Last July, I wrote about a landmark study conducted at the University of Virginia that found that surgical patients on Medicaid are 13 percent more likely to die than those without insurance of any kind. The study evaluated 893,658 major surgical operations from around the country from 2003 to 2007, and normalized the results for age, gender, income, geographic region, operation, and 30 background diseases.
...According to “Academically Adrift,” a new book by my New York University colleague Richard Arum and the University of Virginia’s Josipa Roksa, just 45 percent of students in education and social work reported taking a course in the previous semester requiring more than 20 pages of writing, while 61 percent took a class with more than 40 pages of reading per week.
A new UVa poverty study shows nearly a quarter of Virginia families just don't have the means to be self-sufficient. To put things in perspective, the poverty level for a family of four is about $22,000, a number set by the federal government. Based on this study, to be self sufficient or to have the bare necessities and a little extra money for emergencies families need to make twice that amount.
Features comments from psychology professors Jonathan Haidt and Tim Wilson
The University of Virginia has acquired a rare first edition of an 1829 anti-slavery manifesto that was considered a declaration of independence for black Americans as well as a major threat to Southern leaders, who worked vigorously to stop its distribution.
Brad Cox
Professor of physics
Local school solicits help with trip to supercollider
Charlottesville Daily Progress / March 1
Robin Felder
Professor of pathology
Is passivity the future for home health monitoring?
Mobi Health News / March 1
Remy Indebetouw
Assistant professor of astronomy
Remy Indebetouw Discusses His Work in Space Science
Science Watch / March 2
William Johnson
Professor of economics
Tim Kaine says the economy has added private sector jobs 12 months in a row
Richmond Times Dispatch / March 2
William Lucy
Professor of urban and environmental planning
Location efficie...
The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service report said the average two-adult, two-child family in Virginia needs about $44,000, or twice the federal poverty level, to pay for their monthly living expenses. The study shows that 24.2 percent of Virginia's families earn below $44,000.
It seems like you can’t open up a newspaper, click on an online article or watch a morning TV show without hearing the results of a new study about relationships, marriage and divorce. But what are you supposed to do with all this information? … According to a new survey conducted by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, the current recession is having a double-edged impact on American marriages.
The Alderman Road Replacement project, a massive plan to replace several 1960s-era UVA dormitories with modern housing, is moving at a vigorous pace.
Researchers believe that alcoholism may have a genetic link. Sons of alcoholic fathers are nine times more likely to develop drinking problems than the general population, according to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. And children of alcoholic parents are four times as likely. … We speak with Dr. Bankole Johnson, chairman of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia about new research underway to develop drugs that can treat alcoholics based on their DNA profiles.
To Virginia lawmakers, the Rotunda repairs were Line 1054 on a list of projects awaiting funding, one urgent need among many for a higher education system that inspires both pride and anxiety in Virginia's leaders.
No artist works in a vacuum. Whether consciously or un-, artists constantly respond to a host of factors: exposure to other artwork, the immediate environment, ideas discussed with creative types, political, economic, and social circumstances, etc. But inevitably, what seems radical at the moment will fade to unremarkable in the future. So, reinvigorating the zeitgeist of the era was curator Andrea Douglas’s challenge in organizing “Excavating New Ground: American Art in the 1970s,” currently on view at the University of Virginia Art Museum.
Dan Bluestone
Associate professor of architectural history
Charlottesville--Right Now: Dan Bluestone joins Coy Barefoot
Charlottesville Podcasting Network / Feb. 28
Dr. Steven DeKosky
Dean of the School of Medicine
Alzheimer's Risk Looks Higher if Mom Had the Disease
US News and World Report / March 1
Robert Fatton
Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Politics
Aristide keeps Haiti waiting
Los Angeles Times / March 1
Bryan Pfaffenberger
Assistant professor of engineering
Lecture On Voting Machine Creation Set
The Post Journal, Jamestown NY / March 1
Larry Sabato
Politics prof...
David Baldacci
'Absolute Power' author to read at library fundraiser
The Roanoke Times / March 1
J. Brady Lum
Special Olympics president to speak at UVa
Charlottesville Daily Progress / March 1
Ralph Sampson
U.Va. grad Sampson selected for entry to college Hall of Fame
The Roanoke Times / March 1
A recent study from the University of Virginia found that Medicaid patients have worse surgical outcomes than individuals without insurance, even controlling for numerous confounding factors. All of these components contribute to Medicaid’s being a program in crisis.
The university says the third annual Venture Summit will be held Thursday and Friday. The six companies are all founded or led by a U.Va. graduates, faculty members, staff members or students, or based on research developed at the university.
The Rotunda has been renovated several times in its 185-year history, most famously and comprehensively after a devastating 1895 fire that left little intact but the walls and a Jefferson statue. But it’s still at heart a 19th century building, and University officials say that it’s showing its age.
Flash seminars are mini-classes that focus on a variety of different topics. They started when a group of students began asking faculty members to teach lessons that wouldn't typically be taught in a normal curriculum.
James Galloway
Environmental Sciences
Web-based tool supports sustainable living choices
Daily News & Analysis / Feb. 27
James Ryan
School of Law
Education book: Vanishing act
Richmond Times Dispatch / Feb. 28
Larry Sabato
Director Center for Politics
Experts say Gov. Christie is making all the right moves for a place on national stage
The Star Ledger / Feb. 27
Richard Schragger
School of Law
Foreclosures help change the color of some suburbs
Kansas City Star / Feb. 27
Jerry Stenger
Climatology
Birds, buds and beginnings of spring
Richmond Times Dispatch / Feb. 28
Brad Wilcox
Department o...
A new study from researchers found that teens in dog-owning families logged about 15 extra minutes of moderate-to-vigorous activity per week.