(Editorial) The University of Virginia earns additional respect for toughening its approach to fraternity hazing and drunkenness.
Despite Medicare’s clout, some expect states to play the primary role in reducing health care costs. Raymond Scheppach, former director of the National Governors Association, heads the State Health Care Cost Containment Commission at the University of Virginia. He believes states will assume responsibility for the cost of health care. “The reason,” he says, “is that about one third of all Americans are going to get their coverage through Medicaid or the [health insurance] exchange.”
When you want to shed serious weight, walking might not even come to mind. But it should. "Fast-paced walking, when combined with healthy eating, is hugely effective for weight loss," says Art Weltman, PhD, director of exercise physiology at the University of Virginia.
Ozone isn't just bad for your lungs, it also gets in the way of insects finding their favorite food, say researchers. Ozone, because it reacts readily with aromatic compounds put out by plants, interferes with the come-hither call of the plants to insects.
(Guest post by Joanna Swafford, a PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia) March 11th saw the pre-release of my digital project, Songs of the Victorians, an archive of parlor and art song settings of Victorian poems, and also a scholarly tool to facilitate interdisciplinary music and poetry scholarship. I had been building it for the last two years with the help of fellowships from NINES and the Scholars’ Lab, and it was a great experience to finally make the site public. It was also a surprisingly challenging experience, as I had to figure out how to make the site display...
Gov. Bob McDonnell on Friday encouraged University of Virginia students to set goals, hold themselves accountable and stay humble in order to build a successful future. McDonnell was the key speaker at UVa’s Frank Batten Sr. School of Leadership and Public Policy for the school’s annual graduate council speaker series.
The University of Virginia has joined a growing list of schools that have taken public steps to control fraternity pledging or ban it outright.
CBS19 asked fraternity leaders who they think is responsible for the hazing incident. "For the most part, I think it's very select individuals," said Inter-Fraternity Council President Jake Pittman. "I wouldn't say it's just one fraternity, because we don't know what goes on within the walls. But I would say that, well over a majority of Green Men within the Inter-Fraternity Council do not approve of any of this kind of actions."
Five students from the University of Virginia won a national competition focused on raising awareness about the nation’s debt crisis. The U.Va. team took first prize in the Up to Us competition, a first-of-its-kind, six-week challenge to engage students on college campuses across the country on the problems posed by the federal government’s long-term debt.
Most of the Latino elementary school students thought Friday's visit to UVA was just a fun field trip with their parents during spring break. But their parents know it was more than that.
People walked by Friday to take a gander at the not-so-welcoming goose, just one of thousands of mother geese on guard this spring. "Love is in the air, it's springtime and they're sort of running around finding places to nest the whole let's-have-babies syndrome the geese get into this time of year," said Hank Shugart, professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.
James Coan, a neuroscientist at the University of Virginia, said the brain is extremely sensitive to the quality of relationships.
At colleges with longstanding honor codes, administrators and students spoke highly of their effect. Stephen Nash, the outgoing chairman of the honor committee at the University of Virginia, said the code instills a sense of personal responsibility that serves as a strong deterrent to wrongdoing. “People really take pride in it,” he said.
Laurel Woodworth might be the “Greenest Woman from the Valley,” (30-and-under division).
Five University of Virginia students who won a nationwide contest to enlighten college students about the national debt will be recognized by former President Bill Clinton.
A team of cyclists swooped into Charlottesville on Saturday to raise awareness and funds for a group of cancer patients that they say go underserved: Young adults diagnosed in their late teens to age 40, whose concerns and experiences in dealing with the disease are much different than those of older adults. Among them was Brian Satola, a 1991 graduate of the University of Virginia and former wide receiver for the Cavaliers football team, who now serves as the chief operating officer of the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults, the group that organized the 1,300-mile ride.
In the Korean War, as popularized by the hit TV series “M*A*S*H,” military chopper evacuations of those wounded in combat became the norm, a procedure that would again surface during the Vietnam War. Lives were saved, and those headed stateside took note, said Dr. Debra Perina, medical director for the Medical Transport Network at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville.
A researcher who was not involved in the studies said the treatments all appear promising, although preliminary, and show how medicine is moving toward alternatives to chemotherapy. "This is where we have to start. This is the future," said Dr. Linda Duska, a gynecologist at the University of Virginia.