UVA Health is increasing its collaboration with a Lynchburg-based health care organization to expand cooperation in cancer and transplant treatments, officials announced Wednesday. UVA Health will work with Centra Health to provide patients from Lynchburg to Danville expertise in blood cell disorders and kidney transplant processes and to combine physician recruitment efforts.
Among those listed is the UVA Founcdation’s Boar’s Head resort. The author writes: “The 600-acre property is a wooded escape in the confines of one of the most charming college towns in America. The in-room Pelotons are a nice upgrade feature for this price point.”
The report also cited the University of Virginia’s establishment of a $120 million School of Data Science, which will train students in data analysis, machine learning, statistics, computer science and communication.
Students interested in working in the public sector are getting hands-on experience thanks to the 22nd Century Scholars Program at the University of Virginia.
Add Paige Madden to the list of University of Virginia swimmers to take home a medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Madden competed Thursday morning in Tokyo as part of the United States’ 4X200-meter freestyle relay team. The group, which also included Katie Ledecky, Allison Schmitt and Katie McLaughlin, finished second to only China. Madden and company won the silver medal with a time of 7:40.73.
She’s gone from wondering why bridges stayed up in the air to studying pits of concrete in the ground. Sarah Besecker, a rising third-year UVA engineering student, is getting firsthand knowledge of the highs and lows of civil engineering while serving as a summer intern with Sweden-based contractor Skanska.
The students who research shows would benefit the most from mentoring – namely students from low-income families – are less likely to have access to iinformal mentoring relationships, according to a study by UVA’s Noelle Hurd and two Brown University colleagues.
UVA law professor Toby Heytens, the Biden administration’s first nominee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, garnered bipartisan support on Wednesday for his appellate work and faced little opposition as he appeared before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing.
For those who wonder whether you can get “there” from “here,” whether you can achieve greatness and success by attending a local community college – McDowell Tech, for example – Mackenzie Dobson is proof that you can. This fall, at just 20 years of age, Mackenzie is entering a Ph.D. program in American Politics, Public Policy and Research Methodology at the University of Virginia, consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top graduate programs in Political Science by U.S. News and World Report and similar rating systems.
J. Miles Coleman, an associate editor with the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Trump’s loss in Texas puts more of a premium on the race in Ohio. “Trump may risk another black eye,” Coleman said. “Two losses in a row would have some people really questioning his relevance.”
The University of Virginia Center for Politics thinks McAuliffe may be back in Charlottesville before the election to try to secure the ticket. “We would probably see McAuliffe and the Democrats as the favorites, but if enough things go right for the Republicans, certainly, fundraising could play into that,” J. Miles Coleman with the center said. “If enough things go right for the Republicans, then they may have a shot.”
(Commentary) One hundred and sixty years ago Wednesday, Major Sullivan Ballou of Rhode Island died of wounds sustained in the First Battle of Bull Run, Manassas, Virginia. Two weeks earlier he had written a very eloquent and heartfelt love letter to his wife, Sarah. The letter catapulted to national prominence when a segment of it was read in Ken Burns’ documentary, “The Civil War,” airing on PBS in 1990. Academics debate whether Ballou actually wrote the letter. Noting “tonal and linguistic discrepancies,” English Professor Stephen Cushman of the University of Virginia states that there is “n...
MBA applicants should request recommendation letters by phone or, ideally, in person, experts say. “We encourage candidates to spend time with their recommenders – grab coffee or lunch – and share with them why you are interested in pursuing your MBA and why you are excited about the schools to which you are applying,” Whitney Kestner, senior director of admissions at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, said via email.
Dr. Allison Pugh, a sociology professor and chair of the women, gender and sexuality department at the University of Virginia, says women’s studies programs are giving campus communities the tools they need to understand what’s going on “outside my window right now. … We drag the university into the 21st century,” she says. “Administrations point to us when they want to highlight their commitments to equity or justice or inclusion. But it’s not just as a symbol. We provide the intellectual decoder rings for the enormous cohorts of students who are driven to understand current events.”
The new study shows that even when there are significant reductions of the pollutant across a city, disparities persist, says Gaige Kerr, a postdoctoral researcher at George Washington University who led the study with environmental health scientist Susan Anenberg. “This gives an insight into just how entrenched, how substantial these inequalities are,” says Sally Pusede, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the work.
Saikrishna Prakash, a constitutional law scholar at the University of Virginia School of Law, said that he considers the lawsuit a stretch. He said the 27th Amendment was primarily focused on stopping lawmakers from giving themselves a pay raise that takes immediate effect. He said the House has authority to create rules for its own proceedings and to punish members for breaking rules. “Why are they doing this? The ultimate reason is political,” Mr. Prakash said. “They don’t like the mask rules and their constituents don’t like the rules and this was a way of drawing attention to what they tho...
When looking at a state-level map, counties like Fluvanna and Albemarle are listed in yellow as they are in moderate zones. But more counties in southern Virginia are red because of high transmission. Infectious disease specialist Dr. Patrick Jackson at UVA Health is worried about those red areas. He says vaccination is the best protection against transmission. ‘‘I mean you can see nationally that the areas that you see high and substantial transmission are areas that are generally lower vaccination,” said Jackson. “Probably below 40% of the population. So areas where there are high rates of v...
The CDC is again urging Americans to wear protective masks indoors – even if they’ve been vaccinated – in places where COVID is surging. While the state’s health department considers that announcement, Sandy Hausman spoke with an expert at UVA about what it means for Virginia. Thirty-eight counties in Virginia report high or substantial rates of COVID transmission. Many are in the southern part of the state, but Roanoke City, Buckingham, Greene, Louisa, Spotsylvania, Charles City and Chesterfield are also included. That’s why Dr. Taison Bell says area residents would be wise to resume we...
(Video) The Centers for Disease Control has updated its mask guidance as the Delta variant sends new COVID infections skyrocketing. Some vaccinated Americans are now being advised to mask up. Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, co-founder and medical director of Goodstock Consulting and an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the University of Virginia, discusses the pandemic’s fourth wave.
(Commentary co-written by William Antholis, director and CEO of UVA’s Miller Center) This summer, Americans are flocking to Greece. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken should take the hint and consider making a trip of their own. It would be as good for America as it would be for Greece. Two centuries after Greece declared its independence from Ottoman rule – inspired by the American Revolution – the United States could not find a better partner in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic and renewing democracy across the globe.