(By R. Edward Howell, vice president and chief executive officer of the University of Virginia Medical Center) The disagreement in the General Assembly surrounding Medicaid expansion has escalated as we approach the scheduled end of the session. Much of the controversy has overlooked or misconstrued the facts. This is unfortunate, as the facts are critically important in the decision-making surrounding this issue, and the decision has significant implications for residents of Virginia.
Tobacco Free Community Coalition partner organizations, such as the University of Virginia, already have started making changes within their own organizations that could impact thousands of employees. UVa began distributing a non-tobacco-use reward of $120 annually ($10 per month) to employees who live in tobacco-free households, along with offering free cessation classes for all students, employees and their spouses.
"You can make the case that the Tip O'Neill trope 'all politics is local' has changed," says Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the Crystal Ball, a website run by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "If it was ever true, it's less true now than it was."
(By R.K. Ramazani, professor emeritus of government and foreign affairs) President George W. Bush persistently invoked the primacy of the goal of globalization of democracy as the centerpiece of American foreign policy. … Looking at the mammoth crisis engulfing the entire Middle East region – from Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya to the rest of the region – President Barack Obama has taken a decidedly different approach to foreign policy, seeking to create a method calibrated to each society on its own terms.
Greg W. Roberts, dean of admission for the University of Virginia, asked to assess the significance of the revisions, said: “Hard to say at this point. Could be pretty significant, but the devil is in the details.”
The city average for homeowners is 0.8 percent, according to a report prepared for the CBC by Andrew Hayashi, a professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Law.
Access to cheaper computers is one reason for the rise in Internet adoption, says computer science professor David Evans from the University of Virginia.
Prolonged singlehood may bring self-doubt and indecision, according to a report last year, "Knot Yet: The Benefits and Costs of Delayed Marriage in America," sponsored by, among others, the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
“Republicans are going to pick up seats. It’s just a question of how many,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and editor-in-chief of Crystal Ball, a website focused on forecasting election outcomes.
A University of Virginia professor spoke in Albemarle County Sunday morning on the history of Monacan Native Americans in the area. Jeffrey Hantman gave a presentation called “Monacans and the Rivanna River” at the Ivy Creek Educational Building.
Franklin Billings Jr., an iconic political and judicial leader who helped reshape how the state of Vermont was governed, died Sunday at the Woodstock home where he was born. He was 91.
Dr. Amita Sudhir responded from her North Downtown home after the 6-year-old girl stepped from behind a parked car into the path of a pickup on Nelson Drive. “There is no life that I wish as hard that I could have saved as the life of the child that was killed that day,” the University of Virginia Medical Center emergency physician recently told the City Council. “Not just because she was a kindergartner like my own daughter, not just because she was crossing the street where my husband parks his car and my kids cross the street every day, but also because my 5-year-old daugh...
The feds put a cap on residency funding in 1997, effectively freezing the number of residency slots at hospitals. Unless that changes, some medical school students graduating in the next few years could be left out in the cold, said Dr. Susan Kirk, associate dean of graduate medical education at the University of Virginia Medical Center. “They’ll have pretty high education debt and they will find themselves without a job — which was very, very unusual 10 or 20 years ago,” Kirk said.
A recent study indicates that students who have support on social and emotional levels are better academic achievers. The three-year study was conducted based on controlled research led by Sara Rimm-Kaufman, professor at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education.
(Audio) Interview with Bruce Holsinger, who teaches medieval literature at the University of Virginia and is the author of “A Burnable Book,” a debut historical thriller set in Chaucer’s England; and Simon Vance, who narrates the audiobook version.
The Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (SaVE) Act, which took effect Friday, holds institutions of higher education responsible for the prevention of sexual violence, not just responding to it after assaults occur. The response comes as a growing number of female victims are accusing their institutions of mishandling sexual assault cases. University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, whose institution recently held a national conference on sexual misconduct, discusses the issue.
(Commentary by Eric Hoover, a 1997 U.Va. alumnus and a writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education) Everything was fine until someone pelted me with a frozen hamburger patty. It was Nov. 13, 2003, and I’d come to see my beloved Virginia Cavaliers play the Maryland Terrapins in College Park. Before the football game, I was tailgating with other Wahoos when a horde of Terps fans appeared, shouting expletives and throwing stuff at us. We scurried for cover, and then — wham! — something hit my shoulder.
Last month Allstate and the NABC announced their 2014 Good Works Team (which recognizes players for their commitment to community service). One of the five D-1 players selected was Virginia guard Joe Harris, who when not leading his ACC-leading Cavaliers in scoring has donated his time to helping HIV-positive kids and young burn victims. CHD’s Jon Teitel got to sit down with Joe to chat about ending his college career with a run in this month’s NCAA tourney.
(Commentary) Once marriage is required everywhere, the combination of the right to marry and an anti-discrimination law would prohibit private businesses from refusing to serve LGBTQ couples. In those states, some of the same law professors who are signatories to the Arizona letter – notably, Douglas Laycock and Robin Fretwell Wilson – have been arguing for a carve-out for businesses that want to “step aside” rather than provide services relating to a same-sex wedding. So far, they’ve had limited success. But they’ll keep trying, and it’s likely their ...
"For Blackburn's Tennessee donors, this is the kind of weekend they would enjoy and talk about with friends when they got back," said Larry Sabato, political analyst at the University of Virginia. "Many people want schmooze time with the member of Congress, and this can be quite an inducement to writing Blackburn a check at or near the suggested contribution level, plus building a personal relationship for the future.”