Across all sectors, Asian workers were represented the most in senior, mid, and professional-level roles although they are employed in lower numbers than Black and Hispanic workers. “The internationalization of Asia and Latin America and the financial opportunities there breed an easier path for Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans to have a place in this industry,” said Martin Davidson, professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He continued: “That’s not to say that things are wonderful for Latinos and wonderful for Asian Americans, becau...
Dr. Steven DeKosky, the James Carroll Flippin professor of medical science and the vice president and dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, says that the current emphasis on biomarkers is the result of research that has led to our increased understanding of the development of AD. “The natural history of AD is that people who are relatively stable in cognitive status begin to experience cognitive decline, which leads to diagnosis. As the first drugs were developed, we got beyond confirming diagnosis to monitoring effects of therapy. Then we moved back and started being able to ...
So far, roughly 3.5 million Virginians have received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine, but the ages of people ready for the shot is different depending on where you are in the commonwealth. “Now we’ve vaccinated for the most part the people that have been eager to get vaccinated and those who’ve been on the fence, but willing and have access,” Dr. Taison Bell of UVA Health said. “Your decision to get vaccinated is partly linked to how accessible it is in your community.”
Without language — from the still unpassed portions of the Lorna Breen Act — specifying how that funding must be used, Corey Feist and others worry the money will not be effective in addressing the crisis to come. “Many are suffering in silence because of the huge stigma that remains in the industry,” said Feist, who also oversees 1,200 doctors and health workers as head of the University of Virginia Physicians Group.
The Virginia Film Festival will continue its Beyond the Screen: A Virtual Conversation Series with a livestreamed discussion at 8 p.m. May 2 with cast members and the showrunner for “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Station 19.” In “Beyond the Screen: Reflecting Reality,” Chandler Ferrebee, program manager for the film festival, will moderate a conversation featuring actor Jason George, a University of Virginia alumnus and VAFF Advisory Board member; his fellow cast members Kevin McKidd, Okieriete Onaodowan and Kim Raver; and executive producer and showrunner Krista Vernoff.
There are open vaccine appointments at the Seminole Square clinic, which is operated by the Blue Ridge Health District and the University of Virginia Health System.
(Video) There has been a recent jump in health care workers providing home services for Medicare patients, but researchers at UVA Health say it is nowhere close to meeting the surging demand.
A new experimental Covid-19 vaccine has shown promising results in early animal testing, according to researchers who say the preventive may provide protection against existing and future strains of the novel coronavirus, and cost about $1 per dose. The vaccine developed by researchers, including those from the University of Virginia, prevented pigs from being becoming ill with a pig model coronavirus, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus.
Autism appears to develop differently in girls and boys, so the findings of research conducted mainly with boys might not apply to girls, a new UVA study suggests.
Virginia universities plan a return to campuses in the fall, but there are questions if the COVID-19 vaccine can be mandated.
UVA’s Miller Center is getting ready to host another installment of its Democracy Dialogues series. This presentation, put on in partnership with the Institute of Democracy and the Democracy Initiative, will take place April 29 at 9 a.m. According to a release, it will feature Senators Tim Kaine of Virginia and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia as well as UVA President Jim Ryan and Democracy Initiative co-director Melody Barnes.
The Princeton Review says the University of Virginia is the No. 1 school in the nation for its financial aid packages. This is one of several high rankings UVA has achieved.
(Commentary by Cristina Lopez-Gottardi Chao, assistant professor and research director for public and policy programs at UVA’s Miller Center) This week marked the close of Cuba’s eighth Communist Party Congress, held every five years to announce important political and policy shifts. And this year’s came at a complicated time for the island nation.
Research from UVA and Duke University recently found that climate change and violence together are driving increased migration from Honduras. In the period between 2012 and 2019, when rainfall decreased, the number of Honduran families apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border rose. That number increased even further during periods with higher murder rates.
It’s good practice to continue wearing masks indoors, pointed out Patrick E. Jackson, a UVA professor of infectious diseases. “I think that there is some threshold of the level of community transmission of COVID-19 and the proportion of population that’s vaccinated at which point you would say that it’s no longer necessary. But I doubt there’s any place in the United States that would meet those criteria right now,” Jackson said.
University of Virginia students are making a direct economic impact on low-income households this tax season. Student volunteers with Creating Assets, Savings & Hope (CASH) have been working with individuals making under $57,000 a year in the Charlottesville area to maximize their returns. The organization partners with United Way and Cville Tax Aide.
The University of Virginia Department of Drama will present its fifth annual New Works Festival as five short audio dramas streamed on radio station WTJU-FM.
Virtual Virginia Film Festival events continued on Tuesday, as the organization hosted a conversation with an Oscar nominee. Travon Free, who wrote and directed the short film “Two Distant Strangers” spoke with University of Virginia’s Kevin McDonald, who leads the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion department. The film is a sort of Groundhog Day -- a repeat of an encounter between a Black man and a bad cop.
As a high school student, A.D. Carson dreamed of becoming a professional rapper. And he has done just that—albeit through an unusual route that he hopes will inspire others. His career path took him from a K-12 English teacher to doctoral student at Clemson University, then to his current role as a professor of hip-hop at the University of Virginia. In August, his latest album, “i used to love to dream,” became the first rap album to be published by a university press, after going through a formal academic peer-review.
Saturday is the Drug Enforcement Administration's National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. A goal of the day and drug drop-off sites is to ensure the medications can’t be misused, abused or accidentally ingested. The drop-off locations, which include Wegmans at 5th St. Station and the Education Resource Center Pharmacy at the University of Virginia Medical Center, will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Medications also can be taken to Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital, Gordonsville Plaza, Jefferson Pharmacy in Fluvanna County and sheriff’s offices in Louisa, Madison and Nelson counties.