Kentlake High School senior Baeza Lakew has received a prestigious Jefferson Scholarship to attend the University of Virginia. It is one of the most highly selective merit scholarships in the nation and is worth more than $293,000 over four years. The Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia selected Baeza as one of 38 recipients of the award. She will commence her studies in the fall at the Charlottesville school.
A third-year nursing student at the University of Virginia comforted a Louisa County mother during labor complications and delivery. She has now reconnected with that mother. "I'm grateful we have been able to connect beyond that day," said UVA nursing student Madi Wilson.
(Commentary) When we try to break down the setting in which we find ourselves, the outer and the inner, we can soon become overwhelmed by the sheer amount of rich information and experiences around us. It’s in these moments that we learn to focus our attention on what’s important and ignore the superfluous. Timothy Wilson, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, estimates that our brain receives 11 million ‘bits’ of information in the form of sensory experiences each second.
(Editorial) Health officials are alarmed at the number of poisonings they’re seeing, often in people who thought they were collecting wild ramps to spice up their meals. Instead, they were grabbing and ingesting false hellebore, a noxious look-alike plant. “This is my twenty-second year at the University of Virginia, and we’ve only had two cases prior to this past year,” said Dr. Chris Holstege, medical director of the Blue Ridge Poison Center at UVA Health.
"That’s going to be a place that Biden is going to be tested and Democrats are tested with Trump no longer in office," Kyle Kondik, who analyzes House elections at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said of the two Michigan congressional districts. He added that he would consider both seats toss-ups for next year under current conditions.
“If Virginia was going to elect a Republican, this is the type of year that they would do it,” said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political newsletter produced by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “We see the Democrats as favored, but it’s not going to be a slam dunk. They’ll have to work for it.”
Larry Sabato, political science professor at the University of Virginia, acknowledged that Youngkin was not the most pro-Trump candidate in the field, but he said Youngkin still tied himself too closely to the former president to be viable in the general election in a state where Trump is deeply unpopular with moderates and lost by 10 points last year. He described the GOP candidates as "Trump-y, Trumpier and Trumpiest," with Youngkin as the "Trump-y" candidate.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said: “Liz Cheney has positioned herself to be a prominent spokesperson for the old-style Republican, but also a very conservative party that does not kneel before an authoritarian, which is what the others are doing. She deserves the position that she has has just earned. Now, that’s not to say she’s going to be elected president: she’s pretty far to the right. But how can you not admire her for sacrificing the power she has now and maybe her seat?”
But he won’t be appointed without a fight. Students and faculty are organizing to oppose him, for reasons including Perdue’s utter lack of experience in university management, his proud embrace of climate change denial, and his record of using his power to tamp down independent research by public scientists. “Sonny Perdue might be the least distinguished, least prepared potential university leader I’ve seen in my life,” says Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and a longtime observer of university governance politics.
With the adoption of affordable smartphones and social media, consumers got the tools to talk more openly with their friends about money, says Lana Swartz, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia who has written about the transformation of payment services into social media. Now transactions have become messages about all of human interactions, good or bad. It could be rent and nights out, or betrayal and even crime. "Money is really social," Swartz said. "But it doesn't mean just one thing."
UVA Health Chief Epidemiolost Dr. Costi Sifri said in a Friday morning call with reporters these new guidelines are a day we all have been waiting for. Sifri said this is why these COVID vaccines are so important so that we can safely get back as close to normal as possible.
Doctors at the University of Virginia are applauding the CDC for its new guidance, but say it is going to be up to the individual to weigh their personal risk. Dr. Costi Sifri with UVA Health says, although the announcement came quick, the science backs it up. He also says it is completely OK to still wear a mask if it gives you a level of comfort, but those who are fully vaccinated are safe from serious infection.
(Commentary co-written by Dr.Amita Sudhir, professor of emergency medicine) Earlier this month, the Ministry of Health issued revised home isolation guidelines. These guidelines are directed at patients and families seeking to isolate and monitor patients at home, as has long been the standard the world over. These guidelines are timely and acknowledge the need for home isolation and self-monitoring. Unfortunately, they also contain several recommendations which are at significant variance with the available evidence. In our view, these recommendations need to be urgently revisited.
(Commentary by Dr. Scott Heysell, associate professor of medicine, infectious diseases and international health; and Dr. Greg Townsend, associate professor of medicine, infectious diseases and international health and associate dean for diversity and medical education) The University of Virginia will join other public universities in the state to enact programs of scholarships or community-based economic development to benefit descendants of enslaved laborers. We applaud these important steps. However, we believe similar reparative approaches in health care should be championed, piloted and it...
Children ages 12-15 are now receiving COVID-19 vaccines through UVA Health. Appointments are required, but as of May 14, children between 12 and 15 are able to get the COVID-19 vaccine at the Seminole Square vaccination site.
On Friday, the University of Virginia Health System held a vaccine clinic from on the Downtown Mall in front of the Sprint Pavilion. Kids between the ages of 12 and 15 were able to get their first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, as long as they had a parent or guardian with them.
That changed with the cancer drug, Cetuximab. In a clinical trial, one in four patients developed severe allergic reactions to the drug. Some even died. Naturally, Cetuximab was investigated. University of Virginia's allergy department focused on one specific part of the drug. The key ingredient in Cetuximab is a specific carbohydrate that all non-primate mammals carry in their cell walls and tissues, Galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, or, if you're pressed for time, alpha-gal. … UVA researchers have also linked the alpha-gal allergies with a higher risk of heart disease.
That changed with the cancer drug, Cetuximab. In a clinical trial, one in four patients developed severe allergic reactions to the drug. Some even died. Naturally, Cetuximab was investigated. University of Virginia's allergy department focused on one specific part of the drug. The key ingredient in Cetuximab is a specific carbohydrate that all non-primate mammals carry in their cell walls and tissues, Galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, or, if you're pressed for time, alpha-gal. … UVA researchers have also linked the alpha-gal allergies with a higher risk of heart disease.
Adams’ letter cited Sen. Dan Sullivan’s rankings from the Lugar Center, a Washington D.C. think tank established by a former Republican Senator, and the Center for Effective Lawmaking, a joint project of Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia. The Lugar Center ranks him as the 16th most bipartisan senator and Center for Effective Lawmaking rank him as the fifth most effective Republican senator.
For the first time ever, UK parents can take an online course to learn about a mysterious area of the brain that houses something that could unleash their children's inner CEO: ‘Executive Functions.’ The course is heavily influenced by research from leading neuroscientists, including Professor Adele Diamond (Professor of Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia) and Dr Peg Dawson (Clinical psychologist from the University of Virginia and author of “Smart but Scattered”).