(Audio) On the Oct. 13 edition of the “Wake Up Call,” host Rick Moore talks with Carolyn L. Engelhard, an assistant professor, health policy analyst and the director of the Health Policy Program for the University of Virginia Health System, about the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
In 2012, Tudor Investments fonder Paul Jones and his wife Sonia donated $12 million to establish the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia. The exploration of contemplative and yogic practices is close to both of their hearts. "We both started practicing Ashtunga Yoga in 2000 and it changed our lives," the couple said when they announced the gift. "Our hope is that every person that goes into the Contemplative Sciences Center can have the same great experience that my wife and I and our family and all our friends have had."
State police have concluded a review of a University of Virginia student’s arrest by Alcoholic Beverage Control agents who mistook a crate of water for a case of beer, the agency’s top official said Wednesday. But that review won’t be made public until ABC completes its own internal review of the more than six-month-old case, board Chairman J. Neal Insley said. It was unclear precisely when that might happen, or how much the agency might disclose about either its findings or those of state police.
"I don't expect Ken Cuccinelli to actually win Fairfax County, which Bob McDonnell actually managed to do in 2009," said Geoff Skelley, analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "Cuccinelli will do very poorly in Reston or Annandale, so just because he's from Fairfax doesn't mean he has appeal throughout the county."
A movie screening and panel at the University of Virginia on Friday will explore the background to recent events in the Middle East through film.
On this edition of UVa Today Bob Beard talks with Melissa Young, the executive director of Madison House. Madison House is a student volunteer center at the University of Virginia, and an independent non-profit.
Many of today’s least attractive campuses date to the post–World War II era, a heyday of free education that, unfortunately, coincided with Modernism, Brutalism, and a general love affair with concrete – and with the car. “We became suburbanized, and the campuses became suburbanized,” says Richard Wilson, professor and chair of the University of Virginia’s department of architectural history.
Arterial stiffness was associated with beta amyloid plaque formation in the brains of elderly people with no signs of dementia, and the association was independent of blood pressure and antihypertensive drug treatment, researchers reported. People who showed evidence of both amyloid plaques and lesions known as white matter hyperintensities on brain imaging had the most arterial stiffness, Timothy M. Hughes, PhD, and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Virginia wrote in the Oct. 16 online issue of the journal Neurology.
Haley faces battles of her own in South Carolina, where unemployment is higher than the national average at about 8 percent and her approval ratings earlier this year were less than 50 percent. But that isn’t the real problem, said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “I would think her name recognition in Virginia would be under 10 percent, and that’s being generous,” Sabato said. “They’re just trying to get photos of Cuccinelli on the front pages of all the papers with a powerful woman.”
Doug Hartog, the senior associate dean of admissions for the University of Virginia, encourages students to ask questions beyond those that can be answered on a website. “Try to get beyond just the numbers that are a part of this process and think about what it’s going to be like to actually live there,” Hartog said. “What is life like on a daily basis? Think a little deeper than admissions statistics and try to get at the pulse of the university.”
Despite the common fear that those annoying tip-of-the-tongue moments are signals of age-related memory decline, the two phenomena appear to be independent, according to findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Anecdotal evidence has suggested that tip-of-the-tongue experiences occur more frequently as people get older, but the relationship between these cognitive stumbles and actual memory problems remained unclear, according to psychological scientist and lead author Timothy Salthouse of the University of Virginia:
Right now, 375 of the 435 House of Representative seats up for election next year are rated as "safe" for one party or the other by political science professor Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
The Greek community at the University of Virginia is holding its annual family carnival Nov. 3 in the Madison Bowl on Rugby Road. The carnival, organized by members of various fraternities and sororities at UVa, is geared toward families and offers games, crafts, food and more. This year, a portion of the proceeds will benefit City of Promise.
Over a year after a cheating scandal wreaked havoc at Harvard, Yale’s rival school is considering implementing an honor code. The institution of an honor code would put Harvard in line with schools such as Princeton and the University of Virginia, both of which boast long-standing honor codes as centerpieces of their intellectual communities.
According to a 2013 economic impact study by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, agriculture and forestry are two of Virginia’s largest industries, providing more than 400,000 jobs and delivering a combined economic impact of $70 billion annually.
Among the flood of JFK books arriving with the 50th anniversary of the president’s assassination is one which promises to break new ground. It comes from University of Virginia professor and political pundit Larry Sabato, who shared his revelations at the Newseum Tuesday.