. 17 confirmation hearing, DeVos suggested that states should be able to decide whether schools must follow the law. She later said she may have been confused about IDEA’s requirements. The hearing prompted Robert Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education, to write that he was “was deeply dismayed by her performance” in the hearing. “It was, in a word, disqualifying,” he wrote in The Washington Post last week.
(Co-written by Saikrishna Prakash, a fellow at the Miller Center and UVA law professor) This week, President Trump will exercise one of the president’s most important powers: nominating someone to fill an empty seat on the Supreme Court. Many conservatives made peace with Trump because he promised to appoint “judges very much in the mold of Justice [Antonin] Scalia.” But will he have the mettle to keep his word or will he be cowed by Democratic Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer’s vow to only approve a “bipartisan” or “mainstream” nominee?
Annotations by David A. Martin, the Warner-Booker Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Virginia.
Fauquier’s population growth has slowed to about one-half of 1 percent annually, according to Virginia’s leading demographers. An estimated 67,898 people lived in the county last July 1, the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service Demographics Research Group reported Monday.
The theme of this year’s round of community Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations is “Silence as Betrayal,” and perhaps no one is more befitting of that premise than the woman who famously broke against the culture of silence in sexual harassment 25 year ago.
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.