The office of sheriff is “anachronistic,” unaccountable to the public and should be replaced with a more professional county police department, says a new study. The study, written by UVA law professor James Tomberlin, said local sheriff’s elections provide minimal accountability since so many incumbents run unopposed.
The office of sheriff is “anachronistic,” unaccountable to the public and should be replaced with a more professional county police department, says a new study. The study, written by UVA law professor James Tomberlin, said local sheriff’s elections provide minimal accountability since so many incumbents run unopposed.
High stress can trigger pain and eventually injury, says Angelo Dacus, a UVA associate professor of orthopedic surgery who specializes in hand and other upper extremity disorders. "People walk on their feet, not on their hands," Dacus says. "So when we load the wrists, it’s important that we allow for a certain adjustment period."
The chief executive officer of the UVA Medical Center, Pamela Sutton-Wallace, has been honored as one of Modern Healthcare's top 25 minority leaders in healthcare.
Two-time Super Bowl champion and alumnus Chris Long will be the featured speaker at UVA’s Valedictory Exercises on May 18.
Hundreds of seventh-grade students spent part of the day Tuesday learning about possible careers. The career fair was organized by KidsCollege at Piedmont Virginia Community College, and it was hosted at UVA’s Newcomb Hall.
The bell at the UVA chapel rang 17 times Wednesday morning -- one chime for each death in the Florida high school shooting that has launched waves of unprecedented activism among students nationwide. A crowd of more than 1,000 students and others splayed across the lawn there, silent amid the ringing.
At UVA, more than a thousand students, faculty and community members gathered at the foot of the Rotunda. After walking out of classes, a group of 20 students read a list of demands — ban guns on college campuses, require background checks on all gun purchases, ban high-capacity magazines, and allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research the health effects of gun violence.
At UVA, more than a thousand students, faculty and community members gathered at the foot of the Rotunda. After walking out of classes, a group of 20 students read a list of demands — ban guns on college campuses, require background checks on all gun purchases, ban high-capacity magazines, and allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research the health effects of gun violence.
About 400 UVA students and faculty crowded around the Rotunda on Wednesday, many wearing orange shirts that said #Enough. The UVA walkout was meant to show solidarity with thousands of high school students, including Charlottesville-area students, who left class across the country to protest gun violence, according to Sarah Kenny, president of Student Council.
On Wednesday, dozens of UVA students participated in a march to bring attention to the issue of gun violence. The event wasn't only planned to remember the victims in the Parkland, Florida, shooting, but also to push for a more overarching approach to gun control.
"Enough is enough" echoed around the Rotunda Wednesday morning as UVA students participated in National Walkout Day. "If students can't feel secure in their learning environment, then they can't do what they need to do at a university," said Sarah Kenny, UVA Student Council president. "So it was really a no-brainer."
Dozens of people gathered at the UVA’s amphitheater for the Community Solidarity March Wednesday night to stand up against gun violence.
As a bell tolled 17 times Wednesday morning, one month after 17 people were killed in a school shooting in Parkland, Fla., more than 1,000 people at UVA stopped to listen. Many wiped away tears. For a generation of students who have heard about school shootings, the latest carnage was all too familiar.
While the researchers do not draw any conclusions about why more misconduct cases are being uncovered, they believe that it has something to do with the growth of specialized teams of investigators within prosecutors’ offices, known as conviction integrity units. These units also have access to files that defense lawyers and civil rights organizations are often prevented from seeing, said Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor who sits on the registry's advisory board.
Women are less likely than men to have careers aligned to their field of study, and the jobs many women take typically have lower career earning potential. It’s a chicken-and-egg problem, says Michelle Ball, a UVA career counselor. “Do teachers get paid less because the workforce is largely female, or is it that education is just underfunded and women are willing to go into it anyway?” she asked.
Chris Long is coming back to his alma mater to be the featured speaker at UVA’s Valedictory Exercises in May. Long studied sociology at UVA and played for the football team before heading into the NFL, a career he has used to advance charitable causes such as wider access to education and safe water sources in Africa.
Some previous research has suggested that EKGs may not be a good way to diagnose hyperkalemia, but, to be fair, that research was very limited and tested two human physicians. Another study suggested that EKG readings may not be sensitive enough to catch everyone with hyperkalemia and that the condition doesn’t always cause a different EKG reading. “We don’t know the number, but I can tell you that people do have hyperkalemia with a normal EKG,” says William J. Brady, a professor of internal medicine at UVA’s School of Medicine.
As National Geographic editors prepared an issue dedicated to race, they realized the 130-year-old magazine might face questions about its troubled history on the subject. So they asked John Edwin Mason, a UVA professor who studies the history of Africa and photography, to dig through the magazine’s archives to examine its shortcomings in covering people of color in the United States and abroad. He was unsparing.
Design thinking can help companies swell profit margins, but it can have even more powerful results when deployed in the service of social good, Jeanne Liedtka, professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, said at a panel on design’s social impact at the Fortune, Time, and Wallpaper Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore on March 7.