(Commentary) While there is consensus that our country is deeply divided, there is confusion about the causes. [UVA professor emeritus] E.D. Hirsch offers an explanation in his new book "How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation." He points out that democratic republics such as ours are fragile, often collapsing because of citizens’ varying politics, religions and ethnic backgrounds.
Dennis Yang, professor of business and academic director of Asia initiatives from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, characterized the Trump administration’s economic policies toward China on issues like tariffs and investment bans as unusual regarding past experiences. “Investors should have a sense of calm,” Yang says. “We’re very unlikely to have similar experiences under the new administration,” he adds, citing the U.S.-China trade war under the Trump administration.
"Back in 2010 when Democrats lost the majority, basically on every Republican ad, you’d see Pelosi," said Miles Coleman, the associate editor of political newsletter Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "The Squad has kind of taken over that role," Coleman told the Washington Examiner about the group, which also includes Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.
“I can tell you pre-COVID the number of meetings and conversations I had around tech-enabled advising and remote advising,” said Ben Castleman, a University of Virginia professor who co-authored the College Forward paper. “That was the trend.” Castleman is the director of an institute focused on educational nudges and wrote a book promoting the idea. He still thinks they have some promise, but he’s grown more skeptical of efforts that try to help students without first forming relationships with them. “I think we’ve seen in various educational contexts how hard it has been to replicate what we...
Given all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back – especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business "It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance," she said. "There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time."
University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville reported an average daily census for the Jan. 15-21 period of 494.4, 80.5% of its 614-bed capacity. The average number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at UVA for the period was 60. The average ICU census was 132.6, 74.5% of capacity.
A virtual forum is coming up on Tuesday that aims to provide information regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. The Fluvanna NAACP will host the forum on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Doctors from the UVA Health and the Blue Ridge Health Department will speak, answer questions and share information about the vaccine and its distribution.
Medical staff at UVA Health have created artificial intelligence software to watch over COVID-19 patients.
Since July, doctors and nurses at University of Virginia Health haven’t been the only ones monitoring COVID-19 positive patients. UVA has another member on the team, but he’s not on the payroll. And although he’s great at predicting medical emergencies, he doesn’t hold a prestigious degree. His name is CoMET – Continuous Monitoring of Event Trajectories – and he’s the brainchild of Dr. Randall Moorman, a cardiologist at UVA Health.
It turns out that these professionals needed retail investors: As professionals fled the market in February, Robinhood traders bought up stocks, acting as a market-stabilizing force, according to observers. The phenomenon was tracked by researchers Simon Glossner and Pedro Matos at the University of Virginia and Stefano Ramelli and Alexander Wagner at the University of Zurich. They looked at how institutions managed their investments during the first wave of the pandemic. By and large, allocators were “rushing to exit” the markets, Matos says. So who was buying those assets? “That led us to Ro...
This is the first utility-scale solar facility to come before the board since November, when Pulaski County was designated a SolSmart municipality through a federal program meant to boost solar power production across the country. Pulaski County is one of more than 20 Virginia communities to work with the state Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy and the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service to attain the certification. It dovetails with state legislative mandates for renewable electricity generation.
But with spring break canceled, students face the prospect of a stress-packed, 16-week semester without a pause. Duke University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Virginia and other schools have adopted wellness days to give students some time off in the middle of the week.
Among the higher education institutions that have embraced outdoor classrooms so far are the University of California, Davis, which had 13 tents available at the start of the fall quarter; the University of Virginia, which had nine multipurpose tents faculty and students used for classes and open-air dining; and even Amherst College — in the colder climate of Massachusetts — which held outdoor orchestra rehearsals and recordings in tents this fall.
(Commentary by Daniel Willingham, psychology professor) People considering the economic impact of school closings have primarily focused on lost wages and productivity due to parents missing work, but a much greater cost lies ahead. Years from now the U.S. economy will lose trillions when those students who have fallen behind during remote learning enter the workforce. Kids must make up for lost learning, and the best option is summer school.
Late last year, Southwood residents agreed to name the first park in the redeveloped neighborhood Five Pillars Park, after UVA men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett’s program’s Five Pillars: humility, passion, unity, servanthood and thankfulness.
As UVA students prepare to return to campus next week on Feb. 1, lessons learned from the fall semester leave some local leaders at greater ease now than in August.
As part of our series about “How To Use Digital Transformation To Take Your Company To The Next Level,” I had the pleasure of interviewing [UVA Law alumnus] Russ Thomas, the chief executive officer of Availity. Under Thomas’s leadership, Availity is leading the charge in provider engagement, empowering health care professionals to improve results by delivering healthcare business solutions to a growing network that connects physicians, hospitals, and technology partners with health plans nationwide.
Andrew Ramspacher carries a tribute to Doug Doughty in his wallet, something he probably never would have acquired had he not befriended the legendary Roanoke Times sports writer. It’s a Choice Hotels rewards card. You know the illustrious brands: Comfort Inn, Econo Lodge, Rodeway Inn and the like. They’re affordable joints, the kinds of places that brag on their marquees if they have wireless internet. “This shows you how official it is,” Ramspacher said of the rewards card, which Doug insisted he get if they were going to travel together. “My name is not printed; it’s in magic marker.” Yes, ...
(Commentary; free registration required) As I watched Jon Wertheim’s Jan. 10 interview of Maine’s junior Sen. Angus King [a UVA alumnus] on the iconic CBS television program “60 Minutes,” I felt my pulse and respiration rate slow and a sense of serenity come over me. That’s how you’re supposed to feel after a yoga session, not after listening to a politician speak.
During a 10-hour operation, UVA neurosurgeon Ashok Asthagiri removed a grade 2 astrocytoma, a slow-growing malignancy that he said “could have been there for years.”