When Dr. Lorna Breen, an emergency-room physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, died by suicide in April 2020, her family and colleagues were cratered. Corey Feist, who is Dr. Lorna Breen's brother-in-law and CEO of UVA Physicians Group, is fighting for mental-health support for health care professionals.
United Airlines seems to be taking that approach. Staff granted religious exemptions to the airline’s recently-announced workforce vaccine mandate will be placed on temporary unpaid leave starting next month. The government has an “easy case” to refuse religious exemptions for vaccines against infectious disease, wrote Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, in an article published last week on Australia-based news site The Conversation.
AUniversity of Virginia professor will receive an estimated $9 million over seven years to pursue whatever research he wishes as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, the organization has announced.
New Dominion Bookshop will host an in-person book talk with UVA professor and author Caroline E. Janney on Friday, Oct. 29, from 77-8 p.m.
As Democrats and Republicans duel over redistricting, line-drawers in more states are carving cities into multiple districts for political gain. Republicans need to flip as few as five seats to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022, a goal states could accomplish with redistricting alone, according to a University of Virginia Center for Politics report released in May.
Some 14 genes that can cause obesity, as well as three that can prevent it, were discovered by a team of scientists at the University of Virginia on Monday.
Some 14 genes that can cause obesity, as well as three that can prevent it, were discovered by a team of scientists at the University of Virginia on Monday.
Thirty-three US scientists are joining the ranks of Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers, the institute announced today (September 23). Jochen Zimmer, University of Virginia, who studies how polysaccharides are made and integrated into cells.
'At the end of the day, I do think there are subtle but real differences between Moderna and Pfizer,' Dr Jeffrey Wilson, an immunologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who was not involved in the study, told The Times.
Republican candidate for governor Glenn Youngkin has embraced charter schools and “school choice.” “It’s not the promised success in terms of magnitude that the case has been made for,” said Bob Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development. “These schools have shown real difficulty in scaling. None of them are the size of a reasonably small city school system.”
University of Virginia and Duke University researchers studying ecosystems stated that if the nation’s coastal white cedar forests continue to succumb to climate change, the wetlands will reach the “point of no return within the century.”
Some experts are still expecting that the Democrats will find some sort of agreement, if only because the alternative is so bad. “My assumption all along has been that Democrats know losing these bills is deadly for Biden, and for them,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Some experts are still expecting that the Democrats will find some sort of agreement, if only because the alternative is so bad. “My assumption all along has been that Democrats know losing these bills is deadly for Biden, and for them,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Aurora Innovation, a California-based self-driving technology company, this week begins testing autonomous trucks made by Bellevue-based Paccar, hauling FedEx loads between Dallas and Houston. Drivers also do more than just drive, said Raj Venkatesan, a professor at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
As of Sunday, there were 23 COVID positive patients in the Emergency Department with limited bed availability. All ICUs in the region, which includes Johns Hopkins, INOVA, MedStar and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, are taking 24 hours or more to accept transfers, the news release says.
This expansion is accelerated with the recent FDA approval of the first US clinical trial using SONOVEIN. In addition, the University of Virginia Cancer Center is conducting an investigation in breast cancer.
The University of Virginia announced Wednesday it has opened a campus in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, with plans to expand to other sites in the region. The campus in Northern Virginia will be called UVA|NOVA.
The University of Virginia is expanding in Arlington. UVA|NOVA in Rosslyn will be the school’s campus in Northern Virginia. It also plans to branch into other sites, according to a news release.
News reports suggest high return at many other schools, for example an extremely robust 49% at the University of Virginia.
“UNC-Chapel Hill’s staffing capacity for gender-based violence prevention lags far behind that of self-defined peer institutions, such as UC-Berkeley, the University of Maryland-College Park, the University of Virginia, and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor,” student leaders wrote in their proposal.