The largest-ever genetic study on human cognition has found more than 1,000 links between people’s genes and how far they get in school. “This paper will [be] a landmark in this new kind of social science,” says UVA psychologist Eric Turkheimer, who was not involved in the study. “As a very successful application of new genetic technology, it is extraordinary.”
Individual and small-group markets vary in experience, provider agreements and competitive considerations, the company replied on July 3. Two weeks later, the company cited its experience in the area, Medicaid expansion, the health of the population and provider experiences when it revised Central Virginia individual marketplace rates upward to the now-expected $967 premiums. But those justifications have been questioned by the consumer group and by the UVA Medical Center, which Optima blamed for part of the 2018 premium increases of between 195 percent to 247 percent.
UVA’s annual Mini-Medical School Program will begin Sept. 12 and will consist of 2½-hour weekly sessions over the course of seven weeks.
UVA toxicologist Dr. Christopher Holstege, director of the Blue Ridge Poison Center, said that while it’s good to be aware of giant hogweed, poison ivy also can cause serious harm and is far more common. “What a lot of people don’t realize is the toxins from poison ivy can be transferred through smoke, and so controlled burns of fields can be dangerous,” he said.
(Video) Could President Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee end abortions in the U.S.? WUVA News sat down with three of UVA’s top Supreme Court scholars to discuss the future of abortion rights in America.
Jason Dunn was named the UVA men’s head cross country and assistant track and field coach by director of track and field Bryan Fetzer on Thursday. He returned to Virginia as the track and field director of operations in 2016 after successful coaching stops at Stanford, Kentucky and Oklahoma.
According to a recent UVA study on voter registration, Connecticut is in a minority of states when it comes to the numbers of unaffiliated voters. It is just one of six states where independents are a plurality and Democrats outnumber Republicans. But the study also said that, nationally, the number of voters choosing to identify themselves as independents is growing. Rhodes Cook, a political analyst who helped write the UVA study and publisher of the Rhodes Cook political newsletter, said party affiliation is the most important factor in the outcome of an election, because unaffiliated v...
“None of us teach without the risk of full public exposure,” says Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies. There has always been the potential, Vaidhyanathan says, for misunderstandings to crop up between students and their professors, especially when professors “teach controversial subjects or use unorthodox teaching methods.”
(Video) Umansky Subaru and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society worked together to help patients at UVA’s Emily Couric Cancer Center on Thursday.
One of the quirkier traditions of Virginia politics is the summertime debate. It allows the candidates to perfect their lines of attack and counterattack far from the spotlight and the looming finish line of election day. Geoff Skelley at the UVA Center for Politics expects Republican Senate candidate Corey Stewart to come out swinging. “And so I would suspect he will be throwing many bombs in Tim Kaine’s direction to try to get a reaction out of Kaine," Skelley said. "It wouldn’t stun me if Stewart went for personal attacks.”
Researcher John Lukens and his team have been working on the issue for about three years and published their findings this month. They found the mother’s microbiome, that is the microorganisms living in the gut, can affect the developing brain in multiple ways.
A team from several Virginia universities, county staff and the Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission has been working since April to score the county's ability to bounce back from flooding using the Resiliency Adaption Feasibility Tool. Tom Brockenbrough, Accomack GIS coordinator and floodplain manager, has been working on the initiative since April, along with members of an interdisciplinary collaborative team from the University of Virginia, William and Mary Law School’s Coastal Policy Center, Old Dominion University and the Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commi...
Immunoglobulin E to galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose increased atheroma burden and plaques, particularly in patients aged 65 years or younger, according to a study published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. “This novel finding from a small group of subjects from Virginia raises the intriguing possibility that allergy to red meat may be an underrecognized factor in heart disease,” Dr. Coleen McNamara, professor of medicine in the Cardiovascular Research Center of the UVA Health System, said in a press release.
Friday is the last day for President Donald Trump's legislative director Marc Short, ending a whirlwind tenure of a tumultuous time between the executive and the legislative branch of government. Short will be a research fellow at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia and teaching at the business school at UVA, in addition to partnering with a friend in a consulting firm.
(Podcast) Larry Terry, the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service’s first new executive director in more than 20 years, spoke about this new position.
UVA has hired longtime University of Georgia athletics administrator Ted White to become its new deputy athletics director.
According to UVA doctors, kids who only play one sport are more prone to injury compared to multi-sport athletes.
Researchers at Purdue University and the University of Virginia have developed a new fabrication method that makes tiny, thin-film electronic circuits peelable from a surface. The technique not only eliminates several manufacturing steps and the associated costs, but also allows any object to sense its environment or be controlled through the application of a high-tech sticker.
The new executive director of UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, Larry Terry, was a guest Wednesday on “Charlottesville … Right Now” with Les Sinclair.
WNBA coaching veteran Karleen Thompson is the UVA women’s basketball team’s new associate head coach, the school announced Wednesday.