The conference comes as, this summer, University of Virginia researchers projected that many rural counties in our region will see a population decline over the next two decades.
Camille Schrier, the reigning Miss Virginia 2019, was part of the fourth annual Girls’ Day in STEM event at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, where the youngsters conducted a variety of science experiments and labs to spark their interest in STEM fields.
“We talk a lot about taking it one day at a time, sometimes one minute at a time,” said Joy Miller, a pediatric nurse practitioner at the UVA Health System and a member of Priscilla’s medical team. “And Priscilla has had a lot of ups and downs.”
UVA is leading a new coalition to increase access to hepatitis C treatment in parts of the state that have been hit hard by the opioid epidemic.
“We are at this pivotal moment,” said Lee Ritterband, a psychiatry professor at the UVA School of Medicine who has developed online health interventions for more than a decade. “For years, these have been bubbling under the surface.”
David Greene interviews Mary Kate Cary, who teaches political speechwriting at UVA, about the importance of President Trump's speech Tuesday to world leaders at the U.N.
(Commentary by Josh Bloom, director of chemical and pharmaceutical science, who earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from UVA) For most people, even an elderly woman, a daily dose of 2,600 mg of Tylenol – a bit less than the daily recommended maximum – will be safer than long-term use of Advil or Aleve. Barring liver toxicity, it will also be safer than Vicodin or Percocet. But that's not the whole story. Safe isn't all that safe.
The University of Virginia remained in the No. 1 spot in the latest Women's Division I Top 25 rankings. The Cavaliers didn't win for the first time this season, drawing 1-1 on the road at Wake Forest.
University of Virginia students are finding their inner peace and zen at the first annual Mediation on the Lawn.
Teacher, pastor and attorney William McGuffey of Miami was the creator of the “McGuffey Reader,” a textbook series credited with helping to shape learning in America’s public school system. McGuffey also served as a college president at the former Cincinnati University and Ohio University, and taught at the University of Virginia, where he died in 1874 and is buried.
According to University of Virginia law professor John C. Harrison, federal courts of appeals, such as the 4th Circuit, in general have jurisdiction to review only final judgments by the federal district courts. An interlocutory order by a trial court is one that resolves a particular motion or issue, but doesn’t bring the case to an end, he wrote in an email.
In a paper commissioned by the New South Wales Department of Education, Daniel T. Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, said: “Some believe that critical thinking can be taught as a generic skill independently from subject content, while others contend that content mastery is pivotal to the development of thinking capabilities.”
Jalane Schmidt, a UVA professor who offers free monthly tours of Charlottesville’s monuments, said she has noticed the trend: “I see that people are making an effort to have some sort of clapback,” she said of the signs. However, she said that’s nowhere near enough.
(Commentary) James W. Ceaser, Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at UVA – founded by Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson – said much the same in a Constitution Day lecture at Baylor on Monday: “In the last year of the election, two political scientists – both well known, one from Stanford, one from Chicago – wrote this book, and I think they were sure Hillary Clinton would be elected president.”
Tom Steenburgh, Richard S. Reynolds Professor in Business Administration at the University of Virginia, presented research on the changing sales environment for exhibiting companies. “New products demand more time,” he said. “They require 35% more time than existing products, and 32% more face-to-face meetings. As opportunities become rarer and rarer to have these face-to-face discussions, you have to find times when buyers are open to having these discussions. The question is: How do take trade shows take advantage of that?”
“The board of nursing requires us to have one faculty per 10 students when we take them to clinical, so it can be a burden,” said Cathie Collins, head of the nursing department at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.
For decades, Patrick Oliphant’s political cartoons filled the editorial pages of newspapers across the United States. Now, for the first time, an extensive collection of those cartoons, as well as process sketches, sculptures and paintings, grace the walls of UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.
The University of Virginia is wrapping up its President’s Commission on Slavery and the University. Since 2013, the commission released a final report, began plans for a memorial and expanded the association, Universities Studying Slavery. UNC joined the group in 2016.
(Editorial) It’s not like Virginians haven’t been warned that the state’s ethics enforcement structure simply isn’t up to snuff. Larry Sabato, professor of government and founder of UVA’s Center for Politics, has warned for decades that the state’s lack of ethics standards and a true enforcement mechanism was a ticking time bomb at the heart of state politics. But no one listened.
On Friday night, the Charlottesville Cardinals, an area wheelchair basketball team, took on UVA athletes in a game of hoops at Charlottesville High School.