The Centers for Disease Control estimate deaths from HAI at nearly 100,000 per year in the United States. That makes HAI a top 10 leading cause of death in America. Though most are not fatal, HAIs affect 7-10% of hospitalized patients, according to Uni­versity of Virginia researchers.
Justin Hopkins, assistant professor of business administration at University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, says if he had his druthers, we would do away with corporate taxation entirely. "The largest shareholders of many corporations are public pension plans," he says. "So, by taxing corporations we are basically levying taxes on public servants, employees and customers. If the government wants to tax the 'rich,' it should do so at the individual level."
“Self-publishing is still verboten in literary land…literary authors have long resisted that approach, and rightfully so to some extent,” says Jane Friedman, Scratch Magazine publisher and Virginia Quarterly Review web editor, in the run-up to Friday’s Grub Street Muse Town Hall.
Monique Saunders Patrick has been selected as one of 10 Darden School of Business alumni to be honored in the 2014 Alumni Showcase. She was selected from more than 50 student and faculty alumni nominees and will have her name and biography displayed in Darden's Saunders Hall for the next two years. Patrick serves as the chief financial and administration officer of the Points of Light Foundation, the largest organization in the world dedicated to volunteer service.
After years of high divorce rates and growing skepticism of institutions, is marriage making a comeback? Beginning with the basics: Americans are waiting longer to marry than ever before. Why the wait? “People wait until their financial and educational ducks are in a row, and their relationship ducks are in a row,” said Brad Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
In the past couple decades, a whole industry has grown up around marketing the surprising-yet-oddly-intuitive findings of social psychology, behavioral economics, and related fields, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell and others. The industry feeds on new, dramatic findings from the lab. But many of these findings, critics point out, are not readily reproducible. Brian Nosek, U.Va. professor of psychology, is tackling this problem with the Reproducibility Project and the Center for Open Science, founded by Nosek and U.Va. graduate student Jeffrey Spies, to encourage openness, accessibility and re...
For years, scientists suspected that E. histolytica caused disease by poisoning and killing human cells before gobbling up the cellular corpses. But details of the lethal mechanism had been unclear. To learn more, a team led by Drs. Katherine S. Ralston and William A. Petri, Jr., of the University of Virginia used advanced microscopy to watch as live parasites and host cells interacted with each other. Results appeared in Nature on April 24, 2014.
Book review of "Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer" by Charles Marsh, professor of religious studies.This excellent new biography by Marsh does a service toward the Christian martyr’s entire life—from the blossoming of his religious fervor as a child (his family had no particular piety), to the fostering of his theological brilliance and growth as an international figure, to the subversive activities that would lead to his imprisonment in a concentration camp and eventual drumhead trial.
Larry Sabato is making an appearance in Central Pennsylvania Tuesday and will join us on Tuesday morning's Smart Talk.
Lawrence Kochard, CEO and CIO of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company (UVIMCO), discusses his management of U.Va.’s $6.4 billion endowment. In the fiscal year 2013, the endowment returned 13.4%. The fund boasted an annualized return of 11.8% for the 20-year period ending June 30, 2013.
Charlie Cook’s Political Report has switched its rating on his district from “Lean Republican” to “Lean Democratic,” for example. University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball newsletter has done the same thing.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center of Politics at the University of Virginia, said McAllister's problems remind him of Abscam in the 1970s when the FBI videotaped members of Congress accepting bags full of money from agents pretending to be Arab sheiks.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe stopped by U.Va. Monday to honor Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics, who is retiring his popular Introduction to American Politics class after 35 years.
The public-service action tank would be off to a strong start if it builds on the success of similar organizations. Architects of the action tank can learn from Harvard's Institute of Politics, The Sorensen Institute at the University of Virginia and the Institute for Public Affairs at West Virginia University.
Swaps shouldn’t count because they don’t confer voting power to the investor, said Andrew N. Vollmer, a law professor at the University of Virginia and former WilmerHale partner who worked on Pershing Square’s and Jana Partners’ communication to the SEC in 2011. If the SEC embarks on a rule change, it should consider the benefits of activist hedge funds, including claims that their involvement spurs higher stock prices and better management, according to Vollmer, who was the SEC’s deputy general counsel until 2009.
Former Gov. Gerald L. Baliles of Virginia, now director and CEO of the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, spoke with Model General Assembly students during a banquet in Tazewell, Va.