According to Kinney, the consulting firm Deloitte and the Virginia Department of Health assisted the department on a strategy for deploying the vaccine. The department’s medical staff also held weekly consultations with members of the University of Virginia’s infectious disease team regarding vaccine rollout, Kinney said.
Harrisonburg is facing problems as the amount of open land inside the limits dwindles. Virginia has had a moratorium on annexations in place since 1987, according to the University of Virginia Institute of Government. “… The city has seen stalling population growth, according to data from the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
A groundbreaking gene therapy is being developed at UVA to stop the progression of a rare genetic neurological disorder known as Rett Syndrome. The therapy is being developed to improve the overall quality of a child’s life with the disease.
(Press release) Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Gary Peters, D-Mich., along with Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and retired Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., were the most effective Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the recently completed 116th Congress (2019-20), according to new research from the Center for Effective Lawmaking. The legislative effectiveness scores are at the core of the research conducted at the Center for Effective Lawmaking, co-directed by Alan Wiseman, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair and professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University, and Craig Volden, professor of ...
Dr. Daniel Becker wakes up around 4:30 a.m. every day, pours a cup of coffee, then disappears into his office for an hour. There, he writes poems before starting his day treating patients. Becker is a physician at UVA’s School of Medicine, and he is among a growing number of American doctors who are embracing the healing power of poetry.
(Podcast) “The Takeaway” spoke with Meredith Clark, an assistant professor at UVA’s Department of Media Studies, about what cancel culture has become and why politicians and celebrities tend to rail against cancel culture in moments where their power is in jeopardy.
(Podcast) “The Takeaway” spoke with Meredith Clark, an assistant professor at UVA’s Department of Media Studies, about what cancel culture has become and why politicians and celebrities tend to rail against cancel culture in moments where their power is in jeopardy.
Bryan Lewis, a computational epidemiologist at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute, said the plummeting numbers were a surprise to scientists analyzing the data. “There are about 30 or 40-odd academic groups participating in the CDC’s forecasting hub, and I don’t think any of them predicted the cliff we fell off there,” Lewis said, adding that cases dropped dramatically not just in Virginia, but across the country.
[UVA Ph.D. graduate] Hanan Ashrawi, the distinguished Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, scholar, women’s rights advocate and best-known spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the Western press, quit her senior post in the Palestine Liberation Organization at the end of 2020, calling for political reforms.
[UVA Ph.D. graduate] Hanan Ashrawi, the distinguished Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, scholar, women’s rights advocate and best-known spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the Western press, quit her senior post in the Palestine Liberation Organization at the end of 2020, calling for political reforms.
Robert Wood Lynn, a UVA Law graduate, M.F.A. candidate at New York University and native of Virginia, was awarded the 2021 Yale Younger Poets prize for a manuscript that explores the challenges of a young person growing up in rural Appalachia.
When a University of Virginia medical student noticed there was a lack of volunteers at free clinics during the pandemic, he built a platform that makes it easier for free clinics around the state to find volunteers.
The study is among the first to demonstrate how making predictions affects human memory. Scientists previously suspected that the hippocampus had a role in statistical learning but had not known how it interacts with memory formation. “This paper is a really nice demonstration of the trade-off where the hippocampus is doing both these things,” says University of Virginia cognitive neuroscientist Nicole Long, who was not involved in the research.
When it comes to near-death experiences – or profound experiences when close to death – a few patterns may clue us in to what happens on the other side. One that comes up quite frequently is the idea of “seeing the light,” which is difficult to fully grasp if you haven’t experienced it yourself. Is “the light” just what society imagines the afterlife to look like, or is it real? We of course had to ask Dr. Bruce Greyson, the world’s leading expert on near-death experiences and author of “After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond,” on the mindbodygreen po...
(Commentary) Today I wrote, “Day 365 of Coronavirus Chronicles – March 15, 2021.” The suggestion to write about your daily life during this time of crisis came from University of Virginia history professor Dr. Herbert “Tico” Braun who said, “Think of your children, your grandchildren, your friends down the road, who will ask you what was it like during that pandemic – ‘What was it called? Corona-something? You know, the one that was named after a Mexican beer … back then in 2020 or ‘21. When was it?’”
“This voting lineup makes clear that Fulton is going to be reversed,” predicted Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor and expert on religious liberty. “At least five, and maybe all six, of the conservatives will protect the Catholic Church from having to place children with same-sex couples or else losing its foster-care mission entirely.”
Understanding and mitigating systemic inequities, and the unique health and wellness challenges they present to the local Latino community, are at the heart of the UVA Latino Health Initiative’s mission and work. Dr. Max Luna, a cardiologist and associate professor at the University of Virginia for the past 13 years, founded the Latino Health Initiative about five years ago.
Greg Roberts, UVA’s dean of undergraduate admission, is concerned about whether the soaring numbers affect his team’s ability to stay focused while reviewing applications. Applications there rose by nearly 17% this year; 43% didn’t include standardized test scores. “The fear is that your team gets exhausted and beaten up reading so many applications all hours of the day for six months, and the end goal is a number and not a person,” Roberts said. “Can colleges and universities continue to read in a way that allows them to make the best, most thoughtful decisions when they’re dealing with such ...
(Co-written by Megan Stevenson, associate professor of law) Every day, jails in the U.S. hold close to half a million people who are legally presumed innocent. When people who have been arrested can’t afford or are denied bail, they are locked in concrete cages that are sometimes littered with excrement, often subject to extreme heat or cold, always rife with disease and violence, and always steeped in humiliation, distress, and fear. In recent years, one-fifth of the incarcerated population hasn’t even been convicted of a crime.
Another study from the University of Virginia found that a female’s chance of being injured in a frontal wreck is 73% greater than the odds for a vehicle occupant who is male.