A new study by Elizabeth Mollard at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Amaya Wittmaack from the University of Virginia School of Medicine published on the preprint server medRxiv* in October 2020 reveals that pregnant women may feel less supported during their childbirth experience due to the changes in maternity unit practices related to the pandemic.
A model by the University of Virginia predicts that cases will continue to rise and will peak by Thanksgiving. Based on the model, Virginia could exceed 200,000 coronavirus cases by Nov. 26.
No one who planted the 50 trees at the Blandy Experimental Farm on Wednesday will be around in a century, but they hope the trees will still be standing tall. The planting in an approximately 200-yard long, 100-yard wide pasture in the community forest is part of ongoing climate change reduction and nature preservation efforts at the 700-acre farm off John Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) in Clarke County. Blandy is a research field station affiliated with the University of Virginia's Department of Environmental Sciences and the State Arboretum of Virginia.
After a difficult year, the MBA job market is finally bouncing back. But what does the future hold for MBA candidates and business schools? TopMBA spoke with Jeff McNish, Assistant Dean of the Career Development Center at The University of Virginia Darden School of Business to find out more.
It seeks to be a memory device for gatherings and assemblies, and it is the result of a group project, the new memorial with which the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, confronts its unjust past.
Though a UVA model now projects a potential new peak in Virginia COVID-19 cases in November, a top state health official says it’s too soon to tell whether an uptick in cases over the past few weeks is indicative of a bigger trend.
Drawing out missing works is what the exhibition’s organizing curators – Austen Barron Bailly, formerly at the Peabody Essex and now chief curator of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and Elizabeth Hutton Turner, a professor at the University of Virginia – had hoped would happen as they worked to reconstitute the dispersed series through many years of research.
Have you ever wondered what the top colleges and universities would look like if they were ranked based on alumni ratings? Thanks to a recent study derived from the largest source of representative surveying of college graduates, we have a sneak peek into what it might look like.
Ruth Kluger, whose unforgiving memoir of growing up Jewish in Nazi-occupied Vienna and escaping death in a concentration camp unsentimentally redefined the conventional mythos of the heroic Holocaust survivor, died on Oct. 5 at her home in Irvine, Calif. She was 88. She taught at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, the University of Kansas, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Virginia and Princeton.
Ruth Kluger, whose unforgiving memoir of growing up Jewish in Nazi-occupied Vienna and escaping death in a concentration camp unsentimentally redefined the conventional mythos of the heroic Holocaust survivor, died on Oct. 5 at her home in Irvine, Calif. She was 88. She taught at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, the University of Kansas, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Virginia and Princeton.
Ryan Shores grew up in the Florida Panhandle, attended Huntingdon College in Alabama, and graduated at the top of his class from the University of Virginia School of Law.
As the campaign enters its final two weeks, Florida has again emerged as a critical state, and Pinellas, one of the largest counties in the state, is one of those places likely to track the final outcome. “It shifted further to the right than the state as a whole did,” said political analyst Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) This conversation with Aynne Kokas – associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia; senior faculty fellow, Miller Center for Public Affairs; and author of “Hollywood Made in China” (2017) – is the 243rd in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.”
(Co-written by Karen McGlathery, environmental sciences professor) A century ago Virginia’s coastal lagoons were a natural paradise. Fishing boats bobbed on the waves as geese flocked overhead. Beneath the surface, miles of seagrass gently swayed in the surf, making the seabed look like a vast underwater prairie.
With the weather beginning to get chillier, UVA Health researchers say a spike in cases is likely on the way, as multiple factors make respiratory illnesses even more dangerous in cold weather.
Scientists see ecosystem-wide results of globe’s largest seagrass restoration. During the past 21 years, scientists at the University of Virginia and other institutions have spread more than 70 million eelgrass seeds in four previously barren seaside lagoons, spurring a propagation of underwater meadows that has so far grown to almost 9,000 acres.
You shouldn’t have to have graduated to start a business. In fact, many students are now exploring starting new business ventures as a side hustle or future career alongside their studies. Reddit, founders: Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian; origin: University of Virginia.
The 2020 Virginia Film Festival – all virtual in this pandemic year – kicks off in a very Virginia way with “A Conversation with Vince Gilligan and Mark Johnson” among the Wednesday morning offerings. The conversation is hosted by UVA English professor William Little, who teaches a course on “Breaking Bad.”
The Ivy League school's new Mindfulness Center will conduct and promote research on the impact of mindfulness on mental and physical health. The University of Virginia has a Contemplative Sciences Center .
A review of “Three Rings –A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate,” published by the University of Virginia press. Originally a series of lectures delivered at the University, the book is about – and full of – circles.