“Family structure is about as important as family income in predicting who graduates from college today,” says W. Bradford Wilcox, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. “In the absence of SAT scores, which can pinpoint kids from difficult family backgrounds with great academic potential, family stability is likely to loom even larger in determining who makes it past the college finish line in California.”
In this pandemic, we’re swimming in statistics, trends, models, projections, infection rates, death tolls. UVA professor Brian Nosek has professional expertise in interpreting data, but even he is struggling to make sense of the numbers.
All women should have access to the at-home test that can provide early detection of cervical cancer
(Commentary by Emma Mitchell, assistant professor of nursing) I’m a public health nurse who has spent a career studying ways to better test women for the human papillomavirus, the main cause of cervical cancer, so they can get early and lifesaving treatment. In rural, resource-limited areas – in the U.S. as well as abroad – I’ve seen how this disease claims lives and fractures families. When a mother dies early, stable homes vanish, children are orphaned, and girls’ sexual and reproductive health, often already at significant risk, are placed in even greater jeopardy.
(Commentary co-written by Gaurav Chiplunkar, assistant professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business) The impact of the coronavirus disease and the associated lockdown in India on firms, workers and employment has been devastating in many ways. From migrants desperately trying to get back home to small businesses and their workers struggling to keep afloat, the true economic effects of the pandemic are only starting to materialize. As policymakers weigh their options on reviving the economy after the lockdown, they face crucial questions on how to stimulate employment and encourage new business...
Our team of physicists and engineers, with members from the University of Virginia, University of Colorado and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has found a way to link optical atomic clocks with microwave signals without compromising the amazing performance of the optical clock signals. The resulting microwave tracked the optical clock with a precision of under a quadrillionth of a second.
Twice this week, Trump has not only dismissed the findings of studies but suggested – without evidence – that their authors were motivated by politics and out to undermine his efforts to roll back coronavirus restrictions. First it was a study funded by his own government’s National Institutes of Health and by the University of Virginia that raised alarms about the use of hydroxychloroquine, finding higher overall mortality in coronavirus patients who took the drug while in Veterans Administration hospitals.
The Chinese government blocked access to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology “mit.edu” domain as early as 2002. Harvard highlighted that MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Libraries, and alumni pages have been banned. The reason? Speculations suggest it is to prevent Chinese users from reading or participating in “uncensored political discussions.” The University of Virginia is among other university sites blocked in China.
University of Virginia leaders have said they expect to announce plans in mid-June for their 24,000 students.
This is the third consecutive year UCF has placed second at the prestigious competition. The University of Virginia took first place.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors is set to decide whether to give new monikers to two buildings currently named after men with a “legacy of racial prejudice,” according to campus officials. If approved, the university would remove the names J.L.M. Curry and William H. Ruffner from the buildings’ official titles.
This week, two companies will work together to thank medical workers at both of the local hospitals. Zilog80 Visual Art and the AV Company will provide a luminous “Thank You” to the workers at UVA Health and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital.
This week, two companies will work together to thank medical workers at both of the local hospitals. Zilog80 Visual Art and the AV Company will provide a luminous “Thank You” to the workers at UVA Health and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital.
On Saturday, around 300 local residents were tested for COVID-19 without having to leave their vehicles. Testing for the virus was conducted as part of a collaboration between Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital, UVA Health and the Virginia Department of Health at Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church and The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.
(Commentary by William Petri, professor of medicine) All states have relaxed social distancing to some degree, but there are few consistent guidelines for people to know how to stay safe. A doctor who specializes in immunology tells what he will do.
Through his work as director of UVA Health’s intensive care unit, Dr. Taison Bell has witnessed the effects of COVID-19 firsthand while overseeing the treatment of critically ill patients infected with the virus. “I’ve never [seen] anything like this in my career,” said Bell, also an assistant professor of medicine.
The national SolSmart program is partnering with experts at UVA and the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy to help local governments across the state make it faster, easier, and more affordable to go solar.
As the 2020 recipient of the Templeton Prize, the NIH director and UVA alumnus joins a roster that includes Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu and Martin Rees.
As the COVID-19 pandemic crippled Virginia, the Local Food Hub’s Fresh Farmacy program partnered with UVA to expand its operations – and served twice as many people in one week last month than the program did in all of 2019.
Tax hikes could also be coming – which would also make it even harder to recover from the recession even after the economy starts to pick up again. “The problem is pretty obvious – raising taxes is going to make consumers less inclined to spend money,” said Raymond Scheppach, a UVA professor of public policy. “That will make it even harder to get the economy going again.”
Wearing a mask outside is now a new normal for millions of people. An art project at UVA Children’s hospital is using that “new normal” to bring a smile to those passing by.