Lawmakers in many states have debated whether to make undocumented students eligible for in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. Such students are not eligible for federal Pell grants. That is a significant financial boon for students. At the University of Virginia, undergraduate tuition, fees, room and board for Virginia residents total $23,050. For students from out of state, the total is $52,236.
A new report by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service says public school enrollment has steadily increased in Virginia in recent years. But the growth is uneven.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe is slated to speak at one of two graduation ceremonies at the University of Virginia in May.
State health officials say more than a dozen University of Virginia students that fell ill last weekend had norovirus. The Virginia Department of Health is still trying to seek the cause of the outbreak that hospitalized within a 24-hour period. More students also showed gastrointestinal symptoms.
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science by Sarah Jessen of the Max Planck Institute and Tobias Grossmann of the University of Virginia, suggests that our understanding of eyes runs very deep and emerges very early.
"Among cancer researchers what we would hope is to make cancer a chronic disease like other diseases. It would be manageable and not life-threatening and so the idea is to block the growth of tumors in combination with therapy and then chemotherapy and these types of drugs, " said researcher David Brautigan of the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
A new report released by the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service says public school enrollment has steadily increased in Virginia in recent years. But the growth is uneven. Between 2008 and 2013, the report says less than a third of Virginia's school divisions saw enrollment increases. Overall growth during the period was fueled by enrollment increases in Northern Virginia.
Starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday, local magician and illusionist Wes Iseli will stage 72 magic shows in a row to raise awareness and funds for the Children’s Miracle Network. “The University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, with the help of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, is able to provide high-quality care for children in Central Virginia and beyond,” said Ryan Lightner, the Children’s Miracle Network program coordinator at UVa.
President Obama’s action to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation and grant them work permits opens a new front in the decades-long debate over the scope of presidential authority. David A. Martin, a University of Virginia law professor who was a counsel at the Department of Homeland Security in 2009 and 2010, said that beyond the question of whether Mr. Obama was staying within the bounds of his power, the bigger problem for the future was one of precedent.
On Friday, Obama will travel back to Del Sol High School – the same place where he kicked off the push two years ago – to rally support around an executive order that will shield millions of undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation. “It’s one of the few states that really might swing from election to election at the presidential level. So given its competitiveness and the large Latino population, it’s a natural place for Obama to make his announcement,” said Geoffrey Skelley, an analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.&n...
The detectives didn’t want to talk. A lot of times attorneys have to make those inquiries, because you have to write a motion to the court to get evidence released and retested. Having the [University of Virginia] legal clinic and the Innocence Project on board, they’re much more qualified to do that. We check back in with them later.
At the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, financial aid director Susan Loduha says flatly, “Darden scholarships are not negotiable. Darden determines scholarships by selecting the top candidates in each round, then sending their data to the Scholarship Committee for review. They select the students that will receive a scholarship and the amount.”
University of Virginia doctor Thomas Platts-Mills, who himself has the Alpha Gal allergy, is the doctor who discovered the virus along with a colleague. The two doctors believe an organism in the tick’s saliva may make a Lone Star tick bite victim allergic.
A project hatched more than a decade ago launched this year at a suburban Chicago health system. "We can identify people at different risks," effectively enabling personalized medicine, said Dr. William Knaus, director of applied genomics research at NorthShore's Center for Biomedical Research Informatics. Knaus began work on this effort to connect genetic information with family history back in the early 2000s, while working at the University of Virginia on the Human Genome Project.
Researchers have identified a simple way for teaching hospitals to elevate doctors' job satisfaction and improve retention: make sure the doctors have the right mix of responsibilities. "We looked at how much time clinicians spent in each mission area - teaching, research, patient care and administration - as well as how they felt about how much time they spent in each area," explained Susan M. Pollart, MD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. "For every mission area, if you thought you were spending too much time doing work in that area, you were more lik...
Sen. Mary Landrieu's disappointing one-vote loss for her Keystone XL Pipeline legislation Tuesday certainly didn't boost her already difficult prospects for re-election. "Landrieu is a substantial underdog, and one high profile vote probably isn't going to shake up the race as dramatically as Landrieu needs," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Institute for Politics.
Last week, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh filed a brief opposing summary judgment for the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s, which the bank has accused of fraud in Pennsylvania state court. The bank deposed seven current and former S&P executives and analysts. It hired two expert witnesses, including a systems engineering professor from the University of Virginia, Peter Beling, who deconstructed S&P’s model for rating mortgage-backed securities.
This American Life’s popular Serial podcast bills itself as “one story, told week-by-week.” … According to UVA Innocence Project director Deirdre Enright, her group and a pro bono lawyer in Maryland are about to file a motion to have the kit tested for DNA “as soon as possible.”
Yet until recently, boredom has been seldom studied. Perhaps it's because we believe it's an ethical category. As we like to say, idle hands are the devil's workshop. But psychologists finally seem interested in the topic. And a spate of studies suggest that boredom actually poses a threat to health - life, even. A recent study by University of Virginia psychologist Timothy D. Wilson found that people would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit quietly in a room for 15 minutes with nothing but their thoughts to occupy them.