The former Martha Jefferson Hospital campus stands to get another shot in the arm in the coming weeks. HemoShear, a Charlottesville biotech company that helps drug manufacturers more accurately simulate human environments, said Jan. 22 it plans to become the site’s next tenant. The company was founded in 2008 to bring to market an invention by U.Va. professors Brett Blackman and Brian Wamhoff: a man-made vascular system that recreates conditions in the human body, offering a proving ground for drugs and other medical technologies.
The Princeton Review Tuesday is announcing its 2013 Best Value Colleges. The University of Virginia leads among public schools, and William & Mary makes the top four.
A University of Virginia economics professor is reacting to several alarming trends. Ed Burton has found a growing list of states where the employee retirement systems have been underfunded.
(Guest post by Darden School Professor Robert Carraway) In a previous posting, I discussed the relationship between Big Data and Small Bets (Experiments). In this posting, I will dig more into this first challenge; Jeanne Liedtka, my colleague at U.Va.’s Darden School of Business, will join me in a subsequent posting to consider in more detail the second. Again, my advice appears counterintuitive.
You can ante up for classical, pony up for jazz, lay it down for blues and kick it for bluegrass, or you can give it up for WTJU and cover it all. Since 1957, three years before the invention of dirt, the University of Virginia-supported, multi-formatted, volunteer-oriented radio station has been giving Central Virginians not just what they want, but what they should hear.
(Commentary) Josh Bowers, an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and a former public defender, believes that grand juries would be more useful if we relied on them more explicitly for this deeper kind of judgment, and recast them as a sort of grass-roots branch of government “that serves to reshape the rough edges of the law in a decidedly populist fashion.”
It wasn't until after former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright took office that the Czechoslovakian-born Episcopalian learned that her family was Jewish and that more than 20 of them had died in the Holocaust. The revelation gave rise to a memoir examining a tumultuous time in her country's history, and her family's experiences of it -- a journey that she will share at 6 p.m. Monday at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs.
University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock tells us that any insurance company offering a policy to a Catholic university or hospital knows it will have to cover the cost of providing contraceptives to employees. The premiums it charges will reflect that cost.
(Commentary by Mehr Afshan Farooqi, assistant professor of Urdu and South Asian literature) Unpredictably, Ahmed Ali’s birth centenary year (2010) ignited more than cursory interest in his work. The peculiar thing about such celebrations is the particularity of choices. Who gets selected for the fanfare is often pushed more by political exigencies than love and respect for the creative writer.
Bradford Wilcox, a University of Virginia sociologist and Director of the National Marriage Project, questions even real-time happiness. NMP's 2011 annual report offers evidence that married people, with or without children, have significantly less depression than singles, with or without children. Wilcox and his colleagues also found that both married and married with children scored much better on depression measures than did singles of either variety.
The storms have passed at the University of Virginia but not the clouds. Resolved is the question about who will lead, but lingering are larger questions about the future of the institution in an era when public higher education is under siege.
Wendy Phelps, a graduate student in the urban and environmental planning program at the University of Virginia, attended the meeting and worked with Poncy on a semester-long study of the corridor. “The community members’ concerns were split into two categories: street improvements and neighborhood improvements, such as signage and landscaping,” Phelps said. “[In the study], we tried to focus on street and safety concerns.”
Graduate and undergraduate students from around the country will be coming to the University of Virginia this summer for high-performance computing and software engineering training.
The arrangements, which allow the government to collect fines and appoint outside monitors to impose internal reforms without putting a company through the stigma of a trial, mushroomed in the wake of the Enron scandal. But such accords, experts contend, often keep many details private while forgoing the oversight of a judge sworn to look after the public’s interest. “I want the regulators and hospitals and prosecutors to report to the judge on how the case is going,” said Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor writing a book on such corporate plea deals. &ld...
The University of Mary Washington is cutting wage employees to 29 hours per week starting Feb. 11 to conform with the governor’s proposed budget and to avoid having to provide them with health insurance.
Relaxing on his couch, Thomas Jones quickly scans the channel guide on the TV, his English bulldog resting at his feet, before landing on a football game.
Saturday night was more than a fundraiser – it was a celebration of what the vice president of the University of Virginia Medical Center calls a 30-year dream for Charlottesville.
But in an era of budget-cutting and soaring tuition, is there still a place for "Cadillacs" – elite, public research institutions like Texas, Michigan, California-Berkeley and Virginia that try to compete with the world's best? Or should the focus be on more affordable and efficient options, like the old Chevrolet Bel Air?
City planning manager Missy Creasy credited the work by the University of Virginia School of Architecture, which held a workshop and design competition last month focused on the riparian land between Pen Park and Woolen Mills. “There were a lot of good ideas,” she said. “Getting the ideas out there is incredibly valuable to getting people thinking about what might happen.”
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, put it this way: “In a court of law, it’s wrong for a defendant to be forced to prove his innocence. But in a court of public opinion, that’s precisely what happens. He’s going to have to prove his innocence. He can scream unfairness all he wants, but those are the rules of the political game."