State Rep. Mimi Stewart also raised concern about other forms of privatization, including a $2.5 million contract with the nonprofit University of Virginia School Turnaround Specialist Program to provide professional development for principals and educational leaders to help them close the achievement gap.
"Do we want corporations from Virginia setting up shop in New Mexico. ... What does Virginia know about our New Mexico students?" Stewart said.
While there are many exciting opportunities available using cord blood, there are also some challenges that need to be overcome. One of the primary challenges is that there the percentage of donors is very low. In the Fierce Biotech Research article, Dr. Mary Laughlin, a physician and expert in marrow and stem transplants at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, stated, “cord blood is only saved from about 4 percent out of all births. Those are very useful cells that are going in the trash.”
Profile of former U.S. Sen. Kit Bond, a 1963 graduate of U.Va.’s School of Law.
James Coan, a neuroscientist at the University of Virginia, said the brain is extremely sensitive to the quality of relationships. He conducted a study in which 16 happily married women were threatened with an electric shock while undergoing an MRI brain scan. Coan said the occasional shock was to create the type of anticipatory anxiety people experience most often, such as over finances. The women were either alone in the machine, held their husband's hand or held the hand of a male stranger. When the women were alone, their brains showed the highest response to threat and anticipation of...
The 2012 Virginia Local Tax Rates report, scheduled to be released this month by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, found that 202 municipalities currently have a meals tax that goes mostly to their general funds.
(Commentary by Dr. Karen Rheuban,
director of U.Va.’s Center for Telehealth and medical director of the Office of Telemedicine) Telemedicine is a valuable tool for those seeking medical care when access to those services may be limited by local provider shortages or distance to specialty care. Telemedicine tools supported by secure broadband communications services have been proven to save lives, to mitigate chronic illness and to prevent hospital readmissions.
(Editorial) Marriage is fading in parts of American society. “In Middle America, marriage is in trouble,” warned a recent report from the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project. “Among the affluent, marriage is stable and appears to be getting even stronger. Among the poor, marriage continues to be fragile and weak. But the newest and perhaps most consequential marriage trend of our time concerns the broad center of our society, where marriage, that iconic middle-class institution, is foundering.”
As far as the case of Type 1 diabetes is concerned, the one name that comes to mind is University of Virginia, which has become a major player in making the illness most manageable with the discovery of its artificial pancreas, the credit of which goes to millions in funding that have been received from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for the cause.
Dr. Christopher Holstege, chief of medical toxicology at the University of Virginia, said anything can be toxic in large enough quantities.
“In toxicology, everything comes down to dose. And it sounds as though she was certainly taking an excessive dose,” he said, adding that drinking two gallons of soda per day with limited amounts of food can cause a dangerous imbalance in electrolytes.
Ken Cuccinelli was in unfriendly territory when he stepped to the podium in a sloping auditorium at the University of Virginia on Feb. 6. A conservative icon in a hall crammed with college kids is a powder keg awaiting a spark, and cops had been summoned to defuse any eruptions. But the commonwealth’s attorney general disarmed his audience by citing the “fascinating experiment” underway in Colorado and Washington, states where voters legalized marijuana in landmark referendums last fall. “I’m not at all unhappy that they’re doing it,” he said, noting t...
The University of Virginia Health System is getting some cancer patients recovered and back home faster than ever before. Researchers at UVA tried out a streamlined approach to post-operative care for patents following what's known as a Whipple procedure.
Experts say finding quality child care is not always easy. Parents sign their infants up for daycare before they've even been conceived, competing on lengthy waiting lists. "I think it's a pretty dire situation right now," said Dr. Leslie Cintron, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia.
“Part of (the public proposal) is the rise of a celebrity culture, where everyone is acting like they’re a mini-celebrity and seeking the limelight,” said Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at University of Virginia.
University of Virginia English professor Mark Edmundson is worried about what he views as a false promise to under-served communities. "Mostly online education programs will provide fourth-rate learning opportunities for poor kids who have little intellectual background," he said in an email. "The purveyors of online education will take the kids' money and lock them deep into debt. They will acquire few if any useful skills. But their educational debt will turn them into a class of indentured servants, well-nigh slaves. To say that this will help lots of poor people to get Y...
Former University of Virginia professor and civil rights leader Julian Bond was arrested Wednesday outside the White House. Bond was with a group of prominent activists including actress Daryl Hannah and former Congressman Robert Kennedy Jr. They were protesting the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, which would carry oil from Canada to Texas.
Edward Triplett’s dissertation lets visitors enter historical ruins digitally reconstructed from 360 degrees of photographs.
(Commentary by U.Va. law professor Brandon L. Garrett and New York University law professor Erin Murphy) So far courts have all upheld DNA collection from felons, reasoning that convicts forfeit some of the rights of ordinary citizens. Maryland v. King is about something new: More than one-half of the 50 states (including Maryland) and the federal government authorize compulsory collection of DNA from people who have been arrested.
Many of the schools that have produced some of the world's most successful hedge fund managers are not all from the Ivy League, Business Insider reported.
"Most of the tissue in an organism that's recently dead, recently killed, is actually still alive," Charles Grisham, a chemistry professor at the University of Virginia, explained to Discovery News. "In this case, even though the brain function is missing, the tissues will still respond to stimuli."
There is little international policing of land deals resulting in local farmers being forced off lands and deeper into poverty.