Olga Burlyuk, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, tweeted on Thursday that she has received many messages with words of solidarity and the question: “What can I do?”
The University of Virginia scholar and psychoanalyst Vamik Volkan has – based originally in his work amidst the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s among Eastern Christians, Catholics, and Muslims – pioneered the three concepts of considerable explanatory power noted above: time collapse, chosen traumas, and chosen glories.
In this rebroadcast of the COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Network’s Cultural Awareness series and in honor of Black History Month, Associate Editor and St. Louis Medical Director Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo Davis speaks with Dr. Taison Bell of the University of Virginia and Dr. Stella Safo of Mount Sinai on the impact that historical medical mistrust among Black communities has had on vaccine uptake. The panelists share examples of trusted messengers effectively engaging in conversations about COVID-19 vaccines within their communities.
A study from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia shows 11 states will grow by more than 20% by 2040 while nine states will have lower populations. The state projected to grow the most over the next 20 years is Texas.
STAT Madness – which is modeled on college basketball’s March Madness tournaments – is a bracket-style competition to choose the prior year’s most exciting biomedical discovery, reflected the priorities of science and humanity at large. UVA School of Medicine is one of 64 contenders. The first round of popular voting begins March 1, when the first-round pairings will be revealed, along with descriptions of all the entrants’ research. Voting on www.statnews.com will continue through six single-elimination rounds before the winner of the popular vote is announced on April 4. Follow the act...
Newly proposed districts for Polk County Supervisors and a sour political environment for Democrats may be enough for the GOP to pick up a seat in November’s election and win majority control of the board. That’s according to J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, who conducted an analysis on district voters following an inquiry this week from Axios.
University of Virginia Law School Professor Kristen Eichensehr discusses the threat of Russian cyber attacks.
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Those with a deep understanding of Russia explain more. Student veteran Tomas De Oliveira wasn’t surprised when he heard the news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia expert and UVA Law professor Paul Stephan spoke about the country’s resiliency which brings a cause for concern.
As a one-way masker, epidemiology professor Charlotte Baker at the University of Virginia often finds herself one of the few people wearing a mask. She suggests giving yourself a little pep talk to strengthen your resolve: “I’m doing this so I can see my parents,” or “I’m doing this so I can keep my kids safe.” In her case, she is immunocompromised and reminds herself, “I don’t want to die” – but notes “that might be a bit too on the nose for many people.”
“The reliance on very little research on addiction was a mistake,” said Margaret Riley, a University of Virginia law professor who helped produce the 2017 report. “Opioids have been tremendously profitable and the incentives to develop drugs with fewer negative public health effects have been limited.” But Riley said some of the FDA committee report’s recommendations “connect directly” with Robert Califf’s plan for a comprehensive review, are “within the agency’s authority,” and are steps that Califf could act on right away.
“China-US relations began with the exchange of athletes, students and scholars between our two nations, and the shared future of our bilateral relationship will continue to grow stronger together through these types of people-to-people exchanges,” Justin O’Jack, chief representative of the China office of the University of Virginia told the Global Times.
from the New York-Historical Society. Taylor’s “American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850” has won the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, the society announced Friday.
(Commentary by Rami Toubia Stucky, doctoral candidate in critical & comparative studies) Apart from causing you to miss out on all the sounds that surround you, generally speaking, listening to music does not harm your body. It does not damage your liver, poison your lungs or fry your brain. It is not possible to listen to too much music. There are, however, exceptions. Watch the volume.
(Commentary) A new University of Virginia study by Nicholas Buttrick and Shigehiro Oishi is interesting. “Americans, it seems, are finding themselves increasingly locked into places that they wish to escape,” the psychologists write. “Throughout the 19th century, as many as 40 percent of Americans may have moved year over year.” But it seems that the sharp decline in mobility over the past five decades is at least in part attributable to economic policies. In other words, as we have written in the past, capitalism is not working for too many people in America.
Dr. Tina Merritt Meinholz, a Bentonville-based allergy specialist, was on the team of doctors who developed the test for alpha-gal and discovered its association with tick bites. In 2004, biopharmaceutical company ImClone asked Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills at the University of Virginia to develop a test for severe reactions to the cancer drug Cetuximab, she said.
Researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of Houston compared cognitive performance at 67°F and 77°F. Since people tend to be most comfortable around 72°F, those temperatures are a 5°F deviation from that point. Participants performed worse at specific tasks in warmer rooms compared to those in cool rooms.
A $2.14 million grant form the Health and Human Services Administration, using money from the American Rescue Plan and Lorna Breen Act, will support the Wisdom and Wellbeing Peer Support Training Program, launched by Richard Westphal, a professor at the UVA School of Nursing, and Margaret Plews-Ogan, MD, MS, chief of the Division of General Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at UVA’s Department of Medicine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the subvariant of omicron, known as BA.2, now represents 4.7 percent of new cases in Virginia. Models indicate the subvariant may become dominant by April. But models do not show a BA.2-related surge in Virginia in the near future, researchers at the University of Virginia's Biocomplexity Institute said Friday.
In Northern Virginia, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and George Mason University all made progress toward expansion last year. UVA set the stage for its growth in Fairfax and Arlington counties, rebranding its northern presence as UVA|NOVA in December 2021. Graduate-level business and executive education programs are set to expand at U.Va.’s Rosslyn location, and growth also is expected around the Merrifield area of Fairfax, where U.Va.’s medical school has a northern outpost on Inova Health System’s campus.
President Joe Biden has nominated four candidates for commission seats at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, including Christy Goldsmith Romero, who serves as the presidentially appointed special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program and as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and University of Virginia Law School.