Last year Cullen Timmons was a University of Virginia medical student working towards being an emergency room doctor. He was busy and under a lot of stress, so when he would get occasional chest pains, he didn't think too much of it. After all, he was 26 years old, in good health, a runner, with no family history of heart disease. But during a two-week elective course called advanced physical diagnosis, he held a stethoscope against his own chest. Immediately, he knew something was wrong.
Students from Buford Middle School got the chance to learn about the many critical decisions that medical professionals make every day. More than a hundred 7th graders spent Monday at the University of Virginia Medical Center, touring simulation rooms and watching videos that challenged them to think like a first responder.
Similarly, R. Edward Freeman, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, has written at length proposing a stakeholder value orientation. In his recent book, Managing for Stakeholders, he and his coauthors assert that “there is really no inherent conflict between the interests of financiers and other stakeholders.”7 John Mackey, founder and co-CEO of Whole Foods, recently wrote Conscious Capitalism,8 in which he, too, asserts that there are no trade-offs to be made.
Cyndi Hammons could not find out any more information about the man, so for help, she reportedly approached Dr. Jim Tucker, an associate professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia, who has spent more than ten years studying the phenomenon of reincarnation memories in children. Cyndi Hammons could not find out any more information about the man, so for help, she reportedly approached Dr. Jim Tucker, an associate professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia, who has spent more than ten years studying the phenomenon of ...
After a dispute with conservatives over gay rights erupted in 2006, threatening to fracture the Episcopal Church, church lawyers and the head of the Virginia diocese traveled to Charlottesville on a wintry day to enlist A.E. Dick Howard, the constitutional scholar, in the court battle to decide whether breakaway anti-gay parishes had to surrender to the diocese property worth millions of dollars.
Amid the academic scandals at Syracuse, North Carolina and elsewhere around the N.C.A.A., maybe it just seems unusual these days to find athletes who also happen to be high-achieving students. But consider Malcolm Brogdon, the redshirt junior guard who helped lead Virginia to the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title and a top-five ranking for much of this season — all while he was working on a master’s degree in public policy.
Students from Buford Middle School got the chance to learn about the many critical decisions that medical professionals make every day. More than a hundred 7th graders spent Monday at the University of Virginia Medical Center, touring simulation rooms and watching videos that challenged them to think like a first responder.
University of Virginia officials met privately Monday morning to discuss school President Teresa A. Sullivan’s contract. Rector George Keith Martin said he hopes to have a final decision on a deal by the time his term ends June 30.
From 3-D printing to game development to “Nano Fun” giant balloon sculptures and leading-edge research exhibits in alternative energy, transportation and health care, the University of Virginia’s Engineering Open House showcases how engineers make a difference in the world. Prospective students and the public are invited to the event, to be held March 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in and around Thornton Hall, the home of U.Va.’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.
CNN’s State of the Union invited four student leaders to talk about what the next generation can do to improve the dialogue. University of Virginia student council president Jalen Ross pointed out that the most common examples of racial discrimination aren’t limited to dramatic moments that make headlines. "Every day, a black-name resume is 50 percent less likely to get responded to than a white-name resume," Ross said. "Right? That’s everyday racism."
It's been a week filled with more black and white issues, including the racist frat video and new clashes in Ferguson. We're gathering a roundtable of America's future leaders to discuss racism in America and how the next generation plans to fix it. Elliot Spillers, the University of Alabama Student Government Association President-elect; Jalen Ross, President of the University of Virginia Student Council;Julia Watson, Undergraduate Student Body President at Northwestern University; and Rusty Mau, NC State University Student Body President.
It’s not unusual for little boys to have vivid imaginations, but Ryan’s stories were truly legendary. His mother Cyndi said it all began with horrible nightmares when he was 4 years old. Then when he was 5 years old, he confided in her one evening before bed. “He said mom, I have something I need to tell you,” she told TODAY. “I used to be somebody else.” But finally she had a face to match to her son’s strange “memories,” giving her the courage to ask someone for help. That someone was Dr. Jim Tucker, M.D., the Bonner-Lowry Associate Profe...
Incidence of Type 1 diabetes has been increasing worldwide, particularly in children under the age of 5 years. In general, Type 1 diabetes comprises around 5-10% of the total diabetes prevalence. The incidence of childhood type 1 diabetes mellitus in Singapore is relatively low compared to developed countries at 2.46 per 100,000 children aged 1-12 years. Yet, it remains the predominant form of diabetes affecting children in Singapore. In a new study, 50 susceptible regions on the genome and pathways contributing to risk in patients with Type 1 diabetes were identified. “The findings...
As explained by University of Virginia law scholar John Moore, the Sandinistas and their Soviet sponsors made alliances with the PLO, North Korea and Iran, provided safe haven for countless terror groups, and received massive Soviet arms shipments including Mi-24 Hind D attack helicopters and tanks, part of an initial 700 tons of military equipment sent by Moscow to Managua early in the life of the Sandinista regime.
Reports claimed that increasing the minimum age to be able to buy cigarettes would have a significant impact on the number of people suffering from tobacco-related harmful diseases in US. Committee chairman Richard Bonnie, the director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy with the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, comments, “While the development of some cognitive abilities is achieved by age 16, the parts of the brain most responsible for decision making, impulse control, and peer susceptibility and conformity continue to develop until about age 25.”
Raising the legal age to buy tobacco to higher than 18 would likely prevent premature death for hundreds of thousands of people, according to a report issued Thursday by the Institute of Medicine. “We have reasonable confidence that there will be substantial public health benefits by raising the age,” said the report’s committee chair, Richard J. Bonnie, a medicine and law professor and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
This week the federal government approved a powdered alcohol drink known as Palcohol. It consists of little packets of dehydrated vodka or rum mixed with water to create a cocktail. An Arizona businessman has developed four kinds of Palcohol drinks, which he hopes will be in stores by summer. Each packet will contain the equivalent of a single shot of alcohol. This week's approval came after the company made some changes in its labels. But even before his product goes to market, some states have banned it. At the University of Virginia's medical center, chief toxicologis...
Conservatives are happier than liberals, or so decades of surveys that ask about life satisfaction would suggest. Ed Diener, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia who has spent decades studying happiness, said that the new research “is very interesting,” and showed the importance of using a variety of different methods to assess happiness and other psychological states. But, he noted, the differences between groups found in the study were small and the results were open to other interpretations.
Chris Christie may lead a state known for its health care, insurance and financial industries, but it is oil, gas and coal – and their respective tycoons – that will prove pivotal in the Republican’s presumed run for president in 2016, experts say, particularly in a GOP primary that could feature three candidates with Texas connections and a fourth from Louisiana. As political analyst Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics describes, “You got the Bush family as well as Rick Perry and Ted Cruz – I think Christie is trying ...
Until recently, doctors treated stroke by giving aspirin or more expensive drugs that dissolve blood clots, but those only work about a third of the time. Now, more and more physicians are prescribing emergency surgery. At the University of Virginia, neurosurgeon Kenneth Liu, begins an explanation by comparing his job to that of a plumber.