Commencement speakers for each of the five ceremonies included a wide variety of alumni, including University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock.
Donald W. Lemons will step down as chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court effective Dec. 31, and his colleagues have elected Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn to succeed him on Jan. 1, the court announced Monday. From 1976 to 1978, Lemons was an assistant dean and assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Law from which he had just graduated. … Prior to going on the bench, Goodwyn served as a research associate professor at the UVA School of Law and as a litigation partner at a Norfolk law firm.
Bryan Lewis, a research associate professor at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative, has used models to predict future COVID-19 cases. “We’ve come through a Delta wave, and we had a nice little descent out of it,” he said. From recent model runs, Lewis believes the omicron variant will become the dominant strain in the state before the end of the year. “We could be seeing some reasonable sustained growth in cases in the next couple of weeks,” he said. “Now, where it stops is something these models are not super good at predicting because it depends on how the population responds to it....
(Commentary co-written by Jennifer “J.J.” Davis, executive vice president and chief operating officer) The remarkable life story of Ruth Ann Minner is a matter of public record. She rose from the humblest of beginnings to become the first and, to date, only female governor of Delaware. Rather than repeat her inspirational story, we wish to add to Delaware’s knowledge of its native daughter by describing her leadership qualities and record of success.
(Commentary by Matthew B Crawford, senior fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) The pandemic has brought into relief a dissonance between our idealized image of science, on the one hand, and the work “science” is called upon to do in our society, on the other. I think the dissonance can be traced to this mismatch between science as an activity of the solitary mind, and the institutional reality of it. Big science is fundamentally social in its practice, and with this comes certain entailments.
(By Laurie Archbald-Pannone, associate professor of geriatric medicine) As a geriatrician, I often see patients whose families voice concerns about their health or well-being. This can be especially heightened if they haven’t seen each other in a while. The holidays can be an opportunity to not just enjoy the fruitcake but observe how your aging parents, grandparents or great-grandparents are doing at home. Objectively observing their functioning and memory can uncover warning signs that more evaluation is needed.
The Blue Ridge Health District, University of Virginia and NextMolecular Lab are continuing to provide free COVID-19 testing this week for those ages 6 months or older. The UVA Medical Center has seen a mild increase in COVID testing from last month, processing 3,707 tests in the last week, spokesman Eric Swensen said.
In recent years I’ve become aware of well-documented cases of young children who have reported very specific details of a past life, which were later verified by investigators. Research in this area was pioneered by Dr. Ian Stevenson, a psychiatrist at the UVA School of Medicine, who spent much of his career collecting and examining such cases.
Another researcher, Yao-Lun Lang, a postdoctoral fellow in astronomy at the University of Virginia, has been nervously watching the launch date for weeks. “I look forward to the launch while nervous about the deployment process of the telescope,” he said via email in early December. Lang will await data from the telescope toward the end of 2022, although the actual schedule is not yet available. His research group is focused on the chemical composition of ice in newborn stars.
The research is mixed. In 2011, researchers found that watching nine minutes of fast-paced programming could impair a child's executive function. But in 2015, the same researcher, Angeline Lillard, a developmental psychologist at the University of Virginia, conducted another study. This time, the team concluded it was the "fantastical content," not pacing, of shows that was an issue. In both studies, the effects were short-term.
(Press release) Racial bias can unconsciously seep into many aspects of life, causing people to unknowingly act in discriminatory ways. Even when not ill-intentioned, this type of discrimination can still have serious consequences – and a new study suggests this can extend to how we communicate electronically. … UVA’s John B. Holbein is among the contrbutors to the research.
One way health systems could prevent burnout and reduce high turnover rates, particularly among nurses, may be through burnout-reduction programs. In an analysis published in the Journal of Patient Safety, researchers from UVA Health analyzed more than 20 separate studies to examine the cost of burnout-related turnover among nurses.
The University of Virginia COVID projection model is forecasting an omicron surge in the Greater Augusta area peaking in late January at roughly three times the high-water mark of the September wave that pushed Augusta Health to the brink.
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The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and VCU are among universities just advising all eligible students and employees to get a booster as case numbers continue to surge across the country.
Finding their way can be harder for boys, says clinical psychologist Meg Jay, a UVA associate professor UVA and author of “The Defining Decade: Why Your 20s Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now.” A young woman might prioritize work, marriage or parenthood, and she has friends to talk to about it, Jay says. “Many men, however, feel like their lives cannot start until they find a way to get their footing in the workplace, and many don’t know how to begin or where to turn for help.”
“It’s never been as complicated as it has been at this point,” Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine in UVA’s Division of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, said. “We have a variant that’s already causing problems in delta, a new variant that could potentially cause additional problems on top of that. We have vaccinations, but we have spotty uptake in some areas that are lowly vaccinated. And we have a staffing crisis. There are a lot of variables here that could pull the levers the wrong way.”
A news bulletin from Dr. William Petri, our UVA expert who studies the coronavirus and COVID-19 and who has been answering reader questions this fall for The Daily Progress.
Muriel Powell spent almost 20 years working in corporate America. After graduate school, she attended the University of Virginia where she received her MBA. She immediately began working for a large corporation managing strategy, finance, and multicultural marketing. In 2001, Powell received the opportunity to work for McDonald’s with the desire to be an owner-operator. In 2008 she purchased her first restaurant and has been an owner-operator ever since.
Welcome to the case of the missing senator. His name is James Hamilton Lewis. He grew up in Augusta after the Civil War, attended UVA, became a lawyer, a soldier, a diplomat, a congressman and member of the U.S. Senate. He was an adviser to Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman. He was a skillful debater and a fashionable dresser. He made the cover of Life magazine. When he died in 1939, he was honored in the U.S. Capitol, then buried in a fashionable mausoleum near Arlington National Cemetery. Then, this man, who achieved so much attention in life, vanished.