Dr. Tina Merritt Meinholz, a Bentonville-based allergy specialist, was on the team of doctors who developed the test for alpha-gal and discovered its association with tick bites. In 2004, biopharmaceutical company ImClone asked Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills at the University of Virginia to develop a test for severe reactions to the cancer drug Cetuximab, she said.
Researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of Houston compared cognitive performance at 67°F and 77°F. Since people tend to be most comfortable around 72°F, those temperatures are a 5°F deviation from that point. Participants performed worse at specific tasks in warmer rooms compared to those in cool rooms.
A $2.14 million grant form the Health and Human Services Administration, using money from the American Rescue Plan and Lorna Breen Act, will support the Wisdom and Wellbeing Peer Support Training Program, launched by Richard Westphal, a professor at the UVA School of Nursing, and Margaret Plews-Ogan, MD, MS, chief of the Division of General Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at UVA’s Department of Medicine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the subvariant of omicron, known as BA.2, now represents 4.7 percent of new cases in Virginia. Models indicate the subvariant may become dominant by April. But models do not show a BA.2-related surge in Virginia in the near future, researchers at the University of Virginia's Biocomplexity Institute said Friday.
In Northern Virginia, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and George Mason University all made progress toward expansion last year. UVA set the stage for its growth in Fairfax and Arlington counties, rebranding its northern presence as UVA|NOVA in December 2021. Graduate-level business and executive education programs are set to expand at U.Va.’s Rosslyn location, and growth also is expected around the Merrifield area of Fairfax, where U.Va.’s medical school has a northern outpost on Inova Health System’s campus.
President Joe Biden has nominated four candidates for commission seats at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, including Christy Goldsmith Romero, who serves as the presidentially appointed special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program and as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and University of Virginia Law School.
(Commentary by Natasha Roth-Rowland, an editor and writer at +972 Magazine, and a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Virginia) From Tel Aviv to East Jerusalem and New York, Noam Shuster-Eliassi is using comedy to deliver home truths about injustice in Israel-Palestine.
CAV Angels is a non-profit club composed of University of Virginia alumni, faculty, parents, students, and friends of UVA who share goals.
MBA students at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business are known to work quite hard amid the rigors of the case method. Each day, they are expected to read a business case and perform their own analysis of the situation presented.
(Commentary by Shaun Armstead, a history doctoral candidate at Rutgers University and a pre-doctoral fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia) The struggle against white supremacy cannot be won within a national framework. Black Americans have long recognized the global dimension of this project.
The Brody Jewish Center’s Chutzpals Mentorship Experience, a student mentor-mentee program to help new Jewish UVA undergrads adjust to college life, has matched 40 mentees and mentors. The program’s popularity, forged in the desire to build meaningful connections at college, can be traced to the fact that it started during the pandemic.
According to top Russia expert Paul B. Stephan, a professor of law at the University of Virginia who served from 2020 to 2021 as special counsel to the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense – with previous Russia-oriented roles in the U.S. State Department, Treasury and CIA over decades – it is Britain that is likely to be the biggest drag on any Western sanctions initiative against Russia.
“In terms of fighting words, it’s about as dramatic as you get,” says Marc Selverstone, an associate professor in presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “You would think that in this circumstance, that's a word that President Biden would have reached for.”
(Audio) With Michael Gerard Mason, associate dean and director of the Luther Porter Jackson Black Cultural Center at the University of Virginia.
“This is a beautiful study and very exciting,” says Kevin Pelphrey, professor of neurology at the University of Virginia, who was not involved in the work. “This is good evidence for an autism-specific form of anxiety.”
If you find yourself at a Taco Bell, consider ordering two of these black bean soft tacos for a meal that's not only packed with protein and fiber but also lower in sodium than other menu items, says Katherine Basbaum, a registered dietitian at the Heart and Vascular Center at the University of Virginia.
(Subscription required) In the summer of 2021, as COVID case numbers ebbed and vaccination rates shot up, Nicole Ruzek, the director of UVA’s Counseling and Psychological Services, saw the “writing on the wall”: When students returned to in-person classes in the fall, demand for in-person counseling services would rise again. UVA’s counseling center contracted with TimelyMD – the Texas-based telehealth company that runs TimelyCare – in the fall of 2021.
(Video) University of Virginia Political Science Chair Jennifer Lawless appeared on GoLocal LIVE where she discussed the politics of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – as well as the shifting political landscape in the race to succeed U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin in Rhode Island.
What are the rights of homeowners, and what are the rights of an HOA’s board? Richard Schragger, a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, said, “When they purchase a home, and in a homeowners association, they’re also signing on to a whole raft of rules that the homeowners association has adopted in their signing on to a governance structure.”
(Podcast) Kent Haines and Robert Q. Berry, associate dean of DEI and Samuel Braley Gray Professor of Mathematics Education in UVA’s School of Education and Human Development, cover a wide range of topics in their conversation today, from building math classrooms where students feel confident participating, to committing to DEI work in mathematics.