"Excessive property taxes can lead to financial distress, including mortgage default and foreclosure, and it is vital that they are assessed accurately and equitably," wrote economists Andrew Hayashi of the University of Virginia Law School, Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato of Duke University and Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon of Indiana University Kelley School of business in a peer review letter supporting the University of Chicago study.
A 2020 study done at the University of Chicago evaluated between 2016 and 2018, finding there's still a problem with the lowest valued homes in Detroit being over-assessed at higher rates. "Both before and after the city-wide assessment, those conclusions are well-supported by the data," said Dr. Andrew Hayashi. Hayashi, from the University of Virginia and others, did their own analysis of the data used in the aforementioned University of Chicago study and came to the same conclusion - that, yes, there's a problem.
A 2020 study done at the University of Chicago evaluated between 2016 and 2018, finding there's still a problem with the lowest valued homes in Detroit being over-assessed at higher rates. "Both before and after the city-wide assessment, those conclusions are well-supported by the data," said Dr. Andrew Hayashi. Hayashi, from the University of Virginia and others, did their own analysis of the data used in the aforementioned University of Chicago study and came to the same conclusion - that, yes, there's a problem.
The decline of North American bee populations has been a hot topic in recent years. Calls to “save the bees” have people buzzing about pesticides and habitat loss. But why the bees need saving in the first place is a complicated question. And to understand why bees are struggling, we first have to know which bees are doing poorly and which aren’t — which is where Kathryn LeCroy, a Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia, comes in.
The University of Virginia tested its emergency notification system on UVA Grounds at 10:50 a.m. Thursday. The university recently changed vendors for the system.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it seemed like everything was shutting down such as restaurants, schools and even a University of Virginia Health volunteer program for students known as "Rounding with Heart." The program that brings together doctors, residents, and students by a patient's bedside to discuss care stopped abruptly at the start of the pandemic.
The University of Virginia reported a slight uptick in the number of active COVID-19 cases on Thursday. According to the UVA COVID Tracker, there were five new cases of the virus reported on Wednesday, all but one of which were students. The number of active cases among students, faculty, staff and contract employees sits at 54, up from 50 on Tuesday.
The University of Virginia announced Thursday it is relaxing some of the toughest COVID-19 restrictions it placed on its students following a surge in cases in February.
March 11, 2020 was a day filled with cautious optimism for the University of Virginia's student-athletes. The date turned out to be the last day of athletic competition for six months, but it started with hope and excitement.
Virginia’s ACC tournament championship aspirations were dashed – and the Cavaliers’ NCAA tourney hopes put in jeopardy – after the conference announced a positive COVID test within the program Friday.
The University of Virginia’s men’s basketball team, the 2019 national champion, pulled out of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament on Friday after someone inside the program tested positive for the coronavirus. Virginia’s withdrawal was the second in 24 hours for the conference tournament — Duke dropped out on Thursday — because of the virus. And it immediately put into some doubt whether Virginia (18-6) will be able to compete in the N.C.A.A. tournament, which is scheduled to begin next week.
(Commentary by Dr. Amy Mathers, infectious disease physician at UVA Health and associate director of clinical microbiology, and Lisa Colosi-Peterson, associate professor of engineering systems and environment) When we first began welcoming students back last fall, none of us really knew what to expect – nor could we anticipate what additional obstacles might remain ahead. But one thing we all learned is how critical flexibility, collaboration, creativity and out-of-the-box solutions are when trying to manage multilayered safety risks. Here in Charlottesville, we took to the sewers. Literally.
A story “about today. That started yesterday. And impacts tomorrow.” That’s how UVA’s Religion, Race & Democracy Lab introduces its new “God $ Green: An Unholy Alliance” 19-minute, publicly available, “eye-popping” video. The video addresses decades of what it calls “religious polarization, political propaganda, corporate deal-making, and environmental injustice based on systemic racism.”
The past 12 months have tested local health systems in ways they had never before been tested. With limited knowledge – and sometimes limited resources – hospitals accommodated an influx of patients suffering the new disease.
Two University of Virginia graduates are creating inclusive practices in the workplace. They say the country’s reckoning with racial justice in 2020 sparked their decision to start PIP! The company leads diversity, equity, and inclusion training.
Florida's overall population has grown steadily for decades, but over the past 20 years, the state has also seen large numbers of people depart each year, with many returning to their home states, said Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the University of Virginia. “A lot of people go down there and realize that they don't like hurricanes,” said Mr. Lombard.
“I think gamers are going to have to really start making some hard choices,” said Anthony Palomba, media researcher and assistant professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, in a phone interview with Lifewire. “Google Stadia has really forced, I think, Microsoft and Sony to start thinking about being platform-agnostic, not having a console. If I can't get excited about the hardware, then I think it becomes a conversation about intellectual property.”
Dr. Cynthia Yoshida, a gastroenterologist and the medical director of the UVA Cancer Center’s Colorectal Cancer Screening Program, received the 2021 80% in Every Community National Achievement Award from the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable.
Gregg Nome told a support group in 1985 he almost died after being trapped beneath a waterfall. His near-death experience was shared by Dr Bruce Greyson, professor emeritus in psychiatry at the University of Virginia, in an interview on Sunday.
Reaching herd immunity will require kids to be vaccinated, too, noted Vivian Riefberg, professor of practice at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. At this point, with studies still underway, adolescents might be eligible for vaccination sometime in the spring or early summer, and younger children this fall or even later.