The UVA Medical Center is discussing ways to help provide care for undocumented immigrants. “Patients Without Passports” was the topic during UVA Medical Center Hour on Wednesday. A doctor and an advocate spoke about the challenges hospitals face when trying to provide medical care for undocumented immigrants, who do not qualify for benefits from Medicaid nor Medicare.
The rise of social media has been a boon – as well as a bane – to political commentators of all stripes. Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel and three other journalists discussed the impact of social media on the election at a forum held by UVA’s Center for Politics. Geoffrey Skelley, the center’s media relations coordinator, joined in as well.
Although the competition between Democrat Jane Dittmar and state Sen. Tom Garrett Jr., R-Buckingham, has flared up recently with accusations of dishonesty, the candidates were relatively restrained at Wednesday’s debate at the University of Virginia. Hosted by the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Dittmar and Garrett answered questions prepared by three Batten professors.
By one measure, the discipline that covenants impose can be good for both lenders and borrowers. Companies that trip a covenant and draw extra attention from creditors are more likely to turn around and outperform than similar firms that lack such restrictions, according to a 2012 academic study published in the Review of Financial Studies. Cuts in acquisitions, capital spending, debt levels and shareholder payouts typically follow, while operating performance and stock prices improve, the authors concluded. The study by Greg Nini, David Smith and Amir Sufi, covered U.S. nonfinancial firm...
(By Nicole Hemmer, assistant professor at UVA’s Miller Center) It was a first for a modern presidential debate. When Hillary Clinton described Donald Trump’s actions as “racist,” she used a word that has never been used in a televised debate – and likely has never been used in any presidential debate.
Hillary Clinton won the first presidential debate "hands down," but Donald Trump has a chance to correct what was a "disastrous" performance for him in the next two debates, veteran political analyst Larry Sabato said Tuesday.
The contentious first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump lived up to its high ratings expectations, delivering the largest-ever TV audience for a presidential debate. “The debate was record-setting, but not record-shattering,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “Still, 84 million is a big chunk of the approximately 135 million expected to vote this year. Not too shabby.”
In a CNN post-debate survey, 62 percent of voters who turned in to watch said Clinton won, compared with 27 percent for Trump. In an online vote for Fox News, 50 percent said Trump won, to 35 percent for Clinton. "It is dangerous to offer confident predictions of how the public will react to a debate immediately after it is concluded," wrote analysts Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.
"There's a reason why we have three debates," said Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics. After a bad first debate, like Trump had, "the story line can change and the candidates can improve their performance or deteriorate, depending on what they have learned from the first debate."
The medicines needed to treat opioid addiction require complex in-person procedures and regular follow-up, limiting what can be done via telemedicine, noted Richard Merkel, a UVA associate professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral science. The university, as part of the USDA initiative, will be providing remote mental health and addiction treatment to 11 rural community health centers. Both the prescribing and monitoring of those medications have "to be done face to face, by a physician who has been licensed [by the Drug Enforcement Administration].”
Shirley MacLaine will return to her Virginia roots as part of a trio of film legends at the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville Nov. 3-6. The festival lineup will offer more than 120 films ranging from beloved classics to some of the hottest new titles on the festival circuit. Legendary film icons will meet up-and-coming filmmakers from around the world and around Virginia.
New research says most of the causes of childhood diarrhea, the second-leading cause of death for children around the world, are pathological. Dr. Eric Houpt of the UVA School of Medicine's Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health says the roles of pathogens like bacteria, viruses and parasites has been vastly underestimated. The research suggests that nearly 90 percent of childhood diarrhea cases are caused by pathogens, up from about 50 percent.
Students choose a college for all kinds of reasons, but in dollars and cents, the best measure of a good college is what happens after graduation. One example of outcomes strength is the University of Virginia. It tied for 56th in our overall ranking, but comes in at No. 32 on outcomes thanks to a cap on loans it expects students to take out, a solid proportion of graduates who enter engineering and business fields, and among the best six-year graduation rates of any public institution.
A 2013 report by Caroline Hoxby of Stanford University and UVA’s Sarah Turner examined an experiment they conducted with high-achieving, low-income students. A number of interventions – including offering them fee waivers to 171 selective colleges – were conducted to make these students more aware of their options. The students in the program were more likely than similar students outside the program to apply to more colleges, and to more competitive colleges.
A 2013 report by Caroline Hoxby of Stanford University and UVA’s Sarah Turner examined an experiment they conducted with high-achieving, low-income students. A number of interventions – including offering them fee waivers to 171 selective colleges – were conducted to make these students more aware of their options. The students in the program were more likely than similar students outside the program to apply to more colleges, and to more competitive colleges.
The bulk of the media declared Hillary Clinton the winner of the most watched debate ever, but they may be once again demonstrating their failure to understand what makes Donald Trump voters tick. “Clinton and Trump are talking to two very different countries, and political analysts and reporters are generally in the country Clinton, not Trump, inhabits,” UVA politics professor Larry Sabato wrote.
UVA media studies professor Jack Hamilton describes how rock ’n’ roll went from an art form pioneered by black musicians and rooted in rhythm and blues to being overly simplified as "rock," a genre symbolized by a white man with a guitar.
In only three of the 11 past elections that included televised debates would the outcome possibly have differed if not for the debates, concludes Larry Sabato and colleagues at the UVA Center for Politics.
Research from the University of Virginia published this year confirmed the shift parents have been feeling: Kindergarten has grown far more academic, with an increasing emphasis on literacy and math and additional exposure to standardized tests in preparation for more later in their schooling.
When First Lady Michelle Obama and former President George W. Bush were captured on camera sharing a warm hug at the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture over the weekend, there was a collective national "aww." "It's a great photo that demonstrates genuine bipartisanship," said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics and a longtime White House watcher. "At one time they were political enemies, but they came together for a good cause. In the midst of a nasty election season, people are hungry for anything that can ...