After the Virginia Tech shooting of 32 in 2007, Richard Bonnie, professor of medicine and law at the University of Virginia School of Law, said many barriers remain in obtaining mental health treatment for those desperately needing it.
As the General Assembly convenes, political figures in the top echelons of power are rallying to the side of embattled University of Virginia Rector Helen E. Dragas.
Even as most of the nation's 15,000 public school districts roll out new systems to evaluate teachers, many are still struggling with a central question: What's the best way to identify an effective educator? After a three-year, $45 million research project that included researchers at the University of Virginia, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation believes it has some answers.
A new commission through the University of Virginia Miller Center is starting work to develop state policies to contain health care costs. The goal is to create a process to keep the growth rate of health care spending on par with the growth rate of the state economy.
Neurologist Nathan B. Fountain, MD, says the study makes a good case that shared genes help explain the higher incidence of migraines in people with epilepsy. Fountain directs the epilepsy program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and serves on the advisory board of the Epilepsy Foundation.
“These fines are intended to be symbolic to a certain extent,” says Brandon Garrett, who studies corporate crime at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville. The penalties might help boost the public's confidence in government regulators, but, given the lack of a long-term impact on stock price, these monetary damages do little to push companies to truly crack down on off-label promotion.
Both Clintons went to Caracol and hailed the thing as the 'New Haiti,' " said Robert Fatton, a Haiti expert and professor of political science at the University of Virginia. "The secretary of state says, 'Go to Haiti,' and they present it to us as the 'Great breakthrough' that will change the country and then two months after, you have a warning that you shouldn't go to Haiti? If you tell tourists they shouldn't go, why would businessmen go to Haiti?"
That idea could eventually have implications for human medicine. “There is variation in the natural world,” said Deborah Roach, a biologist at the University of Virginia who studies aging in plants. “One of the cool things to ask is, how do these other species escape this process? What rules that confine us to be an aging species don’t exist in other species?”
(Commentary) Shortly after the administration began accepting applications under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Kris Kobach filed a lawsuit on behalf of 10 disgruntled immigration agents seeking to halt the program in its tracks. A new law review article by University of Virginia law professor David Martin, one of the nation’s premier experts on immigration law, systematically debunks Kobach’s legal arguments.
Talk of whether to confirm the reappointment of Helen Dragas to the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors is occurring in lofty circles, and we don't just mean legislators in ivory towers.
What’s the price of an Ivy League education? This year, annual tuition, room and board at Princeton University topped $50,000. It cost me $23.99. Last semester, I enrolled in a “massive open online course” in world history at Princeton. ... Class starts again next week. Another history course, but this time at the University of Virginia. Hopefully, it will be another one for the ages.Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/01/07/3770732/princeton-on-2399-a-semester.html#storylink=cpy
Prominent politicians and constituents alike are working to sway lawmakers in the looming battle over whether to confirm Rector Helen E. Dragas to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors.
Gov. Bob McDonnell on Monday appointed William H. “Bill” Goodwin Jr. to the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors.
Gov. Bob McDonnell has named Dr. Cynthia Romero Virginia’s next health commissioner. A University of Virginia graduate who received a medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School, Romero served as the 2010-11 president of the Medical Society of Virginia.
William H. Goodwin, named last summer to an advisory position on the University of Virginia governing board, now has a vote. Gov. Bob McDonnell on Monday appointed Goodwin to fill the vacancy created by the resignation in October of Randal J. Kirk, whose term expires June 30.
(Commentary) Why doesn't having a whole lot more money make us a whole lot happier? In a thought-provoking article, three researchers - University of British Columbia's Elizabeth Dunn, Harvard University's Daniel Gilbert, and University of Virginia's Timothy Wilson - offer an explanation after spending decades studying the subject.
On his long rides to Williamsburg, Richmond, Philadelphia or Washington, Thomas Jefferson would rarely waste a moment. On those trips, Jefferson often would hone playing skills on the special travel violin he had made (at least until he injured his wrist and could no longer play well).
With Wikipedia being used in more and more classrooms — despite continued skepticism among many teachers — it is worthwhile looking at just how good its entries are. Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham looks at some education entries and rates them. Willingham is a professor and director of graduate studies in psychology at the University of Virginia and author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?” His latest book is “When Can You Trust The Experts? How to tell good science from bad in education.”
Today, state civil commitment laws can make it difficult or impossible to hospitalize adults involuntarily, even when their families or caregivers feel threatened and patients appear extremely sick, says Dewey Cornell, a Curry School psychologist and director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project.
There’s a new battle brewing over what happened at the University of Virginia last summer, with a Washington-based non-profit attacking an accrediting agency that put UVA’s Board of Visitors on warning.