Centra Health will be working closer with UVA Health by the end of this year to provide smoother transitions and boosted service to transplant patients. The two providers announced their strategic clinical affiliation Wednesday, which will affect a few different areas of care.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have made a finding that could boost drug development for diabetes, cancer and other diseases. According to a release, they have overturned conventional wisdom regarding the workings of certain hormone receptors within cells.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine has some groundbreaking research on hormones. A research team has a finding that could boost drug development for various illnesses and disorders including cancer and diabetes.
(Podcast) Today I talked to Jim Detert about his book “Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work” (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021. Jim Detert is the John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He’s won multiple awards for his teaching and curriculum development at both UVA and Cornell University.
A study involving UVA psychologist Noelle Hurd, circulated as a working paper through Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform, finds that high school students with mentors tend to earn better grades, stay in school longer, and make more money than peers who are otherwise similar to them. Unfortunately, the lower-income students who seem to benefit the most from mentoring at school are also the least likely to receive it.
Washington State University will lead a new federally funded research institute to take the agriculture industry further into the future via artificial intelligence. The USDA-NIFA Institute for Agricultural AI for Transforming Workforce and Decision Support – also known as the AgAID Institute – will look at how AI can help tackle farming challenges related to climate change, weather, water supply and labor. Partners with the institute include Oregon State University; University of California, Merced; University of Virginia; Carnegie Mellon University; Heritage University; Wenatchee Valley Coll...
A construction project is underway near the University of Virginia. The University plans to put a hotel, conference center, and academic and arts facilities on the 14.5 acres of land near the Ivy Corridor.
Colleges and universities are planning to vastly reduce throw-away plastic on campus. At UVA, sustainability director Andrea Trimble says people from various programs met virtually for three months. “We formed our working group of over 40 people to figure out how to do this as well as inventory all of the plastics at UVA.” While some medical uses will remain, the school plans to cut out all plastic that could be replaced by something re-usable or compostable. “That includes single-use plastic food service containers, straws, cutlery, plastic bags and plastic water bottles," Trimble...
UVA’s Pavilion VIII is getting a makeover, and construction workers have made a discovery from the past. They found pieces of a roof system designed in 1835 by UVA professor Charles Bonnycastle.
Public Ivies are known for offering Ivy-league education at a public school price. While they may not be as old or as grand as the Ivies, they are still outstanding schools that produce excellent results from their students. A few public Ivies include William & Mary, UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan, UCLA, and the University of Virginia. It is said that these schools match the academic quality of the actual Ivies, making them some of the best colleges in the world.
Smartwatch use jumped in 2015, and the widespread adoption of nanny-like exercise apps intrigued Roshni Raveendhran, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business and the primary author of a recent paper on people’s perceptions of tracking. “If our partners came in and said, ‘Hey, you’ve been sitting too long, take a walk,’ or if our bosses said, ‘Hey, you’ve been on this website too long,’ that’s really aversive,” Raveendhran says. “And yet many of these devices seem to do that, and we actually welcome it.” She and her co-author, Nathanael Fast, a management professor at the University of So...
(Video) The redistricting of communities is beginning to take center stage in the 2022 midterm elections. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of “Sabato's Crystal Ball,” spoke about the impact on voters.
Virginia Humanities has new digs: 10,000 square feet of office and meeting space in Dairy Central, a multiuse complex centered on a former milk-processing plant in a vibrant, historically Black neighborhood near downtown Charlottesville.
Spectrum News 1 reporter Brianna Hamblin never expected that a social media post about being sexually harassed would gain international attention. Hamblin, 25, a broadcast journalist in Rochester, said she shared her thoughts about an uncomfortable encounter as she reported in the field on Friday morning on her Twitter account and put her phone away. While getting a manicure that afternoon, her phone started to explode with alerts. Hamblin, a Virginia native and University of Virginia graduate, joined the Spectrum news team last August. She’s been a multimedia journalist for about 3.5 years, s...
Sarah and Ronald Morton of Suffolk, who first met at the University of Virginia, have been involved in the growing cannabis industry across several states for the last decade. With Virginia’s new marijuana laws going into effect this year, the Mortons saw an opportunity to make it easy for drivers to not unknowingly violate the new legalization laws, which still prohibit open containers of the now-legal drug in a car.
The post-coronavirus future of healthcare is a hot topic of conversation. A panel of experts weighed in Wednesday, July 28, at an event hosted by a University of Virginia graduate and CEO of health-ware company Care+Wear. The conversation touched on how hospital workers have personally dealt with the pandemic, mental health challenges, and how healthcare is changing. Panelists included Doctor Greg Weingart, a UVA graduate now working as an emergency physician in the Tidewater area.
“I think if you’re vaccinated, especially if you’re someone who’s my age, your risk of getting sick and especially getting hospitalized is pretty low, so I think it would be pretty ridiculous to enforce masks. I hope that UVA doesn’t enforce a mask mandate,” said Joe, a University of Virginia third-year. UVA has not yet released any new information regarding a mask mandate decision, and neither has the Charlottesville City Council.
The University of Virginia’s Miles Coleman, though, did find evidence that it was Democratic voters who helped Ellzey turn his 2018 primary defeat against Ron Wright into his 2021 victory over Susan Wright. Coleman writes that in Tarrant County, which is the largest and most Democratic portion of the 6th District, the precincts Ellzey flipped this time “supported President Biden by a 56%-42% spread in last year’s general election.” The areas that supported both Wrights also went for Biden, but by a much smaller 52-47 margin.
“Historically, the commonwealth has had a strongly pro-employer legal environment. As in many other Southern states, that approach included right-to-work legislation, restricting the ability of unions to collect fees from non-members,” said University of Virginia Professor of Law and Director of UVA’s Program for Employment and Labor Law Studies Rip Verkerke.
Last December, Congress gave the FCC nearly $100 million largely for that purpose. The agency said it has started the process, although it hasn’t disclosed when the task will be completed or exactly how it will be done. “We have a better map of the Milky Way” than of who doesn’t have broadband, said Christopher Ali, an associate professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.