University of Virginia Health System officials are postponing non-essential medical procedures in an effort to ease possible staff shortages and maintain patient care as COVID-19 cases increase. Physicians and patients are being asked to postpone non-emergency surgeries and procedures that can be put off without an adverse impact on the patient, officials said in a virtual press conference Friday.
The University of Virginia Cancer Center will be awarded this designation starting Feb. 1 of next year. The designation comes from the National Cancer Institute, which is the largest funder of cancer research in the world.
The UVA Medical Center continues to see more and more patients hospitalized with COVID-19 each week, but most of them are either unvaccinated, or immunocompromised. The number of new COVID-19 cases in the state is now in the 3,000s, which is roughly where we were right after Thanksgiving last year. “There is one huge difference, and that is that we now have an effective vaccine,” UVA Health epidemiologist Dr. Costi Sifri said. “And we did not have one in November that was, you know, being used and distributed.”
(Audio) KCRW’s Jonathan Bastian talks with Leidy Klotz, professor and director of the Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative at the University of Virginia about his new book “Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less” and the behavioral and evolutionary characteristics behind us always wanting more.
Do you think a good life is a happy life? A meaningful life? It can be. But there is another dimension of the good life that, until now, has been vastly underappreciated. In an important article just made available online at Psychological Review, “A psychologically rich life: Beyond happiness and meaning,” Shigehiro Oishi of the University of Virginia and Erin C. Westgate of the University of Florida show us that psychological richness is the kind of wealth that can contribute to a truly good life.
“As adults, we know what we’d like to do when it matters most at work: we hope we’d tell the truth, stand up for ourselves or others and say ‘no’ when going along would be wrong,” [Darden School of Business professor] Jim Detert explains near the beginning of “Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work,” his new roadmap for navigating the often-treacherous landscape that increasingly characterizes the modern workplace.
Would the wealthy revolt if taxes rose? Maybe not. A 2019 study by researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Toronto asked this question. It looked at whether Americans would be happier and feel that life would be fairer under more progressive tax systems. Not surprisingly, poorer people did feel this way, but the more eye-opening result concerned the rich. “Our most important finding,” the researchers said, “is that progressive taxation is not a zero-sum game where a large group of poor people benefit from a big loss of a small group of wealthy citizens. Rather...
The University of Virginia continues to map the projected peak of COVID-19 cases through the COVID-19 Model Explorer. The model allows users to view projected cases by metro area or statewide. It also includes several scenarios, including the delta variant and the delta variant with “optimistic” vaccine rates. Other control scenarios assume transmission rates will match the highest rates seen during the summer and fall of 2020. “Recent case declines are promising, but the unvaccinated population is large enough to make a resurgence possible. With the delta variant of COVID now dominant in Virg...
COVID-19 cases are still climbing in all health districts throughout the commonwealth and models project the rise will continue into September, the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute reported Friday. However, with more people wearing masks and some large gatherings canceled, UVA has pulled back slightly on dire projections for the state.
The Charlottesville Area Transit says the free trolley will soon use McCormick Road again. According to a release, the trolley will be returning to its original route on Monday. This will provide access in and around the University of Virginia’s Central Grounds.
The UVA Club of New Orleans held its student send-off party at the Uptown home of the Bryans. That’s Rae, Randy and Lucy Bryan, whose respective commencement years from UVA are 1988, 1990 and 2023. All have logged hours around the Grounds (“campus” is never used) and its significant features, such as The Lawn.
University of Virginia has good details in their “Examples of Disrespectful Behavior.” Go beyond the “disrespectful behavior” section to see the entire structure. For example, they give guidance both to the victims and to the accused! Still, UVA has missed some good ideas set out by Tennessee and Minnesota.
(Commentary) Virginia, and every other state, could also benefit from the work of pro bono lawyers dedicated to fighting injustice. All three of these men were represented by the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law. Its volunteers thoroughly investigated and researched their cases before filing appeals, then litigated toe-to-toe for years with the attorney general’s office. Instead of trying to thwart the innocence lawyers at every turn, why can’t the commonwealth work with them to find the truth?
The University of Virginia just wrapped its first week of class and although masks are back, things look very different this time around. After being glued to their computer screens for more than a year, students who have just finished their first week of in-person classes describe the experience as “lucky.”
Yale Law School again snagged the No. 1 spot on University of St. Thomas law professor Gregory Sisk’s closely watched triennial ranking of the most-cited law school faculties, released this week. The University of Virginia School of Law rounds out to top 10 by tying Vanderbilt for the No. 9 spot—making an impressive move up from the No. 16 spot on the 2018 ranking.
A new beer is helping Afghan refugee families in Charlottesville. The new brew, called “Never Forget,” is an American pale ale. UVA’s Student Veterans of America and Three Notch’d Brewing Company partnered to make it. It was made in memory of New York’s first responders and military service members who served during the war in Afghanistan.
University of Virginia football training facilities that are three decades old are hindering the University’s efforts to recruit top-notch players and could threaten the future success of the football program and other sports, school athletic officials say.
Virginians are putting on their masks again, and some who hesitated to get vaccinated initially are now rolling up their sleeves. Scientists at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute say those measures already are making a difference. A week ago, the team projected that cases could surpass January’s peak. Now the forecast puts cases just below that.
Hamilton Lombard, a research specialist with the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, said student residency fluctuations, especially with regard to COVID, was likely at least some of the reason for the decline. “Wihat I had seen was that most areas with college students were having fewer residencies than we expect,” Lombard said. “Just an undercount of college students, especially those living in off campus housing. That seems to be the trend.”
“I predict that this lawsuit will fail,” said Michael Gilbert, the vice dean of the University of Virginia School of Law. While he said that candidates are indeed sometimes removed from the ballot because of sloppy paperwork, he doubted that would happen in this case. “The violation is harmless, and the remedy sought — removing McAuliffe from the general election ballot in November — is extreme. That remedy would scramble a lot of plans and frustrate a lot of voters, all in service of a minor rule (so minor that no one noticed the error earlier)," he wrote in an email. "It’s hard to see how th...