Rohann Asfaw, a cross-country and track runner for the University of Virginia, started his TikTok account in the fall of 2018. Within four months, he had amassed more than 100,000 followers. Asfaw, who turned 22 earlier this month and is studying to get a master’s in educational psychology, used the app to post videos of himself dancing and participating in other viral trends and memes. He now has 1.3 million followers on the platform after uploading several posts a week. But because of NCAA rules, Asfaw could not profit from any of the popularity he gained from the app.
Dr. Leigh Ann Lather, University of Virginia School of Medicine: Dr. Lather is a pediatric surgeon who treats conditions including fractures, sports injuries, scoliosis and hip dysplasia. Before joining UVA Health, she worked in an underserved area of eastern North Carolina for 13 years.
Through a year and a half of pandemic hardships, the medical community has by and large risen to meet the moment. Below are 75 of the most outstanding and inspirational pathology and laboratory medicine professionals of 2021, according to The Pathologist. Anne Mills, associate professor of pathology, was among those listed in the “Leading Roles” category.
Alexis Ehrhardt, president and CEO of the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce, will leave for a job at the University of Virginia, the chamber announced Wednesday. In her new role at UVA, she will be the executive director for state government relations and special assistant to the president. Her last day at the chamber is Sept. 15.
Siddhartha Angadi, a cardiovascular physiologist and assistant professor at the University of Virginia, said published data does show that transgendered individuals had a substantially higher risk of strokes and heart attacks.
In addition to conceptual injustices, there are the daily slights and insults from living in a white-dominated academic world. Oludamini Ogunnaike, an assistant professor of African religious thought and democracy at the University of Virginia, recalls an orientation at his first tenure-track job.
Practice self-care: Self-care is frequently prescribed to protect against burnout in any profession. “I think people are starting to recognize that teachers’ well-being is really critical to their ability to perform their jobs well,” Patricia Jennings, a professor of education at the University of Virginia and an expert in teacher stress, said recently.
The 10 states with the highest transmission are all in one region: the South. “If we’re going to talk about traveling to the U.K., then we should also caution Americans about traveling to Florida,” Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton of the University of Virginia told Yahoo Finance on July 21. “Right now, one in every five new COVID cases are coming out of Florida.” The state’s daily caseload has since doubled.
What we’re going through was identified by James Davison Hunter, a sociologist at the University of Virginia. His 1991 book, “Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America,” described a stark divide between “traditionalists” and “progressivists.”
(Video) UVA Political Science Chair Jennifer Lawless appeared on GoLocal LIVE on Tuesday to discuss the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — and the chaos and humanitarian crisis that has followed.
The other key question is whether voters will forgive the execution of the withdrawal to reward the larger goal of ending a 20-year war. “We’re getting out of an unpopular war abroad,” says Larry Sabato, founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “We’re getting out of it in a messy fashion, but we’re getting out of it. … I’m not saying Biden will be boosted by it,but I am saying, if he is hurt by it, it will be temporary and this will be replaced by other issues that go to the heart of American life, like the pandemic [and] the economy.”
Robert J. Orth, a professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at the College of William and Mary, had been working since the 1970s in nearby Chesapeake Bay, where seagrass still survived. Together with researchers from the University of Virginia, Orth started planting back eelgrass seeds from Chesapeake Bay into the smaller bays. “We have about four times more fish in the seagrass meadows than outside [them] or before the seagrass meadows were restored,” says Karen McGlathery, a professor at the University of Virginia, whose role in the project is to understand the benefits of seagra...
Increasing burdens of disclosure and governance regulations are often cited as the reason that the number of public firms in the U.S. has been declining in recent decades. Using the fact that many public firm regulations apply only to firms whose float (the value of shares held by public investors) exceeds a certain threshold, Michael Ewens of the California Institute of Technology, Ting Xu of the University of Virginia and Kairong Xiao of Columbia University examine the bunching of firms around these thresholds to infer the costs of regulation. Their findings suggest that non-regulatory facto...
This drive to add things to our lives is well researched, particularly by Dr. Leidy Klotz, a UVA associate professor of engineering systems and environment, whose research focuses on behavioral science, design, and sustainable engineering. In his recent book, “Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less,” Klotz asserts that subtracting from a situation is less intuitive when it comes to problem-solving, which tends to make implementing solutions that involve removing elements – or simplifying circumstances – harder to practice when compared to adding elements.
Research shows that having a childhood best friend can play a significant role in improving our mental health well into adulthood. UVA researchers tracked the mental health of 169 participants at the age of 15, 16, and 25. By age 25, they found those who had had higher-quality close friendships as a teenager tended to have lower social anxiety, an increased sense of self-worth and fewer symptoms of depression.
UVA’s Darden School of Business ranked 19th, with 91.1% of job-seeking students finding work within three months of graduation.
There will be some COVID-19-dictated limitations on the University Transit Service. “The bottom line is that transit operations are still being impacted by COVID-19,” said Rebecca White, director of UVA’s Department of Parking and Transportation. “It still affects our protocols. Academic routes were adjusted to emphasize connections from endpoints to Grounds.”
Friedman worked with the University of Virginia to turn a donor’s $5 million gift into a $9.5 million scholarship for students transferring from PVCC and the creation of an inter-college liaison to help shepherd students wanting to transfer. The Piedmont Scholars program will provide scholarships to 25 PVCC students who graduate with associate’s degrees and transfer to UVA. The scholarships are part of the University Achievement Award program.
(Commentary) UVA law professors Joshua Fischman and Michael A. Livermore study the potential impact of U.S. News & World Report’s proposal to include the number of times a professor’s work was cited in its methodology for ranking law schools. They say it would result in less intellectually diverse law school faculties and law students who are less prepared for complex social and economic realities of practice.
Much of the census data released last week paints portraits of certain communities that simply make no sense, according to analysts with UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. It’s the result of a new methodology the Census Bureau used to protect people’s privacy against sophisticated data attacks. And though it sounds wonky, it could have serious implications for the commonwealth’s decision-making. “It can’t be accepted as fact,” said Hamilton Lombard, a research and policy analyst.