My daughter is five years old, and is very bright and articulate. I will see to it she never attends U.Va. That bit of rather direct language comes from university documents retrieved through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The documents consist of more than 150 pages of e-mails that passed through University of Virginia Dean of Students Allen Groves over nearly two weeks after the Rolling Stone hit the Internet. They depict a university administrator hustling to keep up with the fast-moving response to Rolling Stone’s story, dealing with hard-edged e-mails from detrac...
In 2013 the University of Virginia official student fan group, The Hoo Crew, was recognized as the best student section in the country, winning the Naismith Award and beating out schools like the University of Kansas, Arizona, and Virginia Commonwealth University. The organization is hoping to build off their reputation and have started an endowment to raise money for the group to travel to more sporting events and support more teams at UVa.
More than 800,000 students at 28 college campuses, including the University of Virginia, will be asked about sexual assault this spring, one of the largest surveys ever on the topic. The Obama administration has made the issue a priority, and the number of federal investigations into how colleges investigate reports of sexual violence has increased dramatically. Many universities have made their own attempts to change campus culture and ensure that students are safe, but there are many students complaining that officials are too worried about bad publicity to tackle th...
Two University of Virginia economists say they have found a way to quantify love.UVa professors Leora Friedberg and Steven Stern looked at married couples' answers to two questions about the quality of their marriage, combined with their divorce rates six years later, and the results surprised even them.
Mount Sinai study measures ability of artificial pancreas in preventing hypoglycemia in T1D patients
A newly launched clinical research study at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is examining whether an artificial pancreas can prevent too low blood sugar levels or hypoglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes as they sleep. A collaboration between Mount Sinai, the University of Virginia and Mayo Clinic, the outpatient study, the first of its kind in New York, began enrollment in October 2014. The ongoing study is measuring the ability of an automated artificial pancreas system developed by UVA to normalize nighttime sugar levels in T1D patients. By combining a smart p...
Healthcare providers, you have been warned: Give patients what they want.That was the consensus by a panel of healthcare experts gathered by the American Hospital Association on Tuesday, who all agreed that having patients that are increasingly shopping around puts the onus on providers is to pay attention to consumer behavior and make healthcare accessible. That even means delivering care to the home either in person or virtually through telehealth. Pam Sutton-Wallace, CEO, University of Virginia Medical Center, said the system she oversees has 139 connected sites, including health cente...
Need help launching a telehealth program, or wondering what your state allows? There's a place for that. Fourteen, in fact. They're called telehealth resource centers, 12 of which cover specific regions and two serve as national centers. Kathy Hsu Wibberly, director of the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center, says they're not as well known as they should be, but they provide valuable resources. Her TRC, launched in 2011, is based at the University of Virginia Center for Telehealth and covers a vast expanse of eight states (Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, K...
(By W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Home Economics Project of the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies) Guess which kind of family was left out in the cold by President Obama as he unveiled his plan to help middle-class families in his State of the Union address? The traditional two-parent family with a single breadwinner. The president pitched his plan as part of an agenda in which “everyone gets their fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules&rd...
In his State of the Union Address Tuesday, President Barack Obama urged Congress to expand family leave and paid sick days for American workers. According to Marketplace.org, Obama backs the proposed Healthy Families Act, which would offer an hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours worked. But there may be a hidden downside for workers who take advantage of sick leave, family leave and other flexible work policies. “It’s workplace by workplace, and saying that we as a society think this is important,” Christopher Ruhm, a professor of public policy and economics at...
One of those, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, was crucial in last year's Hobby Lobby decision by the Supreme Court. It let for-profit employers who oppose contraceptives on religious grounds exclude them from health insurance coverage. Without the statute, a forerunner of RLUIPA, "Hobby Lobby would probably have lost," says Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
It hasn’t been a good winter on Rugby Road, the center of Greek life at the University of Virginia. But the start of rush was surprisingly normal. Just days after U-Va. lifted a ban on fraternities and sororities — imposed after publication of a later-discredited article in Rolling Stone magazine described a gang rape at a fraternity house — the number of freshmen choosing to rush fraternities on campus this spring was just about the same as it was last year, a little over a thousand. The number of women rushing sororities went up. And nationally, mor...
Charlottesville City Council unanimously approved a plan to include a University of Virginia student liaison to city council. The liaison will act as a point person between the city and the UVA student body: Council could go through the liaison to express any concerns to students, while students would use the liaison to communicate their thoughts about the city as it relates to the university.
The more that high-achieving, low-income students know about financial aid and quality at a given college, the less likely they are to base their decisions about where to go to college on what they hear from friends and family. That is one of the key findings of a new study that provides a deeper look at the effects of the Expanding College Opportunities project, an intervention known as ECO. The study was performed by economics professors Caroline Hoxby of Stanford and Sarah Turner of the University of Virginia — perhaps best known for their research on “undermatch,” a probl...
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court hear oral arguments about whether the current system for doling out tax subsidies promotes racial segregation and violates the Fair Housing Act of 1968—a civil-rights landmark signed by President Lyndon Johnson a week after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The suit began in 2008 as a Dallas housing dispute brought by advocacy group the Inclusive Communities Project Inc. against the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs. It has since blossomed into one of the weightiest housing lawsuits in a generation. Critics say disparate ...
With the recent announcement that ESPN's "College Gameday" will be coming to John Paul Jones Arena on January 31, when the Hoos take on Duke, it's safe to say the University of Virginia is enjoying some time center stage, and Athletics Director Craig Littlepage says his program is spending time in the spotlight. He's at a school where tradition ranks high among the list of priorities but also works in a field where not only success, but recent success, pulls in new players, fans and also that exposure. "I've always had a healthy respect for the traditions of the ...
The Supreme Court delivered a unanimous ruling in favor of a Muslim prisoner’s right to grow a half-inch beard in an Arkansas prison, underscoring its broad view of religious liberty in a case that had united many different faiths. Sikh, Muslim, Catholic, and Jewish groups filed briefs in support of the prisoner, as did evangelical groups like Prison Fellowship and the Southern Baptists. Prisoner Gregory Holt represented himself in lower courts, which ruled against him and then sent a handwritten petition to the Supreme Court. Douglas Laycock from the University of Virginia School o...
A unanimous Supreme Court said on Tuesday that Arkansas can’t dictate the length of a beard maintained by a Muslim prisoner, after he made his own case initially to the Court using a handwritten form. The case of Holt v. Hobbs was accepted in March 2014 after Gregory Holt, 38, sent the Supreme Court a 15-page publicly available form asking the nine Justices to accept his case. Arguments in the case were heard on October 7, 2014, and on Tuesday, the Court agreed with Holt. Noted University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock argued Holt’s case in front of the Supreme...
"Ben McKenzie is the one of today's hottest stars on one of the most popular and successful shows on TV," said Wizard World CEO John Macaluso. "Our fans have immediately made 'Gotham' one of their favorites and we know they can't wait to meet him at our two most successful and longest-running Wizard World Comic Cons." The University of Virginia graduate's current starring role in "Gotham," which has regularly hit nearly seven million weekly viewers, follows the Commissioner's life before Batman came onto the scene.
Fourth-year University of Virginia student Robert Petri has been a fired-up basketball fan since the news accidentally broke on national television Monday night. ESPN's "College GameDay" crew is coming to Charlottesville later this month. The popular pregame show airing from John Paul Jones Arena the morning of UVa's Jan. 31 home game against ACC rival Duke.
“The 20 law schools that sent the most alumni to Congress include some of the country's most prominent—Harvard Law School tops the list with 18, followed by Georgetown University Law Center with 13; the University of Texas School of Law with seven; and the University of Virginia School of Law and Yale Law School with six each.”