The University of Virginia is no longer requiring students to get vaccinated against COVID-19 after the state’s recently elected attorney general said colleges and universities do not have the legal authority to mandate the vaccine.
The University of Virginia Cancer Center is being recognized by the National Cancer Institute. As of Tuesday, UVA’s center is one of only 52 to receive this designation. As a result, there can now be more specialized cancer treatments available at UVA Health.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the University of Virginia recently completed a new study analyzing how different booster seat designs affect a seat belt’s ability to protect children during a crash. The study, which used computer simulations to see how various boosters interact with a 6-year-old child, found that low-stiffness booster seats, like inflatable boosters, present an increased likelihood of children sliding under the lap belt.
(Video) Audrey Soape and her family have been fans of Philadelphia Eagles safety [and UVA alumnus] Anthony Harris since he played for the Minnesota Vikings. After Audrey’s father and grandfather died, Harris traveled all the way to Texas to take her to a daddy-daughter dance.
Thomas Edward Thompson, professor emeritus and former chair of the biochemistry department at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, died Nov. 16, 2021, at the age of 95 in Charlottesville.
For people who live in the D.C. region, salad restaurant Sweetgreen and fitness center Solidcore are most likely familiar business names. Those two companies, which started in the region, now reach far beyond it – and both have something in common: They have seen great success with a Northern Virginia native [and UVA alumnus] in a leadership role, Bryan Myers.
Not only will Charlottesville and Albemarle County have fewer House of Delegate districts to keep track of, the two they now vote in exclusively comprise the Democrat-leaning area. “The blue island” of Charlottesville and Albemarle had been “split in such a way that it elects just one Democrat to the state House,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a University of Virginia publication that analyzes politics. He surmises that due to the new maps, the area could now elect two Democrats into the state’s legislative body.
(Commentary; video) As you watch the following video of Del. Sally Hudson (D-Charlottesville) rebutting hard-right Del. Nick Freitas (R-Culpeper) on the minimum wage supposedly hurting workers, keep in mind that Del. Hudson is a labor economist with a Ph.D. in economics from MIT, a BA in economics from Stanford, and is an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Virginia. So obviously, Hudson knows what she’s talking about on this subject.
“It’s not the book of Matthew that tells us why the minimum wage doesn’t hurt low wage workers,” said Delegate Sally Hudson, a Democrat of Charlottesville. “It’s the book of Joshua and of David, not the prophets, but Joshua Angrist and David Card. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics last year for 30 years of work, establishing that the predictions that raising the minimum wage lowers net income from low wage workers, just don’t pan out in practice.”
The same sniping takes place on the Supreme Court. Richard Re, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said aAll kinds of judges are taking an edgier tone because it attracts media attention.
Professor Jennifer L. Lawless, chair of the University of Virginia Department of Politics, ran against Langevin in the 2006 Democratic primary when she was a Brown University professor. Lawless – who has written six books, including “It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don’t Run for Office” – said that when women run for office, they are just as likely to win as men if all other factors are equal. And in recent campaign cycles, there is no evidence that women face bias from voters or the media on the campaign trail, she said.
Pneumonia caused by COVID-19 is not an allergic reaction, Dr. Kyle Enfield, a pulmonary and critical care physician at the University of Virginia, told USA TODAY.
Faculty and staff members at the University of Virginia increased what they gave to help nonprofits across Virginia. According to a release, they were able to donate through the Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign beginning in October. CVC is a statewide effort enabling state employees to make charitable donations through their employer. During the 2021 campaign, UVA’s participation increased by 30% over the previous year, with about 74% of gifts made by UVA employees supporting local nonprofits and charities.
(By Dr. Leon Moores, professor of medical education) According to the global executive search firm, WittKieffer, the demand for physicians to lead hospitals and health systems has been increasing over the past three years. What is driving this demand? Some say that it is the industry’s move to value-based care, which focuses on quality care versus volume-based care.
(By Anastasia Brodovskaya, postdoctoral fellow in neurology, and Jaideep Kapur, professor of neuroscience and neurology) Many people with epilepsy also experience memory problems. Patients often experience retrograde amnesia, where they cannot remember what happened immediately before their seizure. Electroconvulsive therapy, a form of treatment for major depression that intentionally triggers small seizures, can also cause retrograde amnesia. So why do seizures often cause memory loss?
Earlier Monday, Virginia coach Tony Elliott said his Cavaliers would play a few times on non-traditional days during the week in his first season at the helm of the program. He had an advanced look at UVA’s full slate ahead of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s schedule release show Monday night on ACC Network. And his first conference game as Hoos coach will be played on a Friday.
He was diligent and thorough in the pursuit of assembling his initial staff. Virginia coach Tony Elliott needed more than a month after he was introduced as the Cavaliers’ headman to complete the task of hiring assistant coaches. “It took probably a lot longer than some people wanted, but I wanted to make sure that I got the right pieces on the bus,” Elliott said, “and in the right seats so we can hit the ground running with this over this upcoming year.”
At the University of Virginia Medical Center, software has reduced room cleaning time by 25-30%, since fewer workers are needed. The savings from the increased efficiency have been used to buy more UV light cleaning technology, which in turn, reduces health care-associated infections.
The University of Virginia Medical Center is teaming up with a Waynesboro family to help others going through a devastating diagnosis a bit easier. The Henke family had its life turned upside down after a shocking diagnosis for their now-7-month-old son, Max. Now they’re working hard to help other families avoid the financial hardship that an infantile spasms diagnosis can cause.
The term “Culture War” began to be used in the United States in the 1920s when urban and rural American values were at odds with the interwar wave of immigration. However, the term would gain traction during the early 1990s, when James Davison Hunter, a sociologist at the University of Virginia, reintroduced the expression in his 1991 publication, “Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America.” Hunter described what he saw as a dramatic realignment and polarization that had transformed American politics and culture. It was there that the range of issues expanded to gay rights and abortion righ...