The Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, a new entrant into this year’s top 20, recorded a solid 713 average GMAT, just beating Duke Fuqua on 710.
Pamela Sue Sierschula died peacefully at her home in Charlottesville on Thursday after a courageous battle with breast cancer. She fulfilled a lifelong dream to earn her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree when her degree was conferred to her as the University of Virginia’s first graduate of the class of 2020 in a special virtual ceremony on March 25.
The lavender rooms were created at UVA thanks to post-anesthesia care unit nurse Nancy Farish, for any nurses who may be in an emotional crisis.
(Commentary by Peter Debaere, professor of business administration) The coronavirus is tearing across peoples and continents at a breathtaking pace. The world economy is coming to a halt. The International Monetary Fund projects a 3% decrease of global GDP in 2020 – the worst since the Great Depression, and more severe than the Great Recession.
Provost Liz Magill is chairing UVA’s Fall 2020 Committee, which is developing recommendations for the fall semester, President Jim Ryan announced Thursday. According to the release, the committee members will accept input from students, faculty and staff members, and Ryan expects to make an update about the fall semester no later than mid-June.
Zhen Yan, a professor of cardiovascular medicine who runs a molecular exercise physiology lab at the University of Virginia, has proposed exercise as a recommended measure alongside social distancing since his research suggests it may protect against acute respiratory distress syndrome, a top cause of death among COVID-19 patients.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, who noted that Trump received 82% the evangelical vote in 2016, asked, “How could someone who opposed Trump ever ascend to the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention?”
The vast majority of children need to be taught how to read. Even among those with no learning disabilities, only an estimated 5% figure out how to read with virtually no help, says Daniel Willingham, a psychologist at the University of Virginia and author of “Raising Kids Who Read.” Yet educators have not reached consensus on how best to teach reading, and phonics is the part of the equation that people still argue about most.
The nightmare scenario for Democrats is a repeat of 2016: Biden wins the popular vote but falls to Trump in the Electoral College, a possibility Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said is entirely possible.
Alexandria Reynolds, an assistant professor of psychology at UVA’s College at Wise, said there’s no “one-size-fits-all” answer as to why people might feel exhausted in self-quarantine. The answer likely depends on a number of factors, including their sleep habits prior to self-isolation, their mental state and their living situation.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared to lay the innocence claim of Emerson E. Stevens at the feet of Gov. Ralph Northam even as it cleared the way for a renewed round of federal habeas hearings in an April 15 decision. ... “I’ve never seen this before,” said Deirdre M. Enright, director of the Innocence Project Clinic at the UVA law school. She said her team had not yet filed a pardon petition with the governor on behalf of Stevens, but – in light of the 4th Circuit comments – they plan to do so now. ... Jennifer L. Givens – also of the UVA Innocence Clinic – argu...
“I think of humor as a form of cognitive play, so it helps to begin by considering the functions of play more generally. A huge range of species, including humans, do it. Play includes spontaneous and often exaggerated behaviors that do not contribute to immediate survival. During play, the brain releases opioids that feel good, help us recover from stress, and strengthen social bonds,” said Adrienne Wood, assistant professor of psychology and principal investigator of UVA’s Emotion and Behavior Lab.
(Commentary by Saikrishna Prakash, law professor) “In this moment, when we have no clear sense of who will be our next president, we are now in the perfect climate to consider what the American presidency has become over time and to reacquaint ourselves with what it ought to be.”
UVA Health, as one of several health care providers, has outlined infection control policies and procedures for contractors in an effort to minimize the impact of construction projects on the health of its patients. The system requires training and also sets some guidelines for contractors and their workers to follow during construction, which vary depending on the risk level of patients.
A UVA class with a focus on teaching high school students about climate change and the environment is going virtual to complete an art project made out of single-use plastics. The UVA WriteClimate project was set to debut an art installation constructed from buns made of disposable plastics on Earth Day. However, with coronavirus closing schools, WriteClimate has created a website to continue the work online. The group is still connecting with the students, who have taken their learning online.
Some two dozen UVA professors are among a network of scientists who’ve signed onto an open letter to Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam urging him to take stronger measures to not just stop the spread of COVID-19, but stamp it out. The letter says the goal needs to be “near zero” infections in the short-term.
Researchers at CDDEP, Princeton University and other leading institutions are part of a consortium led by UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute that is funded by a new $10 million, five-year US National Science Foundation grant.
Another popular dashboard from the University of Virginia – called The COVID-19 Surveillance Dashboard – provides a visualization of COVID-19 cases, recoveries, and deaths across the globe and is being constantly updated by the extremely busy team (they are currently on version 1.3.1).
A network of doctors, scientists, policy experts and concerned citizens have penned an open letter to Gov. Ralph Northam calling for more aggressive measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Virginia. The group, which includes dozens of professors with ties to UVA and Virginia Commonwealth University, said in the letter that Northam’s stay-at-home order has saved lives, but that more action is needed before reopening can be done safely.
Even though many students feel derailed by pandemic, Everette Fortner with the UVA Career Center thinks it can still be a productive summer. He said there are opportunities out there; they just might not be what students originally had in mind.