With more and more international students on American campuses, colleges also have to communicate with parents from different countries and cultures. Justin O’Jack, who runs the University of Virginia’s office in Shanghai, regularly translates messages about Covid-19 into Chinese and posts them on WeChat, a popular Chinese social-media platform.
Nearly half of older adults take one or more medications they don’t medically need, increasing the risk for harmful drug interactions. Today on Wellness Wednesday on All Sides with Ann Fisher: polypharmacy in older adults, artificial intelligence and running form as well as the case against stretching. Guests include Laurie Archbald-Pannone, M.D., Associate Professor, Division of General, Geriatrics, Palliative, and Hospital Medicine, University of Virginia.
Researchers at the University of Virginia made a key discovery that could potentially change the course for those who are suffering from obesity and high blood pressure.
When it comes to COVID-19, college campuses are on the front lines of what could be an epidemic in this country. Many, such as the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech, are limiting school-related travel and asking community members to quarantine themselves if they’re returning from China, Italy, Iran or Japan.
The University of Virginia announced Tuesday that it will aim to support and develop 1,000 to 1,500 affordable housing units in Central Virginia over the next 10 years. The effort comes amid a series of efforts by President Jim Ryan to improve town-gown relations, such as increasing the university’s minimum wage for full-time and contract employees, which took effect Jan. 1.
The University of Virginia wants to help people looking for affordable housing in Charlottesville and the urban ring of Albemarle County. According to a release, UVA President Jim Ryan announced that the university has established a goal to support the development of 1,000 to 1,500 affordable housing units on land owned by UVA and the UVA Foundation over the next ten years.
The COVID-19 virus may change our lives in ways we can only begin to imagine. Believe it or not, some of them might even be positive. Consider the impact of today’s stories upon Virginia’s higher-ed and transportation systems. The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and James Madison University may follow the lead of Harvard and other Ivy League institutions in moving classes online.
The COVID-19 virus may change our lives in ways we can only begin to imagine. Believe it or not, some of them might even be positive. Consider the impact of today’s stories upon Virginia’s higher-ed and transportation systems. The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and James Madison University may follow the lead of Harvard and other Ivy League institutions in moving classes online.
The University of Virginia announced today that it will develop 1,000 to 1,500 affordable housing units in the next 10 years on University-owned land. The University plans to select development partners “through a competitive process.”
Amid fears of the novel coronavirus that spread to Virginia this week, the University of Virginia and other state universities are considering moving classes online — a move already being taken by several major universities across the nation that have been cancelling in-person classes, including Harvard University, Columbia University and Princeton University.
When she was a senior resident in pediatrics, Dr. Irène Mathieu – now a pediatrician and assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia, a poet, and a humanities editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine – often brought a poem with her during rounds to read to her fellow residents when they had a free moment. As she read, she says, “I would watch my co-workers in the ICU just close their eyes, and this peace would come over them.”
Concerns about potential transmission of the virus led organizers on Tuesday to cancel the Virginia Festival of the Book, the five-day extravaganza of the written word slated for March 18 to March 22.
(Commentary by Nicholas Sargen, lecturer at UVA’s Darden School of Business) The conflict over oil production between Saudi Arabia and Russia this has sent oil prices plummeting and comes on the heels of growing worries about the spread of coronavirus. This marks the first time the global economy has been buffeted by simultaneous supply shocks. The two are related.
(Commentary by Laurie Archbald-Pannone, associate professor of geriatric medicine) Along with the risk of coronavirus infection comes the risk of social isolation. How should older people balance these competing recommendations? During a time of social distancing, here are four ways for elders to stay socially connected.
Are two athletic categories inadequate? Some researchers think the future lies in creating more, while others propose changing competition rules so that everyone can play against each other. Alan Rogol of UVA and Myron Genel of Yale University, both professors emeritus and pediatric endocrinologists, believe that the influence of “T” is less important than the sum of hormones, genetics, training, coaching, equipment, personality and opportunity, among other things.
As the sun began to set on March 1, more than 100 people gathered in front of the Albemarle County Courthouse. At an event coordinated by Beloved Community Cville and opened and closed by UVA professor Jalane Schmidt and community organizer Don Gathers, the crowd traveled from the courthouse to three sites around Court Square where people were sold. The event, along with one earlier in the day at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center that featured Bree Newsome and Zyahna Bryant, began eight days of commemoration for Liberation and Freedom.
As the sun began to set on March 1, more than 100 people gathered in front of the Albemarle County Courthouse. At an event coordinated by Beloved Community Cville and opened and closed by UVA professor Jalane Schmidt and community organizer Don Gathers, the crowd traveled from the courthouse to three sites around Court Square where people were sold. The event, along with one earlier in the day at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center that featured Bree Newsome and Zyahna Bryant, began eight days of commemoration for Liberation and Freedom.
A current show at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia offers American viewers a chance to see works by indigenous artists from a remote part of Australia’s Northern Territory known as Arnhem Land. The show is largely drawn from the trove of the Miami-based collectors Debra and Dennis Scholl and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, which collaborated on “The Inside World.” The Kluge-Ruhe is also part of the University of Virginia.
The famed black artist Jacob Lawrence painted a multi-panel series from 1954-56 whose pieces were scattered over time. They have now been reunited. “The series resonates because we’re in a moment where so much important work is being done to recover histories that we were never taught,” said Austen Barron Bailey, chief curator of Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Ark., who co-curated the exhibition alongside Elizabeth Hutton Turner, a professor at the University of Virginia.
Climate change has fed awareness of air pollution – the problems caused by greenhouse gases – but there’s another source of pollution that’s taking a toll on humans and wildlife. UVA astronomy professor Kelsey Johnson is calling on local, state and national leaders to act against light pollution.