The detectives didn’t want to talk. A lot of times attorneys have to make those inquiries, because you have to write a motion to the court to get evidence released and retested. Having the [University of Virginia] legal clinic and the Innocence Project on board, they’re much more qualified to do that. We check back in with them later.
At the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, financial aid director Susan Loduha says flatly, “Darden scholarships are not negotiable. Darden determines scholarships by selecting the top candidates in each round, then sending their data to the Scholarship Committee for review. They select the students that will receive a scholarship and the amount.”
University of Virginia doctor Thomas Platts-Mills, who himself has the Alpha Gal allergy, is the doctor who discovered the virus along with a colleague. The two doctors believe an organism in the tick’s saliva may make a Lone Star tick bite victim allergic.
A project hatched more than a decade ago launched this year at a suburban Chicago health system. "We can identify people at different risks," effectively enabling personalized medicine, said Dr. William Knaus, director of applied genomics research at NorthShore's Center for Biomedical Research Informatics. Knaus began work on this effort to connect genetic information with family history back in the early 2000s, while working at the University of Virginia on the Human Genome Project.
Researchers have identified a simple way for teaching hospitals to elevate doctors' job satisfaction and improve retention: make sure the doctors have the right mix of responsibilities. "We looked at how much time clinicians spent in each mission area - teaching, research, patient care and administration - as well as how they felt about how much time they spent in each area," explained Susan M. Pollart, MD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. "For every mission area, if you thought you were spending too much time doing work in that area, you were more lik...
Sen. Mary Landrieu's disappointing one-vote loss for her Keystone XL Pipeline legislation Tuesday certainly didn't boost her already difficult prospects for re-election. "Landrieu is a substantial underdog, and one high profile vote probably isn't going to shake up the race as dramatically as Landrieu needs," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Institute for Politics.
Last week, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh filed a brief opposing summary judgment for the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s, which the bank has accused of fraud in Pennsylvania state court. The bank deposed seven current and former S&P executives and analysts. It hired two expert witnesses, including a systems engineering professor from the University of Virginia, Peter Beling, who deconstructed S&P’s model for rating mortgage-backed securities.
This American Life’s popular Serial podcast bills itself as “one story, told week-by-week.” … According to UVA Innocence Project director Deirdre Enright, her group and a pro bono lawyer in Maryland are about to file a motion to have the kit tested for DNA “as soon as possible.”
Yet until recently, boredom has been seldom studied. Perhaps it's because we believe it's an ethical category. As we like to say, idle hands are the devil's workshop. But psychologists finally seem interested in the topic. And a spate of studies suggest that boredom actually poses a threat to health - life, even. A recent study by University of Virginia psychologist Timothy D. Wilson found that people would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit quietly in a room for 15 minutes with nothing but their thoughts to occupy them.
While 55 percent of Baby Boomers say they're religious, only 36 percent of Millennials do. "Today," University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox notes, "fully 29 percent of Millennials consider themselves religiously unaffiliated, a record postwar high. They are also much less likely to describe themselves as 'religious' compared with earlier generations of Americans."
In many ways, experts say, this is an evolution of what Amazon has been doing all along, enabling users to do online price checks. “There’s a travel cost for consumers to go from one store to the other,” says Raj Venkatesan, a professor of business administration at University of Virginia’s Darden School of business, “but if you’re on Amazon it’s on your phone.”
Enrollment in Northern Virginia’s public schools is surging toward a record even as student populations dwindle in the vast majority of school systems across the state in the wake of the 2008 recession, according to a new University of Virginia study. U-Va. demographics researcher Hamilton Lombard, who led the study for the college’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, said the findings could foreshadow significant changes for Virginia’s public schools.
Public school enrollment in Virginia has grown steadily but unevenly across the state during the past 20 years, according to researchers in the Weldon Cooper Center’s Public Service Demographics Group at the University of Virginia.
Children—regardless of location—thrive best when raised in a stable, intact, biological family. As the recent work of sociologist Bradford Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, and Robert I. Lerman, a professor of economics at American University, evidences, children raised in such environments are more likely to earn more money and achieve higher levels of education.
An astrophysicist at the University of Virginia is beginning her research Wednesday after receiving a grant from L'Oréal USA. Sabrina Stierwalt is the first astrophysicist to ever receive the award of $60,000. She is one of five chosen from 650 applicants. She plans to use the money to further her research into interacting dwarf galaxies.
If teaching hospitals want to keep their doctors from leaving, they should consider personalizing the mix of clinical, teaching, research and administrative responsibilities for each faculty member, a survey by the University of Virginia School of Medicine found.
About four in five college students consume alcohol, and half of them report binge drinking, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. A University of Virginia study shows that alcohol-related automobile accidents are the second-leading cause of death among U.S. college students.
The public is invited to offer comments about the University of Virginia Police Department as part of an assessment to verify if the department meets professional standards.
Harvard, MIT Sloan, the University of Virginia’s Darden School and several other big-ticket US business schools are experimenting with these Moocs, just one example of a plethora of online learning now demanded by “digital natives”. Brought about by great advances in technology, virtual learning environments are fast becoming a necessity for most top-flight schools.
An article published by Rolling Stone on Wednesday accuses the University of Virginia of turning a blind eye to a “culture of hidden sexual violence” on its campus, but the institution’s president, Teresa A. Sullivan, responded in a statement posted on the university’s Website Wednesday evening that UVa takes seriously both the issue of sexual misconduct and the institution’s duty to provide a safe environment for its students.