A new website developed in Charlottesville is helping nursing students find the right residency. RNDeer.com collects residency applications in one place. The site has caught on at the University of Virginia, where 97 percent of nursing students polled said they wished they could have used this technology earlier in the application process. Thursday night, the creators of the website are presenting their project to angel investors at the McIntire School of Commerce in hopes of getting some extra funding for their project.
Carruthers Hall at UVA is back open and in normal operation after police responded to a call about a suspicious substance at the building Wednesday afternoon. After further investigation, the substance was determined not to be hazardous and the building was reopened.
Four years after the inception of U.Va.’s telestroke program, the number of stroke patients to receive TPA now has increased to 17 percent. It is one clear example of how telemedicine is helping Virginia improve the quality and delivery of health-care services, says Dr. Karen Rheuban, medical director of U.Va.’s Office of Telemedicine. “The hospitals to which we’re connected had previously never administered TPA,” she says.
A 2012 Virginia Local Tax Rates report by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia found that 202 municipalities have a meals tax that mostly goes to their general funds.
Defense lawyers typically advise defendants against having any contact with victims during a criminal case. The nature of the Pilot case makes for a gray area, one expert said. “This doesn’t come up very often,” said Darryl Brown, a professor at the University of Virginia College of Law. “A defendant typically doesn’t know this far in advance about a criminal investigation.”
“I kind of always grew up with health care in my background and health care advocacy in the community, especially in St. Louis city, and its something that I’ve kind of always known I would grow up to do,” she said. Haney recently completed a master of science in nursing and health systems management from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and was accepted into the University of Virginia’s doctorate of Nursing Practice program.
The state's retreat reached a decisive moment in 2005, when the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary and Virginia Tech became so frustrated with Richmond's financial inattention that they agreed to accept less state support in exchange for greater autonomy. Each of those schools has tended to the new conditions in different ways. Last week, William and Mary announced the most audacious adaptation so far.
The University of Virginia Health System has been using the MyChart system for easy online access to medical records. Now, like so many other online resources, there's an app for that.
Selective colleges get plenty of applications from the top-scoring children of affluent parents, including many in this region. What the colleges need, their admissions officers say, are more high-achieving, low-income applicants. Places such as Georgetown and Duke don’t like being called country clubs for the rich. They want more academically talented poor kids. Why aren’t they applying? Now we know, thanks to remarkable research by economists Caroline Hoxby of Stanford and Sarah Turner of the University of Virginia.
Now, demands for financial information are trickling down to Virginia's race for governor. "Little things keep popping up, and they will continue to pop up, don't worry," said Geoff Skelley, political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Video) “Peeples” marks Tina Gordon Chism’s directorial debut. Chism started writing as a college student at the University of Virginia. Her writing career took off when she interned in the writing department for “The Cosby Show.” In 2002, Chism penned the acclaimed hit “Drumline.”
Celebrating and protecting the earth is the mission of an eco fair Wednesday at the University of Virginia. The Earth Week Expo put sustainability on the forefront. The community event featured a number of speakers and other exhibitors discussing what the university is doing to be more sustainable.
(Commentary by Todd Sloan) For the past eight years I have spent a month annually at the Law School of the University of Virginia teaching a course on Trade Secret Law. My 15 - plus or minus - students and I spend a significant portion of the course discussing China. And we're not talking about cultural exchanges or moo goo gai pan. Nor do we discuss the fact that most of the pots for sale at local garden stores all are "hecho en China." No, there are much more serious issues; ones that every one of us should ponder as our nation fends off Chinese cyber attacks and rampant theft ...
The Cavaliers Against Cancer along with the UVa. Club of Charlottesville will host their third annual Charity Texas Hold'em Tournament next week. The tournament will be in the John Paul Jones Arena on Saturday May 4 at noon. Proceeds will go to the Rebecca Clary Harris M.D. Memorial Fellowship at the University of Virginia Cancer Center.
Instructors who also teach at private colleges or colleges under separate governing boards, such as the University of Virginia Board of Visitors, would be allowed to exceed the maximums. UVa part-timers have been limited to 29 hours a week since 1993 and likely won't be noticeably affected, said school spokesman McGregor McCance. “We are subject to the new language in the [state’s] appropriations act, but because we have had this existing policy, it has little impact on our operations,” he said.
University of Virginia police have charged a Scottsville woman for taking an ambulance from UVa Medical Center's emergency department earlier this month. Authorities on Wednesday charged Laura Jean Aven, 45, with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. She was being held without bond Wednesday at the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail, police said.
"We live a conceptual crisis in Capitalism in an era of 'continuous, discontinuous change'. We have to think about business differently. We need a new story about business, looking at stakeholders, at leadership and value creation-in other words, a story looking at business for human beings". This and other ideas around stakeholder theory and capitalism were discussed on September 14th by Professor R. Edward Freeman, Darden Business School, University of Virginia, in a public lecture on "Responsible Capitalism: A new approach for Ireland's business-or Business For Hu...
(Commentary) Why are the provost and Curriculum Review Committee content to have a curriculum that is content-free? William and Mary's School of Education has numerous experts on learning theory, and the scholarly work of cognitive specialist Daniel Willingham of the University of Virginia is particularly useful. Resources for academic standards and achievement are widely available, yet the committee did not avail themselves.