Kidney failure following heart surgery is one of the main causes of postoperative deaths, with previous research finding mortality rates of up to 50% after surgery. Postoperative kidney failure also has been shown to potentially affect short- and long-term patient outcomes. "While the relationship between poor kidney function and worse outcomes after heart surgery has been well established, the ability to predict the impact of preoperative renal insufficiency on hospital costs and healthcare resource utilization was unknown," said Damien J. LaPar, MD, from the University of Virginia ...
In yet another round of proposed government giveaways, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton unveiled a tax incentive plan Tuesday aimed at reinvigorating employment growth in cities such as Detroit that have lost manufacturing and production jobs or are on the brink of plant closings or major layoffs. “You have to do things to keep the base happy,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told The Detroit News. “That’s something not just for Michigan, but probably aimed at Ohio, Wisconsin and all of the Rust Belt ...
Donald Trump's supporters aren't going to listen to anybody speaking against him, Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia said Tuesday, but he does think it's significant that GOP leaders and other candidates are lining up to repudiate his latest statements. "This has moved people off the fence, and a lot of Republicans, believe it or not, were on the fence," Sabato told CNN's "Newsroom" program.
When Donald J. Trump called on Monday for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” many legal scholars were aghast and said that such a ban would certainly be struck down by courts as blatantly unconstitutional. David A. Martin, a University of Virginia law professor who was deputy general counsel to the Department of Homeland Security in 2009 and 2010, noted that as recently as last May, in Kerry v. Din, the court reaffirmed its commitment to that standard in a 5-to-4 ruling. It dismissed a lawsuit by an American citizen who challenged the government&...
New studies by neuroscientists shows training in certain mental skills can build the brain’s capacity to process information and solve problems. Experts say practising those skills on the job may also help sharpen cognitive abilities. Recently, researchers have begun teasing out the specific cognitive abilities required by particular jobs. In another study, doing exercises in translating code, spotting patterns of letters or lines, and visualising the movement of three-dimensional objects in space was linked to improved scores on tests of those skills three years later, according to rese...
This time, Donald Trump has gone too far, some say. But political experts and elected officials contacted by The Dispatch were not willing to go quite so far as to say that he’s done — although most also still contend there’s little chance that even a Teflon-coated Trump will win the Republican presidential nomination. “It depends on your definition of done. Trump has said and done far too many divisive things to be elected president, and despite leading almost all polls, he remains unlikely to be the Republican nominee. However, I hesitate to say that he’s done &...
Sometime in the not so distant past, one of your kids, or a kid you know, has probably been told that she has a particular learning style. Perhaps she is a visual learner, who absorbs information best through images. Or maybe an auditory one, who needs to hear things to really grasp them. Boys are often told they are kinesthetic learners, deriving the most from a lesson through movement. It’s all bunk. “There is no credible evidence that learning styles exist,” says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia.
Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was found guilty last week of a criminal conspiracy “to willfully violate mandatory mine safety and health standards.” I asked Uhlmann, Steinzor and University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett, author of Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations, for their assessments of the Blankenship verdict in West Virginia, and to handicap the likelihood of criminal actions being brought against Exxon, VW and others. “The Blankenship case shows how prosecutors can successfully bring prosecutions against the highest-lev...
Surrounded by TV cameras outside a federal courthouse, former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship stood quietly and let his attorney do the talking after being convicted on a misdemeanor conspiracy charge in connection with the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades. If found guilty of all charges, he could have been imprisoned for up to 30 years. University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett said the verdict shows jurors can hold a corporate chief accountable in a complex case.
(Co-written by Jason Johnston, the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law) Early in October, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unleashed its latest effort to remake the American consumer credit system. This time, the bureau is targeting the provisions in consumer credit contracts that require disputes to be handled through arbitration rather than class action lawsuits. Our recent Mercatus Center working paper suggests that-despite the consumer protection rhetoric-class action lawyers, not consumers, will benefit from the bu...
The Battle Building, a seven-story, 200,000-sq. ft. ambulatory care facility at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, Charlottesville, which opened in June 2014, features full-height glass in the lobby to provide a visual connection to an adjacent park that was designed and built as part of the Battle Building project. Waiting rooms on the upper floors have views to the nearby Shenandoah Valley. A third-floor rooftop garden gives patients, families and staff a place for outdoor respite.
Some students from the University of Virginia Computer Science Department and Energize! Charlottesville are working together to create a game that will help residents save energy around their homes. The project combines the city's environmental goals, the competition for the $5 million Georgetown University Energy Prize, and the UVa Game Design Research Group's mission to us games to provide solution to broader societal issues.
Muslim students at UVA say they're tackling Islamophobia one hug at a time. They say that Donald trump himself is harmless, but his message is dangerous.
Leonard Schoppa, professor of politics, addresses the plight of refugees, and the vibrancy they add to the community.
If what you see is what you get, the University of Virginia has hired perhaps the most intriguing, uncommon and outspoken coach in the 127-year history of Cavaliers football.
At Bronco Mendenhall’s introductory news conference at John Paul Jones Arena, Virginia Athletic Director Craig Littlepage said the 49-year-old coach matched all the requirements and characteristics Virginia had on its wish list, including consistent, humble and data-driven. “From my standpoint, he’s a truly remarkable coach,” Littlepage said. “He’s a remarkable man.”
Bronco Mendenhall doesn’t believe success in the classroom and on the football field are mutually exclusive. Mendenhall said Monday his teams proved it can be done it in 11 years at BYU and he plans to continue that now that he is coaching at Virginia. The 49-year-old Mendenhall laid out his plans on Monday, saying he would effect change by leaning on his strengths as a teacher.
Bronco Mendenhall, a pleasantly brash 49-year-old who has compiled a 99-42 record in 11 seasons at Brigham Young University, was formally introduced Monday as the 40th head coach in Cavaliers history. Speaking at a standing-room-only press conference that included university president Theresa Sullivan and rector Bill Goodwin, Mendenhall said he intends – no, expects – to win in Charlottesville.
Francesca Tripodi, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Virginia, is working on a dissertation about Yik Yak. She observed comments on the app three times a day for an entire year and interviewed dozens of students who used it. “For the students who already feel they belong to the university, Yik Yak is reaffirming,” Tripodi said. “The jokes were particular to their community, their campus, what’s been going on around them. They find it really relevant to their lives.”
On Monday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders became the third Democratic presidential nominee to roll out a climate change plan, tying the issue to several broader themes in his campaign, including economic inequality and money in politics, in a bid to separate himself from his Democratic rivals. "If you ask people if they think climate change is an important issue they’ll say yes, but if you think of it comparatively to other important issues it kind of falls to the wayside," Geoffrey Skelley, a spokesman for the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, told The Christian S...