If you are concerned that a spot on your skin may be skin cancer, you can be screened for free at the University of Virginia Health System’s upcoming skin cancer screening event.
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Virginia may have discovered a way to save the lives of over 3 million people who die from water-related diseases. They've partnered with a foundation called Water is Life to produce and distribute what they're calling "the drinkable book." The book's pages are made of water-filtering paper, and the cover is a receptacle for filtering water through. In addition, each page of the book is printed with facts about safe water habits.
An American Enterprise Institute report last month found, “Compared to teens who reported that their fathers were not involved, teens with involved fathers were 98 percent more likely to graduate from college, and teens with very involved fathers were 105 percent more likely to graduate from college.” The author, Brad Wilcox of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, suggests several reasons this might be the case: Dads might help with homework, or make kids less likely to engage in mischief; they may help with tuition, too.
Microfinance provides banking services to the poor who would normally not qualify. These services usually involve such small amounts of money that traditional banking considers them inconsequential. The University of Virginia has several ties to Kiva. Jessica Jackley, Kiva's cofounder, attributes the time she spent on UVa's Semester at Sea for sparking her interest in microfinance. UVa also has a student lending team as well as an alumni lending team.
University of Virginia faculty members have received grants to support state science and mathematics elementary and secondary teachers. Officials at the Charlottesville school say the grants from the Virginia Department of Education will fund two weeks of professional development for 32 teachers during the summers of 2014 and 2015.
The U.Va. School of Law is ranked #9, down two spots from its 2013 ranking.
Within the past decade, the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and the University of Virginia apologized for their institutions' connections to slavery.
U.Va.’s associate dean of students, Nicole Eramo, said Friday that the university took numerous steps to bolster its policies on sexual violence after the OCR letter in 2011. ...Significantly, U-Va. adopted a new standard of proof that year for determining whether a student committed sexual misconduct. Instead of requiring “clear and convincing evidence” for finding a violation, the university determined that it would accept a lower standard of proof known as “preponderance of the evidence.” That shift followed direction from the OCR letter.
Poe came up when Stephen Malkmus was talking about his time in college — the singer and guitarist attended the University of Virginia, which Edgar Allan Poe attended for a year before getting kicked out.
Tamika Richeson chose to study history for a decidedly unromantic reason. From her vantage point as a struggling student in the Cleveland public school system, it looked like her only ticket into college. “It was the only thing I didn’t do poorly at,” said the 28-year-old, now a Ph.D. student in UVA’s Corcoran Department of History. She received a huge honor this spring: the Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies, awarded to only 10 researchers per year.
University of Virginia physician Dr. Christian Chisholm will be a featured speaker at The Promise Walk and nurses will be on hand to provide free blood pressure screenings.
Even nonpartisan observers were uncertain of McAuliffe’s position. “I don’t know what the legal theory would be, frankly,” said A.E. Dick Howard, a University of Virginia legal scholar who was chief draftsman of the state constitution when it was revamped in 1971.
Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said that getting a conviction overturned for prosecutorial violations is rare. Among the death penalty cases that have been exonerated, 18 were based on DNA evidence.
Over at Foreign Policy, Dan Lamothe reports that Rep. Duncan Hunter will introduce legislation on May 7 that would authorize the Executive Branch to target the individuals who attacked the U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi. Hunter apparently would amend the 2001 AUMF to include the Benghazi attackers as lawful targets. The idea of cracking open the AUMF raises all sorts of political complications and domestic legal questions, but Hunter’s proposal would raise very serious international law questions as well.
Ash Lawn Opera and the Oratorio Society of Virginia’s production of Candide promises to be far more spectacular than flowering cacti, but the message is the same: There is a small window to see something truly special. Don’t blink. ...The planning began two years ago when the newly appointed music director of the Charlottesville-based Oratorio Society, Michael Slon, approached Krisel with an idea. Could the two groups join together and pull off what couldn’t be done alone? Could they join together and perform Candide?
Virginia Republicans in the House of Delegates are holding firm against Medicaid expansion, despite mounting evidence the state’s hospitals would face catastrophic consequences. Centra, for example, stands to take a $17 million hit to its bottom line, while medical centers at the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University stand to lose close to $500 million each.
Patient characteristics and preferences and clinician risk tolerance are critically important guideposts in selecting among the various treatment choices for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis, says Myla Goldman, MD, the director of the University of Virginia’s multiple sclerosis (MS) program.