The company said in a statement that it “allows pharmacists to step away from filling a prescription for which they have a moral objection.” In such situations, it said, the pharmacist “is required to refer the prescription to another pharmacist or manager on duty to meet the patient's needs in a timely manner.” “Title VII does not say that the pharmacist can inflict harm or sabotage the prescription,” said Douglas Laycock, a professor of law and religious studies at the University of Virginia. “The minor inconvenience of going to the next store over should not override the pharmacist's rights...
Microglia -- often blamed in Alzheimer's -- actually clean neurodegenerative debris with remarkable precision and protect the central nervous system, University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers reported.
Virginia head swimming and diving coach Todd DeSorbo announced the hiring of head diving coach Drew Livingston on Tuesday. Livingston joins the program after serving as the head diving coach at Princeton since 2016.
Researchers at the University of Virginia developed an app called PositiveLinks to test out whether interactive smartphone functions and reminders could have a real-world impact on the health of HIV-positive patients.
Jamie Jirout was not the sort of student who simply took a textbook at its word. In her first semester of college, she asked her psychology professor if she could assist in the professor’s research. Jirout’s interest wasn’t fueled by the fact that she found the coursework convincing — quite the opposite. Her quest for answers has propelled her career to the present day. Jirout is now an assistant professor of education at the University of Virginia, where one of her primary research interests is studying curiosity in the classroom.
The push is on to increase minority students in classes related to science, technology, engineering and math, better known as the STEM fields. That's thanks to a new grant of more than $1 million given to the University of Virginia.
Tolu Odumosu, a science technology and society researcher at the University of Virginia, says access is a sore point among researchers in the region. While preprints can partly address the problem, other barriers also need attention, such as the prohibitive subscription rates of established journals and fees for publication. Institutions also need to invest more time, materials and space to research, says Odumosu. He would be interested in contributing his work to AfricArxiv if he knew that it would reach an active community of scientists in Africa, he says.
Teresa A. Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, talked about how her institution had handled — and mishandled — the white-supremacist rallies in Charlottesville last year. “We thought we were doing a good job of monitoring social media, but we weren’t,” Sullivan said during the opening plenary, on Sunday. But once she got wind that the racist protesters were planning to march on the campus, she got her general counsel involved right away. Campus lawyers, she said, play a crucial role when there’s unrest.
Getting and paying for good healthcare can be tricky for many of us. For transgender people, it can be a much bigger challenge. But, as WMRA’s Emily Richardson-Lorente found out, the University of Virginia is turning into a kind of hub for transgender healthcare.
In Virginia, University of Virginia Children's Hospital in Charlottesville, Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU and Inova Children's Hospital in Falls Church were selected, plus Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C., also made the list.
Wise Town Council has approved a conditional use permit for the creation of a University of Virginia’s College at Wise student entrepreneurship center in town.
A majority of counties in the United States are getting older. In Virginia, particularly in the north-south corridor along U.S. 29, the population of residents ages 65 and older is increasing, according to new estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau. That could impact voting trends, emergency services, tax rates and more in Central Virginia. “The biggest thing, really, is many counties aren’t seeing a growth of jobs, so you have outmigration of young people and an inflow of retirees,” said Hamilton Lombard, a researcher with the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. “I ...
The bootcamp is UVA’s first time participating in GenCyber, which is a national program designed to help educators teach students correct and safe online behavior, increase diversity and interest in cybersecurity and grow the cybersecurity workforce. “There’s a huge disconnect between what happens in the industry and how the industry views computer science, how the public defines it and how we teach computer science,” said Ahmed Ibrahim, director of the program at UVa and an assistant professor of computer science.
The recent rise of cross-platform games such as Epic Games' sandbox survival game, 'Fortnite' – which can be played across PCs, consoles, and mobile devices – is attracting more female gamers. According to Micah Mazurek, associate professor of education at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, boys with autism spend almost twice as much time playing video games as neurotypical boys do.
Carolyn Long Engelhard, a public-health expert and professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine — who has her concerns about direct primary care and its lack of connectivity to the larger healthcare system — said that this is one area where she could see direct primary care thrive because it'd be attached to employer-funded plans.
The 1970s models of thinking that “children are resilient” in the face of divorce has given way: “The myth of the good divorce has not stood up well in the face of sustained social scientific inquiry – especially when one considers the welfare of children exposed to their parents’ divorces,” observes University of Virginia sociologist Bradford Wilcox.
Coaching teachers on classroom management and culturally responsive strategies can result in fewer racial disparities in discipline, according to a study appearing in a special issue of School Psychology Review. Led by Catherine Bradshaw of the University of Virginia, the random controlled trial, involving 158 elementary and middle school teachers in a Maryland school district, compared those who received the coaching to those who did not. The coached teachers were less likely to refer black students to the office for discipline reasons and were observed to have classrooms with more student co...
A University of Virginia Media Studies professor says that, contrary to its promise of bringing us together, Facebook is tearing us apart. (from a Friday night [06/22] talk). Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan says that 2.2 billion people use Facebook because of posts that generate strong emotions. “Like pictures of my dog Butter, which tend to rocket around the internet. The same applies to conspiracy theories.”
A University of Virginia study indicates that a decline in cognitive function may be happening as early as our late 20s into our 30s, with the average age range being late 30s to early 40s. Our natural potential, genetically-speaking, when we look at traditional cultures with more land-based diets and active lifestyles, is to reach old age with very little cognitive decline. We are designed to be healthy, vital, and engaged with life well into our later years.
Leslie Kendrick, a vice dean of law at the University of Virginia, said the public schools have to provide a lot of leeway in what they allow students to express. “Schoolkids have First Amendment rights, they’re not checked at the door,” she said. “The exceptions to this is if its disruptive or interferes with the educational message.”