Patients at the University of Virginia Medical Center will see increased rates at the hospital this October – a result of the rising cost of health care services, according to hospital executives. The UVa Board of Visitors Finance Committee approved an overall rate increase of 7 to 9.9 percent Monday afternoon, part of the hospital operating board’s $1.22 billion budget for the 2014 fiscal year that will come before the board today for final approval.
As part of its commencement celebrations this past weekend, the University of Virginia announced that its long-term fund-raising campaign had met its goal of bringing in more than $3-billion. In making the announcement, the university’s president, Teresa A. Sullivan, called the Campaign for the University of Virginia “the most ambitious capital campaign in the history of public higher education.”
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors on Monday appointed William H. Goodwin Jr. vice rector and preliminarily approved a $2.7-billion budget.
Stephen Colbert’s speech at Saturday’s Valediction was cited as “The Speech Baby Boomers Will Hate the Most.”
University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato also sees potential problems for Cuccinelli but said, "It's possible Jackson will now be the lightning rod, taking some of the heat off Cuccinelli."
Political experts at the University of Virginia Center for Politics say Obenshain and Bell are not that different politically, so the delegates likely decided based on something else. "It probably did come down to name recognition," said Geoffrey Skelley, at the center. "The importance the Obenshain family has had in the Republican party over the years."
The University of Virginia Cancer Center has a new director. Dr. Thomas Loughran Jr. will take over as the new director on August 15.
It’s safe to say no member of the University of Virginia’s 2013 graduating class took a path to commencement quite like the one taken by Ridgeway native Jeff O’Dell. Fortunately, doing things no one else has done is the business O’Dell has in mind. An Army veteran and member of the Tennessee National Guard, O’Dell has been pursuing his bachelor’s degree for more than a decade but has been derailed twice by active-duty trips to Iraq. Now that he has completed his studies, he’s ready to put to use knowledge he’s gained in the classroom and on the b...
As the University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox pointed out recently, there’s a strong link between suicide and weakened social ties: people — and especially men — become more likely to kill themselves “when they get disconnected from society’s core institutions (e.g., marriage, religion) or when their economic prospects take a dive (e.g., unemployment).”
(Commentary by Dr. Marcus Martin, vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity at the University of Virginia) This morning on the Lawn of the University of Virginia, more than 6,300 degrees will be conferred upon students who have met the requirements to become graduates of one of the nation’s finest universities. They’ve earned it, and they deserve the warmest of congratulations. These graduates come from all walks of life. They represent a rich diversity of ethnicities, geographies and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our graduates represent every racial background and 103...
“This result seems to be quite strong and robust,” says University of Virginia public policy and economics professor Christopher J. Ruhm, whose 2000 paper linking downturns and public health increases has been widely cited in subsequent studies. “The effects have looked fairly stable across time periods,” too, Ruhm says, adding, however, that his own preliminary research suggests the effect may be fading.
(Letter to the editor by Deborah Conway, assistant professor of nursing) I commend The Daily Progress for its front-page, Mother’s Day feature, “Making moms.” Through this story, readers became more aware of the needs of pregnant women in our community.
The day before the University of Virginia’s real graduation — formally called “Final Exercises” — the school hosts the “Valedictory Exercises” to recognize top students and favorite professors and feature a speaker who is sometimes a little more fun than the formal commencement speaker.
When W. Taylor Reveley IV becomes president of Longwood University on June 1, he will be the third W. Taylor Reveley to lead a Virginia university in the past 50 years.
The McCormick Road bridge over Emmet Street will close Monday as the Virginia Department of Transportation begins work to replace the aging structure. The bridge is scheduled to reopen late July. Bridge demolition will close traffic along Emmet Street on Tuesday and Wednesday nights from 9 p.m. until 6 a.m. the following morning.
Jody Kielbasa, vice provost for the arts at the University of Virginia and director of the Virginia Film Festival, challenged his fellow steering committee members to think “bigger, bolder, faster.” “The arts are an economic driver and catalyst for the community,” Kielbasa said during a break in the meeting. “There’s not tremendous government support for the arts locally right now. There’s some, but there is not enough. I do believe that more support will create more revenue.”
Harvard brings to six the number of Bloomberg Businessweek’s top 10 full-time MBA programs reporting a surge in applications this year, a sure sign that the three-year decline in applications to top business schools is over. Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management led the pack with a 12 percent increase, followed by the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, with an 11 percent jump.
As another class of graduates files into the future, the University of Virginia faces questions of its own regarding what tomorrow might bring. The school’s Board of Visitors meets Monday and Tuesday to elect a new vice rector, discuss strategic planning, hear reports on finances and finalize proposed policy changes, among other things.
Many EMTs have started using smartphones to email hospitals pictures of electrocardiogram results—paper readouts of the patient’s heartbeat—while they’re still in the ambulance. But emails often take more than a few minutes to reach awaiting doctors, and an error message about a too-big file is the last thing first responders want to see. To speed treatment, researchers at the University of Virginia bypassed email altogether. They have developed a smartphone app that transmits pictures of ECGs to hospitals in a matter of seconds.
Charlottesville police are searching for a man who grabbed a University of Virginia student from behind on her way home early Friday morning. The woman was walking alone in the 300 block of 15th Street Northwest about 1 a.m. when she was assaulted, said city police Lt. Ronnie Roberts. "She screamed and he turned and fled," he said.