A group of black nurses known as “the Hidden Nurses” are passing on lessons they learned to the next generation of medical professionals. On Wednesday, the UVA School of Medicine hosted a Medical Center Hour, where the Hidden Nurses shared advice and words of wisdom, part of a research project by a UVA nursing student.
This fall, the University of Virginia is offering free tuition to students from families making less than $80,000 a year. It’s one way they’re trying to increase economic diversity at the school.
A UVA professor is digging into Medicaid waiver programs and says Virginia is lacking. Children with profound disabilities are waiting for therapy, assistive technology, and even wheelchairs. Jessica Keim-Malpass is conducting a state-by-state analysis. She says Medicaid dollars are not being used well, even though one-third of them are spent on children with disabilities.
History is certainly on Doyle's side, though, explains Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "More than 98% of all House members who have sought renomination by their parties since the end of World War II have, in fact, been renominated."
“This COUP business from Trump is the same nonsense that the revisionist Nixon gang pushed for years,” Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said on Twitter, “that Nixon wasn’t really guilty of anything, he was removed from office via a ‘silent coup’ of plotters determined to destroy Nixon’s legacy and policies.”
Then we cut to the next scene, where a journalist is reporting from the scene of a car accident involving a young woman. In the segment, the journalist cites research by the University of Virginia’s Center for Applied Biomechanics, which revealed that female drivers are 47% more likely to be seriously injured in a car crash than men.
(Video) School of Nursing staff, faculty and students are folding origami cranes in an effort to declare peace, unity, and compassion. The craft is part of the Hoos Inclusive Campaign that deals with issues of equality and inclusion at the school.
“This is the first time I’ve seen this, or anything like this,” said Larry J. Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics. “If you read it carefully, it’s clear that it is a GOP product, but of course, many people don’t read carefully.”
How can a White House manage a major investigation and still make policy? Bill Clinton’s experiences in 1998 and early 1999 as his administration faced independent counsel Kenneth Starr’s inquiry into the Clintons’ Arkansas investments, which expanded to Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky, are detailed in a recent volume on the Clinton presidency, which draws on oral histories collected by UVA’s Miller Center.
Which universities were most common among the F100? The results were quite different from their choice of undergraduate schools. At the graduate level, the universities attended by two or more of the F100 CEOs include: Harvard (attended by 7 CEOs), University of Pennsylvania (5), Columbia (3), University of Virginia (2), University of Wisconsin (2), Stanford (2), and Northwestern (2). Importantly, the count was aggregated across the university.
Three schools. Three days. One fight for a cure. For over five years, Relay for Life at Virginia Tech, University of Virginia, and James Madison University are participating in the “Trifecta Challenge”, a competition to see which school can recruit the most people to sign up for Relay for Life in three days.
University of Georgia leaders say they want to know more about the school’s history concerning slavery and are committing $100,000 for faculty to submit research proposals. Since the early 2000s, several dozen colleges and universities have done similar research. Led by the University of Virginia, 56 colleges and universities are part of the Universities Studying Slavery commission. UGA is not part of the commission.
Blevins also assists in managing Tech’s role in a $23 million project funded by National Institutes for Health in which Tech, Carilion Clinic, the University of Virginia and Inova Health System are working together to quicken the pace of bringing medical discoveries out of the lab and into physician practices.
University of Virginia’s Class of 2020 is hoping to spread gratitude on and off grounds. It’s launching a Class Giving campaign with a week of projects that give back to the community.
A National Institutes of Health-funded partnership between Virginia hospitals is currently accepting applications for a grant opportunity. According to a release, the Clinical and Translational Science Award partnership between Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, Carilion Clinic and the Inova Health System wants to connect community organizations with researchers.
Total enrollment hasn’t yet been reported for the University of Virginia, but the first-year class of 3,920 is 80 students more than last fall’s.
The University of Virginia is known as a basketball school, but Charlottesville showed signs of becoming a football town Saturday. UVA fans in Charlottesville donned their orange and blue ahead of the team's big matchup against Notre Dame in South Bend. The Hoos lost to the Fighting Irish 35 to 20, but fans are still optimistic at how far the program has come under coach Bronco Mendenhall.
“The University of Virginia's Hidden Nurses were recognized Friday night during the Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP's annual Freedom Fund Banquet. These nurses were the first African-American women to help desegregate the University of Virginia Hospital.
Many schools simply tackle bullying by hosting an anti-bullying assembly. While that might be a good start, experts agree that an annual address does little. “We can’t teach math overnight," Catherine Bradshaw, senior associate dean for research and faculty development in the Curry School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia, told TODAY Parents. "It is not a skill you can learn in an hour. That is the whole issue with social emotional learning."
Democrat Sally Hudson, an economist who’s running unopposed for a House seat from Charlottesville, says that she and fellow progressives will mount efforts to ensure that Virginia’s healthy business climate is shared with its workforce through a higher minimum wage, as well as legislation empowering unions and protecting workers’ bargaining rights. “I think it’s important that the top state for business is also good for workers,” says Hudson, who has taught public policy at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy the past two years.