Traveling with young kids requires a lot of gear – and patience. Using an inflatable booster seat is one way to lighten the load, but new research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety questions if inflatable boosters are safe, specifically the BubbleBum and the Hiccapop UberBoost models. During the study, conducted jointly with the University of Virginia, researchers noticed that the dummy used in the test had a higher likelihood of sliding under the lap belt in a crash. The movement, called submarining, can cause abdominal or spinal injuries; IIHS said the risks of these types of i...
(Blog) Higher-ed folks talk often about the 36 million adults with “some college, no degree” as an opportunity for colleges – with payoffs for those individuals as well. But how does that equation change if returning to college isn’t necessarily in some people’s best financial interest? Or if their getting a degree isn’t so easily accomplished? Those questions have been top of mind for me since [UVA researcher] Ben Castleman told me about his team’s new research on the reasons many former college students don’t re-enroll.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce will be holding its first-ever State of the Community event later this month. According to a release, this will be an opportunity for chamber members, business leaders and the public to hear from the executive leadership of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia. Speakers will be talking about the economic impact of their organizations on the community, aiming to build economic success and regional prosperity.
Despite the overall finding that public institutions generally provide a higher ROI, the report’s top 10 list reads almost like a typical “best colleges” ranking of private nonprofits, including Georgetown, Stanford, Hartford, Tufts, MIT, Princeton, Duke and Yale. The top public institutions on the list include Colorado School of Mines (30), Georgia Institute of Technology (47), University of Virginia (48), William & Mary (60) and University of California, Berkeley (63).
Despite the robust returns, the Endowment Index’s returns were just a little more than half of the median 27% return from endowments, according to Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service data. And several endowments easily surpassed this, including Washington University in St. Louis (65%), Duke University (55.9%), the University of Virginia (49%), Boston College (46%), Boston University (40%), the University of Kansas (37.1%), the University of Nebraska (32.3%), and Clemson University (31.3%).
The University of Virginia has decided to not disenroll students who have not gotten a COVID-19 booster shot. This comes after Attorney General Jason Miyares issued an opinion last week saying that universities do not have the legal authority to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for students as a condition of enrollment or in-person attendance.
The University of Virginia is no longer requiring students to get vaccinated against COVID-19 after the state’s recently elected attorney general said colleges and universities do not have the legal authority to mandate the vaccine.
The University of Virginia Cancer Center is being recognized by the National Cancer Institute. As of Tuesday, UVA’s center is one of only 52 to receive this designation. As a result, there can now be more specialized cancer treatments available at UVA Health.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the University of Virginia recently completed a new study analyzing how different booster seat designs affect a seat belt’s ability to protect children during a crash. The study, which used computer simulations to see how various boosters interact with a 6-year-old child, found that low-stiffness booster seats, like inflatable boosters, present an increased likelihood of children sliding under the lap belt.
(Video) Audrey Soape and her family have been fans of Philadelphia Eagles safety [and UVA alumnus] Anthony Harris since he played for the Minnesota Vikings. After Audrey’s father and grandfather died, Harris traveled all the way to Texas to take her to a daddy-daughter dance.
Thomas Edward Thompson, professor emeritus and former chair of the biochemistry department at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, died Nov. 16, 2021, at the age of 95 in Charlottesville.
For people who live in the D.C. region, salad restaurant Sweetgreen and fitness center Solidcore are most likely familiar business names. Those two companies, which started in the region, now reach far beyond it – and both have something in common: They have seen great success with a Northern Virginia native [and UVA alumnus] in a leadership role, Bryan Myers.
Not only will Charlottesville and Albemarle County have fewer House of Delegate districts to keep track of, the two they now vote in exclusively comprise the Democrat-leaning area. “The blue island” of Charlottesville and Albemarle had been “split in such a way that it elects just one Democrat to the state House,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a University of Virginia publication that analyzes politics. He surmises that due to the new maps, the area could now elect two Democrats into the state’s legislative body.
(Commentary; video) As you watch the following video of Del. Sally Hudson (D-Charlottesville) rebutting hard-right Del. Nick Freitas (R-Culpeper) on the minimum wage supposedly hurting workers, keep in mind that Del. Hudson is a labor economist with a Ph.D. in economics from MIT, a BA in economics from Stanford, and is an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Virginia. So obviously, Hudson knows what she’s talking about on this subject.
“It’s not the book of Matthew that tells us why the minimum wage doesn’t hurt low wage workers,” said Delegate Sally Hudson, a Democrat of Charlottesville. “It’s the book of Joshua and of David, not the prophets, but Joshua Angrist and David Card. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics last year for 30 years of work, establishing that the predictions that raising the minimum wage lowers net income from low wage workers, just don’t pan out in practice.”
The same sniping takes place on the Supreme Court. Richard Re, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said aAll kinds of judges are taking an edgier tone because it attracts media attention.
Professor Jennifer L. Lawless, chair of the University of Virginia Department of Politics, ran against Langevin in the 2006 Democratic primary when she was a Brown University professor. Lawless – who has written six books, including “It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don’t Run for Office” – said that when women run for office, they are just as likely to win as men if all other factors are equal. And in recent campaign cycles, there is no evidence that women face bias from voters or the media on the campaign trail, she said.
Pneumonia caused by COVID-19 is not an allergic reaction, Dr. Kyle Enfield, a pulmonary and critical care physician at the University of Virginia, told USA TODAY.
Faculty and staff members at the University of Virginia increased what they gave to help nonprofits across Virginia. According to a release, they were able to donate through the Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign beginning in October. CVC is a statewide effort enabling state employees to make charitable donations through their employer. During the 2021 campaign, UVA’s participation increased by 30% over the previous year, with about 74% of gifts made by UVA employees supporting local nonprofits and charities.
(By Dr. Leon Moores, professor of medical education) According to the global executive search firm, WittKieffer, the demand for physicians to lead hospitals and health systems has been increasing over the past three years. What is driving this demand? Some say that it is the industry’s move to value-based care, which focuses on quality care versus volume-based care.