Cancer is the leading cause of death across Virginia and the nation. A new study predicts the number of new cancer cases as the population ages.Virginia’s cancer rates will increase by double digits in each of the next 3 decades. That’s according to a new report from the Demographics Research Group at the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center. Director Qian Cai says most cancers occur in people age 55 and older, so she and her team projected the likely number of new cancer cases from information taken from the Virginia Cancer Registry.
The incidence of cancer will outpace population growth in Virginia for the next 25 years, according to a new study by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Virginia will see more than 70,000 cases of prostate cancer, almost 63,000 cases of breast cancer and 64,000 cases of lung cancer by 2020, according to the report released Tuesday. Qian Cai, director of the Cooper Center’s Demographics Research Group, said the purpose of the study is to help localities and healthcare systems better plan for the future, the growing aging population and the related ...
Medicaid costs will consume an increasing share of state resources, making it difficult to sustain funding levels for higher education and other discretionary programs over the next decade, a study by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center concludes.
About 800 University of Virginia staff members have less than two months to decide whether to take an incentivized retirement package. The university announced the package Tuesday offering nine months’ salary and a $9,000 health care subsidy to any qualified employee 55 or older who has logged at least 20 years of uninterrupted employment with the state.
The University of Virginia unveiled its new Early Retirement Incentive Program, which will allow some of its employees to retire early. The university says ERIP will help secure financial support for longtime employees in the UVA Academic Division and College at Wise who want to get out of the working world now.
A new panel is tasked with studying law enforcement technologies and making recommendations for the state. The 31 member sub-panel of the Secure Commonwealth Panel will first look at the use of body cameras. The group will explore the balance between privacy and public safety. The panel includes Wendell Fuller, the president of the 100 Black Men Group and Aryn Frazier, the incoming president of the University of Virginia Black Student Alliance. Fuller and Frazier join public safety, law enforcement and other state officials on the panel.
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hubble’s launch — and looking ahead to the 30th — even astronomers who work with the observatory on a daily basis still find the saga hard to believe. “It was a huge program, then it was a disaster, and then astronauts, these heroes, risked their lives to go fix it and then it’s a huge success. You couldn’t script something better than that, right? You couldn’t make a movie that was better than that. It’s been great.” “For some of these kids, Hubble has always been in their lives, has always been in...
University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato on the Republican National Leadership Summit in New Hampshire.
Erin Kelley grew up poor with parents who never went to college, but she is about to do something only 11% of Americans like her do: earn a degree. The Boston College senior is the latest success story of Bottom Line, which counsels disadvantaged youth on how to get into college—and graduate. About 80% of the nonprofit’s clients earn a degree. And in an era of skyrocketing college costs and debate about the value of higher education, they typically leave with relatively little debt and a job waiting for them. Ben Castleman, a University of Virginia education professor who has studi...
Earth Week at the University of Virginia, which begins Sunday, will include a variety of activities in a collaborative celebration of sustainability and environmental stewardship. "Earth Week is a great opportunity for everyone at U.Va. and in Charlottesville to learn about what our community is doing, both locally and globally, to improve the environment and also learn ways to make our lives greener," said Nina Morris, sustainability outreach and engagement manager at Facilities Management.
The Nazi plan to recreate a new German society did not begin with the idea of exterminating Jews, but rather of eradicating all traces of “Jewish” religious and historical influence. Judaism, said historian Alon Confino, represented to the Nazis “a kind of unclean modernity” that had to be cleansed in order to bring about their new world order. Confino, a history professor at the University of Virginia and Ben-Gurion University in Israel, is a leading scholar of German memory and national culture.
As he was growing up, William Antholis says, he was always made aware of "the large political forces of the 20th century" that had shaped his family, Greek immigrants uprooted by World War II. Mr. Antholis, newly named director and chief executive of the Miller Center, an affiliate of the University of Virginia, recalls learning from his schoolteacher mother about the Hellenic roots of Western political culture. From the whole proud family, he knew that his grandfather was John F. Kennedy’s barber during his Senate years.
A group of University of Virginia students are getting some valuable hands-on experience and the chance to curate their very own exhibit at the university's Fralin Museum. The exhibit, titled "The Body in Motion," is the first ever curated entirely by students at the museum. Ten university interns came up with a theme, medium, and layout for the exhibit.
Important news for men receiving treatment for prostate cancer: Two new studies have upended the widely held view that it is best to delay radiation treatment as long as possible after removal of the prostate in order to prevent unwanted side effects. "The common teaching has been, without clear evidence, that urinary incontinence and erectile function are worse when radiation is delivered earlier rather than later, but we didn't see any protective effect of delayed radiation compared to earlier radiation," said radiation oncologist Timothy N. Showalter, MD, of the Universit...
Nurses and nursing students at the University of Virginia say their jobs are not easy, but a few have found a unique way to cope with the emotional and physical hardships they face every day. For 13 years, the UVA School of Nursing has incorporated journal writing into the student curriculum. Each year, the school holds a competition for all categories of entries. Each nursing undergraduate or graduate student submitted a poem or narrative from their personal journals that expressed how they experienced and dealt with a patient who touched their hearts. This year's writing compe...
The Civil War sesquicentennial is a far different animal than the centennial of which Catton was an icon. For vivid proof of that, just watch an hour or two of C–SPAN3’s coverage of the last Signature Conference of Virginia’s Civil War sesquicentennial commission, held Saturday in Old Cabell Hall at the “academical village” created by Thomas Jefferson. University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan welcomed hundreds of attendees from across the country and overseas, saying it seemed fitting to gather on U.Va.’s historic grounds. A tad more than 150 years e...
While many college students lounged on beaches for spring break, 82 students from eight colleges and universities spent their time supporting Grand Canyon National Park's wildland fire crew as part of an Alternative Spring Break (ASB) program. These students, who hailed from Longwood University; Moravian College; University of Virginia; Northern Arizona University; Georgia College and University; Chapman University; University of California, Los Angeles; and Williams College, dragged downed trees and debris and helped prepare archaeological sites for future prescribed burns, pressure teste...
The first ever Ladies in the Lab workshop took place on UVa grounds Sunday. Middle and high school girls were invited from local school districts to take part in 15 interactive exhibits run by more than 70 volunteers from several female UVa engineering groups as well as NASA and Capital One.
In Singapore, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital uses nature "as a partner in the healing process." Patients look out over green roofs, an urban garden, a waterfall and fish ponds. Remarkably, the hospital also acts as a community center, drawing outside visitors to its natural beauty. Timothy Beatley of the University of Virginia writes that "this place makes me hopeful because it shows how health care facilities can be designed to include nature," adding that "my gut feeling is that this building does heal."
My wife and I were dumbfounded until we realized he wasn’t focused on the buildings but the students walking about. And darned if they didn’t look more like a crowd he could learn from. It turns out that their selection process has the backing of the dean of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. In a blog post recently, Robert F. Bruner urged future business school candidates to consider the principle of “five friends” when choosing where to get their MBA. Bruner argued that in graduate school, you learn more from the friends around you...