Doctors are like anyone else. They can become forgetful as they grow old, develop illnesses, tremors or behavioral problems, and lose their sight and hearing. Is it safe to let them maintain hospital privileges, prescribe drugs, interpret test results for reliable diagnoses, and perform surgery, when a mistake could cost a life?The University of Virginia Health System requires doctors to take physical and cognitive screening tests after their 70th birthday.
In America, death is not something we often talk about unless we are forced to by circumstance or tragedy. But at hospitals, death is an everyday occurrence and medical workers must quickly learn to deal with it. But how do they cope? WMRA’s Kara Lofton reports on one initiative, called "The Pause," that started at the University of Virginia Medical Center two years ago and is now slowly being adopted by hospitals all over the country.
When it comes to landing a good job after college, the STEM fields often get much of the attention. But let’s not forget about business majors — those with degrees in areas such as finance, accounting and business administration are often at the top of employers’ wish lists. While U.Va. is often referred to as a party school, don’t be fooled — the university has rigorous academic standards. Ranked at No. 4, its median SAT scores for incoming students, 1362, is the highest among colleges on our top 10 list. This public university located in Charlottesville, Virgini...
In ruling that Texas must provide a free public education to undocumented children, the court said in a footnote that "no plausible distinction with respect to Fourteenth Amendment 'jurisdiction' can be drawn between resident aliens whose entry into the United States was lawful, and resident aliens whose entry was unlawful." But because the statement was made in a footnote, it does not count as binding precedent. Even so, to many legal scholars, the Supreme Court has settled the issue. "I think it's straightforward," says Prof. David Martin a former general coun...
By Dr. Marcus L. Martin is Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity at the University of Virginia. Dr. Martin is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and past chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine.
The University of Virginia announced on Sunday that there is to be an endowment of a permanent position in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences of the Julian Bond Professorship of Civil Rights and Social Justice, to honor the legendary contribution made by the late University of Virginia Professor of History who died Saturday in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, at the age of 75, following a brief illness.
When civil rights icon Julian Bond died Saturday in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., at the age of 75, America lost a man of towering stature and achievements during one of the most consequential eras in modern American history. A founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Chairman of the NAACP for more than a decade. A founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the height of the civil rights struggle in the 1960s. A state legislator in Georgia for 20 years, beginning in 1985. And, most recently, a professor of history at the University of Virginia, where he taught for 20 ...
Julian Bond, an icon of the civil rights movement, also was a preserver of its history. Bond, who had helped start the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, among his many achievements, was a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. He had written and lectured extensively on the civil rights movement and on a wide range of associated topics, such as housing, voting and poverty.
“In light of recent events, I think it is wise for the college to sponsor an event that can present a meaningful discussion on the history of the Confederate flag, how it has been used by various groups, and what it means to different people,” said UVa-Wise history professor Brian McKnight. “We feel it is important to say that this is an academic program without political consideration.”
In a breakthrough discovery, researchers at the University of Virginia's Center for Global Health have developed ‘The Drinkable Book,’ which is a nanotechnology-based method to purify drinking water and can eliminate water-borne bacteria.
One page from this ‘drinkable book’ can potentially filter up to 100 litres of drinking water and may provide a cheap, sustainable solution for communities suffering from severe sanitation problems. Theresa Dankovich from Carnegie Mellon University used the idea to launch the concept of a book that could both encourage proper sanitation practices and purify water. Following a postdoctoral stint at the University of Virginia (UVA), she was also able to dope the paper with relatively inexpensive copper nanoparticles.
Alice Bowman, a U.Va. alumna, is NASA missions operator working on the New Horizons project to Pluto.
Low-wage earners would work 50 percent more, and middle earners 18 percent more, according to a 2000 study by Leora Friedberg, an economist at the University of Virginia.
Joshua Choi of the University of Virginia was one of eight scientists to receive a NASA grant of $200,000 for up to three years for his concept, “Lightweight and Flexible Metal Halide Perovskite Thin Films for High Temperature Solar Cells.”
Larry Sabato, the longtime pundit and University of Virginia politics professor, said the Supreme Court switch is “all the evidence anyone could need that partisanship is at a fever pitch in Richmond.”
Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk won his seat by less than 2 percentage points in 2010, during the Republican wave election. His likely Democratic opponent will be the popular Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth – a pro-choice, highly decorated Iraq war veteran and double-amputee. The University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato now has Kirk’s race listed as a likely win for Democrats in his “Crystal Ball” political predictions.
By Arthur I. Schulman, associate professor of psychology emeritus at the University of Virginia.The frontispiece of “Visions and Jewels,” an autobiography published by Henry Holt in 1926, is a photograph of a bust of the author, Moysheh Oyved (1885-1958), created by his friend Jacob Epstein, the great 20th-century sculptor. Oyved, unlike Epstein, has been almost completely forgotten, but his story and his works deserve to be lifted out of the darkness.