In terms of medical advancement, Merrill mentioned stereotactic radiosurgery, which the hospital is now using in partnership with the University of Virginia. The technology allows physicians to pinpoint tumors and apply radiation to a smaller area, sparing healthy cells.
Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, framed reading as a potentially crucial corrective to the rapid metabolism and sensory overload of digital technology. A new book of his, “Raising Kids Who Read,” will be published later this year.
Shows like Marvel: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. pave the way for how series can be more innovative in seeking diverse cast members and a diverse audience, says Shilpa Dave, a professor of media studies and an assistant dean at the University of Virginia.
“Based on scoring all lawmaking activities in the House of Representatives, women in the minority party are one third more effective than men in the minority party,” said Craig Volden, a public policy and politics professor at the University of Virginia who, along with his team, examined the sponsorship of bills from 1973 to 2008.
When designing its program with 14 high schools and four colleges, West Virginia looked to the work of U.Va.’s Benjamin L. Castleman and a colleague. The two scholars have documented the effects of recent texting initiatives, finding the practice can increase matriculation by up to 11 percent in communities where students had little access to college advising or information. They also find it to be a very affordable intervention, costing about $7 per student.
Dr. David C. Gordon, who has twenty years of experience with the University of Virginia's groundbreaking Office of Telemedicine, also knows firsthand what it takes to make a difference. He and his colleagues estimate they've saved patients a total of 8.9 million miles of travel by bringing health care to rural communities through telemedicine.
Amanda Oakes, an African-American 3L at the University of Virginia, has landed a postgraduate clerkship with a federal judge next year. But plenty of her diverse classmates who were standouts on campus were shut out during the clerkship application process, she said. "I think a lot of judges tend to take clerks like themselves, and there are so few minority judges that it narrows the pool. It's almost like an old boy's club."
Murder trials in which a body has not been recovered are atypical but happen, University of Virginia Law Professor Darryl Brown said. He referred to a website operated by former prosecutor Tad DiBiase, which lists nearly 400 known "no-body" murder trials in the country. Of those, 88 percent resulted in a conviction, the site claims.
The University of Virginia’s Miller Center announced Monday that Steve Case, a co-founder of AOL and chairman and CEO of Revolution, and Carly Fiorina, former chairwoman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, will lead a commission that will focus on entrepreneurship and middle-class job creation.
As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, this special occasion causes us to reflect on the historic role Delaware judges, lawyers and litigants played in reforming race relations in the United States. Judge Collins J. Seitz, a U.Va. Law School alumnus, had the courage to do in Delaware what no other judge in any of the separate appeals in Brown would do – order the immediate admission of black students to white schools.
By Larry J. Sabato, University Professor of politics and director of the U.Va. Center for Politics
The UVa-Wise ROTC program was was nearly cut last fall by the Army, but administration support for the program saved it, and the program is now in “fantastic shape.”
Nearly 25 years since amendments to the Clean Air Act addressed acid rain with a cap-and-trade program, water bodies in the Northeast have recovered, while those further south have not. Many streams in western Virginia show little or no sign of improvement, likely because acidifying sulfate compounds stored in the region’s highly weathered soil are continuing to leach into the water, according to a research group at the University of Virginia including Rick Webb.
At the request of the U.S. State Department, U.Va. student Lizzy Ramey is researching the role of Sharia law in the prosecution of money laundering and other crimes, for a program called the Diplomacy Lab that is tapping university resources to explore complex policy questions. At U.Va., 51 students and seven faculty members are participating in six projects across a range of academic disciplines this semester.
“Young people who have big ideas and big dreams tend to encounter brick walls,” said Keith Williams, a visiting professor at the University of Virginia who invited Andraka to share his story at the Rotunda recently. “He is incredibly poised, he is knowledgeable, patient and he seems to really understand a global perspective of technology,” said Mark Kester, co-director of the Institute for Nanoscale and Quantum Scientific and Technological Advanced Research at UVa.
“A.D.F. and the other groups wanted to counter more liberal legal forces, and they have largely achieved that goal,” said Douglas Laycock, an expert on law and religion at the University of Virginia Law School. “On the whole, they work at pretty high levels, and they’ve got a lot of boots on the ground.”
Hockey season is winding to a close, and that’s good news for Professor Lou Bloomfield, who will now have a little extra time in his busy schedule. During the season, he produces a video segment - shown on cable TV and the stadium JumboTron, explaining the science of this sport.
“We have seen many examples of a school having tremendous growth in a relatively short … time, but Cincinnati … is one of the strongest examples I know of where a system … has made dramatic gains in a short period of time,” said William Robinson of the Darden-Curry Partnership, a University of Virginia venture that runs a school-turnaround program.
The University of Virginia Medical Center named Pamela Sutton-Wallace, of the Duke University Health System, its new CEO on Friday. Sutton-Wallace will replace Ed Howell, who is stepping down after 12 years as CEO, in July. Howell will continue teaching in the Department of Public Health Sciences.
By U.Va. School of Nursing Dean Dorrie Fontaine and Susan Bauer-Wu, Kluge Professor of Contemplative End-of-Life Care and director of the school’s Compassionate Care Initiative... University of Virginia nursing and medical students recently created a new course — called the HeArt of Medicine, now an official part of every nursing and medical student’s curriculum — that weaves in art, biology, hospice and palliative care with practicing difficult discussions about end of life. There is such a thing as a good death, and nurses, like no other group, can help families orche...