Professor Chad Diehl, a historian at the University of Virginia, said he learned about Dr. Takashi Nagai while visiting the atomic bomb museum in Nagasaki, which had an exhibit dedicated to the Catholic community and Nagai. “I was fascinated by the fact that Nagasaki was home to the largest community of Catholics in Japan,” Diehl said. “I was confused by the realization that a mostly Christian nation, the United States, had dropped a bomb on that community. And I was compelled to learn more about them, and especially about their parishioner leader, Nagai Takashi.”
Stepping Stone has partnerships with ReadyKids, International Neighbors and UVA Health, which means families and children can get more than just clothes, diapers and car seats. They can also get mental health counseling, early education intervention, at-home wellness visits, refugee relocation aid and more.
A team of researchers at UVA Health has joined a national trial that is looking at repurposing drugs to treat mild to moderate cases of COVID-19. This trial, called ACTIV-6, is a national double-blind study that wants to enroll 15,000 participants from across the country. It’s looking at Fluvoxamine, a medication typically used to treat depression and was identified for possible use against COVID based on sepsis research. It also is considering Ivermectin, which is used in human and horse versions to treat parasitic infections.
A group of researchers with the University of Virginia is working to further understand postpartum depression.
Researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined which women are at the highest predisposition for postpartum depression.
A new study involving more than 1.1 million women worldwide has identified those most at risk for developing postpartum depression. They include first-time mothers, mothers under 25, and mothers of twins. The study also found that mothers over 40 with twins are the highest risk group of all. “The size of this study, in over 1 million new mothers, make the findings highly significant and definitive,” said senior author Dr. Jennifer Payne, who directs reproductive psychiatry research at the University of Virginia’s medical school.
UVA’s indoor mask mandate is coming to a close. Due to decreasing omicron numbers and overall lower COVID numbers, UVA will end the indoor masking requirement March 21. Students will still have to wear them in classe, and UVA Health continues mask mandates in it medical buildings.
UVA announced Tuesday it is preparing to end its indoor mask requirement in most indoor settings, including office buildings and the John Paul Jones Arena, on March 21. But classrooms, UVA Health facilities and University Transit will still require face coverings. This shift in the mandate will come after the men’s basketball team’s final home game.
UVA plans to lift some of its indoor masking requirements, with exceptions, effective March 21. Exceptions include classrooms where students and faculty are in close proximity for extended periods of time, UVA Health facilities, and University Transit.
University of Virginia students, faculty, staff and visitors can bare their faces everywhere but in class as of March 21 as school officials plan to lift masking mandates that have been in place since the beginning of fall semester.
If you want to be an emergency or patient care technician, but don’t want to foot the bill, then UVA may have a program for you. “We are so excited for the Earn While You Learn program,” UVA Health CEO Dr. Wendy Horton said. The program gives people the opportunity to start working in the health field without paying for classes.
(Video) A just-released Harris Poll revealed that 52% of women would still prefer to work from home versus 41% of men. The report also showed that 52% of Black workers and 50% of women see it as being better when it comes to career advancement. Dr. Laura Morgan Roberts, professor of practice at UVA’s Darden School of Business, discusses the report.
The University of Virginia received nearly 51,000 applications from high school seniors this year, breaking a school record for the second straight year. Down Interstate 81, Virginia Tech set a record, too, with 45,000 applicants. But while the state’s most prestigious public colleges are flourishing, others are struggling to find students.
Alumni Will Gemma, Justin Black and Dietrich Teschner met as students at UVA. Their documentary, “Headwaters Down,” navigates the James River’s health, history and importance, and was named winner of the 2022 Virginia Environmental Film Contest.
(Commentary) According to research conducted by UVA professor Rob Cross, “What seems to distinguish the top 20% of performers across a wide range of organizations is not so much a big network. What distinguishes them is how they make connections.”
UVA’s Miller Center is one of the sources for CNN’s new four-part series “LBJ: Triumph and Tragedy” that reveals dramatic firsthand accounts, never-before-broadcast archival material and secretly recorded audiotapes.
As an undergraduate at the University of Virginia School of Architecture in 2019, Tarin Jones reimagined Monument Avenue for a class assignment. Now he works as programs and exhibitions manager at the Branch Museum of Architecture and Design, which sits along the historic thoroughfare, and regards Monument Avenue from a more knowledgeable perspective. “I look back on that project and would change so many things,” Jones says.
Right after completing an ordinary bullpen session at the Cincinnati Reds minor league spring training, reliever Nick Howard smiles as he says, “Obviously, my history is a little complex and complicated.” It’s been eight years since the Reds drafted Howard in the first round of the MLB Draft out of the University of Virginia.
Pilot Carole Hopson flies a Boeing 737 for a living as a United Airlines first officer. But she often gets mistaken for someone else. “I get confused with a flight attendant, or anybody — cabin crew, even a gate agent — anything but a pilot,” The UVA alumna says.
"Incumbency still matters but it doesn’t have the importance that it once did," said Kyle Kondik, a lead analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "A warchest can help deter challengers in both primaries and general elections."