Nearly 1,700 people worked at the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in fiscal year 2017. The number is expected to rise to nearly 3,150, by 2026, according to a study by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s Center for Economic and Policy Studies. In January, the University of Virginia announced plans to establish a $200 million School of Data Science with the help of a $120 million donation.
Researchers from Northeastern University and the University of Virginia have found that school shootings are not more common than they were in the past and have actually been declining since the 1990s. Second, schools are still the safest place for children.
The guard has helped his team to the best record in the NBA. He talks to Donald McRae about race, Giannis Antetokounmpo and his drive to fight poverty.
"To date, few school-based programs focused on preventing behavioral and mental health problems have been developed specifically for, or tested in, rural settings," said Catherine Bradshaw, a co-director of the center and a professor at the University of Virginia. "Through the center, we will adapt and scale-up a number of effective programs in a way that directly benefits rural schools and communities."
And if decisions are made not so much on their moral worth but on their potential return on investment, it’s fair to conclude it’s a business where profits are the name of the game. A dilemma that emerges with such a narrow approach is that “policies designed to maximize profits both through cutting costs and increasing revenue impact the experiences of employees whose behavior is dictated by them.” That’s the finding of a series of studies published in the Journal of Business Ethics, led by Professor Bidhan Parmar of the University of Virginia. He and his team make the case there’s inher...
At a UVA town hall Friday, Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., said he would not currently support a national health care system, sometimes referred to as “Medicare-for-all.” Warner, speaking largely to School of Medicine faculty and Medical Center employees, said his current health care efforts focus on decreasing cost of care, increasing access to care via telemedicine and increasing security and oversight of online medical systems.
The University of Virginia already has approved tuition increases for the 2019-20 school year, but it will consider the General Assembly’s recently passed incentive package to keep rates at current levels. On Sunday, the legislature approved a state budget that would go into effect July 1. The budget includes $52.5 million in incentives for Virginia public universities to maintain current in-state tuition rates. UVA’s incentive is $5.52 million. The budget now goes to Gov. Ralph Northam for his consideration.
Most legal experts we contacted agreed with this much: Killing a baby after birth is already against the law. "Actively killing an infant born alive is a crime," said Lois Shepherd, a UVA professor of law and biomedical ethics. "Under the law, living infants are just like other living people. They are children. Children are people."
Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a forecasting outfit at UVA’s Center for Politics, says its initial Electoral College ratings for the 2020 presidential election indicate it’s a toss-up.
UVA’s Center for Politics says that Texas, along with Georgia and North Carolina, "may be becoming less reliably Republican." The analysis says Texas "leans Republican" – as do notorious swing states like Iowa and North Carolina – and lists it among states that might be the best targets for Democrats looking to win over historically red regions of the country.
Matt Simpson, a law student at the University of Virginia, became legally blind at a young age. “As a person with a disability, it can be debilitating – not to have a disability, but to have people around you set incredibly low expectations for you as a human being. And so I hope that people who come learn about Paralympic sports get to hear us talk, get to interact with us, I hope that they will continue to raise the expectations for themselves, but also for people with disabilities around them,” he said.
Political observers say there could be an advantage to Sanders kicking off his campaign outside of Vermont. Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics, said Sanders’ decision to hold the first rally in Brooklyn could also be about delegates, and that it makes strategic sense to announce outside of Vermont. “Sanders is making clear he will compete vigorously in New York State. Vermont is a lovely place, but it’s probably locked down tight for Sanders, while New York will be highly competitive,” Sabato said.
For Ken Hughes, a Watergate expert with UVA’s Miller Center, Cohen’s testimony is “immediately reminiscent” of Dean’s, including the attempts to discredit the witness ahead of the hearing. “The Nixon administration tried to frame Dean as the source of the Watergate cover up, [while he was] more of a point man operating under Nixon’s most powerful aides, and they were guided by Nixon himself,” Hughes said.
(Commentary by Richard Schragger and Micah Schwartzman of the UVA School of Law) “The court is increasingly upholding government support for religion that is neutral in theory, even if it favors the majority religion in practice. Yet we hope that the other justices will join Kagan and safeguard the principle of religious equality.”
A report from the University of Virginia released to the commission late last year cited a dramatic rise in involuntary admissions to state psychiatric hospitals from 2014 to 2018. Over the same time period, involuntary admissions to private hospitals have fallen.
A previously unknown, rapid-fire connection between the gut and brain. A CRISPR-based test for viruses such as Zika and dengue, with results that can be read as easily as a pregnancy test. A pill that mimics the effects of gastric bypass surgery. These are just a few of the 64 discoveries and inventions that made the cut for the third annual STAT Madness, the bracket-style competition for scientific glory modeled on college basketball’s March Madness. The University of Virginia is among the finalists who were selected from a record 160 entries submitted by universities, medical schools, and re...
As the University of Virginia razed the iconic Cavalier Inn, a vision for the site that focuses on welcoming, collaborative and safe spaces was beginning to take shape.
A first-of-its-kind event is bringing together dozens of diplomats from across the world to UVA. They were on Grounds Tuesday to meet with state and local leaders for a summit to discuss citizen engagement, hosted by UVA’s Center for Politics to promote a better understanding of the political culture outside of Washington.
“Go abroad, young man and woman” isn’t the motto for UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, but it might as well be. The school offers a slate of master’s programs that may be the most globally oriented in the United States.
UVA law professor and former Joint Committee on Taxation chief of staff George Yin laid out how the process would work in testimony earlier this month. He explained that the authority of Congress to request tax return information was added in 1924 as a co-equal branch of government, and before, only the president had such authority to request and disclose tax returns.