(Commentary) As noted in this column last year, a study by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service shows the deep digital disconnect in Virginia. Plotted on a locality-by-locality map of Virginia, those with the best high-speed Internet access such as fiber-optic, cable or DSL lines show up in ever-darkening shades from the least (tan) to the most (burnt umber). Those where fewer than half of the households have such access show up as beige. This interactive image shows vast pale-shaded digital deserts in rural areas, especially the Southside and Southwest Virginia...
On Jan. 20, a report on the relationship of the health of the thyroid to cardiovascular health was published by the American Heart Association. Referencing endocrinologists from the medical schools at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia, the report noted that damage to the cardiovascular system can be caused by both overactivity and underactivity of the thyroid.
The biggest enrollment declines were seen among men. According to a working paper published last month by Northwestern's Schanzenbach and Sarah Turner, a professor of economics and education at the University of Virginia, the drop was likely due to the disproportionate disruption that the pandemic had on skilled trades courses. While most lecture courses were able to go virtual, it was nearly impossible for on-site labs and workshops, where students learn by working with tools, machinery and equipment.
According to an analysis by the law professors David Fontana, of the George Washington University, and Micah Schwartzman, of the University of Virginia, Trump’s nominees to the federal courts of appeals—bodies that, like the Supreme Court, confer lifetime tenure—were the youngest of any president’s “since at least the beginning of the 20th century.”
Individual investors are more likely to support activist campaigns that target female-led companies than those that target male-led companies, according to an experiment done for a new study. “It can be difficult to detect those stereotypical influences when you ask people to make a subjective judgment,” says Amanda Cowen, professor of commerce at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and a co-author of the new study. “But it becomes more visible when you’re asking them to make a choice—for example, in the proxy voting context.”
The Senior Statesmen of Virginia will hold a meeting on equity in the community on Wednesday.
Officials with The Nature Conservancy, the University of Virginia and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science under William & Mary are working with the state to launch the first carbon credit program linked to seagrass. It would allow anyone to purchase credits to offset carbon emissions, with the money feeding back into research and management.
When Charles Dickens sat down to compose the Tavistock letter, he would have been amused to consider that, almost 165 years later, it would be pulled to pieces, endlessly analyzed and ultimately deciphered by, among others, a 20-year-old University of Virginia student from Ohio named Ken Cox. “I thought it was mind-boggling that there was something he’d written that nobody had read yet,” says Cox, who studies cognitive science.
15. Rita Dove: In her collections of poems, Dove combines historical writing with an intimate expression of language. In 1993, she became the youngest person and the first African American to hold the title of U.S. poet laureate. She now serves as a University of Virginia’s Commonwealth Professor of English.
After weeks of record COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, the omicron-fueled surge appears to be slowing down in the area, but the challenge of caring for such large numbers of patients has left nurses and other health care workers exhausted.
A financial gift from a law firm is going to support the Mandela Washington Fellowship’s 2022 Leadership in Civic Engagement Institute at the Presidential Precinct. According to a release, McGuireWoods has given the Presidential Precinct a $50,000 gift in honor of Leigh B. Middleditch, Jr., who died last year. Middleditch, a University of Virginia School of Law graduate, is described as someone who was a dedicated supporter of the Mandela Washington Fellows at the Presidential Precinct.
Lucy Greenman, a senior majoring in health analytics at William and Mary and Megan Sullivan, a junior majoring in classics at UVA, will be representing Virginia on “Jeopardy!” in this year’s National College Championship.
The new legislative maps were created by two special masters, appointed by the Virginia Supreme Court. “I think one of the first things you would notice when looking at these maps, the lines are a lot less jagged, the districts are generally more compact,” said J. Miles Coleman with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
“It was very hard for centers to be responsive to any pressures to improve without any resources to put into it,” said Daphna Bassok, an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia, and a researcher in child care quality measurements. “There’s a massive amount of instability in child care right now,” Bassok said. The focus from providers is “on a very baseline level of quality — how do I get enough teachers in this classroom every day?”
Around two-thirds of Americans say the qualified immunity doctrine should be reformed. “As long as we make that [civil suit] payment transparent so we don’t have nondisclosure agreements, then we can act, and we also collect data on it,” Rachel Harmon, a UVA law professor whose research focuses on police reform, said in June 2020. “Then a community could actually say, ‘Hey, I don’t want my taxes to go up because you idiots won’t train and prepare officers and discipline them and supervise them so that they do less of this.’”
“We’re thinking about this every single day,” said Dr. James Gorham, the blood bank director at UVA Health. “We have a patient blood management group that has implemented a number of measures to ensure that we’re not transfusing unnecessarily.”
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at the Darden School) Amid the wrangling over the Build Back Better legislation, the version passed by the House of Representatives to increase the $10,000 cap on state and local taxes (SALT) to $80,000 has been lost in the shuffle. With Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) threatening to vote no unless program costs are reined in, many observers believe a significant increase in SALT deductions is effectively dead on arrival. At the same time, some House Democrats from the tristate region (N.Y., N.J., Conn.) are threatening to vote no if the deductions are not i...
It’s a crisis felt in health systems across the nation brought on by the pandemic: Health care workers suffering from burnout. UVA Health is being awarded more than $2 million in an effort to battle burnout among health care workers.
On Tuesday, the University of Virginia Cancer Center became the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Virginia. With this designation, the cancer center will be able to help even more patients across the state. UVA will be one of just 52 National Cancer Institutes in the country. There are about 200 employees at the center who go above and beyond finding new ways to treat and prevent cancer.
The 21st Century Learning Project is starting in an Albemarle County charter school. It’s a collaboration between the district and the University of Virginia. “The question is, what should learning look like?” Community Lab School Principal Chad Ratliff said.