Saikrishna Prakash, a UVA Law professor, said the case fits in with a pattern of the justices showing a willingness to take a closer look at some of the court’s administrative law precedents. Prakash called it likely that the court will rule the bureau’s structure unconstitutional, but noted there is a wide range of ways that it could do so that would have vastly different ramifications for administrative law going forward.
(Dr. Amy Salerno is director of community health and well-being at the UVA Health System.) Health care providers across the country, including here at the University of Virginia, are increasingly focused on identifying key social needs that our patients may have and offering to connect them to resources to assist them.
During the recent Ebola crisis, UVA physicians delivered care in parts of Africa via telemedicine.
The MAPP2Health Core Group – consisting of Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital, the Thomas Jefferson Health District, the UVA Department of Public Health Sciences and UVA Health – published a report, “Improving Health Equity: A Community Plan for Action and Accountability 2019–2022.” MAPP Core Group members, community coalitions and seven organizations awarded MAPP Core Group implementation funding across Planning District 10 contributed strategies with the overall goal of changing policies, systems and environments in order to create and sustain equity.
The University of Virginia pioneers a less invasive treatment for thyroid patients.
A new epigenetic study by Kathleen Krol and Jessica Connelly from the University of Virginia and Tobias Grossmann from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences now suggested that mothers' behavior affects their children's developing oxytocin systems.
The National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit organization, published a study in 2013 that found teachers who received low scores on their evaluations were more likely to leave their jobs than high-scoring teachers who were close to earning a substantial merit raise. The study – written by UVA’s James H. Wyckoff and Stanford University’s Thomas S. Dee – suggests that incentives of the variety that the District used “can substantially improve the measured performance of the teaching workforce.”
Beyond doctors’ advice – or lack thereof – parents may be swayed by various influences, said Dr. Rachel Moon. She co-wrote an editorial accompanying the study, which was published online Oct. 21 in the journal Pediatrics. “Particularly in the internet age, parents are getting information from so many sources besides their doctor,” said Moon, who heads general pediatrics at the UVA Health System.
(Commentary by Todd S. Sechser, professor of politics and public policy and senior fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, and Matthew Fuhrmann, professor of political science at Texas A&M University) Vice President Pence announced a cease-fire agreement with Turkey on Thursday, but this does not appear to fully address the underlying problems in the bilateral relationship.
Members of the University of Virginia community share their personal experiences and connections to the currently-under-construction Memorial to Enslaved Laborers that is taking shape on the campus.
Piedmont Virginia Community College is also working with the UVA School of Architecture, which is seeking to redesign the City Council space. They hope to imagine new and better ways to engage with local public officials.
That service included 34 years in the House of Delegates, where Diamonstein fought hard for – and won – more state funds for education and the disabled, a state housing authority that financed decent affordable homes for working families and the chance for women to go to the University of Virginia.
All winning poems are archived in UVA’s permanent collection through a partnership with Special Collections at the University of Virginia Library.
Indigo Mathon and her partner pitched the idea as part of a class project at Community Public Charter School. The middle-schoolers spent two weeks immersed at Morven, working on ideas for how the farm could better engage the community. On Friday night, they presented their ideas to parents, community members and University of Virginia staff members.
In “Thomas Jefferson’s Education,” Alan Taylor, a professor of history at the University of Virginia and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, provides a richly detailed account of the origins of UVA.
(Editorial) The survey was conducted by UVA’s Center for Survey Research. Respondents rated the region at 7.95 on a 10-point scale in terms of their satisfaction with life in Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa and Nelson counties and the city of Charlottesville.
Bruce Arena is arguably the most successful coach in the history of American soccer, and it all started in Charlottesville. During an 18-year career at the University of Virginia, Arena set an impossibly high bar to follow for Cavalier men’s soccer, winning five national championships — including for in row from 1991-94 — and posting a record of 295 wins, 58 losses, 32 ties.
Alan A. Diamonstein, a University of Virginia alumnus who represented Newport News in the House of Delegates for three decades and later served on the UVA Board of Visitors, passed away overnight, his law office said. He was 88.
Alan A. Diamonstein, a University of Virginia alumnus who represented Newport News in the House of Delegates for three decades and later served on the UVA Board of Visitors, passed away overnight, his law office said. He was 88.
Later, during the administration of former President Jimmy Carter, Dunner participated on Carter’s Advisory Committee on Patents. This committee picked up an idea from Daniel Meador, a University of Virginia law professor and head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Improvements in the Administration of Justice, to merge the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals with the U.S. Court of Claims to create the Federal Circuit.