The largest school systems in the country will likely have very different starts to the upcoming school year. Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician at the University of Virginia, said he would not feel comfortable with schools opening in communities with high rates of transmission.
Many have proposed creative child care solutions. For example, Elena Tuerk, a child psychologist at the University of Virginia, has proposed a corps of child care providers, potentially paid for by states or the federal government, that could supervise children when their parents are at work.
(Commentary) “Exposure to instructional time was different between high- and low-income schools, so if you factor that into the projections, what we saw was a widening of achievement gap on the basis of school socioeconomic status,” said Jim Soland, an assistant professor of quantitative methods at the University of Virginia School of Education. “Now, if you imagine parents in high-end schools are also going out and getting additional resources, paying for a tutor and the like, it’s hard to imagine that not further exacerbating achievement gaps.”
The performance of private-equity funds tends to go in cycles – periods of high fund raising are followed by periods of low performance. But timing private-equity investments, like timing public markets, is difficult to do, according to University of North Carolina’s Gregory Brown, University of Virginia’s Robert S. Harris, data-management provider Burgiss’s Wendy Hu, University of Oxford’s Tim Jenkinson, Chicago Booth’s Steve Kaplan, and Duke’s David T. Robinson.
More than a dozen new interactive chalkboard murals will be painted throughout UVA Health’s Department of Inpatient Psychiatry. The intent of the murals is to give patients a chance to express themselves in a comfortable environment.
Three years ago, Sen. John McCain was diagnosed with the most aggressive form of brain cancer – glioblastoma. Just over a year later he died. Today, about 200,000 Americans are dealing with the disease, and their prognosis is equally grim, but scientists at the University of Virginia have made a discovery that could lead to a cure.
The Virginia Tech team, in collaboration with Zach Adelman’s lab in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University and Chunhong Mao of the Biocomplexity Institute & Initiative at the University of Virginia, found that the Nix transgene alone, even without the M locus, was sufficient to convert females into males with male-specific sexually dimorphic features and male-like gene expression.
Petri and his team of UVA researchers – Allie Donlan, Mary Young and Mayuresh Abhyankar – may have found a puzzle piece to help detect who might suffer the most severe responses to the virus. The piece is called Interleukin 13, IL-13 for short.
After the Senate condemned McCarthy in December 1954, he “was ruined – and within three years he was dead from alcohol abuse,” according to an online exhibition at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
The University of Maryland, College Park tops the national list of Best Colleges’ “Best Colleges for LGBTQ+ Students,” while the University of Virginia comes in at No. 6 on the list.
Many U.S. universities have ties to slavery. Harvard and Princeton had presidents who owned enslaved people. At public universities like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia, enslaved people worked on campus or helped build campuses. Some schools, like Georgetown University, sold enslaved people to pay off debts and keep the school running.
James City County is in the process of updating its comprehensive plan, and county staff are arranging another virtual event in August for citizens to share their ideas of what they want their county to look like in the coming decades. The University of Virginia’s Center for Survey Research was selected to conduct the survey in January 2019.
(Commentary) “The executive order might have been pretty brilliant,” said Lois Shepherd, who teaches biomedical ethics at UVA. “I think this was mostly intended to change behaviors without a strong legal hammer, so I think the enforcement is not spelled out, and maybe deliberately.”
(Commentary) Working parents are increasingly being asked to return to work with no clear options for child care. “Are you going to be drawing straws?” said Andrew Pennock, a UVA assistant professor of public policy. Another problem: the state’s guidelines are forcing some facilities to reduce class sizes even if they do remain open.
(Commentary) “That whole experience and his role with the Freedom Riders really consolidated his reputation as this fearless civil rights activist who really had a strategic sense of the power of nonviolence,” said Kevin Gaines, UVA’s Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice. “Lewis really emerged among a group of impressive and very effective civil rights leaders.”
Jefferson Homebuilders President Joe Daniel has offered the county up to $50,000 to remove the monument erected in 1911 by the A.P. Hill Camp No. 2 of the Confederate Veterans group in the Richmond area. A UVA graduate, Daniel described as “unbelievable” the response by Culpeper’s supervisors to residents’ recent calls for removal of the Confederate battle flag from the county’s Lenn Park near Stevensburg.
Our class of summer interns here at the Richmond Times-Dispatch has been an integral part in covering this historic season. Keeping with our annual summer tradition, it's time for our readers to meet this year's intern class: Ali Sullivan, breaking news intern Hometown: Colorado Springs, Colorado School, academic status: University of Virginia, rising senior, majoring in Media Studies and Government.
(Commentary) Nwigwe, a Houston-based artist whose fans include former first lady Michelle Obama, said the idea to create the song came to him in a vision from God. “The powerful thing about internet memes is that people can take them and add to them or transform them in ways that they make sense for the online communities that they’re a part of,” Meredith D. Clark, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, told NBC News last month.
(Commentary) “The virus is this huge stress test on our education system” and “has exposed a great deal of inequity,” says Robert Pianta, dean of the school of education at the University of Virginia.
A while back I covered an excellent webinar hosted by Aegis Therapies (a Senior Living Foresight partner). It featured Dr. James Avery, pulmonologist and visiting assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia. His expertise is senior care. The webinar aired towards the beginning of the pandemic and it contained some great, no-nonsense tips and best practices that impressed me enough to have my whole family sit down and view it.