(Commentary) President Biden issued a list of the members of his planned Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. This is the judicial reform commission he promised to create during the presidential campaign. this is a genuinely bipartisan and cross-ideological group. In addition to Will and Keith, there are several other conservative or libertarian members, including … Caleb Nelson (UVA).
Bonds said the health district is getting just under 8,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and just under 4,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine every week. UVA Health is getting its own allotment of the Pfizer vaccine and pharmacies are getting vaccine doses from the federal stockpile.
“Any new galaxy is good,” says Trinh Thuan, an astronomer at the University of Virginia who helped find the previous champion four years ago. “We’re counting the number of [very oxygen-poor galaxies] in the palm of our hand.” The new galaxy’s oxygen-to-hydrogen ratio is 83 percent that of the previous record holder, J0811+4730, which is 620 million light-years away in the constellation Lynx.
Whether we’re writing, building or cooking, human beings are driven by a powerful instinct to add rather than subtract, a new study suggests. UVA researchers asked 1,585 study participants to solve puzzles or problems where they could either add or subtract elements. In every scenario, the majority chose addition – even when subtraction made more sense. In fact, unless instructed otherwise, most people never stopped to consider whether less is more.
Traditionally, there are several events held to celebrate Founder’s Day and Thomas Jefferson’s birthday on April 13. This year, in-person celebrations have been curtailed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. According to a release, events will be held virtually or postponed until gathering restrictions are lifted.
UVA is encouraging guests coming to its in-person graduation ceremonies in May to test negative for COVID-19 prior to arrival in Charlottesville and to get vaccinated when eligible.
On Saturday, UVA is hosting a virtual dedication of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. While UVA’s memorial is a welcomed addition, for some Charlottesville-area residents, it is bittersweet.
Tuition will remain the same for most UVA undergraduates next year if the school’s Board of Visitors approves a proposal from its finance committee. The board is scheduled to set tuition rates at a virtual meeting at 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Dr. James Avery said the rush to legalize ignores the ill effects that increased marijuana use will cause. An addiction expert and visiting professor at UVA, Avery said the modern varieties and growing methods make the marijuana now available far more potent and potentially addictive. “This is not your father’s marijuana,” Avery said. “This is a far more potent drug.”
Raj Venkatesan, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, says that the potential for job displacement in the trucking industry is largely misunderstood. For the foreseeable future, he explains, even autonomous trucks will still have “drivers” in the cab as a safety measure, to be on hand in case of mechanical problems or even speak to police in the event of an incident on the highway. “It’s not clear at all now whether there will even be displacement,” he says.
Scientists are getting a clearer picture of what COVID-19 does to your brain. Here’s what they found
“Overall, about a third of the patients had some neurologic diagnosis, but the majority of that was pre-existing, before COVID,” UVA infectious disease professor Dr. Bill Petri said. “What remains to be seen is how much of that is due to a direct effect of the virus, versus how much of that is due to just being seriously ill and being in the hospital.” Petri and a team of UVA researchers have their own studies underway to better understand how the virus affects your central nervous system.
The hour-long debate started off on a quiet note before candidates blasted McAuliffe’s record on gun rights, and there’s one moment that’s getting a lot of attention. Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax comparing sexual assault allegations against him to the deaths of Emmett Till and George Floyd. UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato called it outrageous. “Just about anybody who wasn’t already committed to the lieutenant governor probably said ‘well at least that’s one of the five I can strike off the list,’” he said.
The FCC says its service maps are outdated. It just launched a new mapping effort, but that update will take years. So a lot of counties and states like Georgia, North Carolina and Maine are making their own maps. “It’s great to hear that so many local communities and counties are doing their own mapping initiatives because our federal map is a giant disaster,” says Dr. Chirstopher Ali, a UVA professor whose work focuses on rural broadband.
News 3 This Morning anchor Jessica Larché asked Dr. William Petri from UVA whether we’re setting ourselves up for a scenario where things could be like they were at the beginning of the pandemic a year ago and exactly how much we should be concerned about these variants. “I think we should be concerned enough to encourage everyone we know to get vaccinated, because we really want to have everyone who’s 16 years of age and older vaccinated, because that’s going to limit the ability of the virus to produce new variants. Because when you have like millions of people infected around the world, tha...
A search of presidential speeches through UVA’s Miller Center shows that not one president before Joe Biden ever used the word “caregiving” in a public speech. Not one.
With “Remembering Heaven” in mind, I offer a few passages from toward the end of Bruce Greyson, “After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond.” You will recall that Greyson is professor emeritus of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the UVA School of Medicine.
In “Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work,” Jim Detert, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, presents many examples from his decades of research on workplace courage, and explains why “fearless organizations” can make the world a better place.
As a society, we seem to have mixed feelings about whether it’s better to add or subtract things, advising both that “less is more” and “bigger is better.” But these contradictory views play out across multibillion-dollar industries, with people salivating over the latest features of their hardware and software before bemoaning that the added complexities make the product difficult to use. A team of UVA researchers decided to look at the behavior underlying this tension, finding in a new paper that most people defaulted to assuming that the best way of handling a problem is to add new features...
When presented with an opportunity to change or improve something, adults are more likely to rely on addition to correct a problem, instead of subtracting from it, a team of UVA researchers determined in the first study to analyze additive and subtractive cognitive processes.
Picture a bridge made of Legos. One side has three support pieces, the other two. How would you stabilize the bridge? Most people would add a piece so that there are three supports on each side, a new study suggests. But why not remove a piece so that each side has two supports instead? It turns out that getting people to subtract — whether a Lego block, ingredients in a recipe or words in an essay — requires reminders and rewards, UVA researchers report April 7 in Nature.