This 168-bed expansion extends from the existing hospital with a fluid, curvilinear facade that creates a memorable entrance to the UVA Health’s University Hospital expansion.
Doctors and researchers at the University of Virginia Health System developed a new artificial technology for heart imaging that could improve care for patients. This could allow doctors to examine hearts for scar tissue while eliminating the need for injections.
What happens when the ground beneath one’s feet buckles? Or what if one was never quite stable to begin with? What hope is there for finding a path to the good life? For the last six years, Oishi and his team at the University of Virginia have been hammering out their response: a third path to the good life coined “psychological richness.” Their research suggests that the ingredients of a rich life come not from stability in life circumstances or in temperament. Rather, the path to a rich life arises from novelty seeking, curiosity and moments that shift one’s view of the world. Rich experienc...
Last year, University of Virginia atmospheric chemist Sally Pusede and Ph.D. student Mary Angelique Demetillo used data from a NASA flight campaign to validate the use of satellite measurements to examine variations in NO2 concentrations within a city. They demonstrated that daily measurements of NO2 made by the TROPOMI satellite could be used to illuminate air pollution inequality among census tracts in Houston. In their new work, Pusede and Demetillo expanded their study to 52 major US cities where about 130 million people live. They saw inequality in every city, but cities with wo...
It’s possible to design a city that promotes mental health, by providing places of sensory respite, or by encouraging socialization, physical exercise, or play. Before the pandemic, Layla McCay, the founder and director of the London-based Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, and her colleague Jenny Roe, an environmental psychologist and professor at the University of Virginia, began assembling a volume collecting the latest research from a field that, as the planet continues to urbanize, was becoming increasingly critical. Their new book, “Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Hea...
With University of Virginia game day just a few days away, there are some things you need to know before heading into Scott Stadium. The University’s current mask mandate means you will need to bring one with you to the game. Masks will be required in all interior public spaces around the stadium. This includes restrooms, elevators, press boxes and suites. You will not be required to wear masks in your seat or in outdoor sections of suites.
Sept. 1 marks two years since a Honduran judge ordered seven community leaders into pretrial detention for opposing an iron ore mine in Tocoa, a municipality in the country’s northern Colón department. Their detention kicked off a series of convoluted legal proceedings that have been far from fair, as the University of Virginia International Human Rights Law Clinic demonstrated in an August 2020 report.
4. University of Virginia: The University of Virginia is one among nine rarefied higher education institutions to receive the Green Ribbon School recognition by the U.S. Department of Education. The university engages students and staff to live more sustainably through several programs. They include the Green Labs Program, the Recycling and Waste Diversion Program, and the Green Workplace program.
Fans stormed the field at the end of Virginia’s 2019 home schedule, leaving University staff to shield head coach Bronco Mendenhall and quarterback Bryce Perkins from adoring supporters. As mayhem broke out in Scott Stadium following the team’s win over Virginia Tech, Mendenhall and Perkins relished in the moment. Saturday, UVA’s football program welcomes fans back to Scott Stadium after a pandemic-altered 2020 season forced most fans to watch on TV.
With more students struggling to afford college, some schools are increasing their financial aid offerings. Here are the top public and top private colleges doling out the most free money to offset the cost, according to The Princeton Review. Top public college for aid: University of Virginia.
A UVA study centralizes data from several studies that examined animals with a human-like brain structure and showed that even temporary isolation when these animals mature impairs social memory, as well as familiar facial recognition and working memory – the type of memory that allows us to remember a recipe when we’re cooking.
If it’s time to get your COVID booster shot, doctors from UVA Health say don’t worry, you have done this all before. “You get the same side effects probably that you got with the second dose,” UVA Health infectious disease expert Dr. Bill Petri said. “No better, no worse.”
Love’s slow approach to building courses and restraint from injecting his own immense playing proclivities into his company’s designs has produced an underrated and intriguing portfolio of creatively conceived courses that have the feeling of being hand-crafted. These include, recently, Birdwood Golf Club at the University of Virginia, a complete overhaul of the existing university course.
The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission announced educator Jeff Fallis as the inaugural poet laureate of Athens on Monday, Aug. 30. Fallis, who has lived in Athens since 1995, received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia. He is a limited term lecturer in the English department at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville.
(Commentary by Olivia Paschal, doctoral student in history) By week three of the school year in Marion, Ark., the district had counted 1,461 student quarantines and 27 staff quarantines. One hundred and twenty-three students and 14 staff members had tested positive for Covid-19 in the district, which is just across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tenn. It was August 13.
There was some question as to whether the state law allowed for pardons to be issued posthumously, but University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard, who oversaw the writing of the constitution adopted by the state in 1971, said that it gives the governor that power.
Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said to expect more lawsuits and more decisions such as the Illinois appellate court’s. He predicted one-unit unisex restrooms are the future, “but the transition will be long and slow. … Neither side is much interested in any sort of compromise.”
“The pandemic forced us to rethink the entire relationship individuals have with work,” says Joseph Harder, an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. “It’s not just that white collar workers are demanding flexibility … but it’s also [happening with] the entry-level positions that are essential to reopening the economy. People are not working for minimum wage the way they once were. … I don’t know what would have shifted that power without the pandemic.”
(Commentary) In “Playlist for the Apocalypse,” [UVA English professor] Rita Dove examines quite a number of serious events and subjects of our times and of hers, always with an undertone of poetic playfulness and tenderness. Usually, I don’t connect with the kind of poetry coming from a purely academic foundation and background, for I have learned that can make the soul of the poetry sterile, but in the case of Rita Dove, a Pulitzer Prize winner for her poetry and serving as a poet laureate of the United States, I enjoyed reading her poems with a lot of interest, admiration, and respect, witho...
A mini-movie premiered in Charlottesville on Monday evening, but instead of sitting in silence, the showing of the ‘Youth, Blue, and U’ project sparked much-needed and appreciated conversations. The roughly 15-minute short film showed what could and should happen when police officers pull people over in their cars. The post-premiere panel brought together the players -- including Raylaja Waller with the City of Promise; University of Virginia Police Captain Bryant Hall; and Robert Haney, a lieutenant with the Charlottesville Police Department -- first for a discussion of the film, then for a d...