Before the invention of the automobile, streets were seen as public spaces with a variety of uses and users, pedestrians and children at play among them. In “Fighting Traffic,” associate professor of history at the University of Virginia, Peter Norton, takes us back to the period from 1910 to 1930, when all this changed.
While cervical cancer is very treatable in the United States, it can be quite deadly in low- and middle-income countries due to a lack of resources and screening. So Dr. Rebecca Dillingham and associate professor of nursing Emma Mitchell created a smartphone app called Azulado that helps women in developing countries have better access to screening and other resources needed to fight cervical cancer.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine is teaming up with a Charlottesville company to create a new burn treatment. Typically when skin is burned, the area surrounding it is impacted and dead, too. This new treatment is a cream that is put directly on severe wounds. “Our hope is that by doing this, we can actually limit the amount of skin grafts people have to get and be able to treat especially like warfighters,” Dr. Mark Roeser said.
“Confirmed case growth is slowing or declining in some states and in some regions of Virginia,” researchers at the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute said in their latest COVID-19 update released Friday. “This fits the pattern of rapid rise and decline seen in South Africa and other countries hit early by the Omicron variant.”
For some in academia, “the administration” is defined as a shadowy, amorphous group of suit-wearing, exorbitantly paid employees. Understanding who and what is “the administration” can provide avenues to question decisions effectively, challenge assumptions and influence change. … The University of Virginia has both a leadership team and an executive cabinet. The president’s council, often a much larger group, can include senior administrators and some (but not all) of the next level of administrators, as with the University of Virginia’s leadership team.
If you want to work at any of the FAANG companies (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google), focus on the six MBA programs that placed the most grads in order: Northwestern University (Kellogg), the University of Michigan (Ross), the University of Chicago (Booth), Harvard Business School and the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), which tied for fourth place, and Duke University (Fuqua) in fifth place. The next five positions are held by Columbia Business School, MIT Sloan, New York University Stern, Stanford and UC Berkeley Haas (tied), and the University of Virginia Darden.
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The CEOs of Augusta Health and University of Virginia Medical Center have joined together to urge unvaccinated individuals throughout the Shenandoah Valley to get vaccinated, according to a joint statement. Citing a surge in COVID-19 cases among mostly unvaccinated patients due to the omicron variant, the two organizations are banding together to urge more people to get the vaccine to “show respect and appreciation for health care workers.”
His trips across the commonwealth’s interstates from one high school to the next and onto another over the last week have been deliberate. Tony Elliott’s aim, at least from the viewpoint of those prep coaches who have received visits from the new Virginia head coach and his staff, is to change where the Cavaliers have recently fallen in the pecking order on the recruiting trail within the border of their home state.
(Audio and transcript) Most people who get omicron don’t end up in the hospital, and the risk of hospitalization is lower than it was with the delta variant. But when Dr. Taison Bell looks around his hospital at the University of Virginia, things don’t look any better.
The continuing COVID-19 surge of patients into area hospitals is placing a greater burden on already over-burdened health care workers, the chief executive officers of the UVA Medical Center and Augusta Health said Monday. “Our health care workers – your loved ones, friends and neighbors – are at their breaking point,” they wrote in a joint statement.
Brooker taught at several art schools over the course of his career, including the University of Virginia. In a 2017 PBS profile, Brooker said, “Every school that I’ve gone to, I was the first Black person in that department. University of Virginia, I caught hell.”
People inside and outside Liberty were left asking what had caused Falwell, a married father of three, to completely self-destruct in public. He was a University of Virginia–trained lawyer and successful real estate developer. He rescued Liberty from near bankruptcy and transformed the nonprofit university into a financial powerhouse with more than 100,000 students and a $1.7 billion endowment. Over the course of a few months, he blew it all up.
A member of the University of Virginia national champion women’s lacrosse team now has an app with Charlottesville ties. Caitlin Iseler and her team have created Happyly, a wellness app. It connects families with free activities in the area they’re in.
Health researcher [and UVA alumna] Sara Gomez-Trillos has helped to increase awareness and use of genetic counseling and testing for Latina women who are at increased risk for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome, work that may one day benefit her home country of Colombia.
Toya Corbett has been appointed associate vice president for strategic initiatives for student affairs at the University of Virginia. Dr. Corbett previously served as the assistant vice president for student affairs for the University of North Carolina System.
(Commentary) Teachers are on the front lines of this spending dearth and should be prioritized in any funding policy changes. The added stress of educating through a pandemic has exacerbated the extent to which Tennessee’s teachers are massively undercompensated. In the words of Robert Pianta, the University of Virginia’s former School of Education and Human Development dean, “Education is not different from other fields. You get what you pay for.”
“I don’t think there will be ‘pressure’ to nominate a woman for a few reasons. First, Rhode Island has come a long way in terms of women’s representation. A woman has served as governor. Women are the lieutenant governor and Secretary of State. Multiple women are running for governor this cycle,” said Lawless, who today is the chair of the political science department at the University of Virginia. “It’s hard to make the case that women don’t have a seat at the political table. Although there hasn’t been a woman in the congressional delegation in 30 years, women are no longer excluded from ele...
The abolition of prison gerrymandering did have a small effect on district sizes, said University of Virginia demographer Hamilton Lombard. However, the changes did not significantly impact district maps.
(Audio and transcript) UVA historian Neeti Nair points out similarities between the political climate in India and white supremacists’ increasing boldness during the presidency of Donald Trump.
(Commentary) James Loeffler of the University of Virginia, writing in The Atlantic, offers a telling sketch of the historical origins of the phrase “Judeo-Christian Tradition.” And it turns out to be a lot less historical than one might expect. Loeffler notes that the very idea would have been out of step with most American Christians in the 18th and 19th centuries, for they typically looked for the conversion of the Jews rather than seeing them as cultural partners or equals.