(Subscription may be required) The state’s most prestigious universities, which attract the wealthiest students, saw record applicant numbers last spring. The University of Virginia, the College of William & Mary and Virginia Tech saw their applicant pools swell in 2021.
There are four resident scholars for the 2021-2022 academic year at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. According to a release, this year’s scholars are journalist Jamelle Bouie, former Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs, former Virginia Del. David Ramadan and political commentator Tara Setmayer.
The University of Virginia has a program for people with HIV once they are released from jail or prison. CHARLI stands for Comprehensive HIV AIDS Resources and Linkages for Inmates. Medical care, food resources, and housing are just some of the things CHARLI affords to people post-incarceration.
Undergraduate students at the University of Virginia will be able to get a minor in real estate starting in the spring. According to a release, the Commerce School will host the 15-credit interdisciplinary minor that will be taught by faculty from across Grounds.
(Editorial) Many of Virginia’s higher learning institutions shed prior definitional restraints and have become not just centers of academic inquiry and instruction, but important venues of economic power, growth and employment. Policy has to be shaped with this reality at the forefront. Reform, amend and rearrange, as justified, but do so responsibly. Discourage populist nonsense.
(Subscription may be required) At the University of Virginia, Nicole Ruzek, director of counseling and psychological services, said students were struggling with issues beyond the pandemic. Many felt the impact of racial injustice following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, among others, at the hands of police, as well as anxiety over the climate crisis and the divisive 2020 presidential election. She said students seemed to like both in-person and virtual counseling, so her department is providing hybrid options.
Researchers said doing more exercise and improving fitness is more effective than just shedding pounds when it comes to getting healthy and cutting the risk of dying early. Writing in the journal iScience, Professor Glenn Gaesser, from Arizona State University, and associate professor Siddhartha Angadi, from the University of Virginia, claimed that applying a “weight-neutral” approach to the treatment of health issues caused by obesity would also cut the health risks associated with yo-yo dieting.
Longtime member of Georgia Tech athletics, Lance Markos, have been promoted from assistant athletics director to associate athletics director for compliance. Markos holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia.
(Video interview) In today’s episode of Moving Medicine, in recognition of National Physician Suicide Awareness Day, AMA Chief Experience Officer Todd Unger discusses physician suicide with Corey (CEO of UVA Physicians Group) and Jennifer Feist, founders of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation that aims to reduce burnout of health care professionals and safeguard their well-being.
Fralin scientists have developed a novel way to isolate exosomes from cow’s milk to serve as couriers for medicine. The next step is figuring out how to load the peptide drugs into the exosomes, work that is underway with help from a chemical engineer at the University of Virginia, Rachel Letteri.
Under the Presidential Records Act, former presidents can sue if they believe materials from their administrations face unlawful release. “You can imagine them honoring some and not others,” said Saikrishna Prakash, a law professor at the University of Virginia. “And it sounds like the president will then try to go to court and say, ‘You can’t release these materials.’”
(Q&A interview) This month’s Lead the Change (LtC) interview features Beth E. Schueler, an Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. She studies education policy, politics, and inequality with a focus on efforts to improve low-performing K-12 schools and districts and previously worked on legislative affairs at the New York City Council.
While mRNA vaccines for Covid-19 are likely to be overall safe and effective in recipients aged under 12 years old, experts are aware there are blind spots specific to this group that can lead to unexpected outcomes. mRNA vaccines’ positive safety profile is based on millions of deployed doses and experience shows it can induce an immune response that leads to protection from symptomatic disease, University of Virginia professor of pediatrics Dr Steven Zeichner said.
University of Virginia Health officials are working on a 10-year plan they hope will set a course of expanding medical facilities across the state, stimulating more research and providing health care in underserved communities.
Cholesterol made in the brain may spur development of Alzheimer's disease, a new study suggests. "This study helps us to understand why genes linked to cholesterol are so important to the development of Alzheimer's disease," said study co-author Dr. Heather Ferris, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
As of Friday morning, the University of Virginia reported 199 active positive cases among students.
#18 Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VirginiaOn top of being a Founding Father and the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson was a well-regarded architect of the classical tradition. He designed his primary plantation home, the Monticello, as well as the Rotunda building on The Lawn of the University of Virginia.
Researchers at the University of Virginia were selected for a $2.3 million in funding as a part of this DOE program. UVA Chemistry Professor Sen Zhang, and Engineering Professors Lisa Colosi-Peterson and Robert Davis are seeking to advance the efficiency, costs and carbon management of renewable natural gas (RNG) through their project.
(Commentary by Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, the Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law) If courts do not intervene and the federal government backs down, some states will continue to feast at the federal education trough despite flouting federal conditions.
In the United States, flu activity was significantly lower during the 2020-21 season than during any previous flu season since at least 1997. ... “The lack of influenza last year was truly remarkable,” said Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious disease expert at the University of Virginia. “It may be that peoples’ willingness to wear masks and wash hands regularly and be aware of symptoms may help us moving forward. And I really hope that turns out to be the story.”