(By William Knaus, professor of public health science) Early in a pandemic, the lack of prior data is an obvious limitation to the development of reliable risk prediction models, resulting in delayed analysis. However, there may be a way to overcome this issue and speed up the analysis process: the use of a proxy disease.
(By Lili Powell, Julie Logan Sands Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business and Kluge-Schakat Professor and director of the Compassionate Care Initiative at School of Nursing) In recent memory, the world has seen profound changes in almost every facet of business and society, and the change is ongoing. Though it’s taken center stage – with good reason – the pandemic isn’t the only urgent issue facing humanity. In a torrent of contemporary challenges, COVID-19 accelerated some changes that were inevitable, brought the need for others into stark focus and s...
Dr. Jalane Schmidt, a Beloved Community C-ville advisory member and UVA professor, noted the importance of talking about Black history and celebrating the stories – especially this month. “It’s been left out of kind of standard narrations of U.S. history, but it’s an important constituent. It’s crazy when you think about just the expansion of democracy as we know it – a lot of it has been as a result of Black people’s struggles,” Schmidt said. “The Republic as we know it today just really wouldn’t exist in the form we know it.”
Jaime Frias has been named as the University of Houston soccer head coach, Vice President for Athletics Chris Pezman announced Wednesday. Frias arrives at Houston from Virginia where he served as an assistant coach since Jan. 2019. During two stints at UVA, Frias helped the Cavaliers to four ACC titles (2012, 2013, 2015, 2021) and three College Cups (2013, 2014, 2020).
Minutes after the University of Virginia women swam beat the American record in the 200 freestyle relay, their counterparts on the Cavaliers’ men’s squad matched that feat. The team of Matt Brownstead (18.87), Matt King (18.49), Connor Boyle (18.63) and Augustus Lamb (18.48) swam a time of 1:14.47, three hundredths faster than NC State’s American record of 1:14.50 set in 2018.
Virginia Breaks American and NCAA Records in Women’s 200 Free Relay; Gretchen Walsh Anchors in 20.58
The University of Virginia women opened the ACC Championships with a dominant performance in the women’s 800 freestyle relay Tuesday evening, and they began the Wednesday evening session in even more impressive fashion as they took down a three-year-old American record in the 200 free relay. Virginia’s team of Kate Douglass (21.10), Alex Walsh (21.38), Lexi Cuomo (21.41) and Gretchen Walsh (20.58) swam a time of 1:24.47, eight hundredths faster than the 1:24.55 that Cal set at the 2019 NCAA Championships.
(Book review) “To write the life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others,” James Boswell said, referring to the great 18th-century person of letters, Samuel Johnson, “may be reckoned in me a presumptuous task.” Exactly thus do I approach, with humility not unmixed with awe, Lisa Russ Spaar’s “Madrigalia: New and Selected Poems.”
Curated by Hannah Cattarin, assistant curator at The Fralin, the new “Alternate Futures” exhibition will bring in four different video projects to prompt deeper consideration of people who often get excluded from power and autonomy, and to encourage envisioning circumstances in which everything could change.
UVA doctors and researchers \ are seeing patients with long COVID-19 showing symptoms that differ from traditional responses. Long COVID-19 is a condition that can be a continuation of COVID-19 symptoms, and can also present new ones. Muscle aches, nerve pain, respiratory issues, and neurological memory loss are all things on the list. These ailments can last a year after initial exposure. “There can also be things like changes in your skin, rashes, hair loss, things like that. So it’s a very broad category and typically it’s seen within a three-month period after you were diagnosed with COVID...
Dr. Bobby Chhabra has been planning the new center for 11 years. He could see that demand for orthopedic services would grow. “When I started as chair we did 58 surgical cases through orthopedics,” he recalls. “Last year we did 9,000.”
UVA Health is opening what it says is one of the nation’s largest outpatient orthopedic centers. UVA says the new facility along U.S. 250 combines all aspects of orthopedic care under one roof. “One can come to this facility and have comprehensive musculoskeletal or orthopedic care,” UVA Health Executive Officer Dr. Craig Kent said. “It was designed in an incredible way so that we’d be able to move patients through it efficiently and with great patient satisfaction, and also satisfaction for all the people that work here.”
Middlesex County is among those counties that lost population between the April 1, 2020 census figures and the “July 1, 2021 Population Estimates for Virginia and its Counties and Cities” published last month by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, Demographics Research Group, at the University of Virginia.
The vast majority of Virginians have at least some immunity, said Bryan Lewis, a computational epidemiologist who leads University of Virginia’s COVID-19 modeling team.”That’s going to be a nice shield of armor for our population as a whole,” Lewis said. “If we do get to very low case rates, we certainly can ease back on some of these restrictions.”
UVA is garnering national attention for going green. If you walk around Grounds it may not seem obvious, but it may become more clear from a bird’s eye-view. Hundreds of solar panels sit atop six different buildings, hoping to curb the University’s electricity use.
These twin Cavaliers are fighting the uphill battle to encourage diversity in historically white sports.
UVA Health has unveiled one of the nation’s largest outpatient orthopedic centers. The ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday was the finish line of a project that was in the making for more than a decade.
(Commentary) He grew up here, right in front of us. When Ryan Zimmerman was 20 and played third base and the Washington Nationals made him the first draft choice in the history of the franchise, there were teenagers in the District who had no idea what it was like to have a Major League Baseball team at home. As he retires as a 37-year-old part-time first baseman – with all of his 1,799 games, his 1,846 hits, his 284 home runs in the same uniform – there are Washington teenagers who can’t imagine having no home team for which to root. That’s a career, in full.
Political analyst J. Miles Coleman with the University of Virginia Center for Politics says Biden is in a no-win situation. While Biden was criticized for the Afghanistan pullout, Coleman warns the American public isn’t eager to send troops to another war. But Republicans could find a way to paint him as weak if he doesn’t. “If he navigates things well, he might not get that much of a benefit, but if he screws it up, the consequences are much worse than the potential benefits could be,” said Coleman.
(Press release) Professor Saras D. Sarasvathy is now honored for her outstanding contribution to our understanding of how entrepreneurs handle uncertainty, something that has had a major impact on innovation and entrepreneurship education.
“[Thomas Morris] Chester effectively captured the frustration of black veterans who believed that their contributions to Union victory went largely unnoticed,” wrote Gary Gallagher, a history professor at the University of Virginia and the author of several books on the Civil War.