The University of Virginia has opened an office in downtown Charlottesville to connect the school with community-focused initiatives. The Center for Community Partnerships at UVA recently opened in the old Albemarle Hotel Building at 617 W. Main St.
The good news is that, physiologically, science now understands the origin of the sadness and anger fueling our current mental-health challenges. Blame it on the prefrontal cortex, Jim Coan, a neuroscientist, clinical psychologist, and the director of UVA’s Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, told me.
(Transcript) UVA law professor Douglas Laycock, an expert on religious liberty, said, “This is the first case where Amy Coney Barrett really makes a difference as compared to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And it flipped the result. And they're not going to be deferential to governors anymore. They’re really going to examine closely for signs of discrimination.”
When students enroll at UVA, they sign a pledge not to cheat, but that doesn’t mean professors ignore that risk – especially with exams happening off campus. Some use technology to monitor test-taking with websites keeping an electronic eye on students.
The birding world lost a luminary on Sunday, November 22, when Edward S. (Ned) Brinkley died during a birding trip in southern Ecuador. He was the author of the National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Birds of North America, and he was formerly a professor of literature and film at the University of Virginia.
UVA alumna Kate Bedingfield has come from working for the Obama administration to working with the Biden-Harris presidential campaign, and is once again on the path to the White house. The daughter of a former CNN-er has been lending her political communications expertise to Joe Biden since he was the veep. And rumor has it that she could be a key White House staffer when Biden enters the Oval Office in 2021. Who is this senior Biden official?
Meet some of the newest members of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business in this edition of Real Humans: MBA Students.
Every business school is known for something. Call it branding. Some schools are associated with excellence in fields like marketing or finance. Others differentiate themselves through close-knit cultures and alumni engagement. Of course, there are programs that excel in critical areas like leadership development and career services. By that measure, you could say the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business suffers from an identity problem. That’s because it is impossible to size up the Darden MBA in one dimension.
A visiting professor at the University of Virginia says US-Taiwan relations could regress under the administration of President- elect Joe Biden. According to Shirley Lin, that possibilty is due to Biden's support for multilateralism and the US' need of Chinese support on many issues – one example of which is climate change.
(Commentary) Allan Stam, University of Virginia professor of public policy and politics, spent 10 years researching the Rwandan Genocide with University of Michigan political science professor Christian Davenport. In Stam’s presentation “Understanding the Rwandan Genocide,” he said that the Pentagon had imagined that the cost of installing Kagame might be 250,000 Rwandan lives, but instead it cost something closer to a million.
“No one has been able to convince me that our criminal policies of marijuana prohibition are anything other than profoundly misguided,” said Josh Bowers, a law professor at the University of Virginia. According to Bowers, legalization is a must if we want to fix several societal problems in this country, specifically in Virginia. Because, he points out, keeping marijuana illegal isn’t working.
Advocates for exonerated persons believe changes are needed. "The House Appropriations Committee’s report flags some of the important shortcomings in the current law, though it doesn't recognize all the appropriate options," contends Jennifer Givens, a director of the University of Virginia School of Law Innocence Project.
The study aligns with Asian research cited by the researchers, including a study from South Korea that showed that H. pylori therapy was associated with decreased rates of metachronous gastric cancer in high-risk patients following endoscopic resection of gastric dysplasia, commented Andrew Y. Wang, MD, of the University of Virginia.
The immune system, just like for adults, can be a first line of defense for children to fight illnesses like the cold, flu and coronavirus. "We know that the immune system is important in fighting off all sorts of diseases, not just the ones that we have now, but the ones they may encounter throughout their lives, so building those healthy habits are going to be very important as a foundation for everything that comes afterwards," said Dr. Steven Zeichner, professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia athletics department administered 1,138 COVID-19 tests from Nov. 16-22. Of those tests, none came back positive, according to a release from the school Monday. The UVA athletic department has not a positive COVID-19 test for two consecutive weeks and only one this month so far.
The possibility of a COVID-19 vaccine is closer than ever. While the vaccine process could take some time, University of Virginia Medical Center is already looking ahead and making arrangements.
The University of Virginia is preparing for the arrival and approval of a COVID-19 vaccine. When one comes, it says it'll be ready.
Hundreds of Central Virginians got tested for the coronavirus at a free, drive-through event hosted by UVA Health.
Otepova’s forcible commitment stirs up not-too-distant memories of psychiatry being used by the Soviet Union for the purpose of political repression of dissidents. In a 2002 paper for the The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Richard J. Bonnie, now director of UVA’s Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy, examined the “complexities and controversies” of the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union and China.
Today, just 63,988 people live in the two localities which would benefit from the connector: Martinsville and Henry County. Both have experienced dwindling populations for decades. By 2030 the University of Virginia’s Demographics Research Group predicts the two localities will lose an additional 5,651 residents — 8.8% of the current population. In another decade, that figure rises to 11,877 — 18.6% of today’s population.