The University of Virginia says it has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions of 25% compared to 2009 levels, beating their own timeline by six years.
The Association of American Universities launched a PhD Education Initiative, which seeks to create a more student-centered culture for doctoral education, support diverse career paths and promote greater inclusion at its member institutions. Participating member campuses include UVA.
(Subscription required) So why are flagships taking action now? Sarah Turner, a UVA economist who studies education policy, said the institutions are adjusting some of the pricing policies they adopted in the wake of the Great Recession.
Rutgers University sold roughly $300 million in debt this week that doesn’t mature for a century, adding to a list of schools – including UVA – that have also sold “century bonds” in recent weeks. “The market presented UVA with a historic opportunity,” said Jennifer Wagner Davis, the school’s executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Supreme Court justices as a whole are prolific, authoring hundreds of books on a wide range of topics, said UVA historian Barbara Perry. Early justices, though, tended to stay clear of personal memoirs, writing instead treatises on the law or Supreme Court practice, said Perry, who has written about the Supreme Court.
Dr. Ryan Smith, a urologist at UVA Medical Center, is raising concerns about the safety of tattoo ink. He says the inks often contain known cancer-causing agents and toxins, and the FDA doesn't currently regulate it.
(Commentary co-written by Craig Volden, professor of public policy and politics) Congress is back from its August recess, and lawmakers face public demands for action on issues as varied as health care, infrastructure, gun safety and trade.
A new support group at the UVA Medical Center will give stroke survivors the chance to share their personal experiences and struggles with those who know what they’re going through.
The competition will bring together manufacturers, engineers and entrepreneurs amid heightened awareness of the risks of repetitive head trauma. “What we’ve heard is there are a number of far-reaching ideas on white boards that folks haven’t been able to prioritize due to current constraints,” said Jeff Crandall, chair of the NFL’s engineering committee and director of the UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics. “The challenge seems to be to find a way we can get them out into the marketplace.”
Maya Ewart, now a junior at the University of Virginia, knew something was wrong when she turned 14. She was spending too much time in front of the mirror, tearing apart her appearance. “Meals became snacks. I think I played it off as, ‘Oh, you can have it. Oh, I’m not hungry’ … but gradually no meal was complete.” Ewart confided in a friend, who urged her to tell her parents. She took her friend’s advice.
The relationship between menopause and increased pain levels is not well understood, says NAMS executive director Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of midlife health at the University of Virginia Health System. "Estrogen and other hormones have complex interactions with pain sensitivity," she says. "But whether you're developing a chronic pain condition for the first time or having flares of a pre-existing condition, these changing hormone levels affect both the symptoms of chronic pain and how you experience it."
Brian Balogh, a historian at the University of Virginia, feels that it’s important to keep 9/11 from becoming a federal holiday for other reasons. Balogh theorizes that making it a federal holiday could risk losing meaning for many Americans over time. He points to other federal holidays like Memorial Day and Presidents Day; which, instead of their original intent, have become associated with barbecues and mattress sales.
(Commentary by Marlene L. Daut, professor in the Department of African American Studies and in the American studies program, where she also serves as associate director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute) For women of color to succeed in academe all the way through the pipeline, they need support, programs, and opportunities targeted at the particular research and teaching obstacles blocking their way. They also need institutions to actively combat racism by purposefully reprimanding students, faculty, staff, and administrators who engage in racist behavior.
UVA Medical Center CEO Pamela Sutton-Wallace is stepping down from her role in November. She will join New York-Presbyterian Hospital as senior vice president and regional chief operating officer, a UVA Health spokesman confirmed.
The University of Virginia announced Tuesday that the CEO of the UVA Medical Center, Pamela Sutton-Wallace, will leave in November to take a position at a hospital in New York City.
Virginia First Lady Pam Northam toured a pair of pre-kindergarten classrooms in Suffolk Monday in an effort to highlight a new early childhood initiative and partnership between the Obici Healthcare Foundation and the University of Virginia.
A growing number of schools have started to look into reparations and restitution for descendants of the enslaved. But most of these schools have stopped short of supporting actual funds to provide compensation, instead launching studies to better understand how they profited or otherwise benefitted from the use of enslaved labor. These efforts have led to initiatives like Universities Studying Slavery, a University of Virginia-led consortium of roughly 50 schools that examines the history and legacy of slavery and its continued impacts in the present.
The Virginia Institute of Autism, UVA and Children's Dentistry of Charlottesville are studying how to make trips to the dentist less stressful for people with autism and their families.
The UVA Medical Center is getting ready to open its expanded emergency room and construction crews are working around the clock to finish the project with about a month to go. On Monday, representatives of the Emergency Department gave the media a tour of the facility.