In a study of more than 45,000 crash victims over 11 years, UVA researchers found women drivers were much more likely to be injured in a crash than men. They said this was because car safety features had been designed for men.
Two architects, an oceanographer and a federal judge are the recipients of the 2019 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals. The awards, which are the highest honors presented by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello and the University of Virginia, recognize contributions in fields in which the third president excelled or that he admired.
The University of Virginia will pay all full-time employees a living wage of at least $15 an hour starting next year. The university made the announcement Thursday, March 7. Its decision will affect roughly 1,400 people working at UVA and the Medical Center. UVA President Jim Ryan says he is working on a plan to extend that increase to contract employees, as well.
Full-time employees at the University of Virginia's academic division and medical center will soon earn a living wage of at least $15 an hour. According to a release, this will go into effect for all full-time, benefits-eligible employees on Jan. 1, 2020.
The FDA has spent millions, convened experts and pledged to improve its work in device safety in recent years. All the while, it has quietly opened new avenues for the makers of controversial and risky devices to file injury and even death reports with little public review. “This is very frustrating,” said Homa Alemzadeh, a UVA assistant professor of computer engineering who is working to create software to identify errors in real time or before they happen in surgeries performed by robots.
“Our goal is to get the public – members of Charlottesville and the surrounding counties – to get their help telling stories of the people in the portraits,” said John Edwin Mason, a UVA associate professor of history and an organizer of the project.
On Wednesday, UVA President Jim Ryan held an open discussion called “An Hour with President Ryan” at Garrett Hall to show students that their voices speak volumes.
Sources tell CBS News lawmakers are working to build a legal and legislative case to obtain President Trump’s taxes. George Yin, a professor of law and taxation at UVA’s School of Law and former chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation, joins CBSN’s “Red and Blue” to discuss the latest.
This was another key moment in Mayer’s article because it makes an important distinction. The speaker is Nicole Hemmer, assistant professor of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center and the author of “Messengers of the Right,” a history of the conservative media’s impact on American politics, “Fox is not just taking the temperature of the base—it’s raising the temperature,” she says. “It’s a radicalization model.”
Caitie Finlayson, an assistant professor of geology at the University of Mary Washington, told the board at Monday’s packed meeting that she had researched the methodology that Moseley used, and it didn’t follow best practices. She urged school officials to get new estimates from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, which develops the official population estimates for Virginia and its localities.
“The motivation behind this particular study was a need to better understand the development of self-regulation in the context of poverty. We know that stress in the family environment is a key pathway by which poverty may affect children’s development, and their self-regulation in particular,” said study author Chelsea A.K. Duran of the University of Virginia.
The National Institutes of Health awarded $23 million to a Virginia partnership that includes the state’s top rival universities to jointly advance the pace of bringing medical discoveries out of the lab and into physician practices. Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia teamed up with Carilion Clinic and Inova Health System in Northern Virginia to form the integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia, or iTHRIV, which was awarded a five-year grant. The Center for Open Science and UVa’s licensing and venture groups are also part of iTHRIV.
The email from Maryland's university system chancellor promoting a jewelry company's charm bracelets was so unusual, it prompted then-University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan to write to an aide of Chancellor Robert Caret, questioning its authenticity. The 2017 email also triggered a chain of events that led to a grievance over alleged retaliation by Caret and a settlement signed by the chancellor.
The iTHRIV consortium includes the University of Virginia, Inova Health System, Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic, and is the first cross-state effort in Virginia to integrate clinical and translational research resources. Affiliates of the iTHRIV include the Center for Open Science, a non-profit technology organization based in Charlottesville, and UVA's Licensing & Ventures Group.
According to UVA law and religious studies professor Douglas Laycock, the state of California will have lots of legal precedent and a strong case for why cannabis churches do not deserve a religious exemption to the state’s system of licensing, regulations, and taxes.
For Vanessa Ochs, an expert on Jewish ritual who teaches at the University of Virginia, “my Orthodox friends describe seven days of shiva as a nightmare. It’s arduous and exhausting to have to be available for visits for such a long time. No one can sit for that long – it causes a panic. What remains powerful is the getting up from shiva and walking around the block and having to re-enter life.”
Prospective college students from New York down to Mississippi now have a school to consider with in-state tuition: the University of Virginia's College at Wise. Gov. Ralph Northam has signed off on House Bill 1666 that grants in-state tuition privileges to students in 13 states at the Wise County school.
Leigh Middleditch, a cofounder of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia, has won the institute’s first annual Founder’s Award.
Data from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service shows that over the last 10 years, Roanoke's population has jumped more than 3 percent, from 97,032 residents in 2010, to 100,033 residents in 2018. Hamilton Lombard, a UVA demographer, says much of that growth is thanks to more available housing in Roanoke's downtown area. "We've been doing some preparation work for the 2020 census and when we were doing that we counted almost 1,000 new housing units created in the downtown, mostly former offices or commercial spaces converted to apartments," said Lombard.
Wally Smith’s foray into citizen science started with him “getting in trouble.” Smith, a biology professor at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, was conducting research on green salamanders for his graduate degree in the early 2000s and was having a hard time finding the small creatures. So Smith applied for a federal grant to conduct research through citizen science, utilizing public participation for his studies. Smith hosted one of several workshops on Grounds over the weekend as part of partnership between UVA and the National Geographic Society for a two-day science and storyte...