Sammy Zeglinski’s career as a professional basketball player has taken him all over the world and back, yet the allure of coming back home to Philadelphia is always inescapable.
The University of Virginia’s Darden School also reported that the highest sign-on and guaranteed year-end bonuses were in six-figures as well.
The conservative group Americans for Prosperity organized a public forum in Charlottesville this week to discuss Medicaid expansion. The featured speakers were two Republican Delegates who strongly oppose the idea, but it seemed they had come to the wrong place, as supporters packed the auditorium. About 150 people gathered outside the Albemarle County Building holding signs that encouraged honks of support for expanding Medicaid. Thousands of people in this city work for the University of Virginia Medical Center, Martha Jefferson Hospital and other healthcare organizations that cu...
It’s unclear whether Walker’s new Democratic challenger, Mary Burke, will fare better. Although an early March Rasmussen poll of Wisconsin voters showed a 45–to–45 tie, a poll by Marquette University Law School a few weeks later found that Walker was leading Burke 48 to 41. Political prognosticators, such as University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato, call the race as “likely Republican.”
Carolyn Engelhard, assistant professor of public health sciences and director of the Health Policy Program at the University of Virginia, agreed. "There are some good things to be said about health savings accounts, but the downside is that they're applied across the board," she said. "If someone is low-income but has a lot of medical bills, they are going to have more out of pocket costs than someone who, say, makes $100,000 and is healthy. It is a blunt instrument, it does reduce unnecessary care, but the bad thing is that if the $2,000 is exceeded and your deductible is $...
(By Michael Signer, faculty member in politics) OK, I admit I opened Matt Kibbe’s “Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto” expecting to hate it. Kibbe is president and CEO of FreedomWorks, a leading Tea Party organization. You just have to read Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein’s extremely even-handed It’s Even Worse Than It Looks to see why the Tea Party wing of today’s Republican Party is largely responsible for Congress’s current dysfunction.
As a senior at the University of Virginia, Monica Wright earned ACC Player of the Year, ACC Defensive Player of the Year, and National Defensive Player of the Year honors. She was the second overall pick in the 2010 WNBA Draft and is already a two-time champion with the Minnesota Lynx. And yet, for the 25-year-old Wright, her on-court success -- while fulfilling -- wasn't the only thing she wanted to accomplish. "I just really feel a call to reach out to kids," she said.
University of Virginia students this fall will face another cost increase to attend the school.
Henry Li, 23, a senior at the University of Virginia in the United States, rejects the use of Chinglish. “None of my friends, even if they are Chinese, uses these Chinglish buzzwords or slang when foreigners have no idea of them,” he says in a Skype call. “If I want to say something, I just use the normal words. Why waste time remembering these new phrases?”
An experimental, inexpensive iPhone application transmitted diagnostic heart images faster and more reliably than emailing photo images, according to a research study presented at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013. “Simple cellular technology can save lives,” said David R. Burt, M.D., the study’s lead author and an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. “This system may make pre-hospital ECG transmission a more inexpensive and reliable option. That ca...
The idea that emotions affect learning has made its way into teaching approaches, but not across the board. “Most teachers are trained in a way that emphasizes students’ academic development,” says Sara Rimm-Kaufman, a researcher at the University of Virginia, “not the relation between students’ social and academic development or the way in which students’ social and emotional development relates to their academic learning.” American kindergarteners are now expected to learn a lot in the way of reading and numbers, so teachers face more and more demand...
(Editorial) Guided by their professors and a university librarian, a group of law students at the University of Virginia sued the federal government for release of documents in a sealed “nonprosecution” case — and won. Now they’re pursuing a similar effort in 30 other cases.
After a decade of providing the halftime entertainment for home football and soccer games, the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Marching Band will take a bigger stage next year: the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. On that day in 2015, the band will play in front of more than three million people on the streets of New York City, and another 50 million on television around the country, parade organizers said.
College students with fathers who were involved in their lives were 98 percent more likely to graduate than students with uninvolved fathers. This was one of the findings presented Wednesday by W. Bradford Wilcox at an American Enterprise Institute presentation, "Graduation day: How dads' involvement impacts higher education success."
After 34 years in orthopedic surgery at the University of Virginia Hospital, Dr. Dick Whitehill decided to hang up his scalpel, pick up a Penn rod and reel and go fishing. Instead of Dr. Whitehill, it’s Captain Whitehill, as the charter boat captain now performs his operations in fishing waters around the Middle Peninsula and in the middle Chesapeake Bay.
Here is a list of some of the most impressive or amusing commencement speakers nationwide in this year’s graduation commencements.: 4. Peyton Manning. The Denver Broncos quarterback will speak – not at his alma mater in Tennessee, but at the University of Virginia.
(Editorial) Universities across the U.S. have implemented educational campaigns to teach students about pedestrian safety: Indiana University’s “Street Smart” campaign partners with local bars and restaurants to promote street safety; the University of Tennessee’s “Safe-T Begins with Me” educates students about alcohol moderation and safe driving; and the University of Virginia’s “HOOS Crossing” campaign distributes informational safety fliers and buttons to its students. It’s about time for this university to follow suit and create i...
(Press release) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) today honored innovators, creators, and defenders of intellectual property at the 2nd Annual IP Champions Conference in recognition of their significant contributions to promoting and protecting IP. Among the winners: U.Va. Innovation, University of Virginia, for their work in bridging the gap from innovation and entrepreneurship, with examples like scientist Reza Monazami who developed a technology which mitigates temperatures emitted by our electronics, causing them to operate cooler, more efficient...
(By University of Virginia political scientist Deborah Boucoyannis) “Marx Rises Again,” “The new Marxism,” “Thomas Piketty and Millennial Marxists”: with a title like “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” it is not surprising that the specter of “Marxism” is looming over Thomas Piketty’s “monumental” blockbuster. Especially given its author’s prescription, with Emmanuel Saez, of 80 percent taxation on the top 1 percent of income earners. Yet the author sees himself as “Taking on Adam Smith (and Karl Marx...
I wrote to some of the leading experts on affirmative action and higher education law to get their takes on the ruling. Several suggested that its most immediate impact will be in the six other states that, like Michigan, have passed ballot initiatives banning affirmative action: Arizona, Florida, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Washington. Any attempt to challenge those bans is now “futile,” Robert M. O’Neil of The University of Virginia School of Law wrote in an e-mail.