(Commentary) With rising Medicaid costs squeezing what they can spend on education, highways and many other things, states are interested in containing the cost of health care. A recent health care cost containment report sponsored by the University of Virginia argues that the need for such actions is urgent and that states have to do a much better job of leading the way.
Last September, the CIA quietly changed its long-standing policy for how it would process certain records requests byimplementing a new fee structure that will essentially discourage the public from trying to get the agency to declassify secret government documents because the costs are too high, open-government advocates have charged. Among the four complainants is Katelyn Sack, a University of Virginia graduate student conducting research on lie detectors.
The University of Virginia Men's Lacrosse team has donated the head of a lacrosse stick to Westhill High School in memory of Anna Pullano, a senior who died last year in a car crash. Several members of the university's team knew Pullano, said Westhill Superintendent Casey Barduhn. They wanted to honor her with a memorial lacrosse head that will be placed in the school's trophy case, he said.
Saying that “frivolous” open records requests for faculty members’ emails and other communications have a potential chilling effect on academic freedom, a joint faculty-administrative body at the University of California at Los Angeles has drafted a first-of-its-kind statement to protect the confidentiality of frank, collaborative exchanges among scholars discussing their research.
(By Lynn A. Isabella, associate professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business) Are you a manager in the middle? Do you experience demands from the top at the same time you hear concerns from the bottom? Do you often feel ignored or dismissed? Being a manager in the middle isn’t easy. Middle managers can feel caught in a vice – squeezed together by the top and bottom – or pulled apart. Neither of these are positions of strength, which may be why middle managers have traditionally been a bit looked down on.
Such characterizations wouldn't be helpful to Biden if he were to run for president in 2016, a prospect he hasn't ruled out. He's already a "heavy underdog," assuming Clinton runs, and Gates' assertions about Biden's judgment will turn up in debates and television ads, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "This is the kind of criticism that will have an impact in a general election," he said in an email. "Some independently minded voters might be swayed by such a harsh assessment of Biden."
We'll see, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "If he told the truth, he'll be fine," Sabato said. "As long as he wasn't involved in the act itself and the cover-up and he fired those involved he's fine. If he lied, it's over."
“It’s no secret that there was a lot of tension before this race,” said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. “It was well-known in the community.”
During the several years that Evans Hall, new SOM building, has been in the works, people have complained that the giant building is out of scale with the neighborhood. The design has at times been unfavorably compared to an airport terminal; neighbors raised concerns about the structure “looming” over them. One neighbor challenged the building design in court, and lost. None of that was apparent during Thursday’s panel discussion, which featured Foster; former Yale President Rick Levin; Bob Stern, dean of Yale’s school of architecture; and Karen Van Lengen, former dean...
(By G. Edward White, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law and University Professor) There has been a good deal of recent commentary about a perceived “crisis” in American legal education. A combination of rising tuition rates for law schools and a decline in the number of entry-level jobs in the legal profession has resulted in reduced numbers of applicants to law schools, and a corresponding reduction in entering law school class sizes. From the perspective of recent history, the “crisis” represents a potentially dramatic change in the stature and pro...
They've performed for President Barack Obama, appeared on the TV shot The Office and the movie “Pitch Perfect.” Now, the University of Virginia's a cappella group, The Hullabahoos, is helping raise money so deserving military students and spouses can go to college.
(By Gerry Yemen, senior researcher, and Gregory B. Fairchild, E. Thayer Bigelow associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business) For years, Hillenbrand’s death-care business looked good on paper — healthy profit margins in an industry that historically presented itself as stable, profitable and highly predictable. How does one know when being better isn’t enough?
The NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton has become the first government member of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing of Richmond. NASA scientists will conduct research and development at both facilities and collaborate with the University of Virginia, Virginia State University and Virginia Tech as well as industry partners.
(Commentary) I am sorry to inform the NASA family that my good friend and our Associate Administrator for Education, Leland Melvin, has decided to retire next month after more than 24 years of NASA service.
The University of Virginia hosted hundreds of people for a fierce robotics competition Saturday. Middle and high school students from around the region put their newly-built robots to the ultimate test.
University of Virginia junior midfielder Morgan Brian and Maryland’s Patrick Mullins were named winners of the Hermann Trophy on Friday. The Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy is presented to the best female and male players in NCAA Division I soccer.
(Transcript) Interview with U.Va. alum and National Football League veteran Chris Canty. In discussing recent reports about college athletes who read below the eighth-grade level, Canty said, “What I found in Virginia was the minimum standards that were required of student athletes were higher than a lot of what some of my peers in other schools and universities were experiencing. So from that perspective, the University of Virginia had the support staff there that was able to help me to make sure I was on the right track to be able to graduate. So, I'm thankful for that. But I do re...
(Commentary by Jill S. Tietjen) I, too, have benefited from all of the women on whose shoulders we stand. I entered the University of Virginia in the Fall of 1972, in the third class in which women were admitted as undergraduates, under court order. I am one of the first ten women to graduate as an engineer from UVa (1976). 1972 was the first year that the percentage of women graduating nationwide with a B.S. in engineering reached ONE percent. I didn't even know a woman engineer before I became one. I am sure that is one of the many reasons that I have devoted over 30 years of my life to ...
"Time is brain" when it comes to a person who is suffering a stroke. In fact, time is a stroke victim's greatest enemy. The faster they get treatment, the better the outcome. So says one stroke neurologist with the University of Virginia Health System, which is working with local rescue squads to outfit ambulances with iPads and tablets, so that doctors can diagnose such patients en route to the hospital. Stroke is the leading cause of long-term adult disability in the U.S., says Dr. Andrew Southerland, a stroke neurologist with the University of Virginia Health System, which is ...
Throughout the weekend, swimmers have been battling it out in the pool at this year's CeraVe Invitational. Taking place at the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center on the Rutgers University campus, swimmers from across the country made the journey to compete here. They fought hard throughout all of the events, but even harder to honor the memory of the late Fran Crippen.