A Virginia government shutdown could mean a halt to Medicaid payments to hospitals and doctors. The Virginia Commonwealth University Health System and University of Virginia Health System hospitals treat the vast majority of Medicaid and uninsured residents in the state.
Barbara Spellman, U.Va. professor of law and editor-in-chief of "Perspectives on Psychological Science" is one of three guests who discuss the most common scientific shortcomings, proposed solutions and how to judge whether research is reliable.
TIME's "140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2014" described Larry Sabato’s feed as "a veritable encyclopedia of political knowledge, context and trivia."
More than a dozen media organizations challenged the government’s ban on the use of drones by journalists Tuesday, saying the Federal Aviation Administration’s position violates First Amendment protections for news gathering. The organizations, including The Associated Press, filed a brief with the National Transportation Safety Board in support of aerial photographer Raphael Pirker. Pirker was fined $10,000 by the FAA for flying a small drone near the University of Virginia to make a commercial video in October 2011.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, Mountain Empire Community College and Southwest Virginia Community College were each gifted about $4 million from the estate of Carol Phipps Buchanan, a Dickenson County woman.
The University of Virginia's Fralin Museum of Art has new leadership. The museum announced Tuesday that John Casteen, president emeritus of the university, will chair the museum's advisory board.
The Supreme Court upheld the practice of public prayer before Greece, N.Y., town board meetings, rejecting arguments that the invocations. "I think this is a green light to local majorities to impose their religious practices on any citizen who seeks to participate in civic affairs," said Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor who represented the Greece residents who challenged the prayers. "It's not an absolutely blanket approval, but it goes awfully far."
(Audio and transcript) Law professor Douglas Laycock discusses a U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed public prayer before public meetings in a case in which he represented the unsuccessful plaintiffs.
Vanessa Ochs introduced me to the discipline of “material culture” — stuff, essentially, and what it says about its owners and collectors. In an essay, “What Makes a Jewish Home Jewish?,” Vanessa inventoried the home of a “past president of a Conservative synagogue in suburban New Jersey,” and tallied her various objets d’art and tchotchkes, from the framed Israeli art on her walls to the jars of borscht in her pantry. “In Judaism and, I imagine, most other faith traditions, the spiritual is material,” wrote Vanessa, a member of the U...
Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor representing the complaining town residents, Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens, said that "Greece's practice forced citizens who might not agree with the prayer to either participate against their will or irritate council members from whom they hoped to receive favorable action."
“The Republicans could win the Senate without North Carolina, and the Democrats could keep it without North Carolina, but in all likelihood North Carolina is as good a bet as any state to elect a senator to the next Senate majority party,” said Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
(With video) A Volkswagen at the University of Virginia is now a fully electric sport car. A team of undergraduates used the body of a totaled Jetta - donated by State Farm insurance - to redesign an electric car with safety in mind as their senior capstone project. They have been working to remodel the car since August.
Professor Paul Stephan (the University of Virginia School of Law) recently published “Courts on Courts: Contracting for Engagement and Indifference in International Judicial Encounters” in the Virginia Law Review. This is an important new article on the question of transjudicial communication and global governance, especially as it challenges the predominant scholarly position.
After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1973, Barry Parkhill had identical contract offers from the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers and ABA's Virginia Squires. He chose the Squires primarily for the chance to play with a burgeoning legend named Julius Erving. "And he was [traded] right before my rookie camp opened up," Parkhill said. "So that was kind of a bummer."
Brent Urban is so humble, so stereotypically Canadian, it was only a few weeks ago that he finally spilled his little secret to best friends back home in Mississauga. The secret being that he might be the first Canadian selected in this week's NFL draft. The University of Virginia graduate has known, and his parents (Ann and Vic Urban) have known. But not many others in Canada.
John Griffin, a successful investor, recently donated $22 million to the University of Virginia so that the school could construct a new building. Yet it won't carry Griffin's name; he prefers that the school name the building after his mentor, Julian Robertson Jr.
traces of long-gone readers live on, preserved in the books themselves, in the stacks of the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library. The volumes aren’t housed in the library’s special collections but in the regular stacks, where they’re free to circulate—or to be discarded someday. Like countless other 19th-century volumes in libraries across the country, they enjoy no special protection. That worries Andrew M. Stauffer, an associate professor of English at Virginia. Mr. Stauffer is leading a new crowdsourced project, Book Traces. It’s designed to call gr...
A narrowly divided Supreme Court upheld decidedly Christian prayers at the start of local council meetings on Monday, declaring them in line with long national traditions though the country has grown more religiously diverse. The content of the prayers is not significant as long as they do not denigrate non-Christians or try to win converts, the court said in a 5-4 decision backed by its conservative majority. Though the decision split the court along ideological lines, the Obama administration backed the winning side, the town of Greece, N.Y., outside of Rochester. Douglas Laycock, a Universi...
Glycated hemoglobin or HbA1c is the standard measurement for assessing glycemic control over time in people with diabetes and blood levels of HbA1c are typically measured every few months in a laboratory. The relationship between HbA1c and average glucose levels could determine whether HbA1c could be expressed and reported as average glucose in the same units as used in self-monitoring which could increase individuals' motivation to improve diabetes control. Scientists at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA, USA) working with those at Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH (Frankfurt,...