(Audio) Former GOP congressman [and UVA Law alumnus] Bob Inglis used to believe climate change wasn’t real. But after a candid conversation with his children and a hard look at the evidence, he began to change his mind.
Earlier this week, Greg Casar, joined by his partner and a few close friends, walked into the Texas Democratic Headquarters’ North Austin office and filed the documents to formally launch his first Congressional run. Waiting outside were a dozen or so supporters and Casar’s young, mainly female campaign staff, all of whom cheered when the three-time Austin council member [and UVA alumnus] emerged from the building moments later.
The reduced sunlight can drop serotonin levels, the chemical that helps people feel happy. The changes also reduce melatonin balance, causing sleep issues. A clinical psychologist with UVA Health said these are some of the things that cause the disorder. She said the best way to get through it is by sticking to a routine. “It might be tempting to sleep in, change your sleep habits. And I encourage people you know, get up the same time of day that you always use to. If you work out, keep working out, exercise is a great strategy to help because we know that increases serotonin,” said Dr. Kim Pe...
Human lives and memory get embedded in landscape, like fossils, and usually it’s only a matter of time before they’re uncovered, interpreted, contested. “The ways in which we shape landscapes or the ways in which landscapes shape us, that’s all tied to memory and in terms of how we engage in that landscape,” said Allison James, who is a lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Architecture and works in cultural landscape preservation. “So when we’re engaged in a particular landscape, especially a historical landscape, that helps us to understand the present.”
Austin Keeler, a postdoctoral student at the University of Virginia, uses CRISPR in the lab to alter the genetic makeup of mouse embryos to create transgenic animals for research. Though he finds CRISPR’s potential exciting, he thinks a lot about its ethical implications on issues that currently resemble science fiction more than reality. These thoughts inspired the subject of a course he teaches to undergraduate students entitled “Homo CRISPR — Future Humans?” Keeler provides his students with resources to explain how gene editing works and then opens up classroom time to discussions about a ...
UVA Health has not seen the omicron variant, but do predict it will inevitably make its way into Virginia. However, UVA Health doctors said at a COVID-19 briefing Friday morning that there is no way of knowing if it will become the dominant strain like the delta variant. Doctors also said if you are symptomatic and worried about omicron, it’s important to get a PCR test and not a rapid or at-home test.
Deploying senior radiology trainees as at-home “teleresidents” is a feasible solution to maintain productivity and social distancing amid the pandemic, according to new research published Friday. With diagnostic radiology work largely handled electronically, the University of Virginia Medical Center has experimented with administering its residency program remotely. All told, 28 workstations were divvied out to senior residents and fellows, leaders detailed in Academic Radiology.
The papers cited in the review “really called into question ‘is this structure something that is an absolute requirement for giving cells their identity?’” review coauthor and University of Virginia developmental biologist Ann Sutherland tells The Scientist. “Or is it just a convenient way to get the cells from one place to another, and that final destination is where they’re going to differentiate and create new tissue shapes?”
(Transcript) Dr. Steven Zeichner, who works in the Child Health Research Center at UVA Health, is looking for a master key -- a universal vaccine that would work against any variation of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
3. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. About the program: UVA offers a graduate leadership in human resources management certificate, preparing individuals for top HR management positions. The courses include organizational change and strategic compensation.
In a partnership with Google, the University of Virginia will offer any current or former students with a Google Career Certificate a $5,000 scholarship to continue their education. Students with a Google Career Certificate in one of its five programs may receive a one-time $5,000 scholarship to UVA’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies to complete their bachelor’s degree.
When Mia Love spoke at the University of Virginia last night, she could have told insider stories about her two terms as the only Black female Republican elected to Congress. She could have dished juicy details about what it was like as the sole GOP member of the Congressional Black Caucus, or the frustrating conversations with President Trump about recruiting Haitian immigrants into the Republican Party, or the $450,000 she had to raise and hand over to GOP party leaders to secure preferred committee assignments. She could have talked public policy about issues she cares about such as abortio...
Aproposed tuition hike of up to 4.9% met with resounding silence Thursday as no one showed up at a meeting set up by University of Virginia officials to get public input on the proposal. The UVA Board of Visitors scheduled and publicized the hearing early last month, and finance officials took the proposal to various groups on Grounds in the past 30 days.
The University of Virginia has matched its record high mark set last year in the new annual NCAA Graduation Success Rate data. Incoming student-athletes from 2011-to-2014 shows UVa’s graduation rate was 95% in 2021, the same as 2020. The national average in this report is 88%.
Bronco Mendenhall says three decades as a football coach is enough for now. He’s ready to try something new. Saying he wants “to become a better version of himself,” Mendenhall surprised his team and Virginia fans by announcing he will step down as the Cavaliers’ head football coach at the end of this season.
Bronco Mendenhall is stepping down from his position as head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers football program following the team’s bowl game at the end of the season, the team announced on Thursday. “This week, there was a sense of clarity that I needed to step back from college football,” Mendenhall said in a press conference on Thursday evening.
(Commentary) This is how Bronco Mendenhall’s tenure at Virginia was destined to end. He was never going to coach college football into his dotage and was never going to betray his team with energy he deemed less than full throttle. So while the precise timing of Thursday’s resignation was somewhat surprising, the abruptness of Mendenhall’s decision, the unyielding principles and abiding faith that informed his thinking, and the incurable transparency of his explanation were Bronco Mendenhall to the core.
The distinction of becoming the first woman engineer at NASA belongs to Kitty O’Brien Joyner, who began her career with the NACA in 1939. Her path to a successful career began after being inspired by her father, an engineer by trade who encouraged Joyner to pursue her passion. Joyner was also the first woman to graduate from the University of Virginia’s engineering school.
Dewey Cornell, a UVA professor of education and the country’s leading advocate for school-based threat assessments, has published an array of studies. His data suggests schools that used threat assessment were less likely to use other exclusionary school discipline practices and that racial disparities among those who are suspended or expelled were also reduced.
Sequencing itself can be as fast as a 24- to 48-hour turnaround. It’s the logistics of moving samples around that’s the real bottleneck. “It’s really just stupid stuff,” said Amy Mathers, associate director of clinical microbiology at UVA Health, whose lab team sequences positive coronavirus samples for the state of Virginia.