A new study shows Virginia hospitals are financially better off than they were at the end of 2016. Both the UVA Medical Center and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital's net worth has increased in the last year. They say this means more money to improve patient care.
UVA’s School of Engineering & Applied Sciences is taking on a $27 million project to improve the way computers work around the world.
She was famously fired by President Donald Trump last year and now she is talking about "Standing Up to Trump." Former Assistant Attorney General Sally Yates paid a visit to UVA’s Miller Center on Tuesday. She talked not only about her firing, but American's faith in government and the special prosecutor investigating the Trump administration.
UVA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science has been picked to establish a center to help remove a bottleneck that is hindering technological advances.
A new, multimillion-dollar center at the University of Virginia will bring together researchers to eliminate a data bottleneck built into computer systems 70 years ago.
This Saturday will mark exactly one year since President Trump's inauguration. UVA’s Miller Center has been watching that year very closely.
(By Ashley Deeks, UVA law professor) Every day seems to bring a new article about China’s pervasive use of facial recognition technology. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post have reported how widely China is using this technology, collecting and storing video evidence from cameras on every street corner and road, at apartment building entrances, and in businesses, malls, transportation hubs and public toilets.
A study by UVA researchers examined 30 people who were showing symptoms of the common cold and were asked to identify 10 surfaces they’d touched in their home over the previous 18 hours. More than 40 percent of the surfaces tested positive for rhinovirus, the most common virus to cause the common cold.
UVA has awarded more undergraduate degrees nearly every year since 2011, and a strong application cycle puts the University on track to enroll even more Virginians.
Virginia will open its baseball season exactly one month from Tuesday as the No. 19 team in the nation, according to the D1Baseball.com Top 25 poll.
“Not everyone needs a cash-back credit card,” says Dorothy C. Kelly, lecturer in personal finance in UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce. “Rule number 1 is there is no such thing as a free lunch. Cards offering cash back frequently charge higher annual fees, others charge higher interest rates and/or late fees. Some charge merchants higher transaction fees, known as interchange fees, to provide the cash back. The merchants, in turn, pass along the higher fees to consumers in the form of higher prices.”
“Not everyone needs a cash-back credit card,” says Dorothy C. Kelly, lecturer in personal finance in UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce. “Rule number 1 is there is no such thing as a free lunch. Cards offering cash back frequently charge higher annual fees, others charge higher interest rates and/or late fees. Some charge merchants higher transaction fees, known as interchange fees, to provide the cash back. The merchants, in turn, pass along the higher fees to consumers in the form of higher prices.”
Although menopause is natural, and can cause a host of symptoms, such as irritability, memory lapse and night sweats, in addition to painful sex, women should not accept painful sex as normal. “Women thought that it was a natural part of aging that they should accept,” said Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of the North American Menopause Society and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UVA Health System.
Rachel Martin talks to UVA professor Kathleen Flake about the expected new leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Church President Thomas Monson died this month.
Nontraditional presidents are less likely to be women than men, research from the dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business has found – raising questions about whether boards of trustees stick to a dated image of the white male college president when they consider hires from unorthodox backgrounds.
Frederick Schauer, a First Amendment expert at UVA’s Law School, said that nothing about the awards themselves would cause First Amendment problems, but that trouble could arise if Trump used them as an occasion to issue legal threats. “The First Amendment’s speech and press clauses would be implicated if the administration threatened prosecution or other legal action, but not by mere differential criticism, condemnation, and praise,” he said in an email.
Serving the oppressed and poverty-threatened men and women in the local community will create the greatest good, Derrick Alridge told attendees at Rock Hill’s 15th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Interfaith Prayer Breakfast Monday morning at First Baptist Church. Alridge, a professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education, delivered the keynote speech in the popular event that brought at least 600 attendees from across York County together in reflection and prayer.
"There are a few factors driving the House retirements," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. "One is the political environment, which seems bad for Republicans, at least at the moment. Even safe-seat members might have an incentive to retire if they believe they will go from the majority to the minority, and swing-seat members may be worried about winning reelection and instead have decided to go out on their own terms."
Last week, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue vowed his organization will “fight back against the extremes in both parties – the Steve Bannons and the Elizabeth Warrens of the world – who do not represent the best interests of this country.” UVA political science professor Larry Sabato said groups like the Chamber may see 2018 as a head start to denying Warren a path to the White House.
Toby Heytens, now a professor at UVA’s Law School, was appointed last week by Virginia's Attorney General Mark Herring to serve as the attorney responsible for leading appellate practice and spearheading major litigation for the Commonwealth of Virginia.