Public and corporate interest in job skills will outlast Trump’s administration, experts say, continuing to pressure colleges to adapt. Traditional higher ed institutions will “step up in new ways or become irrelevant,” says Maria Flynn, CEO of Jobs for the Future. One promising example she points out is the new one-year “Edge” program from the University of Virginia. It offers 20 credits in courses that teach “digital and human skills,” including the programming language Python and persuasive writing. It’s designed to serve as a “stepping stone to a degree” for working adults.
The University of Virginia just opened a new office building to help the university with members of the Charlottesville community. The new Community Partnerships Office, located at the old Albemarle Hotel on West Main Street, will serve as a “front door” to UVA’s engagement and equity programs.
The University of Virginia released a pre-recorded version of its annual Lighting of the Lawn show on Thursday night.
The University of Virginia’s Lighting of the Lawn is usually a sign the holidays are just around the corner. But this year it’s also a sign of just how much has changed.
A new survey conducted by UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture suggests that the nation is partisan and polarized to a dangerous degree – but that does not mean the effects are permanent.
A group of UVA researchers was building a robot for disaster response, as part of an international competition, when the pandemic shut down their lab. The team quickly repurposed its creation into a COVID-19 health tool – a 180-kilogram robotic unit on wheels, with an arm that decontaminates entire rooms, including hard-to-reach surfaces.
National security is a major reason smooth transitions are so crucial, says Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. Perry notes that the 9/11 Commission pointed to the shortened transition period between Bill Clinton's administration and the Bush administration after the disputed 2000 results in Florida as playing a role in al-Qaida's attack in 2001.
The head of an obscure federal agency that is holding up the presidential transition knew well before Election Day that she might soon have a messy situation on her hands. Before Nov. 3, Emily Murphy, the head of the General Services Administration and a UVA Law alumnus, held a Zoom call with Dave Barram, the man who was in her shoes 20 years earlier.
The Canterbury Rams have persevered with promising Tall Blacks center Jack Salt, re-signing the London-born Aucklander in anticipation of a long-awaited debut for the NBL franchise.
“Trump and his tweets are already drifting into irrelevance,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, tweeted on Sunday.
Fifty-nine election and cybersecurity experts agreed in a public statement that claims of a “rigged” election “either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.” David Evans, a professor of computer science at the University of Virginia, said he signed the joint statement because “there is no substance ... no credible specifics, and no evidence to support any of the claims” of a rigged election.
“It is now widely known that COVID-19 infections have disproportionately affected the Hispanic community – a cohort also affected by lower rates of insurance coverage – so this was likely top of mind and a motivating factor on Election Day,” agrees Cristina Lopez-Gottardi Chao, assistant professor and research director for public and policy programs at the Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia.
Dr. Ignacio “Iggy” Provencio, a professor of biology at the University of Virginia, tells us, “Circadian rhythms ensure that processes in the body are optimally coordinated with each other. … When the various circadian rhythms in our bodies become desynchronized from each other, sickness results, including gastrointestinal diseases, cancer, immune disorders, and metabolic syndrome, a condition that results in insulin resistance (a pre-diabetic condition), obesity, and a fatty liver.”
“With traditional ambulatory care, we offer patients a set time for an appointment and require them to rearrange their schedule, travel, park, and wait (often for extended periods) until we are finally ready to see them,” said Dr. Andrew M. Southerland, executive vice-chair in the Department of Neurology at the University of Virginia. “Not only is this disruptive to patients but also taxing for providers who are often playing catch up in busy clinics,” he continued. Telemedicine provides the opportunity to rethink traditional brick-and-mortar approaches to care delivery, he explained.
Timothy Pernell was a self-taught scientist who co-authored many scientific papers, contributed to numerous patents and taught graduate students at the University of Virginia.
To date, the Virginia Department of Corrections has administered more than 50,000 inmate tests for COVID-19 on-site in facilities across the state. Since the pandemic began, the VADOC has worked closely with the Virginia Department of Health, the Virginia National Guard, Armor Correctional Health Services, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia.
A doctor at the University of Virginia says the Charlottesville area has some of the lowest case counts of COVID-19 in the state.
Just when the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership signing has provided some modest hope that common economic interests might help moderate the rising security tensions in the Indo-Pacific, new modeling from UVA economists provides an insight into the alternative scenario.
In a new paper, Dr. Adam Lauring of the University of Michigan’s Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Division of Infectious Disease and a collaborative team describe an enterprising study that allowed them to view the evolution of the vaccine virus into a more dangerous form in real-time. This study, which was run by Mami Taniuchi of the University of Virginia and Michael Famulare of the Institute for Disease Modeling in Seattle, along with a team from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, followed households where children were vaccinated with t...
As the pandemic rolled in, Angela Reiersen, a psychiatrist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, came across early research suggesting that some people with Covid-19 got sicker not due to the virus itself, but because of an out-of-control inflammatory response that can produce severe respiratory and blood-clotting problems. Immediately, she recalled a paper she’d read last year that seemed to bridge the disparate realms. In that 2019 study, UVA researchers had injected fluvoxamine into mice to prevent complications and death from ER-driven inflammation.