If SEL is optional, it will feel like an add-on to educators, said Catherine Pilcher Bradshaw, an education professor and associate dean at the University of Virginia. Set the expectation that SEL will be part of the core curriculum — not a filler — and dedicate time and training so it happens. Teachers must be willing to use the material, and be provided incentives to do so, as necessary. “SEL is most impactful when it’s sustained and implemented consistently,” Bradshaw said.
The pandemic forced people to think about “how we can transform health care to be much more community-based than it is right now,” said Dr. Taison Bell, an intensivist and assistant professor of medicine at UVA Health. To reach those people typically neglected by health care requires unconventional approaches that may be more costly, labor-intensive or slow, like at-home vaccinations, Bell said. “It’s not as efficient as a mass vaccination center, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less important,” he said.
A member of the University of Virginia Health System was on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel that recommended the Pfizer vaccine for younger kids. Dr. Michael Nelson said the panel reviewed Pfizer’s data for several days. On Tuesday, members discussed it amongst each other for eight hours. They specifically talked about concerns over myocarditis with this vaccine in a younger age group and found that there was zero signal of the disease in the data provided to them.
A doctor with the University of Virginia was part of the FDA panel that voted Tuesday to recommend Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. Dr. Michael Nelson says it has been exciting to be part of history during such a critical time.
Dr. Michael Nelson, a University of Virginia immunologist who also serves on the FDA’s advisory panel, agreed that “providing a choice to a fully informed public is a pretty good path forward.” He stressed that the panel’s support for authorizing the vaccine “is not a mandate” to inoculate all kids between ages 5 and 11.
Dr. Michael Nelson, a University of Virginia immunologist who also serves on the FDA’s advisory panel, agreed that “providing a choice to a fully informed public is a pretty good path forward.” He stressed that the panel’s support for authorizing the vaccine “is not a mandate” to inoculate all kids between ages 5 and 11.
(Book review by Kwame Edwin Otu of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies) I enter “Kenyan, Christian, Queer” first, as a self-identified queer Ghanaian man who continues to wrestle with Christianity, the religion into which I was socialized. And, second, as a scholar invested in the emerging field of critical queer African studies, to which Adriaan van Klinken’s book makes a vital contribution. The book’s emphasis on the vexatious intersections between Africanness, religion and queemess couldn’t be timelier.
The Virginia Film Festival kicks off its 34th annual season Wednesday night with a completely sold-out house. The 2021 Virginia Film Festival will present films at the Paramount Theater, Violet Crown, and Culbreth Theater as well as drive-in movies at Morven Farm. The festival runs through Sunday and will feature more than 50 screenings, special events, tributes, and discussions.
In “The Machinery of Dreams,” young Lily shows plenty of strength and courage as she enters a fantasy world on a quest to secure healing for her beloved mother. Audience members can see actress Cora Metzfield in action as Lily during the Virginia Film Festival this weekend. “The Machinery of Dreams” will be screened at 11 a.m. Saturday at Culbreth Theatre on Culbreth Road at the University of Virginia.
The Blue Ridge Health District will receive 6,300 doses for the first three weeks of vaccinations. UVA Health will receive 6,600 over that same time period. In the Blue Ridge Health District, there are an estimated 15,000 children between 5-11.
This certainly isn’t the first time the DoD has applied additive manufacturing to hypersonics research, as the Pentagon recently awarded 18 university-led hypersonic projects a total of $25.5 million. One of the projects, led by the University of Virginia, seeks to 3D print high-temperature parts made of previously unused niobium alloys. The hopes are that these proposed 3D printing capabilities will eventually be applied to hypersonic scramjets.
The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics released an analysis of midterm elections going back to 1946 this past summer. The report showed that the party of the president in office, on average, loses more than 26 House seats during the midterms. The biggest loss has been 64 seats, while the most sizable gain has been just eight seats.
Three-quarters of rural Americans live more than an hour from the nearest site testing new treatments for COVID-19, according to a new study of the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Republicans, Democrats, neo-Nazis, antifascists, religious groups and even nations share a common need to reinforce and defend their identities, a need that creates deep social divisions and makes unity difficult, according to a UVA psychoanalyst who has worked worldwide to bridge international conflicts. Dr. Vamik Volkan has spent a lifetime working in international crisis zones to bring opposing sides together in negotiations.
Young Black audiences are “looking to see themselves,” said Valerie Adams-Bass, a developmental psychologist who teaches a course about adolescents and the media at the University of Virginia. “It’s super-important to see people your age who look like you. To see how they’re managing these encounters, how they navigate the racial tensions, the class tensions that have to do with your identity.”
When Bronco Mendenhall finalized plans to become the football coach at Virginia in December 2015, among his stipulations was the Cavaliers never having to play Brigham Young under his watch. Mendenhall had spent his first 11 years as a head coach restoring the Cougars to national prominence and along the way forged bonds with those within the athletic program, the university administration and the community at-large he still counts as some of the most important in his life.
“BYU is near and dear to my heart,” UVA head coach Bronco Mendenhall said. “They gave me an opportunity to be a head coach. Thirteen years I was at Brigham Young University. My father played there. My brother played there. I lived close by. It’s an amazing experience to now be able to return, but it’s been six years, and I’m the coach of the University of Virginia and so thankful to be here and to continue to learn and grow and progress. I’ll always be thankful for the opportunities I was given, for the institution — I’m talking about BYU — and for the unique set of values that align with my f...
Now that abortion is once again front and center – in the Supreme Court, and in the Florida legislature –and passions on both sides of this thorny issue are rising, it seems a good time to retell the story of a Fernandina physician who was felled by those same passions some 27 years ago.
A Mercer County native has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to lead the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The Senate voted Monday evening to confirm [UVA Law alumnus] Doug L. Parker, 52, to become the head of OSHA, according to a press release Tuesday from the office of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. The final vote was 50-41.
University of Virginia graduate student Alexis Ward has found a way to bring together all members of the community to help grow the sport of rugby. “Basically, if you think flag football, but put rugby into it,” Ward said. Only in its infancy, Ward has created an adaptive rugby program linking the men’s and women’s teams at UVA with members of the special needs community.