The slavery economy and its partner industries financed Northern schools like Columbia, Harvard, Princeton and Yale, while Southern schools like the University of Virginia and William & Mary were directly built and serviced by enslaved people. UVA has run a program called Universities Studying Slavery since 2014, which has about 40 member schools.
The Chesapeake Research Consortium, located in Edgewater, named Denice Wardrop its new executive director, to start Jan. 1. Wardrop holds a Ph.D. in ecology from Penn State and an M.S. in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia, where she also completed her undergraduate degree.
Joe Reed, a wide receiver for the University of Virginia, made the Paul Hornung Award honor roll for his performance against Florida State Sept. 14 in Charlottesville.
The 35th annual Harriman Cup between alumni from Yale and the University of Virginia will take place Sept. 29 at the Myopia Polo Club in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.
The University of Virginia has received official approval for its proposed School of Data Science. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia gave approval for the creation of the new school on Tuesday. The School of Data Science will be the 12th school at UVA.
Charlottesville resident Roland Wiggins is one of the greatest jazz theoreticians of our time. As part of his distinguished and varied career, Wiggins chaired the Luther P. Jackson House for African American Studies at the University of Virginia, and taught a few classes in UVA’s music department while he was at it.
The National Business Group on Health presented 50 employers with 2019 Best Employers: Excellence in Health & Well-Being awards at its Workforce Strategy 2019 Conference in San Diego this week. The University of Virginia, a first-time winner, won in the silver category.
While this case study demonstrates how technology is evolving in the medical space, telemedicine is not a new trend or solution. In facts, Interesting Engineering says that it’s been around for awhile, and used all over the globe. For example, NASA oversaw one of the first virtual clinics back in the 1990s to give astronauts medical care; the United States military adopted telemedicine to give medical care to soldiers fighting long distances; and the University of Virginia utilized telemedicine to combat the Ebola crisis.
Highland County faces an uphill battle in attracting new residents. Demographers at the University of Virginia predict that the county’s population, now about 2,260, will drop 17% over the next two decades. Of the state’s 133 cities and counties, UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service projects that 53 will lose population by 2040.
This rapidly rotating pulsar, called J0740+6620, has a mass of 2.17 times that of our sun stuffed into a sphere only 18 miles wide, according to the statement. Finding a star of that mass was "exciting and startling for sure," said Thankful Cromartie, a graduate student at the University of Virginia and Grote Reber pre-doctoral fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The University of Virginia now has a help line for those dealing with an opioid addiction. The toll-free call is for state residents who either have been diagnosed as having an opioid-use problem or are just concerned about their opioid use.
At the same time, a few state schools have tried introducing new aid programs meant to ease burden for low and middle-income students, including the University of Michigan and University of Virginia.
The top five public colleges with the best graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients are big names in higher ed: University of Virginia (90.9 percent), College of William and Mary (89.2), UC-Berkeley (89.1), University of North Carolina (87 percent) and University of Michigan (86.9).
(Editorial) “InvestSWVA,” a new public-private collaboration, is designed to bring Northern Virginia-based technology companies together with Southwest Virginia communities. Its leaders plan to work with the Southwestern Virginia Technology Council, GO Virginia, the University of Virginia’s College of Wise, the Virginia Community College System and the region’s private higher education institutions to form a workforce development strategy.
Dewey Cornell, an education professor at the University of Virginia, is uncertain how chilling images of the worst-case scenario might affect students and parents. “School shootings are terrifying events – they tug at our heartstrings. And we see images of them over and over again, which magnifies the perception that they’re pervasive,” Cornell said.
The FDA is hamstrung by the weight of bureaucracy and the threat of a legal challenge. “They know anything they do is going to involve an army of lawyers,” says Sarah Milov, a tobacco historian at the University of Virginia. “They’re slow, but it’s because they’re being fought.”
InvestSWVA leaders plan to work with the Southwestern Virginia Technology Council, GO Virginia, the University of Virginia’s College of Wise, the Virginia Community College System and the region’s private higher education institutions to form a workforce development strategy.
Candidates are already split on a number of polarizing issues, including health care and the question of whether to impeach President Donald Trump. Political scientist Larry Sabato, who heads UVA’s Center for Politics, said the divide boils down to some candidates vying for support from liberal activists, and others already with their eye on the general election.
Dewey Cornell, an education professor at the University of Virginia, is uncertain of the way chilling images of the worst-case scenario might impact students and parents.
Not that staying on top of your injection schedule is always the easiest: A University of Virginia study found that over a two-year period, adherence (meaning, patients took it) to Humira (adalimumab) was 57%, and to Cimzia (certolizumab pegol) was 50%. Both biologics are given by injections, typically by yourself, at home.