(Commentary by Richard J. Bonnie, Harrison Foundation Professor of Law and Medicine, director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, and Professor of Public Policy) When young people are brought under the control of our juvenile justice system, we all have a stake in making sure they receive the services they need and that they become productive, law-abiding citizens.
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday honored the UVA Health System with the Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship at its membership meeting and business luncheon.
The expression "you are what you eat" might soon be replaced with "you are how you stand.” That was the topic of conversation Wednesday at UVA’s Medical Center Hour. Dozens of people, perhaps sitting taller than they normally would, listened to Emory Professor Sander Gilman's cultural perspectives on posture.
"While we don't know for sure why these improvements occurred, we saw that over time, children have eaten healthier diets, eating fewer calories overall, lesser carbohydrates, and more food with unsaturated fat," said study author Dr. Mark DeBoer, a UVA associate professor of pediatrics.
UVA’s graduating class will hear from TV actress Sarah Drew on May 20 during Valedictory Exercises on the Lawn. Albemarle resident and former Poet Laureate Rita Dove will speak May 21 during the graduation ceremony for the College of Arts & Sciences and its grad school. Paul Mahoney, who’s the dean of the Law School, will speak May 22 to the graduating classes for UVA’s other schools.
Scientists at UVA and Virginia Commonwealth University tied up with the Bangladesh-based icddr,b to establish a “probable” link between bacterial overgrowth in small intestine and stunting in children in a study.
First-year UVA student Kyndia Riley may seem like the typical 18-year-old. She's funny, smart and full of life, but life circumstances have caused her to grow up fast.
The economy of the future will be based on short-term “gigs” and contracting work, said Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., at a speech in front of about 300 UVA students Wednesday afternoon.
Barbara Perry, a UVA professor of political science and director of presidential studies, said it’s unusual for a Supreme Court justice to die while still in office and it’s even more rare for it to happen during a presidential race. However, she added, "We are not in uncharted waters for presidents nominating successfully members of the U.S. Supreme Court in the final years of their terms."
A combination of factors could be driving the disparity between the way the two parties emphasize higher education during the debates. To a certain extent, the candidates are limited by the questions they are asked. “I think sometimes the debate moderators are looking for conflict,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, through history’s long lens, has often been portrayed as someone who made a tough choice between his loyalty to Virginia and the United States. UVA Civil War expert Gary Gallagher says the truth is far more complicated than that. Rose-colored glasses aside, Lee was a slavery defender, Gallagher said.
The Virginia Film Festival will return to Charlottesville for its 29th year from Nov. 3-6, festival officials announced today. The Virginia Film Festival is presented by UVA and the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts.
(Commentary) I’d take Sanders more seriously if he would stop bleating about breaking up the big banks and instead breathed life into what really matters for jobs: nurturing more entrepreneurs and starter-uppers. I have just the plan for him: The 2015 “Milstein Commission on Entrepreneurship and Middle-Class Jobs” report produced by the University of Virginia.
A face familiar to "Grey's Anatomy" fans will be featured at the University of Virginia Final Exercises in May. Sarah Drew, a UVA alumna, will be the featured speaker at the Valedictory Exercises on the Lawn.
Meditation is not just helping adults, but children too. Slaughter Elementary School is one of three schools testing UVA’s Compassionate Schools Project.
"Digital enticements are displacing the pleasures of driving," says Matt Crawford, a political philosopher at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. "So that whole sense of getting in the car and finding out what's beyond the next town is less powerful."
Those who come here seeking asylum from violence in other countries often suffer from years of poor – or even nonexistent – medical care. The report introduces us to one such patient and the UVA doctors who focus on the special needs of asylum-seekers.
The Porteus Maze test, created by an Australian psychology professor, was used to establish the superiority of white Australians over their aboriginal counterparts. That maze, and the dark story behind it, proves the point at the heart of UVA historian Erik Linstrum’s new book: Science is frequently used to justify preexisting belief systems and power relationships.
Health care-sharing ministries have been growing in number and popularity, but not every observer thinks they're safe. In an article for The Hill, Carolyn Long Engelhard, director of the health policy program at the Department of Public Health Sciences for the UVA School of Medicine, acknowledges the rise of health care-sharing ministries. But Engelhard writes, "there have been problems with these types of health ministries in the past." Engelhard points to an embezzlement situation with an Ohio ministry in 2004, adding "other states have also reported similar infractio...
If Trump does decide to back out of the pledge, there would likely be no legal repercussions. As UVA Center for Politics political analyst Kyle Kondik explained to ThinkProgress back in September, the pledge was not a legally enforceable contract.