The University of Virginia School of Nursing saw a rise in its early action and decision applications for the fall. According to the school, it had 1,930 applications come in for the BSN program. This is 653 more applications than what it had compared to last year. Austin Stajduhar, assistant dean of admission for UVA School of Nursing, says a factor in this rise is that many applicants are finding their calling during a crisis.
The UVA School of Nursing says the program saw a significant increase in applicants this year. That, while a student group is seeking to increase the amount of diversity in years to come.
The University of Virginia took another big step in its COVID-19 testing efforts. Full-time employees actively working on Grounds are now eligible for its voluntary asymptomatic virus testing program using saliva.
It was Phinney Sachs’ first day on the job as an intern in the office of Rep. James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the third-ranking Democrat in the House. Little did Sachs realize it would turn out to be the most momentous day of his life. The 19-year-old Pembroke Hill graduate, a first-year student at UVA, and his father, Kansas City lawyer Adam Sachs [a UVA alumnus], were in Clyburn’s office last Wednesday when a crowd of supporters of President Trump approached the Capitol.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan has announced a $16 million investment to support the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies.
The pandemic caused some financial problems for Virginia’s higher education system. The good news is that Gov. Ralph Northam has a plan to solve them. On Tuesday, members of the Virginia Higher Education Subcommittee learned how exactly he proposes doing that.
From helping his neurobiology labmates with coding for their experiments to going on spontaneous adventures with his friends, Michael Mutersbaugh brought light and joy to all he did. “In his short 23 years he absolutely lived life to its fullest extent, and shared with others how to do the same,” wrote his parents, Ann and James Mutersbaugh. Mutersbaugh, a 2019 UVA alumnus who died in a car accident Dec. 12, was a first-year doctoral student in Duke’s neurobiology program.
When the soon-to-be-ex-wife of one of his clients threw her husband’s entire collection of tropical fish out on their front lawn, Mark B. Sandground Sr. told his client to collect and freeze them immediately for use as evidence at trial. He once advised another well-heeled client seeking a divorce to serve her husband nothing but frozen food for dinner for three months, to encourage the speedy end to the soured marriage. Sandground, a Washington-area divorce lawyer (and UVA Law graduate) who drew media attention for his Machiavellian embrace of winning at all costs, died Dec. 30.
Just when Charlottesville School Board member Juandiego Wade thought he would soon be finished with local politics, the COVID-19 pandemic inspired him to remain in public service – and now he is seeking to serve from a different seat. On Monday, his birthday, Wade [a UVA alumnus] formally announced his candidacy for the Charlottesville City Council.
When Alexander Singh’s younger brother underwent spinal fusion surgery to correct his scoliosis, it was a painful case of history repeating itself. Years earlier, his mother received the same invasive surgery. A UVA student at the time, Alexander Singh felt called to action. Minimally Invasive Spinal Technology LLC – MIST for short – was born.
As a part of a series about business leaders who are shaking things up in their industry, a Q&A with UVA alumnus Spence Green, co-founder and CEO of Lilt, a company that uses machine learning for language translation.
UVA Cavalier Daily: The campus newspaper of the University of Virginia also called out Virginia Reps. Cline, Good, Griffith, and Wittman on Thursday and urged their removal.
A data analyst hailing from the human health world – where prospective, randomized, double-blind studies are the standard for research – has seen the data and thinks it needs to be disseminated. Wendy Novicoff, a professor of orthopedic surgery and public health sciences at the UVA School of Medicine, said at first she thought it was the sort of study she might not accept as a peer reviewer for a human medical journal. "There are all kinds of problems with the data. It's going to be biased, etc.," she said. "But when you go from 100% fatal to not fatal, I can live with some bias in the data."
A UVA Health family physician is being appointed to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The Task Force is an independent, volunteer panel of 16 national experts. Dr. Li Li will be the only physician from UVA during this four-year term.
“Let’s see how long this ban lasts, and also whether other corporations follow their lead,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “At this point, it is mainly a symbolic statement. Still, some of these are household names, so the decision will grab some attention.”
J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, says if Trump is impeached a second time, it may not mean much. "Honestly, more than anything else, it is probably going to end up being something that's more symbolic, just because it's unlikely he gets convicted," he said.
Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, says a second impeachment attempt is actually not about removing Trump from office – because impeachment will not be concluded by Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 – it’s about what happens to him after he leaves the White House.
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine spoke with UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato on Monday to talk about Wednesday’s events, from the floor of the U.S. Senate to the secure bunker where he and other lawmakers waited for hours until the Capitol building was cleared and they could return to the chamber.
The violence that took place in our nation’s capital last week stunned many. Now, the director of presidential studies at the UVA Miller Center, Barbara Perry, is weighing in on the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. “This is genuine insurrection, which is illegal attempts to overthrow the government,” Perry said.
(Podcast) This week's “Wall Street Week” features David Westin's interviews with former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard Kennedy School Senior Fellow Megan Greene, UVA Miller Center professor Barbara Perry and Operation HOPE founder and CEO John Hope Bryant. The conversations highlight the implications of the unrest at the U.S. Capitol, the economic fallout from the slow pace of vaccinations, and market reaction to the Georgia runoffs.