Davis is a renowned scholar in the field of products liability. She graduated from Wake Forest University School of Law, and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia.
“There’s a tension in corporate and government spaces,” said Laura Morgan Roberts of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, whose research focuses on identity in organizations. The racial justice protests this year had catalyzed changes like the Nasdaq proposal, but “to move the needle” on inequality there needed to be corporate and government leadership steeped in the issues, and candidates’ backgrounds do impact policy, she said. “We have to be intentional and proactive to eradicate patterns.”
Steel beams, old-growth pine flooring, and Jazz Age crown moldings lend historic hotels charm. They also cost more to keep up than new construction. “These older buildings could be quite fantastical, complex spaces with towers, murals, indoor pools, and other things that are expensive to maintain,” says Andrew Scott Johnston, professor of architectural history and director of the historic preservation program at the University of Virginia.
Stomach gurgling and flatulence can be unwelcome rewards for having healthfully upped your intake of fruits, vegetables and other high-fiber foods that produce gas in your intestines. These symptoms can also be a sign of lactose intolerance, even if you've never had it before. “We are all much more likely to become lactose intolerant after age 40 because as we get older, there's a marked decrease in the amount of lactase [the enzyme needed to digest the lactose in milk and other dairy products] that's produced in our intestines,” says Dr. Cynthia Yoshida, a professor of gastroenterology at the...
Those income streams can last a long time, another attraction for investors. “Dylan’s copyrights on his work before 1978 expire 95 years after publication,” says Dotan Oliar, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who focuses on intellectual property. So the earliest songs in Dylan’s catalog, from 1962 (“Blowin’ in the Wind,” for example), could produce income until 2057. Copyrights on songs written on or after Jan. 1, 1978, Oliar says, “will expire 70 years after his death.”
The school is a member of the Universities Studying Slavery consortium. Today, about 70 schools have signed on to be a part of this academic collaboration open to those considering or already examining how slavery is woven into their institution's legacy. "It started as a support group," said Kirt von Daacke, a history professor at the University of Virginia, which is one of the original members. "If there's a project trying to launch at a school, you can go to your administration and say, 'Look, here are all these other schools doing it. It's OK.'"
(Commentary by Jeff Bergner, adjunct professor in the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) “Return to Normalcy” was a popular political slogan in the 1920s. The world war was an aberration and America would never again become entangled in European wars. The sentiment was understandable. But it was also wrong; in less than two decades America was at war again. One hears a similar sentiment today among our foreign policy elite: Donald Trump was an aberration and it is time to return to “normal” by which is meant the foreign policy outlines of previous decades.
People gathered together virtually Tuesday for the University of Virginia’s 53rd Annual Messiah Sing-In.
No. 18 Virginia’s ACC/B1G Challenge contest against No. 4 Michigan State originally scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed. This comes as the school announced late Tuesday night that there are COVID-19 related issues within the Cavaliers’ program.
What was once a game that was supposed to open the season, Hokies defensive tackle Jarrod Hewitt is ready to close the season on a high note against the University of Virginia. “I think how things shaped up , yeah definitely, it’s good to play them last now,” he said. “I mean, if it was before, we would have loved to play them at the beginning of the year too. It doesn’t really matter, first game, third game, we will always be ready to play Virginia.”
The investment will allow BrainBox to do further clinical development of its test, in what the company calls its Headsmart II study. That study is scheduled to start soon and is expected to last about 15 months to 18 months, with up to 2,000 patients who have suffered concussions as a results of sports or accidents. The clinical trial will enable the company to file for FDA approval for its test, said Donna Edmonds, the chief executive officer of BrainBox. UVA Health is among 18 health care sites around the world that will participate in the study.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have found a particular gene that may help protect people from developing coronary artery disease.
(Book review) In “The Shadow Drawing: How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint,” Francesca Fiorani, a professor of art history at the University of Virginia, offers a different interpretation of the relation between Leonardo’s various activities. She argues that the study of optics was his abiding obsession, lying at the heart of everything he did.
Howard Epstein, head of environmental studies at the University of Virginia, tracked changes in Arctic vegetation for the report card, and said that this year’s edition highlights variability, geographically and in time. Greenery has increased in some parts of the Arctic but declined in others. “From a vegetation perspective, the surprise for me is the changing dynamics,” he said. From about 1990 to 2010, the Arctic greened steadily, but since then, it has “been flat or decreasing,” he added.
In Virginia, leaders use a model developed by the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia. UVA doesn’t prioritize coming up with exact case numbers, calling it “impossible and unnecessary.” “The model that we provide the state is not about forecasts or predictions at all, it's about various possible scenarios, and the possible state of the system after a certain period of time,” said Madhav Marathe, one of the researchers who works with the UVA model.
The University of Virginia says three new endowed professorships will be created thanks to recent gifts from an alumni couple.
With warnings of a possible holiday surge of COVID-19 cases and many hospitals and health systems across the country overwhelmed with patients, UVA Health officials are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best.
While vaccine distribution is on the horizon here in the Charlottesville area, testing will continue throughout much of next year. Officials with Sentara Martha Jefferson and UVA Health say the hospital systems have performed thousands of tests over the past few months and there are no plans to stop anytime soon.
We are just one week out from the distribution of the very first COVID-19 vaccines in Charlottesville. UVA Health employees will be some of the first to receive it. The health system will be distributing the Pfizer vaccine to its high-risk, frontline health care workers on its medical campus starting as early as Tuesday.
(Book review) Painter, engineer, anatomist, the designer of torture devices as well as machines to break men out of prison, Leonardo is heralded as the “real Renaissance man.” Never mind that this notion is reductive and plain wrong – or so argues UVA art historian Francesca Fiorani in her new book, “The Shadow Drawing.”