A Bachelor of Science from Harvey Mudd College, the small California science and engineering school, is the most valuable college degree in America. Stanford's computer science program pays off more than any single major in the country. For the best dollar-for-dollar investment, nothing beats the University of Virginia. As those three (all true) facts illustrate, there are many ways to answer the question What's the most valuable college education in the country?
Officials at five hospitals, including the University of Virginia Medical Center, have told The Daily Progress they had available psychiatric beds that day. Officials at UVa and two other hospitals have said no one from the Rockbridge Area Community Services Board, the agency tasked with evaluating Gus Deeds, called about beds that day.
– Merit aid. This could bring the biggest change and also provides an Idol-level rush. “Need-based financial aid will never have the same positive psychological effect as a merit scholarship,” wrote an undergraduate at the University of Virginia in The Cavalier Daily. “Students have the right to be recognized for the quality of their work.” Yet our colleges, which collude with the Department of Education, trash merit aid as impossibly retrograde.
Douglas Blackmon of the University of Virginia Miller Center Forum examines the pending gun legislation in Georgia allowing citizens to carry firearms in public places and what it means in the bigger picture of Georgia politics on Bloomberg Television’s “In The Loop.”
Andrew Southerland, MD, a neurologist at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the study, said, "This paper clears up a murky question about how to manage blood pressure in these patients. It's a pivotal study in our field."
A University of Virginia student charged last year with assaulting ABC agents attempting to stop her for underage possession beer that turned out to be sparkling water has filed a $40 million lawsuit against the state and seven agents.
Richmond looks more like Washington ... and people don’t like it, one political analyst says. “I think the reason you’re seeing that number down even further — it wasn’t like it was terribly high to begin with — I would say you’re probably seeing respondents give a stronger disapproval than approval feeling much for the same reason that they do for Congress and Washington — the feeling of, we’re polarized, bitter partisanship, and inability to find a compromise,” said Geoff Skelley, political analyst with the University of Virgin...
A group seeking access to climate scientist Michael Mann’s emails through Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act (VFOIA) has a surprising new group of news media allies. From wire agencies to liberal Atlantic Media, Inc., 17 news groups have supported the release of documents, according to Columbia Journalism Review. ... There is an irony to the situation, especially when it comes to the Post which used its editorial pages to attack a separate attempt by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to access Mann’s emails. Post editorials called that a “witch hunt” and...
The University of Virginia (UVA) Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) unit hosted an event here March 21 in an attempt to take a lead in promoting bystander intervention on campus in order to prevent incidents of sexual assault. In response to dialogue at a conference in February entitled “UVA: Sexual Misconduct Amongst College Students,” UVA NROTC hoped its event would motivate active bystanders and raise awareness of preventing sexual assaults. The February conference ended with a focus on a need to change the culture that fuels sexual misconduct.
Two innocent men who went to prison for crimes they did not commit are speaking at the University of Virginia School of Law Wednesday. They are talking about the Innocence Project, and how it played a key role in overturning their convictions. Former NFL player Brian Banks and recently exonerated Edgar Coker are speaking at a fundraiser for the Innocence Project.
And Virginia’s numbers are very similar to what he saw nationally. At the University of Virginia, education school Dean Bob Pianta says the SAT does not tell us whether children are learning more in the classroom. “The SAT itself has changed considerably over the time from 1972 to present, and the scores themselves are produced by norming, so in some sense the absolute level of a score – its meaning relative to the population -- changes .”
The University of Virginia recently did a study in which they interviewed children between the ages of 7 and 10 on whether they felt black children feel less pain than white children. The sad outcome? The children said yes.
The district shepherd is a new position that will be paid for using grant funds. It is a two-year position in which Acevedo, who has worked to raise achievement at Palo Verde, will coordinate efforts between TUSD and the University of Virginia as part of a school improvement program that will be implemented at six campuses.
The University of Virginia is opening new dialysis centers in Farmville and Appomattox as part of an effort to reach more residents in Southside Virginia. UVa will operate the centers in conjunction with Centra Health, which owns Lynchburg General Hospital and several clinics throughout the region.
The case that the judge dismissed involved Raphael “Trappy” Pirker, who was fined $10,000 by the FAA. Pirker’s hobby plane flew over and filmed the University of Virginia’s medical school campus. Pirker then sold the video to an advertising agency, prompting the FAA to file the complaint, alleging Pirker operated the drone in an unsafe manner.
While President Barack Obama urged European nations Wednesday to retrench amidst continuing upheaval in Ukraine, the crisis was center stage more than an ocean away at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. The center’s American Forum played host Wednesday morning to economist Clifford Gaddy, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and professor Yuri Urbanovich, a professor of Slavic studies at UVa.
The makers of Bone Doctors Barbecue Sauce of Charlottesville are, you guessed it, orthopedic doctors. Bruce D. Wilhelmsen and David M. Heilbronner met at the University of Virginia and are easing into retirement with their sauce business. Between passing out samples and writing orders, they noted that making barbecue sauce is a lot less stressful than surgery.
He endowed the University of Virginia’s Jefferson Scholars Foundation with an ongoing fund that annually provides candidates from the Buffalo area with the ability to be nominated for the University’s four-year full-ride merit-based scholarship program.