Cameo Elementary Principal Nicole Hahn addressed board members about the University of Virginia’s Partnership for Leaders in Education, which serves Clovis and more than 100 other school districts in 25 states about finding best educational priorities and practices. Hahn said involvement with the UVA partnership has taught her various lessons about lifelong learning, mentoring, collaboration and having good state and national networking. “Most professional developments are a quick fix,” Hahn said, “but the University of Virginia has created something different that will endure for me.”
(Blog) An Introduction to Physics: This is one of the free online courses for young people offered by renowned University of Virginia physics experts. This course is designed to introduce interested students to the physics of ordinary things.
The UVA Police Department is getting four graduating officers but it still has 20 vacancies. It’s turned to incentives, the most recent of which is a $15,000 signing bonus.
Kanijah Brickhouse saw the horror of that weekend four years ago through social media posts. She was in high school on the Eastern Shore of Virginia at the time and remembers recognizing the city name as the same one that hosts the University of Virginia. “It was in Charlottesville. I was thinking about going there,” Brickhouse recalled at that moment. “It is such a good school, but would I be welcomed there?” Brickhouse, now a UVA senior majoring in cognitive science and member of the Black Student Alliance, said she has not given the trial much thought.
Some state agencies subject to the single-use plastic ban were already moving in the direction of phasing out plastics and otherwise attempting to reduce waste. The University of Virginia had in place a sustainability plan to reduce its total waste footprint 70% percent by 2030 and “had already been pushing towards zero-waste events,” said Director Andrea Trimble. “This was an additional push,” she said. With EO77, she said, “we’re able to mobilize and implement [those waste goals] faster than we would have otherwise.”
UVA Health’s transplant center is moving away from the traditional approach of transporting and storing donor hearts. Instead of using ice packs to keep the heart cool, it has now improved to Bluetooth technology to keep a more accurate temperature.
Dr. William A. Petri, an immunologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, answers this week’s reader questions on COVID-19.
University of Virginia: Far from just being a place of education, UVA has a rich and fascinating history that has led it to be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and at its center lies The Rotunda, a stunning 19th-century property modeled after the Pantheon in Rome.
Commenting on the findings, Randy Jones of the University of Virginia School of Nursing noted that the study underscores how important counseling and shared decision-making are in the management of prostate cancer patients. “There is a need for greater connections and better communication among patients, care-givers, and clinicians to allow open discussion, counseling and an understanding of realistic expectations and adverse effects that are possible during treatment,” he elaborated.
Sean Agnew, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Virginia, noted this Belkin screen protector features a material called lithium aluminosilicate, which is the basis of some glass-ceramic products like shock-resistant cookware and glass-top ranges. According to the brand, the material is double-ion exchanged, meaning it “allows for extremely high levels of residual stress [to] offer great protection against cracking,” Agnew said. However, he added that like most screen protectors, this is not an indestructible product.
“25 Mbps download/3 Mbps upload speeds is the current definition of broadband, but nowhere is 25/3 ever good enough for homework, business office, telehealth, entertainment all in one home,” said Dr. Christopher Ali, Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, when he spoke on my Gigabit Nation show. “We can’t keep thinking DSL and satellite are broadband. They’re not! They’re from the days of dialup and AOL!”
Andrew Johnson was anathema to the hallowed words that rang out from Gettysburg. According to Elizabeth R. Vardon of the University of Virginia, “Johnson’s strong commitment to obstructing political and civil rights for Blacks is principally responsible for the failure of Reconstruction to solve the race problem in the South and perhaps in America as well.”
The FDA has approved a new treatment for Parkinson’s disease that was tested at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
When HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) pills were first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2012, some states took a wait-and-see approach to offering it to their residents. They would watch the early adopters—states like Massachusetts and New York, Connecticut—and see how it panned out. Now, according to data compiled at UVA and published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, that decision has put its residents who could benefit from PrEP at risk.
(Press release) Faculty in the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have earned a $3 million grant to lead a network of Virginia universities, in partnership with the Virginia Department of Elections, in creating an innovative educational program to train future cybersecurity professionals to protect election infrastructure.
A new initiative from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Women’s Health aims to use in-patient data to address maternal and infant mortality. The HHS Perinatal Improvement Collaborative includes over 200 hospitals across the U.S., including some of Virginia’s most renowned health systems — UVA Health, Bon Secours, Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, and more.
More than 700 volunteers will be participating to help raise funds and awareness about the redevelopment without displacement of the Southwood Mobile Home Park in Albemarle County. The volunteers will be raking more than 100 lawns in exchange for donations to Habitat for Humanity. Teams of rakers are coming from local faith communities, primary schools, civic/social organizations, Habitat partner families, and the University of Virginia.
Two local nursing programs have been designated among the top programs in Virginia and the country. Piedmont Virginia Community College’s Associate Degree in Nursing and several programs at the University of Virginia School of Nursing are listed as top U.S. nursing programs in the Nursing Schools Almanac 2021 rankings.
As a joint project between the law schools of Duke University and the University of Virginia, the Corporate Prosecution Registry aims to maintain a comprehensive collection of information about federal organizational prosecutions in the United States. It could be even more comprehensive if Jon Ashley, a UVA School of Law librarian who helped create the project, wins a lawsuit he filed this month for access to the Department of Justice’s running list of corporate crime settlements. Ashley is also asking the department to release non-prosecution agreements that were never made public.
Kids lining up to get their COVID-19 vaccines at the UVA Children’s on Thursday got a big surprise. The University of Virginia’s Cav Man showed up to cheer on the kids and encourage them to get their shot.