UVA won the top prize at this year’s National Collegiate Cyber Defense Championship. It’s the team’s third title in a row, a feat only done once before in the competition’s 14-year history. The team overcame 10 other finalists and the coronavirus pandemic, which forced the championship to be held virtually for the first time ever.
Pampers chose UVA Health as one of 15 hospitals across the United States to receive a NICU technology grant. The grant will allow more families to connect with infants who are in the hospital’s care through the Angel Eye camera system.
With $10 million from the National Science Foundation, computer scientists at UVA, Virginia Tech and 13 other schools have begun to tackle a massive problem with the power of big data and computers. Chris Barrett at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute says now – in the 21st century – mankind is armed to confront the ancient problem of plagues.
UVA Police Chief Timothy Longo released a statement calling on officers to remember their oaths to the community in the wake of the death of George Floyd and the protests that have followed nationwide.
Three former Marines and a medical doctor – R.D. Huffstetler, of Charlottesville; John Lesinski, of Washington, Virginia; Claire Russo, of Earlysville, and Cameron Webb, of Charlottesville – are competing to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for the 5th U.S. Congressional District. Webb, who lives outside of Charlottesville, is a practicing physician, a professor of medicine and the director of health policy and equity at the University of Virginia. His wife is also a physician. Webb also holds a law degree, and he was a White House Fellow from 2016 to 2017.
A national health care publication has named the UVA Medical Center as one of the top hospitals in the country. Becker’s Hospital Review put the UVA Medical Center on its 2020 list of 100 great hospitals in America.
The COVID-19 coronavirus is creating a wealth of health-related hardships for health care consumers, and, while infection is obviously at the top of that list, there are many secondary challenges resulting from the pandemic, especially when it comes to social determinants of health. The virus' spread is exacerbating these challenges, but UVA Health is finding ways to address them by emphasizing a community-first approach.
Optical clocks can already be linked together physically through fiber-optic networks, but this approach still limits their usage in many electronic systems. The new achievement by the U.S. research team – with members from NIST, the University of Colorado-Boulder, and the University of Virginia – could remove such limitations by combining the performance of optical clocks with microwave signals that can travel in areas without a fiber-optic network.
Endurance exercise prevented the onset of symptoms without the need to restore frataxin production in a mouse model of Friedreich’s ataxia, a study shows, potentially paving the way for clinical research on the impact of endurance exercise in patients. Researchers at the UVA School of Medicine investigated the impact of endurance exercise in a mouse model of FA.
A local man is looking to raise $100,000 to help the family of one of his friends and co-workers after he passed away. Jermaine “Manky” Hussein recently passed away due to kidney disease, leaving behind three children and his wife. He was also a frontline worker at UVA Health.
Friends, family and coworkers of gathered at Azalea Park on Saturday afternoon to remember Jermaine "Manky" Hussein Jackson. The UVA Health employee died May 12 of kidney disease.
Starting next week, UVA will no longer provide pay for employees who are unable to work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, either remotely or in person. Beginning June 1, the University says “pay continuity” will no longer be available for those who can no longer perform their jobs due to COVID-19. That means emergency administrative leave is no longer available as a leave type.
For the third year in a row, a UVA team has won a national cybersecurity championship. The UVA School of Engineering’s student Cyber Defense Team competed against nine other finalist universities in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, which took place this past Friday and Saturday virtually.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Wednesday that Greece’s government was finalizing the list of countries that will be allowed to resume flights to Athens on June 15 and regional airports on July 1 and has already stated that Germany will be included. “It is unlikely that the (U.S.) will be on our list, given the data that we currently have,” Mitsotakis told a web event hosted by the Brookings Institution and UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.
UVA engineering students are proving they will be among the best cybersecurity professionals. For the third consecutive year, the student cyber defense team earned the national championships at the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, held virtually earlier this week.
Meanwhile, a 2017 study by Benjamin Castleman of the University of Virginia and Joshua Goodman, then at Harvard University, showed the benefit of intensive, personalized counseling on college enrollment and completion among low-income students. But sadly our nation’s education system doesn’t always support this reality.
On May 1, In Solidarity Online released its mixtape, “Isolate.” The students are encouraging listeners to donate to Charlottesville Community Cares, an organization that helps provide food, transportation, prescriptions and other essentials for people facing food insecurity and financial hardships while their workplaces are closed.
Some experts in religion law see a difference between retail stores with pedestrian traffic and houses of worship where congregants sit in pews for lengthy periods. "The relevant category is not retail, but meetings or gatherings," said Douglas Laycock, one of the nation’s leading scholars in religious liberty at the UVA School of Law. "If movies, theaters, political rallies, and other secular meetings are still closed, then churches can be closed, too."
Once just a way of getting from one place to another, the car has been turned into a mini-shelter on wheels, safe from contamination, a cocoon that allows its occupants to be inside and outside at the same time. “They are like the ultimate P.P.E. – you can really seal yourself into them,” said Peter D. Norton, a UVA associate professor who studies the history of technology.
Coaches are creatures of habit, and finding new routines quickly became the goal. With the cancellation of athletic activity occurring a few months ago, the UVA football program has settled into its new routine.