When patients are stuck with fewer choices, they get poorer quality care. That’s why a University of Virginia study found that Medicaid patients are 13 percent more likely to die during surgery than their uninsured counterparts.
The race brought in more than $370,000 last year for the University of Virginia Breast Care Center and this year, race coordinators hope to reach their goal of $400,000. Putting money toward patient care and cancer research is what it's all about for them. "We can help women today but by doing research we help more women in the future, in the country, and even in the world by being better able to find things, treat them,” said Dr. Jennifer Harvey, radiologist at UVA.
The Miss America organization is having a fundraiser at CiCi’s Pizza Thursday. Ten percent of proceeds will benefit the Children's Miracle Network, which includes the University of Virginia Children's Hospital.
The V Foundation, one of the nation’s leading cancer research foundations, is partnering with the Virginia wine industry, the University of Virginia Cancer Center and the Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University to raise critical funds for cancer research. Gov. McAuliffe will host a kick-off event tonight at the Executive Mansion.
By W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.... marriage is in trouble not just in post-industrial cities like Muncie but, increasingly, in small towns and rural communities across Indiana and the country at large. Divorce remains high, marital happiness is falling, and nonmarital childbearing is rising. All this makes for a growing marriage divide in the Hoosier State.
When it comes to University of Virginia graduates, you can always depend on them to return to their home away from home and give back to the local community. Sasheer Zamata, the newest cast member of Saturday Night Live, recently made her way to Charlottesville, Virginia, to perform at her alma mater in April, giving back in the form of entertainment. Now, Jerry Zhiyuan Peng, chair and CEO of world-leading pulp and paper company Shandong Tranlin Paper Co. Ltd., is giving back, too, but by way of jobs. According to UVa, the 2003 alumnus of the Darden School of Business and member of t...
Hickory High alum Lauren Coughlin sank a 20-footer for birdie on No. 17 to take sole possession of first place and went on to win the VSGA Women's Stroke Play Championship Thursday at Chantilly National Golf and Country Club. Coughlin, a rising senior at U.Va., finished with a 1-under 218 after posting a final-round 1-over 74. Coughlin, the two-time reigning VSGA Women's Amateur champion, became the third player since 1991 to own the Women's Amateur and Women's Stroke Play titles in the same rotation.
These days, Gene Corrigan said, he is just another University of Virginia sports fan, which means one topic is on his mind. Corrigan once was at the center of the action. His career included jobs as UVa athletic director, ACC commissioner and NCAA president. “I follow the [UVa] teams and marvel at what they’ve achieved; I think it’s wonderful,” Corrigan said before the event. “Wonderful coaches across the board, I think, at the university, and it’s just so good to see. Like baseball in years back, way back when we wondered if we should be playing basebal...
Heading into Thursday night’s Mississippi-TCU game, all of one home run had been hit in the 2014 College World Series, a span of nine games. That eye-popping statistic has sparked much discussion this week as teams chase a national championship. UVa could take a dramatic step tonight in its quest for a title: A victory over the Mississippi-TCU winner would vault the Cavaliers into the best-of-three championship series for the first time in school history. It’s a run built as much on preventing runs as scoring them, and, thanks partly to the cavernous TD Ameritrade Park, for all the...
Under rules proposed on Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education, colleges would have to train students and employees on preventing sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking. The new rules would direct colleges to compile statistics for all incidents—a new requirement for the latter three categories—and to resolve students’ disciplinary cases promptly and fairly. Set to be published in Friday’s Federal Register, the rules will be open for public comment until July 21.
Virginia’s colleges and universities spend about $1.3 billion on research and development annually, a total that has increased more than 68 percent over nearly a decade. But the state has made only marginal gains in its national standing, rising just one spot, to 15th place among all states, in the high-stakes race to innovate and train the workforce of the future — a trend the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia finds ominous. Further, only two schools — Virginia Tech at 43rd and the University of Virginia at 60th — raised their national rankings to a compet...
The University of Virginia Center for Politics is holding their 16th Annual Virginia Political History Project tomorrow. This year’s event will feature a discussion with Senator Mark Warner (D) and former Senator John Warner (R). UVa. Professor Larry Sabato will moderate the discussion. There will also be a screening of the Emmy award winning documentary Out of Order, which explores partisanship and the growing lack of civility in the U.S Congress.
Four professors with the University of Virginia have been awarded thousands of dollars in grants for their research projects. In all, they will receive $555,000 from Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology. The center provides awards from a fund to advance science and technology-based research, development and commercialization.
Anne Coughlin, a professor at the University of Virginia and an expert on feminist jurisprudence, has written that extra-legal sexual codes infantilize students. That offends those who believe there is a rape culture on American campuses.But every parent should certainly consider this: If the complications of human sexuality and its often ambiguous mating dance defy consistent definition by the intellectual candlepower of entire university faculties, what advice should you give children who might still be in their teens as they head off to college?
Fines on average are seven times as large for foreign companies as for domestic ones, according to a University of Virginia law professor, Brandon L. Garrett. He found that foreign companies were penalized $35 million on average, compared with an average of $4.7 million for American companies.
Wednesday’s ruling by the United States Patent and Trademark Office leaves the Washington Redskins with little defense against trademark infringement, according to two professors at the University of Virginia School of Law. The team can continue to use the Redskins name, said Dotan Oliar, a UVa professor specializing in intellectual property, but the lack of trademark protection could cut into its merchandising revenue. Edmund W. Kitch, who also teaches intellectual property law at UVa, said the team might be able to keep its name and keep up merchandising revenues. The team might, for e...
Political analyst Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, believes activists have an outsized influence in the way their parties operate. They brook no deviation from hard-core tenets. For Republican hardliners, Obamacare is just "another government boondoggle," or a new form of vote-buying, Sabato told me. They don't care about Virginians who desperately need coverage.
An interim superintendent has been appointed to fill the vacancy that will be created by Dr. Bob Grimesey’s resignation at the end of the month as superintendent of Orange County Public Schools. Filling the position in the interim will be Dr. Brenda Tanner. In addition to serving at the pre-kindergarten through 12th grade level, Tanner also has worked at the college level, teaching leadership and school administration at the University of Virginia while also directing the Curry School’s school and university professional consortium.
"China and Vietnam have been working on their relationship for 4,000 years, and some days the work goes better than others," said Brantly Womack, a professor of foreign affairs at the University of Virginia who has written extensively on the countries.
A study to be published in the July issue of the journal Child Development reports that a constellation of pseudo-mature behaviors in early adolescence — minor forms of delinquency, early romantic behavior and a focus on physical appearance in seeking out friends — predicts “significant difficulties in social functioning” up to 10 years later. Individuals who act “old” for their age as young teenagers tend to have trouble forming friendships and romantic attachments as young adults. Why would this be? Joseph Allen, a professor of psychology at the University...