As money-starved universities and researchers compete for a shrinking pool of research and investment dollars, more researchers are directly asking the public to support their efforts with crowdfunding appeals. The University of Virginia, last month, launched a site through USEED, which specializes in higher education initiatives, to raise money for fledgling projects. Those include one that needs $35,000 to improve water quality in South Africa and another seeking $19,000 for research to improve testing in sexual assault cases.
... Across the nation, boards at nonprofit hospitals such as Valley are often paying bosses much more for boosting volume rather than delivering value, according to interviews with compensation consultants and an examination of CEOs' employment contracts and bonus packages. Such deals undermine measures in the 2010 health law that aim to cut unnecessary treatment and control costs, say economists and policy authorities. ... At the University of Virginia Medical Center, CEO R. Edward Howell proposed that his 2012 incentive bonus be tied partly to profits, new clinical initiatives and "...
...Stephen Colbert, POLITICAL SATIRIST, University of Virginia“On the one hand, in Jefferson’s public life as a founding father, we often see him as the embodiment of the white male patriarchy. But in his private life, he was known for, shall we say, embracing diversity — very affirmative in his actions. ... You are his intellectual heirs. In fact, some of you may be his actual heirs — we’re still testing the DNA.
By Anton Ovchinnikov, assistant professor at the Darden School of BusinessThe big idea: If a company like Wells Fargo installs solar panels on even a fraction of its 6,000 retail stores coast to coast, it could become one of the largest and most sustainable U.S. solar energy producers. But does it “make cents?”
There's good news for millions of Americans who suffer from circulatory disease. The University of Virginia Medical Center is opening up new avenues in treatment. For those who suffer with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), surgery or the insertion of a catheter are typically the only solutions, but UVA's Chief of Cardiology Brian Annex and other researchers at UVA have discovered there may be a non-invasive treatment.
A proposed six-mile highway outside Charlottesville is so wasteful and ill-conceived that it’s achieved literary status. It prompted best-selling novelist and area resident John Grisham to write a book implicitly denouncing it. “The Activist,” published last month and aimed at youths ages 10 to 12, is fictional. But Grisham said it was inspired by the decades-long battle over a $245 million bypass west of the city that’s home to the University of Virginia.
Over a decade of testing with six million participants of the collaborative research venture between Harvard University, University of Virginia, and the University of Washington, called "Project Implicit," demonstrates pervasive ongoing bias against non-Whites and lingering suspicion of Blacks in particular.
More parents are putting-off a child's start in-kindergarten. It's known as "red-shirting." A joint-study by the University of Virginia and Stanford University found that between 4 and 5.5 percent of children delay kindergarten.
Historical documents once held by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison are now available on a searchable Web site called Founders Online. The project, which debuted last week, is the result of a multi-year partnership between the National Archives and the University of Virginia Press.
Summarizes the undergraduate business school rankings from both U.S. News & World Report and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which rank U.Va. at #6 and #2 respectively.
... This is a wonderful project from the National Archives and the University of Virginia Press.
Doctors at the University of Virginia Medical Center are now reaching across the world to treat patients thanks to new advances in telemedicine. Mobile- and cloud-based technology is connecting physicians around the world to doctors in foreign communities to assist them with patient diagnoses and care. Recent gifts from Swinten Charitable Trust and the Verizon Foundation are making these advances possible. Dr. Karen Rheuban recently diagnosed and treated an infant in a remote area of China.
"We want to build a great union, but first we have to have our players," Stackhouse said at the University of Virginia, where the NBPA held its 20th Top 100 Camp for high school stars this week.
5. Making college unaffordable. The University of Virginia's Miller Center conducted a study for the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and found that "Since the mid-1980s" - roughly the start of the Millennial Generation -"the costs of higher education in America have steadily shifted from the taxpayer to the student and family." Median family income have risen by 147% since then, while college tuition and fees rose 439%, a tripling of education costs in real dollar terms. The impact has been greatest on lower-income families, sounding a potential d...
During his senior year at the University of Virginia, recent graduate Matthew Cameron put together a 136-page thesis on the current state of college newspapers. Here it is, in seven words: Student papers are hurting, but there’s hope. That’s summing it up – not selling it short. Cameron’s scholarly effort provides a fascinating glimpse into the big-picture challenges and opportunities college media face.
(Co-written by Richard Bonnie, Harrison professor of law, psychiatry, and public policy) As experts in mental health law and policy, we believe the best way to keep guns away from those who shouldn’t have access to them – including some people with serious mental illness – is to require a background check for every gun purchase, regardless of where it takes place. That’s why we fully supported the Manchin-Toomey legislation when it came up for a vote, and we hope those who opposed it in April will seriously reconsider their position when it’s reintroduced in the c...
We often assume that being able to back up your choices with logic and facts is the best way to make decisions. In some situations, however, that may be wrong. One recent study from the University of Virginia showed that subjects who were asked to provide reasons why they liked a certain poster over another were less likely to keep the ones they ultimately chose to keep.
Some education reformers say schools now give kids too much freedom to write creatively, at the cost of teaching them how to write logically and precisely. The new Common Core State Standards, national guidelines adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, seek to correct that by putting emphasis on persuasive writing. Teachers of creative writing call this a dangerous mistake. "Creativity is the orphan of today's rush to standardization," complains Margo Figgins, the founder of the Young Writers Workshop of the University of Virginia, a summer writing camp now in its 31st...
When John Farrell's son Luke was drafted by the Kansas City Royals last week, it completed a trifecta that not many fathers can brag about. The manager of the Red Sox – a former Major League pitcher in his own right – has watched all three of his sons get selected in the First-Year Player Draft in recent years. Jeremy Farrell was the first Farrell son to get drafted, first in 2005 by the Rockies in the 41st round, and then out of the University of Virginia by the Pirates as an eighth-rounder in 2008.
(Commentary by Vita Vilari, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia) Death is inevitable. No matter how much we barter with God, all things come to an end. If I could talk to my younger self, I would insist that it's not what ends that makes us who we are. Focusing on the doors that open with each shut one pushes us to grow as humans.