(By Amanda Christine West, M.S. in Data Science alumna) Data science is cool, and yet I don’t think anyone who was a kid in the 2000s or earlier dreamt of doing it when they grew up.
Smith’s status as an everyday player, along with him perhaps being cut slack for being thrown into unexpected duty, proved to be decisive. He ended up winning a clear majority of the votes cast, getting 64% of the vote.
Wu has carved out a path in the tightly controlled film industry, not by pushing political boundaries but by creating excitement out of the party’s ideology. “Wu Jing represents a particular muscular, nationalist vision of the party state that is acceptable to the party,” said Aynne Kokas, an expert on Chinese cinema with the University of Virginia. “It’s a sweet spot in the Chinese market that the films can be approved by regulators to a degree, but they also are appealing to audiences.”
While women are not filling the leadership roles traditionally held by men, “women’s positions are being expanded” including more speaking time during the church’s worldwide conferences, said Kathleen Flake, an expert on the faith and religious studies professor at the University of Virginia.
“Work with parents can be challenging because it is not unusual for parents to become defensive or feel their child is being treated unfairly,” said Dewey Cornell, a forensic clinical psychologist and professor of education at the University of Virginia, in an email. Dewey has developed an evidence-based model of school threat assessment used in schools across the United States and Canada.
(Podcast) Raj Venkatesan is co-author of the new book The AI Marketing Canvas and a professor of marketing at the University of Virginia. This week he joined me on the On Brand podcast for a timely discussion about artificial intelligence and marketing—how should we be thinking about it and what should we be planning for the new year ahead.
Dr. William A. Petri, an immunologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, answers this week’s reader questions on COVID-19.
Kathleen Schiro, a climatologist at the UVA Department of Environmental Sciences, says these types of storms are alarming. “It’s very concerning,” she said. “It’s something that impacts us all, not just in our communities but as a nation, across seasons. We have reason to be thinking about how our actions are contributing to severe conductive outbreaks like the ones we just saw.”
Getting vaccinated is the strongest defense against COVID-19, but what if you can’t get vaccinated? The FDA issued an emergency use authorization for monoclonal antibody treatment which can be given to those who are immunocompromised or have had severely adverse reactions to a vaccine. “That is the first drug we can give you before you get exposed to COVID-19 to prevent you from getting sick,” Patrick Jackson, an assistant professor of infectious disease at the University of Virginia. The drug, an injection, works before a COVID-19 exposure and lasts for six months. The treatment is only for t...
Speaking on the prospects of detecting emerging strains and variants, Dr Mami Taniuchi, associate professor from the University of Virginia said, “We are establishing a robust system to track circulating strains and variants of SARS-CoV-2. We initiated the work and are presently analysing the data. Hopefully, these insights will also help identify changes in transmission more accurately and help strengthen public health measures and surveillance for COVID-19.”
A new technological development can help physicians spot blood clots in patients with COVID-19 who are at risk of organ failure, researchers reported in Nature Communications. Their novel tool, which utilizes advanced imaging, may be able to measure platelets and potentially prevent deadly clots from forming. “People knew from autopsy data that multi-organ microvascular thrombosis is a factor in COVID-19 related deaths, but the underlying physiology with regards to platelet aggregates and morphology was an unknown,” Gustavo Rohde, a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Virg...
Physicians treating coronavirus infections have a new diagnostic that could help identify patients at risk of organ failure. Keisuke Goda, University of Tokyo professor of chemistry, led the study of microvascular thrombosis in COVID-19 patients admitted to the University of Tokyo Hospital. Gustavo Rohde, UVA professor of biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering, conducted data and image analysis of the patients’ blood samples.
The weekly update from the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute, released Dec. 10, reports a few takeaways from the last week’s COVID-19 data:
Customer-Centered IT Strategy: A course from the University of Virginia in which you will learn the main challenges of the corporate IT sector and see how to address them through the use of design thinking, The Lean Startup methodology and the principles of the agile manifesto as a team structure.
(Commentary) What happens when a school becomes test optional? Perhaps not as much as you might expect. A Chronicle of Higher Education story provided some data from the University of Virginia that I found very revealing. For the class beginning last fall, 57% of applicants submitted test scores in spite of the fact that it was not required. I suspect these students thought they would do relatively well on the test, and, other things equal, it would enhance admissions prospects. It turns out 72% of those admitted were test-submitters. Doing the math, I calculated that those submitting test res...
(Commentary) Last year, the University of Virginia published a 10-year strategic plan. The first goal is to “[r]ecruit and support exceptionally talented, diverse, and service-oriented students…who have the potential to live lives of purpose, impact, and service.” The goal highlights the need to support “first-generation and underrepresented students, recognizing that creating economic and social opportunities is one of the highest callings for a public university.” UVA, along with institutions declaring similar aspirations, should aggressively recruit and admit enlisted veterans, who check ev...
More than 1,100 students who applied for early admission to the University of Virginia were admitted. According to a release, there were nearly 3,500 applications for the early decision admission process, in which applicants agree to accept their admission offer in exchange for early notification. These will be the first members of the Class of 2026.
Students at the University of Virginia are thrilled for the new head football coach to come on board.
Monday’s introductory press conference welcoming new Virginia football coach Tony Elliott quickly took on the look of a ‘Hoos Hoo of former Cavalier football alumni, no doubt a welcome sight for Virginia Athletics Director Carla Williams and Coach Elliott.