Setting up visiting days and orientations requires the preparation of large amounts of food, printing thousands of pamphlets, providing rooms for thousands of students, and cleaning up after the events – all of which can take a toll on the environment. Which is why UVA teamed up with Black Bear Composting to tackle one waste stream: bedding.
In an eccentric sport whose teams spend four quiet months straining and grinding to construct merit, whereupon everyone agrees to spend three loud weeks in a 68-team semi-crapshoot to mint legacies, to determine which coaches get plummer jobs and to ascertain who gets the joy, the Associated Press Coach of the Year award went to Tony Bennett of Virginia here Thursday.
Danielle Collins’ favorite player, for as long as she can remember, has been Venus Williams. Clearly, she wasn’t star-struck when facing her idol. Collins, a former Virginia standout, got the biggest win of her pro career Wednesday night, shocking the eighth-seeded Williams 6-2, 6-3 in the Miami Open quarterfinals.
What do you do when you catch your first glimpse of a college player who has joined the tour? If you’re like me, you look for the flaws. What was it that kept them from believing, like virtually all top players believe, that they were ready to turn pro when they were in their teens? With Danielle Collins, the 24-year-old UVA graduate who faced Venus Williams in Miami on Wednesday, there’s a raw quality to parts of her game.
In the online publication OncLive, Dr. Traci Hedrick, co-director of the Enhanced Recovery Program at the UVA Health System, writes that since her system’s implementation of enhanced recovery protocols in patients undergoing major colorectal surgery in 2013, the hospital has seen an average reduction of two days for hospital stays, an 80 percent decrease in opioid use and a 50 percent reduction in complications. In addition, “there was a $6,567 per patient reduction in total hospital costs,” Hedrick wrote.
The investment underscores how the uncertain political climate is forcing the GOP to spend on races that should be easy Republican wins, especially after a shocking Democratic upset in Pennsylvania’s 18th District earlier this month. “I’m skeptical the Democrats can actually win, [but] the more activity there is on the Republican side, the more indication it is actually competitive, because the parties are the ones with the best numbers,” said Kyle Kondik, a UVA elections analyst. “Losing Pennsylvania 18 was pretty embarrassing for Republicans. This would be worse.”
A lung care center at the UVA Health System has earned accreditation from a national organization. The Pulmonary Hypertension Association has designated UVA's Pulmonary Hypertension Center and Vascular Center as a Center of Comprehensive Care.
Whereas 40 years ago, 1 in 100 Virginians were born outside the U.S., that percentage is now 1 in 9, according to UVA researchers.
UVA researchers are leading a state and national public health approach to protecting children and adults from gun violence. Three weeks ago, a national, interdisciplinary group of violence prevention experts, including Curry School of Education professors Dewey Cornell and Catherine Bradshaw, issued a call to action to prevent gun violence.
At a UVA-sponsored conference on Wednesday, speakers offered both concrete advice and wry encouragement on a variety of women’s health topics.
A series of data portraits of the population across Virginia has been released. UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public created the Visualizing Virginia website. It uses demographics like population size and growth, age, education, unemployment, income and poverty to tell stories about various regions across the commonwealth.
(Subscription required) Luke Merrick, a fourth-year UVA student, sings in the glee club and recently spent a summer in Japan. His latest hobby? High-frequency trading. The 22-year-old engineering student is among the first users of Alpha Trading Labs, a startup looking to bring ultrafast stock trading to the masses.
Joanne Boyle coached the UVA women's basketball team to the NCAA tournament last week. Then she stunned everyone by announcing her retirement at age 54, citing only a "family matter." The real story spilled out to her team in the locker room: She has to take her 6-year-old daughter Ngoty back to Senegal to finalize her adoption, and the U.S. government won't say when they can come back. It could be months. Or years.
UVA’s College at Wise Board has approved an initial step toward creating the college’s first graduate degree program. Meeting March 23, the board approved the creation of a master’s program in teaching.
The Cavaliers have mastered losing with dignity and rededicating themselves a new each season with the same acumen they’ve mastered coach Tony Bennett’s pack-line defense.
Max Rose is on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s “Red to Blue” list of Democrats considered to have a chance at flipping a red district. Even so, Roll Call still labels the 11th as “likely Republican.” So does UVA political scientist Larry Sabato.
Larry Sabato and his team at UVA’s Center for Politics are the only pundits who, at this point, envision any sort of competitive congressional race in Western New York. Collins’ race against either Grand Island Supervisor Nate McMurray or Genesee County businessman Nick Stankevich doesn’t make the cut, but Reed's race against one of (it seems) a horde of Democrats does, barely.
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a widely read political analysis website based at UVA’s Center for Politics, switched the 16th District to “leans Republican” from “likely Republican.” “I think the party generally would prefer to have someone who had more experience or more proven experience or proven electoral mettle,” said Kyle Kondik, a UVA political.
UVA psychologist Eric Turkheimer spends his professional time studying how interactions between genes and environments shape human behavior, specifically in regards to identical twins. According to Turkheimer, identical twins start off with similar personalities, “but as time goes by, they slowly drift apart from each other.”
“I think that artistic practice can be a really important way to begin to intervene in the way that dominant memory has really haunted and harmed our city and our university,” says Katelyn Hale Wood, a theater professor at UVA. The free event was hosted by the UVA Center for German Studies. Next week, practitioners from Germany will collaborate with University of Virginia staff and students on projects that use both intellectual and artistic methods to help better understand and contextualize the past.