(Editorial) So far, much of the recent criticism of the Affordable Care Act has focused, understandably, at the scale of the personal. Now add to those problems others at the macro-scale – including concerns at the University of Virginia Medical Center that the ACA will drastically cut reimbursements to the hospital.
Additionally, Micron and the University Virginia today announced an agreement to establish the Center for Automata Computing at the University of Virginia.
A new application for Android and Apple devices allows users to listen to police scanner recordings from the day of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. The app was created by the University of Virginia Center for Politics as a companion to political science professor Larry J. Sabato’s book, “The Kennedy Half Century: The Presidency, Assassination and Lasting Legacy of JFK.”
George Keith Martin, managing partner of the Richmond office of McGuireWoods and the first black rector at the University of Virginia, will be the keynote speaker at the John F. Merchant Book Award Reception, 6 p.m. Thursday at the Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad St.
If you've visited South America, you may have brought back an unexpected, nasty souvenir. Botflies are rife there, and their larvae are carried by mosquitoes, whose sting allows the eggs into human skin, where they incubate for eight weeks. University of Virginia physician Jonathan West explains how he extracted one from a friend.
But it may be time for a re-evaluation of many of our notions about what matters in high school, say researchers who study adolescence and its aftermath, including popularity and friendship, intelligence and hard work. For example, “popularity is not all it’s cracked up to be,” says Kathleen Boykin McElhaney, a psychologist at the University of Virginia. Her study of 164 adolescents, published in the journal Child Development in 2008, found that teenagers who don’t belong to their schools’ in groups can still function well socially – if they find a comfortab...
The NFL Players Association has selected the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as one of three academic medical centers to provide brain and body assessments for former players. NFLPA unveiled its new program, called "The Trust," last week. The program is designed to provide support for former players, with an emphasis on overall health and successful transition from professional football. As the program expands, the UNC clinical team will involve clinical partners from NorthShore Hospital in Evanston, Ill.; and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
Presidents and prime ministers are required to say so many words on so many occasions that inevitably the quality of what they do say has deteriorated,’ said Professor Russell Riley, an expert on speeches and the US presidency at the University of Virginia. ‘One Reagan-era speechwriter has referred to much of this as “[White House] Rose Garden rubbish” – the kinds of remarks the president is called on to do on a daily basis to deal with in commemoration of this or that, or this policy or that.’
Larry J. Sabato, founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, has written a recently released book, The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. In his book, Professor Sabato asserts that "...lasting power is accorded to only a handful of presidents, especially after their death. There is no doubt that John Kennedy is one of the few." He further asserts, "The source of this long lasting Kennedy influence is not hard to determine: It is public opinion. Americans had a positive view of JFK throughout his W...
"The spoils of victory is to actually be in the government and to actually have a job in the government," says Kyle Kondik, analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics analyst. "So it's certainly common on both sides for people who were intimately involved in the campaign to sort of move over to governance."
A high-tech project to turn an ordinary smart phone into an artificial pancreas that could transform the lives of people with type 1 diabetes has received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
(By Barbara A. Perry, senior fellow in the Presidential Oral History Program at U.Va.’s Miller Center) Just one week after witnessing her husband’s horrific assassination in a Dallas motorcade, Jacqueline Kennedy persuaded Life magazine columnist Theodore White to write her version of John F. Kennedy’s epitaph. Declaring his thousand-day administration to have been “one brief shining moment” – lyrics borrowed from a Lerner and Lowe Broadway musical – she insisted, “There’ll be great presidents again, but there’ll never be another Came...
A popular race in Charlottesville has reached a new fundraising milestone. This year's Charlottesville Women's Four Miler raised a record $370,000 for the Breast Care Program at the University of Virginia Cancer Center.
Reputable estimates put the number of unreleased CIA documents alone at about 1,171, according to University of Virginia professor of political science Larry Sabato, author of “The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy."
Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, says that the findings are correlational, hence they can’t conclusively prove that low IQs lead to prejudice. The studies would have to compare identical people, which is not possible. But it does point to the idea that people who lack the cognitive ability to process complexity tend to adhere to strict ideologies: “Reality is complicated and messy. Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies...
"This study presents data from a large bank of injuries in a young population and those data will ultimately help answer some of the questions of how and why there are differences," Susan Saliba said. Saliba is a physical therapist, athletic trainer and associate professor at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
(By Yael Grushka-Cockayne, an assistant professor, and Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr., an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business) The big idea: Is it better to rely on the best expert or the average of many experts’ forecasts?
Kyle Kondik, a congressional expert at the University of Virginia, also points to at least three popular Republicans in swing districts who won't be on the ballot in 2014. Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark. and Rep. Jon Runyan, R-N.J., both announced they were retiring. And the race to replace the late Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla., who passed away in October, is already shaping up to be a competitive one. "The polls can all changes in six months," Kondik says. " What doesn't change is new recruits entering the races and incumbents retiring."