Efforts by UVA Health researchers to increase UVA’s COVID-19 testing capacity received a $1 million boost on Thursday in the form of a grant from the Charlottesville-based Quantitative Foundation.
Researchers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute received a $10 million grant to plan for and respond to epidemics and pandemics. The five-year collaborative “Expeditions in Computing” grant from the National Science Foundation will be used by a team of researchers at 14 institutions across the United States.
A more accurate comparison to the novel coronavirus pandemic is an incident like the deadly polio outbreak under President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, said Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
The spiky proteins of the new coronavirus appear all over the place. From the evening news to this newspaper, close-up pictures of the proteins poking out of a sphere represent the virus at its most pared down. To Dr. William Petri, those proteins are more than an informative illustration. At his UVA lab, he believes understanding them is key to unlocking a potential solution to the ongoing crisis.
A hotly debated coronavirus-related issue is President Trump’s stated desire that the country be “opened up” from social distancing by Easter (April 12). A data-driven answer to the controversy may come in part from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute, whose AI-based simulation platform is designed to help public officials understand how the contagion is spread and anticipate where hot spots will happen. The ultimate goal: enable state and local governments to predict the public impacts of coronavirus policies, such as imposition – and lifting – of stay-at-home order...
As Closures Continue Amid Outbreak, Liberty University Welcomes Thousands of Students Back to Campus
Unlike the privately held Liberty University, Virginia’s public K-12 schools will remain closed through June, Northam announced yesterday, and the University of Virginia, for example, is only allowing students who truly have nowhere else to go to remain in on-campus housing.
An increasing number of law schools are willing to take the GRE in lieu of the LSAT in admissions decisions. And because of COVID-19, the GRE is being offered from the comfort – and more importantly, safety – of your own home. The University of Virginia is among the 50-plus schools that accept the GRE for admissions purposes.
UVA’s Darden School of Business announced Tuesday the most sweeping changes in MBA admission policies of any business school yet. Darden said it would now accept undergraduate entrance exam scores on the SAT and ACT in lieu of a GMAT or GRE, will “transition” its round three deadline of April 6 by more than three months to July 15, and even nudge writers of recommendation letters on behalf of candidates.
The University of North Carolina and the University of California-Berkeley are the runners-up in the 2020 academic standings, with the University of Virginia and the University of California-Los Angeles rounding out the top five.
“In 1775, Scottish watchmaker Alexander Cummings received a patent for a flush toilet with an all-important innovation: an S-bend in the drainage pipe,” said Dr. W. Bernard Carlson, professor in UVA’s Department of Engineering and Society.
A UVA professor is doing his part to try to help parents explain the importance of hand-washing to children. As an engineering professor at UVA, Keith Williams is trying to use his knowledge to teach necessary information in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite continuing supply shortages, UVA Health testing between 25 and 50 patients a day using its own COVID-19 test. Dr. Amy Mathers, an infectious disease physician and associate director of clinical microbiology, and Mendy Poulter, director of clinical microbiology, led the effort to create the tests at the University that were announced last week.
It’s been almost two weeks since the UVA’s men’s lacrosse team found out that it wouldn’t get a chance to defend its national championship. Two weeks that have provided little clarity.
A third-year computer science and mathematics double major student at the University of Virginia, Soukarya Ghosh has developed an application ‘TrackCorona‘ to track how far and wide across the world the virus has spread.
The pandemic is forcing the human species – and our brains – to do the opposite of what we’ve learned to do over millennia in order to survive. UVA neuroscientist James Coan compared the way the brain functions in times of stress to that of a salamander. “A salamander wants a cool, dark, wet place in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It’s adapted to the environment. It knows where to find food there. If a salamander walks out from under the rock into the sun on a hot dry day, it will have a stress response – and want to get back under the rock,” Coan said. “The dilemma for us today is that we’re all s...
Health experts around the world are offering advice to help deal with the undesirable effects of quarantines on mental health. Psychologist Claudia W. Allen is among them. She directs the behavioral science department at the UVA School of Medicine. She leads the Family Stress Clinic there as well.
Over the past week, Twitter users have been relying on Venmo to fundraise for unforeseen circumstances caused by COVID-19, reaffirming the cross-platform economy that exists between the two social media platforms, according to academic Lana Swartz. Swartz, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, and research assistant Megan Vickery have been analyzing the relationship between Twitter and Venmo since October 2016, as part of an ongoing study titled “Venmo as Social Media: A Qualitative Analysis.” Swartz said she built “a simple little script” to search Twitter’s API multiple ...
Even though national shortages are affecting healthcare workers nationwide, especially those on the front lines in emergency services, Eric Swenson, public relations officer at University of Virginia Health System says: "At this time, our medical personnel do have the supplies they need."
UVA Health is preparing for a wider spread of COVID-19 by making sure patients and essential health care workers are protected. As a first step, there are strict rules about the number of visitors allowed for patients. Anyone receiving end-of-life care can have two designated visitors. Pediatric patients and anyone in labor is allowed just one designated visitor. All visitors have to be screened before entering the hospital.