Virginia authors Chip Jones, Brian Castleberry and Annie Kim were the big winners in the 24th annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards announced Saturday night. Hosted by Adriana Trigiani, the awards were held virtually this year, for the second year in a row, due to the pandemic. Kim won the poetry award for her collection “Eros, Unbroken.” She was born in Seoul and lives in Charlottesville, where she works as an assistant dean at the University of Virginia School of Law.
According to Siddhartha Angadi, an assistant professor of education in UVA’s Department of Kinesiology, plenty of research demonstrates how exercise transforms fat. “Exercise makes your fat fit, if that makes sense. And it’s kind of cool,” he says. “Data and investigations that show that when you exercise, you beige the white fat, so it starts to look more like brown. It’s not white-brown, but it’s not white-white. And so, it fits somewhere in the middle. But that’s what gives it its beneficial metabolic properties.”
Hispanic communities, like the Salvadorans in the D.C. area, have been establishing roots in Virginia for decades. In fact, the highest concentration of the state’s Hispanic population resides in Northern Virginia. But growth has happened all over the state. “The interesting thing is that most locations have seen a growth in the Hispanic population, even though the percentages may not be very high,” said Qian Cai, director at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
There are common-sense and research-backed reasons to be mindful of overpraising, of course. No student is always deserving of praise, and even students in elementary school can tell when praise is too lavish. When you use praise “for your own ends or even in a conscious attempt to help the student, it is likely to go wrong,” cautions Daniel Willingham, a psychologist at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) The burnout shows in the shrinking corps of nurses as many exit the profession or find other specialties within medicine, as Ashley did. “We have a lot of nurses that are leaving the bedside to go to other areas because of the stress of seeing patients die of COVID day after day after day,” said Mesha, a nurse at the UVA Medical Center. “And with this current surge of (the) delta (variant), the patients are younger, and they’re getting sicker faster, and it takes a toll on you,” she said.
A record 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs in August -- the most since the Department of Labor started tracking this data in 2000. “You have a bunch of sectors that just pay minimum wage and labor is just going to veer over to where it finds the most profit,” said Vidya Mani, an associate professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
(Video) An FDA advisory panel has endorsed Johnson and Johnson’s booster shot for some 15 million Americans. Mireya Villarreal has the details on the panel’s decision. Dr. Taison Bell, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia, joins CBSN’s Lana Zak with his analysis.
Several said they thought the J&J vaccine should have been considered a two-dose vaccine from the start. “This does look like a second dose vaccine,” said Dr. Michael Nelson of the University of Virginia school of medicine.
Consensus can be difficult. Two conservatives on the 38-member body — Jack Goldsmith of Harvard Law School and Caleb Nelson of the UVA School of Law — have resigned, the White House acknowledged Friday. “We respect their decision and very much appreciate the significant contributions that they made during the last 5 months in terms of preparing for these deliberations,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said.
Two conservative commissioners quit the panel, the White House said Friday. Jack Goldsmith, a conservative who worked in the George W. Bush administration, and Caleb Nelson, a UVA professor and former clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, left the commission. The reasons for their departures were not immediately clear. In an email to CNN, Nelson wrote, “I can confirm that I resigned from the Commission, but I don’t have any further comment (other than to say that it was an honor for me to be part of it).”
The University of Virginia Cancer Center is working to increase racial and ethnic diversity in cancer center treatment clinical trials. UVA says ethnic and minority groups are under-represented in cancer research. The center is working with several different cancer groups to boost participation in clinical trials among minority communities.
The diagnosis was clear: UVA Health’s emergency department was seeing 60,000 patients a year, a figure 50% higher than its intended capacity. Tasked with devising a solution was longtime collaborator Perkins&Will, and its 440,000-square-foot expansion—the largest in the modern history of UVA’s medical system and the winner of the IIDA competition’s health care category—would add 180 much-needed beds to the Charlottesville campus.
Starting Monday, UVA Health will be offering both boosters and third doses of COVID-19 vaccines for those who are eligible. This is a difference between the two, and you must meet requirements listed by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to get an extra shot.
UVA Health announced its efforts to help the incoming Afghan refugees by offering them clinics by appointment, as well as providing resources for long-term care.
The book I ended up reading to figure this out was “Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate” by William F. Ruddiman, professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. In this book, Ruddiman explores a variety of scientific evidence, including data from ice cores, ocean sediments, and astronomical information. Then, he compares this to evidence of human activities to see how much impact we’ve had over the last 10,000 years.
Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Virginia found that after the introduction of a mandatory “female” quota for the board of directors (40%), the liquid assets of 104 Norwegian public companies decreased 2.7-4.1%, and salary costs increased by 4.1% due to more active hiring of employees and fewer lay-offs. The probability of dismissal of more than 1% of employees at the enterprise with the introduction of the quota decreased by 25%, and the probability of dismissal of more than 5% of the staff decreased by 13%. That is, the presence of women in management positions he...
A recent study from the University of Virginia found that among states that formerly belonged to the Confederacy, a higher number of lynchings occurred in counties with a higher number of Confederate memorials.
In its weekly report on Friday, UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute — which has conducted infectious disease modeling for over 20 years and helps advise the VDH — noted how the state remains in a fragile, unpredictable position ahead of the holidays. Last year, October set up “the foundation” for the winter surge, researchers wrote. Close to 40% of Virginians are not fully vaccinated — a chunk of the population researchers said is large enough to initiate a repeat of the pandemic’s darkest days, when the state nearly hit a single-day high of 10,000 cases.
Qian Xuhong, ECNU’s president, shared the teaching practices of the university in his keynote speech and said ECNU aims to cultivate innovative educators who seek to complement Chinese and Western pedagogies. “To reach this goal, we have cooperated with over 300 global universities, including the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, to offer 56 dual-degree training programs and nearly 300 student exchange projects,” he said. According to Qian, the university has also invited experts and professors from institutions like Yale Universi...
During the 2020-21 academic year, 118 EMBA students at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business took virtual study trips to Finland, Estonia, India, Japan and Argentina. It was not the same as the global immersion courses that Darden professors Marc and Shizuka Modica have led to Japan for several years. However, they say that the virtual tours added something new: making traditional Japanese meals; or trying out local customs with their families. “People got really involved with it emotionally and intellectually,” Shizuka Modica says.