Companies, like SunTrust, are making these changes to control future costs, said Dr. Thomas A. Massaro, a pediatrician and professor at University of Virginia Darden School of Business. “The (health care expense) vector is going in one direction. We could argue about the slope, but it is going up.”
In a variety of experiments, Dr. Hambrick and Timothy A. Salthouse of the University of Virginia have shown that crystallized knowledge (as measured by New York Times crosswords, for example) climbs sharply between ages 20 and 50 and then plateaus, even as the fluid kind (like analytical reasoning) is dropping steadily — by more than 50 percent between ages 20 and 70 in some studies. “To know for sure whether the one affects the other, ideally we’d need to see it in human studies over time,” Dr. Hambrick said.
In its annual list of the 150 Best Value Colleges, the company's message to parents is simple: Tell your kids to study hard, because a strong academic record – not a family's take-home pay – should drive a student's decision about where to apply.
Despite those weaknesses, University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato has Walker as the top potential 2016 Republican contender in his closely followed Crystal Ball website. "Walker has a lot to prove, but he looks good on paper," said Crystal Ball managing editor Kyle Kondik. "There are a lot of questions about how he will perform as a national candidate."
Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said it was “very shrewd” to have the nuns send their objections only to the administration and not to the insurer. “Sending it to the government does not act as an instruction to the insurer,” he said. The order, Laycock said, is a “big but very temporary win for the religious organizations.”
Republican leaders in the House of Delegates want to wait two years for the results of an audit of Virginia’s Medicaid program before deciding whether to extend coverage to hundreds of thousands of uninsured Virginians. But Virginia hospitals face a different deadline in mid-2016 – a “cliff” that will mean a sharp drop-off in federal support for the care of indigent patients, especially at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System and the University of Virginia Health System
Patients at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital got a special visit from some athletes Monday. Members of the UVA women's basketball team stopped by to deliver some smiles.
(Audio to be posted at approximately 12:30 p.m.) The White House released a report last week on the epidemic of sexual assault on college campuses. Obama announced a task force to help colleges and universities prevent and respond to rape and assault on campuses. Guests include U.Va. law professor Anne Coughlin.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have found that couples who spend uninterrupted time together at least once a week have better communication, higher sexual satisfaction, and stronger feelings of commitment than couples who don’t.
If he was still around, Robert 'Rivets' Miller would no doubt be sitting in his favorite chair on Sunday right in front of a television in his Michigan home watching the Super Bowl. After all, what else would expect a three-time NFL champion to do on the biggest football day of the year?
Steven DeKosky, a professor of neurology at the University of Virginia, wrote in an accompanying editorial that today’s study provides a “wake-up call” to look at environmental factors for Alzheimer’s disease and points researchers toward pesticides as a first area to assess. “We have spent so much time looking for the genetic underpinnings of the disease. Now it’s time to start looking harder at the environment,” he said in a telephone interview. “We are exploring a lot of ways that the environment may predispose us to or protect us from neurode...
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan has donated her mother's nursing cape to the university's nursing school.
University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato said the endorsement should give Mark Warner a boost among middle-of-the-road voters who have been abandoned the GOP. “The premier effect will be a television ad that will underline Mark Warner’s broad appeal, at least to moderate Republicans. How many of those are left, I can’t tell you,” Sabato said. “The Republicans have lost not only moderates, but also a lot of moderate conservatives.”
(Commentary) Nevertheless, political analysts say, one rotten apple — or even the scores of them picked up in the past two decades — does not spoil the barrel. “I’ve studied American political corruption throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and, if anything, corruption was much more common in much of those centuries than today,” said Larry J. Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
(Audio) Ed Murphy, astronomer at the University of Virginia, explores the latest developments in the search for dark matter in the Universe, a new supernova, and a “big” Mercury coming soon to a night sky near you.
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia will honor 12 faculty members next month for their work. Winners of the 2014 Outstanding Faculty Award include two from U.Va.: Linda Columbus, associate professor of chemistry, and William Petri Jr., professor of infectious diseases.
Others said Virginia's lax laws open the door for influence buying. Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said business leaders probably don't give gifts in exchange for anything specific, but they want that politician to remember them whenever something arises that would affect their organization.
A major provider of free online college courses from prominent universities has begun to offer “specialization certificates,” for a fee, to students who complete a sequence of courses in a given subject. The certificates, for courses taken via the online platform Coursera, are the latest development in a movement that advocates say will democratize elite higher education.
(Abbi Shelat, associate professor of computer science, is among the signatories) Media reports since last June have revealed that the US government conducts domestic and international surveillance on a massive scale, that it engages in deliberate and covert weakening of Internet security standards, and that it pressures US technology companies to deploy backdoors and other data-collection features. As leading members of the US cryptography and information-security research communities, we deplore these practices and urge that they be changed.