Project Implicit is a nonprofit organization — the product of a collaboration of researchers from University of Washington, University of Virginia, and Harvard — that aims to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the internet.
A year after the University of Virginia implemented its ERAS protocol for patients undergoing thoracic surgery, it reduced the use of post-surgical morphine equivalents by more than half, reduced length of stay by two days, and even cut hospital operating costs.
The University of Virginia’s future vision for several streets near Jefferson Park Avenue means that area will be a construction zone for a few more years. UVA opened its new Bond House on Brandon Avenue a week ago, and city councilors are poised to take action later this month that involves Valley Road and Monroe Lane.
Plans to extend the reach of UVA’s Grounds down Brandon Avenue are one step closer to becoming reality. On Tuesday night, city councilors reviewed several easements requested by the University to help move construction along.
Mr. Scott served as a member of the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia for seven years.
Five months after signing a law to form the state’s first African American Advisory Board, Virginia’s governor has picked who will serve on it. The board’s 18 members – 15 of whom must be African American – include Zyahna Bryant, a student at the University of Virginia.
This “deliciously repulsive” story (one reviewer’s scrumptious description) with “Big Little Lies” overtones (the same reviewer) is told in Bruce Holsinger’s compulsively readable new novel “The Gifted School.” It is perfect back-to-school reading, especially for parents of students in grades K-12. Now teaching English literature at the University of Virginia, Holsinger previously was at the University of Colorado, and he says Crystal is a “reimagined Boulder.”
Supplements that contain “live cultures” and strains of bacteria haven’t been shown to benefit digestion. “I rarely recommend people start taking probiotic supplements, simply because we just don’t have enough evidence to suggest it helps or hurts,” says Meagan Bridges, a clinical dietitian and nutrition support specialist at the University of Virginia Health System.
Child psychiatrist Dr. Jim B. Tucker, Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at UVA, joins WGN Radio’s Karen Conti. He directs the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies, where his research focuses on children who report memories of previous lives.
“Suddenly, there may be no more recess or choice time; they’re going from teacher to teacher with new sets of peers; and they’re feeling more achievement pressure,” explains Nancy Deutsch, director of UVA’s Youth-Nex Center and a leader of the Remaking Middle School Initiative, a national movement to improve middle school.
The best demographic rendering I have been able to find is the “dot racial map” from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. Its limitation is that it is based on 2010 census data, now almost a decade out of date. But even 10 years ago, the dot racial map depicts an influx of Hispanics almost surrounding South Dallas.
In a study conducted at the University of Virginia and Washington State University, scientists have revealed that the colonization of new environments after the last ice age has fundamentally altered the American bellflower’s DNA.
(Commentary) For three consecutive years, our commonwealth supported 10% increases in teacher pay for districts across the state. This is the kind of bold, systemic policy we need to recruit and retain highly qualified classroom teachers. With the support of Virginia Secretary of Education Atif Qarni, school superintendents across the state and institutions like the University of Virginia Curry School of Education and Human Development, we are starting to make progress.
UVA is working to close the living wage gap for employees. In March, the Board of Visitors voted to raise the minimum wage for full-time and benefit-eligible employees to $15 per hour starting January 1, 2020.
Last year, the top 100 Virginia employers filing applications to sponsor H-1B workers were seeking to hire nearly 7,850 people at an average salary of $82,643, according to employment website Myvisajobs.com. Top employers sponsoring foreign workers in the commonwealth last year included Capital One, which was hiring developers and software engineers, and the University of Virginia, which was seeking assistant professors.
Other academic medicine institutions are also providing various forms of telepsychiatry services. The UVA School of Medicine, for example, partners with outpatient clinics to offer remote support for appointments that can help prevent patients coming to the ED.
UVA researchers found that while private school students may be outperforming public school students, the difference is eliminated completely when you control for family income and parents’ level of educational achievement.
“It is highly likely that there are many more burials associated with this chief’s village,” says archeologist and retired UVA professor Jeffrey Hantman, an expert in Native American history who has written a book about Monacan history.
UVA first began testing a new safety app in 2017, and formally rolled it out to all students this summer. LiveSafe, a mobile emergency alert system, allows students, faculty and staff to report suspicious behavior and safety hazards on and off Grounds and to communicate with a police officer via text message.
The University of Virginia announced Thursday that it will join a growing number of colleges around the country this fall in selling alcohol at home football games. According to a press release, beer, wine and hard cider will be sold at beverage gardens located inside the east and west gates of Scott Stadium. The gardens will open to the public 90 minutes before kickoff and also will include water and light snacks.