From a Q&A with former UVA tennis star Somdev Devvarman: “When I joined college at the University of Virginia, the pool was really strong. I got a degree and a scholarship. But I also got to evolve as a person and as a player. I had three coaches, eight or 10 teammates. If we got injured, we had experts to make sure we were fine and back on court. It was the most important part of my tennis life. Those four years really gave me the opportunity to grow, to mature, and become a better player. Tennis is a lonely sport, but to have teammates and be working towards a common goal can work wonder...
For those students who were lucky enough to still do a virtual internship, there were new challenges: Many found it difficult to feel connected with their co-workers and adjust to the new environment while sitting in their apartment or childhood home. Susie Juarez, a 2021 graduate from the University of Virginia, explained that it was difficult to connect with her fellow interns while working in a remote internship during the summer of 2020. “I really didn’t meet any other interns,” Juarez admitted. “People didn’t talk to each other on a daily basis. It was like a bunch of strangers meeting fo...
An examination of more than a decade of observations made by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves, a project that is using pulsar timing to hunt for gravitational waves, for example, found no evidence of planets around a set of 45 fast rotating pulsars. The search could have revealed planets as light as the Moon in orbital periods of 1 week to almost 5 years, said Erica Behrens, a graduate student at the University of Virginia who conducted the study during an internship at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. “Since we’ve seen so few, it seems like they’re pre...
At American trials last month, Jacoby was second to King in 1:05.28. In the month since, she traveled to the U.S. training camp in Hawaii — and got better. Who knows how much a teenager can change when put in an entirely new environment and exposed to the best swimmers in the world? “I think it helped a lot,” said Alex Walsh, a first-time Olympian from the University of Virginia who turns 20 later this week. “I think a bunch of us, this is our first or second major international meet, so having that kind of camp just to be able to get to know one another and also bond with the vets and hear wh...
(Video) The U.S. is facing another surge of COVID-19 fueled by the Delta variant and unvaccinated Americans. More than 97% of people admitted to hospitals for the coronavirus weren’t vaccinated. Dr. Taison Bell, an assistant professor of infectious diseases, international health and pulmonary critical care at the University of Virginia, spoke about rare breakthrough cases where vaccinated people contract the virus and what could be next for cities if more people aren’t vaccinated.
(By Margaret Riley, professor of law, public health sciences and public policy) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Privacy Rule is a federal law prohibiting health care providers, businesses and the people working with them – including administrative staff, laboratories, pharmacies, health insurers and so on – from disclosing your health information without your permission. When people talk about HIPAA, they typically refer to the Privacy Rule provision established in 2003, which is just one part of a broader law initially passed by Congress in 1996.
(Commentary) Thomas Talhelm of the University of Virginia led a study of Han Chinese communities that compared the worldviews of people living in rice-growing regions to those in wheat-growing areas. The findings suggested that growing rice leads a culture to become more cooperative, more focused on collective harmony, and more aware of interdependence, while growing wheat creates a culture that places a higher value on independence and individualism.
Engineers at University of Texas at Austin and University of Virginia developed a light detector that can amplify weak light signals and reduce noise to improve the accuracy of lidar. “Autonomous vehicles send out laser signals that bounce off objects to tell you how far away you are. Not much light comes back, so if your detector is putting out more noise than the signal coming in you get nothing,” said Joe Campbell, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia School of Engineering.
UVA swimmer Kate Douglass made her Olympic debut Monday and had a successful preliminary swim of the 200-meter individual medley at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Douglass swam a personal-best 2:09.16 to win her heat over China’s Yu Yiting and Japan’s Ohashi Yui. The UVA sophomore will be the top seed in the event going into the semifinals Tuesday night. Her UVA teammate Alex Walsh was second in her heat to advance to the semifinals.
According to a doctor with UVA Health, if a fully vaccinated person contracts COVID-19 they still need to quarantine. Dr. Costi Sifri says preliminary research suggests the viral load is less in people who are fully vaccinated. However, there is still a chance you can spread the virus even if you have the shot in your system.
When the COVID-19 pandemic sent people inside, medical appointments made the transition to a virtual environment. For the UVA Medical Center, the transition was an easy one. “We have a very long history of providing telemedicine services to citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia,” Director for UVA Center of Telehealth Karen Rheuban said. The pandemic allowed UVA to expand its virtual services.
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus unseated the University of Virginia Medical Center as the best hospital in Virginia in U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of the best hospitals in the nation, which was released Tuesday. Ranked No. 2 in the state, UVA Medical Center ranked nationally in five children’s specialties: No. 36 for neonatology, No. 37 for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery, No. 42 for pediatric diabetes and endocrinology as well as for pediatric orthopedics and No. 43 for pediatric urology. It was also recognized as the No. 1 hospital for children’s care in Virginia.
Emmet Street near Ivy Road will be completely shut down during the nighttime hours this week. The road will close at 9 p.m. and reopen at 4 a.m., beginning Monday night. This is part of the University of Virginia’s Ivy Corridor Project.
The University of Virginia wants to hear from some business owners about how to remove barriers to doing business with it. According to a release, UVA is looking for feedback from local small, woman-owned, and minority-owned businesses. Such businesses that currently do business with UVA and those that are interested in doing business with the University can join in on online interactive sessions.
A just-released analysis by demographer Lyman Stone and UVA sociologist Brad Wilcox for the Institute for Family Studies suggests dire predictions of a long-term crisis-related drop in births similar to what followed the Great Recession have been headed off.
(Video) Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA assistant professor of medicine in the divisions of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, discusses the latest surge in the Delta variant.
The Virginia football team was tabbed to finish fifth in the ACC’s Coastal Division in a preseason poll of 147 ACC media voters released Monday morning. The Cavaliers received two votes to win the division and one vote to win the ACC.
[UVA alumnus] Dr. Robert Vranian has spent decades looking beyond the heart and the vessels connected to it to see the whole person, the same way he assessed his hometown of West Point as a child.
(Podcast) In this episode of “New Books Network,” G.P. Gottlieb talks to Karen Salyer McElmurray, who has an MFA in fiction writing from UVA, about her new novel, “Wanting Radiance.”
(Transcript) Moise faced a lot of opposition in the country, too. He faced accusations of mass corruption and increasing authoritarianism. Particularly of late, protests were continual, calling for his resignation. He was a very polarizing figure. I spoke with Robert Fatton, a political science professor at the University of Virginia, about Moise's legacy. He says this democratic defender portrayal - he called it a gross exaggeration. He says all you have to do is look at the conditions of Haitians four years since Moise took office.