The south tower at the University of Virginia Medical Center will be illuminated in white on Thursday night as part of Shine a Light on Lung Cancer.
The emaciated workforce left health care employers with no choice but to re-imagine how they take care of patients and employees. “We can’t do health care the way we did in the past, with COVID. Nurses used to do those 12-hour shifts, and they used to have those long nights. We have to rethink that, because there’s that work-life balance,” said Charles Bodden, senior director for talent acquisition and retention at UVA Health.
All that tech infrastructure isn’t just bringing in money. It could lead to Virginia hosting the flashiest component of the industry: space tourism. In fact, it’s already happening. Northern Virginia resident and UVA graduate Eric Anderson co-founded Space Adventures in Vienna in 1998. From 2001 through 2009, Space Adventures clients flew over 36 million miles in space on eight separate missions to ISS.
It has been a whirlwind of a year for the Weekley family. Fourteen months ago, Blakely Weekley was hooked up to cords in the University of Virginia’s NICU. “She was 56 days early, and we didn’t know what to expect,” said Erin Weekley, Blakey’s mom. “We were told she could be in the NICU for that whole two months.” Despite entering the world at only 2 pounds, 11 ounces, the busy “B” had plans of her own, going home from the NICU in only 26 days.
(Commentary) More than two decades ago, I queried William Lee Miller, the brilliant and now deceased UVA scholar, about presidential eloquence. Miller said that as far as he was concerned, to be considered truly eloquent a president had to do one of two things: say something no one has said before, or state something in such a stirring fashion that it gets Americans to look at an old problem in a new way. “It’s a high bar,” he said. “It was put there by Lincoln.”
Michelle Vittese, a two-time Olympian and three-time All-American at UVA, has been named the Temple University field hockey program’s head coach, the school announced on Wednesday. The Cherry Hill native was the interim head coach for the 2021 season and has been part of the Owls staff since 2019.
Hebah Fisher is the co-founder and CEO of Kerning Cultures Network, the first venture-backed, female-led podcast platform in the Middle East. An award-winning and independent podcast company, Kerning Cultures raises the bar for audio storytelling and journalism in the MENA region, producing podcasts in both Arabic and English. A journalist and entrepreneur, Fisher previously built microfinance and business education programs in the Gulf and the US. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Global Development Studies from the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) A wonderful candidate for any school, my sister’s a varsity athlete with strong academic motivation and a flair for the dramatic. If accepted, she will move to Charlottesville, make new friends and have an incredible time. In time, she may even come to love UVA in the same way I love Virginia Tech. But if I’m being honest, that idea has been a tough pill to swallow.
The union windfall that came from a 2019 pension bailout for coal miners is being cited as an example of why Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who supported organized labor then, should now accept an union-friendly electric vehicle tax credit as part of Democrats’ massive tax and social spending bill. Two years ago, Manchin viewed federal government investment in union pension plans as vitally necessary—standing up for what some view as a precedent-setting decision, according to James Naughton, an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School. “What was really, I think, most surp...
(Commentary) Dr. Christopher Ali, an associate professor in UVA’s Department of Media Studies, was a guest recently on my Gigabit Nation show helping to make sense of the government’s legacy of accountability. Ali’s latest book, “Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity,” examines the complicated rural broadband policies in the U.S. and analyzes the politics surrounding these policies. “Forty-seven billion dollars was spent between 2009 and 2017 specifically towards rural broadband deployment,” Ali said. “But the pandemic painfully and dramatically exposed the gaps in broadband...
In a recent conversation with Insider, Aynne Kokas — a media studies professor at the University of Virginia and the author of the book “Hollywood Made in China” — observed a “widespread tightening” of Chinese media and the movie industry. Kokas predicted that fewer Hollywood films would be approved in China in the years to come, and those that are would face stricter regulations. China currently has a 34-film quota on foreign releases.
Edward Murphy, an astronomy professor at the University of Virginia, recommends going out at 2:15 a.m. ET to see the Earth’s shadow start to creep into the full moon. He also recommends going back out at 4 a.m., when the shadow will almost cover the entire moon and be dark red.
Even with four years of efforts at reconciliation, many residents say some of the same issues that the rally exposed over race and history still plague the city. As the trial plays out, what began in Charlottesville as a battle over the Lee statue has helped amp up passions and differences shrouding the issues of the present. “It definitely continues to reverberate,” said Timothy Heaphy, a former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia who led an independent review of the events and is the chief lawyer for the University of Virginia. “It brought to the surface a lot of issues that w...
Dr. Bill Petri at UVA Health is being honored on the national level. He won the 2021 Maxwell-Finland Award from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. This award goes to scientists who make strides in understanding and treating illnesses.
(Commentary) During the presidency of James Monroe, America’s fifth president, Congress proposed a “build back better” bill to expand the Cumberland Road. Even though the expansion would go through and benefit his home state of Virginia, Monroe cast his only veto against the bill. According to Monroe’s biography on the University of Virginia’s americanpresident.org: “Although Monroe personally supported the idea of internal improvements, he balked at the federal government’s role in ... a series of federally financed projects designed to improve and update the nation’s roads, bridges and canal...
A form of brain surgery that uses focused sound waves to treat Parkinson’s disease has earned approval from the Food and Drug Administration. According to a release, this comes after successful testing of focused ultrasound at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and other sites across the country.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an innovative incisionless surgery for debilitating Parkinson’s disease that offers an outpatient alternative to invasive deep-brain surgery. Insightec’s Exablate Neuro ultrasound device was successfully tested at UVA Health, which is now one of only 37 U.S. medical centers able to offer the procedure.
Fluvoxamine contains a protein called the sigma-1 receptor, which regulates the release of inflammatory molecules — including some that are believed to increase in people with severe cases of COVID, Scientific American explains . A 2019 study from the University of Virginia focused on mice with sepsis. Many who didn’t have the sigma-1 receptor developed inflammation and died, but many of the mice who received a shot of fluvoxamine survived.
On Oct. 26, the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia hosted a virtual Sustainability Abroad Panel discussion. It was an open discussion led by four panelists with input from the audience about their own experiences, perspectives and approaches. The College’s Global Education Special Programs Advisor Marina LaMastro and UVA’s Education Abroad Advisor Haley Spear were the discussion moderators. LaMastro started by explaining the collaboration between the College and UVA.
The University of Chicago Law School has the greatest percentage of recent alumni working at the 10 highest-grossing U.S. law firms, followed closely by the University of Virginia School of Law and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, according to a recent study tracking graduates’ outcomes.