(Press release) This year’s Little Giraffe Foundation’s NICU Support Grant recipients include UVA Children’s Hospital – $1,000 for heartbeat bears for memory-making that will be given to families who have lost a child in the NICU.
A new art exhibit at UVA Health is helping women and men heal, and build relationships, after life-changing diagnoses. The Bodice Project’s exhibit outside of UVA Health’s Battle Building gives a window inside the lives touched by breast cancer.
Over the last two decades, the foreign-born population in Virginia and in the metropolitan Richmond area has increased exponentially, going from 1 in 100 people in 1970 to 1 in 9 in 2012, based on University of Virginia research.
The Integrated Translational Health Institute of Virginia has developed an online tool to collect COVID-19 related information from volunteers who are Virginia residents. The iTHRIV research team is led by Don Brown and Johanna Loomba at the University of Virginia, with guidance provided by a cross-state group of advisers.
Almost 15 years ago, Robert Gilliard posed for a photo in front of MIT’s Great Dome. At the time, he was an undergraduate at Clemson University visiting MIT with his research adviser. Just last month, Gilliard arranged a similar photo in front of the dome. This time, though, he was the professor behind the camera, wrangling his own students. Gilliard, a UVA assistant professor of chemistry, is back working in experimental chemistry alongside MIT Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry Christopher “Kit” Cummins with the 2021-22 cohort of Martin Luther King Visiting Professors and Scholars.
How do so many incompetent men bluster their way into high office? The short answer is confidence. There is, of course, a class element to this. One of the most valuable aspects of an elite education may well be the entitlement it imbues. A series of recent studies by researchers from Stanford University and the University of Virginia found that “individuals with relatively high social class are more overconfident.” Others buy into the hype. The result is that “advantages beget advantages.”
UVA scientists have investigated how the behavior of Antarctic fish has changed as a result of the warming of the Southern Ocean. The authors of the new work studied the changes in the behavior of marine animals in the Southern Ocean to understand how they would respond to heat stress caused by the increase in temperature.
UVA’s Darden School of Business tied for No. 9 out of 84 U.S. schools in the 2021-2022 Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools MBA list, released this week.
The University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, is taking yet another step into the future thanks to its 21st-century School of Data Science. The new educational building broke ground this fall, with a projected opening for early in 2024.
Researchers may have solved a mystery about the origins of Earth’s water, finding the sun to be a surprising source. The scientists describe how new analysis of an ancient asteroid suggests extra-terrestrial dust grains carried water to Earth as the planet formed. Researchers from several institutions, including UVA, contributed to the paper.
Soothing scents can also help, says Terrell Smith, a UVA resident physician and the founding physician of Spora Health, a telehealth platform for people of color. “Consider getting a diffuser for your kitchen, bedroom, home office or bathroom, and try ‘happy’ scents, such as bergamot, orange and lemon,” he says.
UVA Health is one of the few places in the country sequencing COVID in its lab. This will tell doctors exactly when the new variant is in the area.
Age-based restrictions on obtaining a firearm are not conclusive in reducing injury and death of young people, according to a of panel of researchers from Duke University and UVA.
AI Researchers Estimate 97% Of EU Websites Fail GDPR Privacy Requirements- Especially User Profiling
Researchers in the US have used machine learning techniques to study the GDPR privacy policies of over a thousand representative websites based in the EU. They found that 97% of the sites studied failed to comply with at least one requirement of the European Union’s 2018 regulatory framework, and that they complied least of all with regulatory requirements around the practice of ‘user profiling.’ The study is titled “Automated Detection of GDPR Disclosure Requirements in Privacy Policies using Deep Active Learning,” and comes from three researchers at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia scientists recently uncovered evidence that a little-known hormone may help prevent severe COVID-19, and the compound – called adiponectin – is suddenly in the spotlight. As research continues to see how well it works, there’s no need to wait: “Boosting adiponectin is one of the best things you can do for yourself, especially if you’re hoping to lose weight,” says Columbia University-trained integrative physician Dr.
A recent working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows, when small businesses experience paid family leave, they actually tend to love it. The research from experts out of Columbia, Stanford, and the University of Virginia exploits the fact that different states offer different benefits. A few like New Jersey and New York have already been offering workers paid family leave for a few years now.
The University of Virginia and Stanford are working on a new approach for brain surgery. If approved, it would allow for a noninvasive way to remove fault brain circuits. PING uses low-intensity, focused ultrasound waves. It then destroys only the cells causing the problem, leaving others unattached, and the skull without cracks.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have helped to create a noninvasive way to remove diseased cells from the brain without a scalpel. According to a release, this method can remove faulty brain circuits, allowing doctors to treat various neurological diseases, such as epilepsy, without the need for conventional brain surgery.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, with help from researchers at Stanford University, have developed a new way to treat neurological diseases without normally invasive brain surgery.
(Editorial) Academic freedom isn’t some new concept in this country. In 1819, however, when former President Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia, his was a radical notion. “This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it,” Jefferson said. Take a moment to digest Jefferson’s words.