UVA Health announced its efforts to help the incoming Afghan refugees by offering them clinics by appointment, as well as providing resources for long-term care.
The book I ended up reading to figure this out was “Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate” by William F. Ruddiman, professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. In this book, Ruddiman explores a variety of scientific evidence, including data from ice cores, ocean sediments, and astronomical information. Then, he compares this to evidence of human activities to see how much impact we’ve had over the last 10,000 years.
Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Virginia found that after the introduction of a mandatory “female” quota for the board of directors (40%), the liquid assets of 104 Norwegian public companies decreased 2.7-4.1%, and salary costs increased by 4.1% due to more active hiring of employees and fewer lay-offs. The probability of dismissal of more than 1% of employees at the enterprise with the introduction of the quota decreased by 25%, and the probability of dismissal of more than 5% of the staff decreased by 13%. That is, the presence of women in management positions he...
A recent study from the University of Virginia found that among states that formerly belonged to the Confederacy, a higher number of lynchings occurred in counties with a higher number of Confederate memorials.
In its weekly report on Friday, UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute — which has conducted infectious disease modeling for over 20 years and helps advise the VDH — noted how the state remains in a fragile, unpredictable position ahead of the holidays. Last year, October set up “the foundation” for the winter surge, researchers wrote. Close to 40% of Virginians are not fully vaccinated — a chunk of the population researchers said is large enough to initiate a repeat of the pandemic’s darkest days, when the state nearly hit a single-day high of 10,000 cases.
Qian Xuhong, ECNU’s president, shared the teaching practices of the university in his keynote speech and said ECNU aims to cultivate innovative educators who seek to complement Chinese and Western pedagogies. “To reach this goal, we have cooperated with over 300 global universities, including the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, to offer 56 dual-degree training programs and nearly 300 student exchange projects,” he said. According to Qian, the university has also invited experts and professors from institutions like Yale Universi...
During the 2020-21 academic year, 118 EMBA students at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business took virtual study trips to Finland, Estonia, India, Japan and Argentina. It was not the same as the global immersion courses that Darden professors Marc and Shizuka Modica have led to Japan for several years. However, they say that the virtual tours added something new: making traditional Japanese meals; or trying out local customs with their families. “People got really involved with it emotionally and intellectually,” Shizuka Modica says.
After FAFSA rates declined last year, a lower college enrollment followed this year. Undergraduate enrollment at Virginia colleges and universities is slightly below the 2020 level and down 2% from 2019. Not all colleges saw their enrollments drop this year. Some of the state’s most prestigious universities — UVA, the College of William & Mary and Virginia Tech — received record numbers of applications.
For the second year in a row, a popular event held on the University of Virginia Lawn has been canceled. Trick-or-Treating on the Lawn normally brings hundreds of families with children in costume to the UVA Lawn where the children can collect candy from Lawn residents. It was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the announcement for this year’s cancellation is along the same lines.
A University of Virginia tradition lives on as Pancakes for Parkinson’s returned in person on the lawn Saturday morning. This is the 18th year of the event at UVA. It is completely free and all donation based. People walked over to the Lawn, enjoyed some pancakes before the football game, while supporting the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Two new living memorials have been placed on the University of Virginia’s Grounds. According to a release, officials planted a Morton elm in front of Pavilion X to honor President Emerita Teresa Sullivan. A black gum tree was also recently planted in the Spies Garden at the UVA School of Law for former Law School Dean John Jeffries.
A UVA Medical Center clinic saw nearly three dozen patients on Saturday in a daylong event that provided initial visits to many of the refugees and special visa holders who arrived in Central Virginia this summer. The event helped get the new arrivals, mostly from Afghanistan, into regular family medical care at the International Family Medicine Clinic at UVA Health ahead of the anticipated arrival of as many as 250 more.
Nearly 18 months after Virginia’s first recorded case of COVID-19 – a period that’s seen the virus surge and retreat four different times – new infections are once again on the decline. Many researchers are cautiously optimistic that we’re leaving behind the latest wave. That doesn’t mean we’ve beaten the virus. “We still have a very high case rate, like most of the states in the country,” said Bryan Lewis, a computational epidemiologist with UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute. “We’ve been down for a few weeks, so everybody feels good, but there are still a lot of people going into the hospital.”
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.
(Co-written by Henry Prillaman, a fourth-year student majoring in economics) Our agriculture system as we know it needs to change. We see an enormous amount of waste in current practices through using up too much water, using too many pesticides that hurt the neighboring environment as well as waste of produce through imperfection or being pest ridden. This, combined with flagging and in some cases stagnant yield increases in soil systems across the world will soon require sweeping and rapid changes in growing methods. As our population continues to grow, food production will grow and our meth...
(By Piper Coes, a second-year student and research intern in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute) After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Belarus was the rare former Soviet state that remained strategically aligned with the Russian Federation. In 1999, Russia and Belarus reached an agreement to become a “union state,” which aimed to create a USSR-like federation with a similar government, currency, flag, and army. Over the past two decades, the union state has primarily aimed at economic integration, with efforts in the defense and intelligence sectors as well. This...
The Indy Autonomous Challenge Powered by Cisco, the first autonomous racecar competition at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway, is preparing for thousands of fans to attend. On Oct. 23, 21 universities from nine countries forming nine teams – including Cavalier Autonomous Racing from UVA – will compete in this first-of-its kind competition. The teams will be competing for $1 million in prize money, which will be used to advance the education and research missions of the winning universities.
An annual fundraising event is returning to the University of Virginia’s Lawn this weekend. Pancakes for Parkinson’s is an outdoor pancake breakfast that raises money for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
When now-retired University of Virginia geology professor Ernest H. Ern was looking for a place to spend his summers, he picked the rocky coast of Maine — not only for its natural beauty but, more importantly, for its geology.
Youngkin has visited the deep-red Valley to publicly meet voters more often than the Democratic nominee, Terry McAuliffe, but that is not surprising when a race is as close as this year’s, said J. Miles Coleman, of UVA Center for Politics. “Youngkin probably thinks, on a very basic mathematical level, he can get more votes out of the Valley,” Coleman said. “And in an election like this where it’s so close, where both sides feel like they maybe have their backs up against the wall, they’re going to turn out their base voters as much as they can.”