Major hospital systems in Hampton Roads and Central Virginia announced Wednesday that they will require all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. UVA Health set Nov. 1 as the deadline for its employees. They must have gotten either both doses of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, or the Johnson & Johnson shot by Oct. 18, to allow for the two weeks to pass for them to fully effective.
Employees at area hospitals need to get vaccinated within the next several months or face disciplinary action. The University of Virginia Medical Center and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital announced vaccination requirements Wednesday, the first organizations in the area to publicly do so. The announcements follow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people 16 and older and as cases surge locally and across the state.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Data Science are looking at information regarding a heartburn medication and COVID-19.
New research says that Hispanic people who have a high percentage of American Indigenous ancestry are at an increased risk for omega-3 deficiency. According to a release, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine say this nutritional deficiency could affect heart health and contribute to harmful inflammation.
Daphna Bassok, associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia and associate director of EdPolicyWorks, shared findings from Virginia's Early Childhood Teacher Recognition Program. The Virginia's Teacher Recognition Program, was a $9.9 million federal grant program that provided small retention bonuses -- $1,500 paid in $500 increments -- to early learning teachers. The program focused on addressing high rates of staff turnover in early learning programs, compared to K-12 teachers.
(Commentary) I found far better material to share with you, gentle reader, in the form of the new book “Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Health and Wellbeing” by Jenny Roe and Layla McCay. McCay is the founder and director of the Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, while Jenny Roe is an environmental psychologist and professor at the University of Virginia.
(Book review) As UVA politics professor Rita Koganzon demonstrates in her valuable book “Liberal States, Authoritarian Families,” key early liberal theorists relied on parents and teachers to steel children against “the worst tendencies of liberalism – the tendencies to be ruled by fashions, custom, and the opinions of the majority.”
(Editorial) It should come as no surprise that Christianity remains the largest faith tradition in every state in the United States, including Virginia. What is surprising is that Islam is now the second largest religious group in the commonwealth, narrowly edging out Judaism, according to a new report by the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Bill Petri with University of Virginia Health believes mRNA vaccines are the best thing since sliced bread. That’s because this type of shot can be recreated to fight off other common viral diseases. “This ability to swap out like the latest variant is very real and that’s in clinical trials,” Petri said.
Exciting results are coming out of a University of Virginia and Virginia Tech labs. Researchers at both schools are developing a vaccine that could prevent not just COVID-19, but all coronavirus variants in one shot.
Wellness projects such as the Student Health & Wellness Center at the University of Virginia present a collection of strategies for merging outdoors and indoors. Large windows allow views of nature. Circulation, orchestrated to align with those views, brings a sense of nature and natural light inside. Transitions between outdoor terraces and gardens are seamless, with no change in floor level. With the pandemic, our thinking has shifted to emphasizing health and wellbeing in all buildings.
10. University of Virginia. There are four pillars to the UVA psychology studies in Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, and Clinical and Social Psychology. You’ll choose one psychology course from each of the four pillars. You’re also expected to take Fundamentals in Psychology and Research Methods and Data Analysis, along with electives. Among courses included in the curriculum are studies in Abnormal Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Child Development, etc. You may also opt to complete an internship through UVAs Internship Placement Program, y...
The library commemorated its 50th in a different way: by rolling out a new website devoted to telephone conversations recorded by LBJ during his years in the White House. Developed by the library in partnership with the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, the site lets visitors listen to calls in which the President spoke to Martin Luther King Jr., J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, Edward Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, and other national and international figures about important events of the times: the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, the War on Poverty...
Two Darden School of Business professors are teaming up to write a book to help UVA student-athletes properly market themselves. Under the working title, “Designing, Activating, and Monetizing Your Athlete Brand,” the book will walk student-athletes through brand management that comes with NIL (name, image, and likeness).
Former governor and current gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe said if he’s re-elected, he wants to mandate vaccines for everyone who is eligible to get one, especially college students. On Wednesday, McAuliffe visited the University of Virginia, applauding the school for requiring everyone on campus to be vaccinated.
Gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is calling on all Virginia colleges and universities to require students and staff to get vaccinated against COVID-19. He stopped by the University of Virginia on Wednesday to applaud the university for doing just that. “I’m here today to say thank you to the University of Virginia for the great work they’ve done, mandating vaccines for everyone one the students that are here. I congratulate them on that,” McAuliffe said while addressing students at the University.
Focusing on the president’s handling of Afghanistan holds some peril for Republicans, though: their longtime support for the 20-year war there and attempts to use the chaos in Kabul to their advantage could force them to defend the years the U.S. spent there. “This is a bipartisan albatross around the neck,” Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said.
Plexiglass barriers at grocery stores, nail salons and even classrooms have become the norm, but experts say they should not be relied on without other safety measures in place. “When we speak, we emit particles,” UVA Professor of Engineering Systems and Environment Andrés Clarens said. “Some of them are larger, and some of them are smaller, and the barriers are really intended to stop those larger particles from getting from me to you.”
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia is reopening Saturday. The museum has undergone renovations, including replacing the roof and working to make the building more energy-efficient. Staff members say they’re excited to welcome the public back into the galleries after being closed for 17 months.
Jen Lilley is a face you recognize. Her name is one you recognize. Whether you know her from her time on daytime television or you know her from her many Hallmark movies, you know Jen Lilley. … She graduated magna cum laude with honors from the University of Virginia. Of course, this intelligent young woman also graduated early.