Between 2011 and 2014, a new study says almost 70 percent of babies who died from sleep-related suffocation died due to soft bedding. A physician at the UVA Health System conducted the study, underscoring the message physicians have been telling new parents, which says babies should sleep only in cribs or bassinets that are free of blankets, toys and other potential hazards. "These results are very significant, because these deaths, clearly due to suffocation, were all preventable," said Dr. Fern Hauck.
Spring-semester final exams are approaching, but student anxiety is a year-round problem. We are in the middle of what experts are calling a mental health crisis on college campuses. James Madison University and the University of Virginia are seeing the effects.
An annual event at the University of Virginia is hoping to spark an interest in science at a young age. National Physics Day started at UVA over two decades ago, and organizers say the event is a way to bring lovers of science together.
The UVA Medical Center is on a major hiring blitz. The hospital's largest expansion ever means it needs more people to care for patients now.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Biden has better name recognition than the rest of the field, but cautioned that it was too early to predict winners. He also noted that Biden’s past presidential runs were dismal.
The Boy Scouts have kept files going back decades showing that nearly 8,000 volunteers have been excluded from the organization because they had been accused of sexually abusing children, according to a review by an expert on child sexual abuse. Janet Warren, a UVA professor, revealed the scope of the reported abuse when she testified as an expert witness in a trial involving allegations of child sexual abuse at a children’s theater in Minneapolis.
If Murphy decides to appoint a black woman, the list of candidates might include Norrinda Hayat, 41, is a Rutgers-Newark law professor and director of the Civil Justice Clinic. She is a former trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, during the administration of President Barack Obama. Graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia Law School.
Kyle Dargan is the author of “Anagnorisis” (TriQuarterly/Northwestern UP). Four previous poetry collections were published by the University of Georgia Press. Kyle has received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. His books have also been finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Eric Hoffer Awards Grand Prize. He is currently an associate professor of literature and assistant director of creative writing at American University. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Indiana University.
Failure to comply with a subpoena also could lead to Mnuchin being held in contempt of Congress, along with a court order of daily fines or even jail until he does comply, experts say. “To me the person who’s most vulnerable to this is Mnuchin because, of course, the statute directs Mnuchin to do something, so if he doesn’t comply then he’s the one in violation,” said George K. Yin, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and former chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation.
The wording of the statute does not appear to offer discretion to the commissioner of the IRS to refuse Neal’s request. However, the situation amounts to “uncharted territory” given that there has not previously been an occasion where a request for tax returns under the little-used statute has been refused, according to George K. Yin, a UVA law professor who has testified on the topic before the Ways and Means Committee.
In early 2016, Kyle Kondik, an Ohio-born political analyst at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics and the managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a closely read newsletter on national politics, published a book called “The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President.” It was a dead-on, 100% correct examination of the many social, historical, demographic and ideological reasons why Ohio had been a bellwether state in presidential elections for such a long time.
Contrary to those who argue that Sanders creates fissures in Democratic ranks, UVA politics professor Larry Sabato argued that such divisions are unlikely to occur.
Over 12,000 Boy Scout members were allegedly sexually abused by troop leaders and volunteers, according to an expert who has been investigating the alleged abuse over the past five years. Dr. Janet Warren, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia’s medical school, testified as part of a January trial about child sex abuse at a Minnesota children's theater company. Her extensive investigation into the handling of sexual abuse within the Boy Scouts from 1944 through 2016 found that as many as 7,819 troop leaders and volunteers alleg...
The existence of the Boy Scout files – known as the "perversion files," listing scoutmasters or troop leaders accused of sexual abuse – has been known since a 2012 court case in the state of Oregon. But Anderson said a court case this year in Minnesota had revealed numbers of victims and perpetrators that were higher than previously known. He said the new figures came from an audit performed by Janet Warren of the University of Virginia, who has been working with the Boy Scouts of America. "She says there are over 12,000 victims identified in those files," Anderson said.
Almost 8,000 leaders in the Boy Scouts of America have been accused of sexually abusing children going back decades, according to records the organization has maintained. Janet Warren, a UVA professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences, reviewed the records and testified in January about her findings in a trial involving allegations of child sexual abuse in a separate case, Jeff Anderson, a lawyer who works with sexual abuse victims, said at a press conference on Tuesday.
A report from UVA researchers at says soft bedding caused nearly 70% of sleeping-related suffocation deaths. They say unintentional suffocation is the No. 1 cause of death in babies less than a year old.
U-Hall on the University of Virginia Grounds is being torn down, but you can still visit it and see how it looked online. The 50-year-old sports arena which opened in 1965 and closed in 2015, has been preserved through 3-D images.
After a lengthy search process, UVA has named an interim dean to lead the School of Nursing once longtime dean Dorrie Fontaine steps down. Pamela Cipriano is a research associate professor of nursing at UVA. She was also president of the American Nurses Association from 2014 until December, representing the interests of the nation’s 4 million registered nurses. She will take her new role on Aug. 1, according to UVA, and will serve until a permanent successor is named.
MGT has enlisted the help of a program within the University of Virginia to help train principals and improve district leadership. The MGT proposal calls first for identifying the schools that need the most help and creating “learning labs” on some campuses for intensive work with the university.
At the University of Virginia, a student-led campaign of petitions and contacting donors, state legislators and local school districts successfully led administrators in Charlottesville to heighten their commitment to financial aid. Dannenberg said the UVA model could be applied at Northwestern.