Choosing one approach – clinical or actuarial judgment – exclusively over the other represents a false dichotomy. The acceptance of quantitative prediction does not demand the rejection of purely human decision-making. Quite the contrary. Human decision-making will always exist, but, as John Monahan of the University of Virginia School of Law argues, it “must be disciplined and checked and it is crucial that the process start with an actuarial estimate of risk.”
Elaine Westbrooks, vice provost of university libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Brandon Butler, director of information policy at the University of Virginia Library, wonder whether Elsevier would be willing to strike a similar deal with an institution with a much higher research output in the life sciences.
The ads slam Democrats, many of whom hail from districts Trump won in 2016, as promising to be “different” but instead aligning with national Democratic figures to focus on impeachment rather than other legislative priorities, such as trade. “Republicans want to use impeachment as a weapon against Democrats,” said Kyle Kondik, who analyzes politics at UVA’s Center for Politics. “The whole battle over impeachment is part of a Republican pitch to try to make the presidential elections more of a choice next year as opposed to a referendum on the president.”
More than 200 physicians at UVA Health have been honored by their peers. According to a release, 233 physicians were named in the 2019-20 Best Doctors in America List, and Best Doctors says about 4% of doctors in the country are named.
More than nine out of 10 teachers say they seek out academic research from journal articles at least once a year, although they are ambivalent at best about the timeliness of that material, whether it’s decipherable, and their ability to apply it to their work, a new survey finds. The results were published in a report, “Educator Voices on Education Research,” by the Jefferson Education Exchange, a nonprofit backed by the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Human Development and the Strada Education Network, an organization focused on education and employment.
The $397,668 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Distance Learning and Telemedicine grant program will enable UVA to implement the Virginia Telemedicine Network for cardio-metabolic disease, opioid use disorder, ophthalmology, black lung disease and cancer.
With Ukraine in the political spotlight during President Trump's impeachment hearings, UVA’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies held a talk on the country's history.
“The women being called in are not administrative assistants who might have heard something,” but accomplished experts, says Jennifer Lawless, a UVA professor of politics who’s written extensively about women in office. “That matters, that level of growth.”
Educators routinely access education research and prefer journal articles, news stories and presentations at conferences over other sources. But their views on whether education research is timely, easy to find, understandable or transferrable to their practice fall in the 4.5-to-4.9 range on a 1 to 7 scale, according to a new report from the Jefferson Education Exchange, a nonprofit supported by UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development.
You’d expect to see UC Berkeley well-represented, which sent 10 admits. But that’s the same number as the University of Michigan and UNC Chapel Hill, and less than the 11 who come from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The top state schools are the University of Texas (15) and University of Virginia (12).
It’s understandable, of course, that parents would be touchy about changes to the gifted education opportunities to which their children have access. “We all want my child to have the best opportunities. It’s human nature,” UVA education professor Carolyn M. Callahan said. “The inequities in education – a lack of opportunity, a lack of talent development, the impacts of poverty and education – all that is reflected in gifted education.”
(Commentary by UVA psychology professor Daniel T. Willingham) American students remain stumped by math. The 2019 scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress test were published last month, showing that performance for fourth- and eighth-graders hasn’t budged since 2009.
Virginia families earning $40,000 or less may send their children to UVA’s College at Wise at no cost for tuition or fees under a new program called “UVA-Wise Within Reach,” starting in the fall of 2020.
The University of Virginia’s education school is seeking public input about two of its namesakes. The Curry School of Education and Human Development announced it was re-examining its name and the name of its main building. Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry and William Henry Ruffner had ties to slavery and the Confederacy.
UVA student Katie Laven shared a moment from a scene that seems to regularly play out where a sleepy student enjoys a quick cat nap on the couches in the art building. The scene has become such a regular occurrence that other undergraduates noticed and some creative art student snapped a picture of the snoozing pupil, printed it out, and posted it above the couch. When the student returned to the couch for yet another nap, he did so underneath a photo of himself sawing logs, which Laven captured on her camera.
The machine’s ability to prompt responses could have implications for automated learning, mental health treatment and the use of robots as companions, according to Afsaneh Doryab, a UVA assistant professor of engineering systems and environment.
A UVA student group is working to help the environment by collecting plastic bags, part of an initiative to promote sustainable grocery shopping. Organizers say this gives students good habits, since many are doing their own food shopping for the first time.
Telepsychiatry does have some challenges. Doctors still have to be licensed in the state where patients reside. And not all public or private insurers pay for telepsychiatry visits. But as more payers reimburse for services, academic medical centers are expanding their telepsychiatry offerings, noting that video visits may offer distinct benefits over traditional in-person visits for some patients. “The technology is now so good that there’s really no difference between seeing a patient in person or on a video hook-up,” says Larry Merkel, associate professor of psychiatric medicine. “You feel ...
As we approach the 2020 presidential election, some scholars are still speculating over why Hillary Clinton lost her 2016 bid. At UVA, two professors at the undergraduate business school have a theory, based on a study of how consumers think about female CEOs.
Lalin Anik is an undisputed master in the classroom, one of the true superstar business professors in the world. And that is saying something because she is at a school – UVA’s Darden School of Business – that can rightly boast of having the best MBA faculty in the world.