UVA Health says it has received 60,145 doses to date and administered 56,278. That is 93.6% of those vaccines. UVA Health has also scheduled 7,000 first- and second-dose appointments as of Friday.
A study done by The National Marriage Project at UVA found, “Men and women who only slept with their (future) spouse prior to marriage reported higher marital quality than those who had other sexual partners as well. Further, for women, having had fewer sexual partners before marriage was also related to higher marital quality. This doesn’t mean that sex before marriage will doom a marriage, but sex with many different partners may be risky if you’re looking for a high-quality marriage.”
So what’s the income sweet spot? Psychologists from Purdue University and UVA analyzed World Gallup Poll data from 1.7 million people in 164 countries in 2018, cross-referencing earnings with life satisfaction. They concluded that the ideal income for individuals is $95,000 a year for life satisfaction, and $60,000 to $75,000 a year for emotional well-being.
Researchers at the UVA Medical Center had been working on software to help doctors detect respiratory failure leading to intubation. When then pandemic hit, they adapted the software for COVID-19. “It seemed to us when that all started happening, that this is what we had been working toward all these years. We didn’t anticipate a pandemic of this nature. But here it was,” says Randall Moorman, a professor of medicine. “But it’s just the perfect application of the technology and an idea that we’ve been working on for a long time.”
In a study published Friday in the journal Emotion, University of Florida psychology professor Erin Westgate and colleagues Timothy Wilson, Nicholas Buttrick, and Rémy Furrer of UVA and Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University instructed participants to think meaningful thoughts. Westgate anticipated that this would guide the thinkers into a rewarding experience, but they actually found it less enjoyable than their unguided thoughts.
Whether people maintain traditional prevention methods – frequently washing hands, wearing masks and keeping a distance of 6 feet from others – could make the difference between a continued improvement in the public health crisis or another peak to surpass January’s, according to analysts at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute.
Almost all of the new COVID-19 cases that were reported Thursday at UVA are among students.
The Education Department has said that the FAFSA site is not down, but they are aware that some users haven’t been able to complete certain actions. Officials at the University of Virginia, which had a March 1 deadline, said they were aware of the issue and know that the department is working to fix it. As of Thursday, the University had only heard from one student about the problem.
UVA is feeling the financial burdens of COVID-19. Spokesperson Brian Coy says the pandemic cost the school more than $250 million in the last two fiscal years. The University lost housing and dining fees, launched COVID-19 apps, provided PPE, and shifted gears to support mass virus testing efforts.
Local hospitality businesses weren’t surprised by UVA’s decision Wednesday to cancel its typical May graduation ceremony due to COVID-19 concerns. Although expected, the call represents another hit to Charlottesville businesses buffeted by the pandemic.
UVA students will have to wait to find out how much their tuition will cost next year as the University’s Board of Visitors on Friday postponed a decision until after Gov. Ralph Northam has signed the state’s next budget into law.
UVA President Jim Ryan announced an anonymous $5 million gift will now open new doors for Piedmont Virginia Community College students who wish to transfer to UVA.
A UVA donor’s $5 million gift has led to a university scholarship program for students transferring from Piedmont Virginia Community College and the creation of an inter-college liaison to help shepherd students wanting to transfer. UVA President Jim Ryan announced the program to the school’s Board of Visitors on Friday. UVA will match $4.5 million of the gift to create the $9.5 million Piedmont Scholars program.
(Commentary by Jack Hamilton, associate professor of American studies) Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen’s new Spotify podcast “Renegades: Born in the U.S.A.” launched in late February with promises of intimate conversations that would probe and possibly bridge deep divisions in America, represented, supposedly, by these two men from two different Americas.
Some UVA doctors say we could see a glimpse of pre-pandemic life as early as this summer, that is if we don’t let our guard down.
UVA President Jim Ryan told the Board of Visitors yesterday that an anonymous donor had given UVA $5 million. Most of the money will be leveraged to pull in a matching grant to create a $9 million endowment. And that money will establish an extensive scholarship program to help a unique category of students wishing to transfer from Piedmont Virginia Community College.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has reappointed Eric Nichols to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice for terms set to expire on February 1, 2027. Nichols previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas and as Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice for the Office of Texas Attorney General. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English and History from the University of Virginia.
Taylor has started games at six different positions for the team, never fewer than four in any of his five seasons in L.A. At the University of Virginia, he was a shortstop. As he came up through the Seattle Mariners’ system, he was still a shortstop (with occasional visits to second base mixed in). When he made the majors with the Mariners briefly in 2014-16, 70 of his first 72 starts were at shortstop.
Korn Ferry today announced that John Long has joined the firm as a senior client partner in the Global Consumer practice. He is based in the firm’s Dallas office and focused on retail, fashion, and merchandising. Long holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Virginia