(Press release) The American Cancer Society has approved funding for 82 research and training grants totaling $47.4 million. Recipients include UVA’s Kathleen J. Porter, who received a research scholar grant for “weSurvive: Improving Quality of Life and Health Behaviors of Rural Cancer Survivors.”
“The Economist’s View of the World: And the Quest for Well-Being,” by Steven E Rhoads (Cambridge University Press). This is a 35th anniversary version of a classic. Rhoads, an emeritus professor of politics at the University of Virginia, has built upon the best explanation I know of how orthodox economists think about choice, markets, externalities and other concepts. The new edition will be valuable to non-economists and economists alike: the former will learn how economists think; and the latter will learn some of the limits to how they think.
(Book review) It took historian Caroline E. Janney to bury the Appomattox legend in an avalanche of anecdotal and statistical evidence, and to remind us how Lee’s surrender became foundational to the destabilizing myth of the Lost Cause. Such are the notable achievements of her immensely readable and utterly convincing “Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox.” Ms. Janney, a professor of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia, offers a fresh and disquieting version of Lee’s surrender, adroitly balancing official, political and military decisions with the ...
(By Anne Trumbore, executive director of digital and open enrollment at the Darden School of Business) The “Great Resignation” has left a lot of people with time on their hands. For many, this period is a time of reflection and a chance to pursue a new career. But how do you make the switch? And even if you plan to return to the same field, how do you show that you have kept current with the changes and trends that affected most industries during the pandemic?
Brian Nosek is into numbers. He’s also into breakfast. Nosek, a UVA psychologist, is a well-known champion of “open science,” a movement to make academic research and its findings accessible to everyone. For his latest data project, Nosek commissioned two research assistants: his daughters, 14-year-old Haven and 12-year-old Joni. “We love breakfast,” Nosek says. But how to decide where to dine?
Lisa Woolfork, a UVA associate professor of English who taught a course about “Game of Thrones,” credits the show’s success not only to high production values, but the “rich and evocative storytelling” of George R. R. Martin’s novels. “The capaciousness of Martin’s work allowed for multiple points of entry for an audience,” Woolfork says. “If you were interested in political intrigue and drama, then ‘Game of Thrones’ was appealing. If you were interested in swords and sorcery, then ‘Game of Thrones’ was appealing. It expanded beyond what anybody could call a ‘traditional’ fantasy audience beca...
Suspect in the death of Leesburg man was searching for someone else in the neighborhood, family says
Michael Fadely, 46, was killed in his home on Newton Place in the Barclay Woods neighborhood just before 4:30 a.m. Sunday, according to police. He was a systems engineering graduate at the University of Virginia and co-founded Strategic Technology Partners.
Growing up in a small town where STEM careers weren’t prevalent, Ashley Wilson’s early career goals were in education – she wanted to be an English teacher. Fast forward to Sept. 2021, when Wilson, a Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division systems engineer for the Battle Management System program, received the Women of Color magazine Technology Rising Star Award. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 2014 with a degree in mechanical engineering, and later earned a master’s degree in systems engineering from Old Dominion University.
Dr. James Platts-Mills from the University of Virginia shared data from the 2017-2018 Global Pediatric Diarrhea Surveillance Network, which indicates that there were approximately 208,009 rotavirus diarrhea deaths among children under 5 years of age that year. Of these deaths, 71% took place in the African region.
Aynne Kokas, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia and the author of the book "Hollywood Made in China," predicted that fewer Hollywood films would be approved for release in the future, and those that do will face stricter regulations.
(Commentary) Glenn Youngkin became governor-elect of Virginia defending parents against those who dismissed their concerns about curriculum and school culture as unserious and unworthy. That wasn’t just good politics; it demonstrates respect for our decentralized education system, which makes a virtue of local control. Having galvanized parental discontent with technocratic elites into a potent political force, Youngkin should now use his credibility with parents to promote a vision for Virginia schools that serves the interest of all the Commonwealth’s children. He could do this by calling up...
Sometimes a child is 11 when they get the first dose, but will be 12 by the time they need to get the second. So the question becomes which of the versions of the Pfizer vaccine should the child get. Getting one pediatric dose and one standard dose is recommended for that situation, according to Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley, a pediatric infectious disease specialist with UVA Health. She says, unlike medications, vaccines are based on age rather than size and weight.
(Commentary) The legal issue is murkier than most media coverage recognizes. As University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Prakash pointed out in Sunday’s Washington Post, the Supreme Court has recognized that former presidents can assert executive privilege regarding their papers. Some of the hubbub over these cases focuses myopically on the comparative virtue or venality of Trump versus Biden. But the real scoundrel in this episode is the Presidential Records Act, a law that entitles presidents and former presidents to blindfold the American people practically in perpetuity.
“It definitely seems like something changed in August,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, who pointed to Biden’s sharp drop in approval ratings after the messy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which he called “a catalyst” for the changing political environment.
One legal expert said the Biden Justice Department may not be done with pursuing contempt of Congress charges now that Bannon has been indicted. “If you’re in for a penny, I don’t know why you wouldn’t be in for a pound,” said Saikrishna Prakash, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, citing the House’s continuing efforts to compel testimony from former Trump aides Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino and Kash Patel. “I don’t know why they would find him in contempt and not the others.”
The Scottsville Center for the Arts in the Natural environment, or SCAN, is creating a sculpture exhibit on its land outside of town. The first two pieces from the Kluge Ruhe at the University of Virginia were installed this weekend.
There are several places where parents can get their children vaccinated, including the Community Vaccination Center at Seminole Square, UVA Health’s Vaccination Center, area pharmacies and more.
In contrast, significant progress has been made toward freeing people with diabetes from daily injections. A meeting called Obstacles and Opportunities on the Road to Artificial Pancreas: Closing the Loop held in Washington, D.C. in December 2005 planted the seed that recently changed diabetes treatment options. Boris Kovatchev, a mathematician at the University of Virginia, remembers the meeting well. There, experts debated the prospects of creating a pump connected to the body to automatically supply a responsive stream of insulin. “There were opinions back and forth. Some people were saying...
By fall 2020, approximately 71% of New York and New Jersey small businesses said they backed paid family leave, up from nearly 62% one year earlier, according to a study from researchers at Columbia University, Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of Virginia. The study was circulated Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Rosenwald schools are places African American students gained an education during the Jim Crow mandates. Now, University of Virginia students and educators are working to preserve a piece of this history. “This is a part of Virginia, national, and world history that has been unappreciated and undocumented in the past,” architect Jody Lahendro said. Will Rourk teaches 3-D cultural heritage informatics at UVA. He, Jody Lahendro, and a group of UVA students are mapping the Pine Grove Rosenwald school.