Economists say it’s too early to tell the overall impact of Medicaid expansion. “It would likely take a few years of data before [the impact] could be fully evaluated,” says Terance J. Rephann, a regional economist with UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, who has studied Medicaid expansion.
Are we supposed to take care of the planet or should it take care of us? Willis Jenkins, a UVA religious studies scholar, explains how religion shapes the conflicting views over climate change and other environmental issues.
Quinn Curtis, co-author of “Shareholder Value(s): Index Fund Activism and the New Millennial Corporate Governance.”, talks with Les Sinclair about the findings in the paper. Quinn Curtis teaches courses on corporate law, securities and venture capital. His research focuses on empirical law and finance.
Quinn Curtis, co-author of “Shareholder Value(s): Index Fund Activism and the New Millennial Corporate Governance.”, talks with Les Sinclair about the findings in the paper. Quinn Curtis teaches courses on corporate law, securities and venture capital. His research focuses on empirical law and finance.
Climate has never been a major issue in a presidential campaign. This year, however, as the dire predictions increasingly become reality, that seems to be changing. “It has become a top-tier issue,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “How could anyone who reads the headlines not recognize that this is not just a problem, it’s a crisis?”
Research by Benjamin L. Castleman, now an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia, and Lindsay C. Page, now an associate professor of education at the University of Pittsburgh, showed that higher-tech nudges, in this case, text-message interventions, could make a difference at several key points in students’ journeys.
“My hope is the response to threats becomes more nuanced and more individualized, just like students with [individualized education programs]: Each one is unique to that child,” said Talisha Lee Bond, a school psychologist with the District of Columbia schools and a threat-assessment trainer for the Comprehensive Student Threat Assessment Guidelines, which were developed by Dewey G. Cornell, a forensic psychologist and professor of education at the University of Virginia.
Project Implicit is a nonprofit organization — the product of a collaboration of researchers from University of Washington, University of Virginia, and Harvard — that aims to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the internet.
A year after the University of Virginia implemented its ERAS protocol for patients undergoing thoracic surgery, it reduced the use of post-surgical morphine equivalents by more than half, reduced length of stay by two days, and even cut hospital operating costs.
The University of Virginia’s future vision for several streets near Jefferson Park Avenue means that area will be a construction zone for a few more years. UVA opened its new Bond House on Brandon Avenue a week ago, and city councilors are poised to take action later this month that involves Valley Road and Monroe Lane.
Plans to extend the reach of UVA’s Grounds down Brandon Avenue are one step closer to becoming reality. On Tuesday night, city councilors reviewed several easements requested by the University to help move construction along.
Mr. Scott served as a member of the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia for seven years.
Five months after signing a law to form the state’s first African American Advisory Board, Virginia’s governor has picked who will serve on it. The board’s 18 members – 15 of whom must be African American – include Zyahna Bryant, a student at the University of Virginia.
This “deliciously repulsive” story (one reviewer’s scrumptious description) with “Big Little Lies” overtones (the same reviewer) is told in Bruce Holsinger’s compulsively readable new novel “The Gifted School.” It is perfect back-to-school reading, especially for parents of students in grades K-12. Now teaching English literature at the University of Virginia, Holsinger previously was at the University of Colorado, and he says Crystal is a “reimagined Boulder.”
Supplements that contain “live cultures” and strains of bacteria haven’t been shown to benefit digestion. “I rarely recommend people start taking probiotic supplements, simply because we just don’t have enough evidence to suggest it helps or hurts,” says Meagan Bridges, a clinical dietitian and nutrition support specialist at the University of Virginia Health System.
Child psychiatrist Dr. Jim B. Tucker, Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at UVA, joins WGN Radio’s Karen Conti. He directs the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies, where his research focuses on children who report memories of previous lives.
“Suddenly, there may be no more recess or choice time; they’re going from teacher to teacher with new sets of peers; and they’re feeling more achievement pressure,” explains Nancy Deutsch, director of UVA’s Youth-Nex Center and a leader of the Remaking Middle School Initiative, a national movement to improve middle school.
The best demographic rendering I have been able to find is the “dot racial map” from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. Its limitation is that it is based on 2010 census data, now almost a decade out of date. But even 10 years ago, the dot racial map depicts an influx of Hispanics almost surrounding South Dallas.
In a study conducted at the University of Virginia and Washington State University, scientists have revealed that the colonization of new environments after the last ice age has fundamentally altered the American bellflower’s DNA.
(Commentary) For three consecutive years, our commonwealth supported 10% increases in teacher pay for districts across the state. This is the kind of bold, systemic policy we need to recruit and retain highly qualified classroom teachers. With the support of Virginia Secretary of Education Atif Qarni, school superintendents across the state and institutions like the University of Virginia Curry School of Education and Human Development, we are starting to make progress.