A UVA math professor has proved the limit does not exist for him. You can catch him starring in a commercial throughout the week leading up to the Super Bowl. UVA’s Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics, the College of Arts & Sciences’ Department of Mathematics Chair Ken Ono says he got an email out of the blue from a casting company. It turned out to be for an ad about beer, specifically, Miller64.
Two UVA doctors, Dr. Karen C. Johnston and Dr. Brad B. Worrall, are among a dozen from around the world being honored for their research on strokes.
The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations is beginning to stabilize. A local doctor explains how these hospitalizations are reported. UVA Health says all patients who go to the hospital, regardless of what they’re being seen for, get tested for COVID-19. That means patients who are asymptomatic get counted in the hospitalization number.
Another area suggesting consciousness survives reincarnates is the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson, the former head of the department of parapsychology at the University of Virginia and his successor child psychiatrist Dr. Jim Tucker. Both specialized in collecting the past life stories from young children around the world by interviewing them and all the witnesses to their past life experience.
When examining the viral contamination of remote controls, researchers at the University of Virginia detected the presence of cold viruses on half of the controllers they tested (via MedicalNewsToday). Considering that research has shown that individuals can touch their face as many as 23 times an hour, regularly touching an unclean TV remote increases the chances of transmission of these viral particles.
Recently, there has been a raft of academic research showing that many private equity and hedge funds are simply not a great investment. One 2015 study by the University of Virginia found that post-2005 vintage private equity firms’ performance did not exceed that of the S&P 500 index, and that newer funds could not even match the index.
UVA psychologist Joseph Allen has spent decades studying the teenage brain, and his research has shown that close teen friendships, especially with same-gender peers, are where youth practice intimacy and conflict negotiation, and they can even predict how successful adult romantic relationships will be. In other words, your teen’s lack of practice in the art of socialization and friendship-making can have a long-lasting impact.
Brad Wilcox of the University of Virginia and Lyman Stone of the Institute for Family Studies (who happens to be a Missouri Synod Lutheran) have written up their findings in a report that has a title that sums up their findings: “The Religious Marriage Paradox: Younger Marriage, Less Divorce.”
“State of Our Unions 2022,” the latest in an annual reckoning on marriage, finds little evidence that marriage is stronger if you wait until you’re at least 25 to wed, compared to those who marry in their early 20s. Released Wednesday, the report is produced by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University using three recent large, nationally representative datasets.
In the same way that how people dress can help us identify or recognize them, what cells wear on the outside allows our immune response to recognize them as cancerous or not. To develop cancer therapies, Victor H. Engelhard, a professor of microbiology, immunology and cancer biology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, is working toward understanding what cancer cell antigens are recognized naturally by T cells.
COVID-19 cases continued to decline this week in Prince William County and much of the commonwealth, leading the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute to conclude that the surge driven by the omicron variant likely peaked on Jan. 16.
Jason Papin, a professor in the UVA Department of Biomedical Engineering, says, “Mucosal layers are such an important barrier between us and the outside world, and we know that any kind of disruption to that is a big source of problems.”
Van Buren (co-founder and executive director of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces) grew up in Stafford County, in a small community not exactly brimming with models that showed a young Black girl she could grow up to be an architect. “When I was 12, some kid in my class was like, ‘I want to be an architect like Frank Lloyd Wright.’ I said, ‘That’s what I want to do, too.’ And that was it.” The pledge stuck. Van Buren went on to earn a B.S. in architecture from the University of Virginia and a master’s from Columbia University.
The University of Virginia and Albemarle County talked to community members on Wednesday during a Senior Statesmen of Virginia forum about how each locality is working toward equity.
Kansas City Chiefs safety Juan Thornhill was inducted into the Hall of Fame in his hometown in Virginia. Altavista High School sits in the namesake town of about 3,400 people and is where Thornhill was born and raised. Before suiting up for the Chiefs and University of Virginia Cavaliers, Thornhill was a Colonel.
Businessman and Darden alumnus] Warren Thompson is one such example of a leader in the industry who is creating a more equitable work environment. He founded Thompson Hospitality in 1992, which encompasses nearly a dozen restaurants throughout the mid-Atlantic and Florida. Restaurants like Milk & Honey in Charlottesville, Virginia, The Delegate in Washington, D.C., and Yot Bar & Kitchen in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, all fall under the Thompson Hospitality umbrella.
Kathryn Valentine has graciously agreed to share some of her insights with this audience. By way of background, Kathryn is the founder of Worthmore Strategies, a consulting firm focused on achieving gender parity in the workplace by empowering women to ask for what they need to be happy, productive, and successful in their careers. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Adweek, Working Mother and Forbes, and she has spoken at Harvard, Wharton, and Darden business schools. Kathryn graduated from the University of Virginia, where she was a Jefferson Scholar and Lawn Resident, and star...
If Thiel does aspire to become the next Republican kingmaker, he'll first need to put wins on the electoral map, said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. Right now, the candidate most visibly associated with Thiel this cycle, Vance, has been struggling. "If Vance loses," said Sabato, "it will not reflect well on Thiel. Thiel is doing more than giving him money; he's clearly giving him a lot of advice."
“You can sit there and present all the economic stats and say look at this the economy grew faster than it has since the 1980’s,” said Larry Sabato, Director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “And then the other person sitting opposite you says, ‘Well when I went to the store this morning I was paying $3 for a gallon of milk,’ it’s hard to argue with that—statistics don’t overcome personal experience.”
“Few believed Hogan would run for the Senate, so this is not a big surprise,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Had Hogan run, though, it would have created a competitive race. National Republicans would have been delighted, since Maryland would otherwise have been seen as safe for the incumbent. Van Hollen is now strongly favored to hold the seat.”