An upcoming paper by academics from the UVA School of Law and the University of Toronto argues that index providers may be considered advisers under the 1940 Act and the Advisers Act as interpreted by the court and that the SEC should clarify when index providers cross the line into providing investment advice by adopting a safe harbor rule or interpretation.
“Racial disparities in health care, both access to care and quality of care, are the product of systemic racism and individual prejudice,” says Sophie Trawalter, a UVA associate professor of public policy and psychology whose research focuses on social diversity. The evidence is compelling, she says, and speaks for itself. One such study Trawalter worked on investigated the role of unconscious bias in a sample of 222 soon-to-be health care professionals.
As Americans across the country are on the hunt toward herd immunity to end the COVID-19 pandemic, UVA researchers are analyzing the results of COVID-19 antibody testing done around the state.
As Americans across the country are on the hunt toward herd immunity to end the COVID-19 pandemic, UVA researchers are analyzing the results of COVID-19 antibody testing done around the state.
If you’ve been less productive during the pandemic and miss the days when we hugged our friends and family members freely, a UVA professor says you’re not alone – and not to blame. We are, he says, hard-wired to hug, and doing so frees our brains to focus on other things.
Opposition to the bill has come from Republicans, but some Democrats also have voiced concerns about what Del. David Reid, D-Loudoun, called “the unintended consequences” of imposing additional costs on public colleges and universities that could contribute to higher tuition rates. The appropriations subcommittee amended the bill to delay its application to the Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Virginia health systems by two years – until July 1, 2023 – because of estimates that it could increase their procurement costs by up to $37 million.
Last month, a few days before the U.S. women’s national soccer team played its first match of the year, Coach Vlatko Andonovski summoned defender Becky Sauerbrunn for a meeting. He needed a captain, not just for two upcoming friendlies, but for the Olympics this summer and perhaps beyond. During Andonovski’s first 15 months in charge, several players, including Sauerbrunn, had filled the role, but the captain’s armband needed a full-time home. “That was not what I was expecting going into that conversation – at all,” Sauerbrunn, a UVA alumna, said Tuesday.
UVA doctors recommend women hold off on scheduling their annual screening mammogram between their first and second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I think starting with outdoor venues is a good way to take a baby step toward loosening restrictions and seeing what happens,” said Dr. Taison Bell, a UVA infectious disease expert. “Of all the sorts of activities we do, those outdoors are the lowest risk. Just because there’s nothing better than outdoor ventilation.”
UVA assistant mens basketball coach Brad Soderberg will be inducted into the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
(Commentary) According to Kirt von Daacke, UVA associate professor of history, we must learn from the past, no matter how complex it may be. But many of these memorials are not necessarily the best way to learn from the past. We need to reframe the monuments and statues in a way that makes sense and is more inclusive.
Barbara Perry, who directs presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, said Washington was so popular that “he could have been president as long as he wanted to be president.”
(Commentary co-written by Deborah G. Johnson, Olsson Professor Emeritus of Applied Ethics, Department of Engineering and Society) Synthetic media technologies are rapidly advancing, making it easier to generate nonveridical media that look and sound increasingly realistic. So-called "deepfakes" (owing to their reliance on deep learning) often present a person saying or doing something they have not said or done. What can be done to mitigate these harms?
UVA Medical Center reported an average daily census for the Feb. 12-18 period of 469.6, 76.5% of its 614-bed capacity. The average number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at UVA for the period was 34.7, down from last week’s average of 45.9.
A new discovery at UVA offers a glimmer of hope. Researchers have identified the gene responsible for causing Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. They’ve developed a potential way to stop the cancer from spreading to other parts of the body.
(Commentary) In other downturns, deaths rates have fallen as unemployment rates have gone up. As I wrote in 2012, recessions are often oddly good for health. More recent evidence from one of the leading scholars in this field, UVA’s Christopher Ruhm, suggests a weakening of the effect, but still suggests that today’s recession should have either had little impact on longevity (outside Covid itself) or brought a modest improvement.
In an extension of their work on malnutrition, the Aga Khan University faculty in collaboration with researchers at the University of Virginia will study the effects of Covid-19 infection on a malnourished gut, one of the first such studies in the world.
Scholars like UVA’s Ben Castleman and Caroline Hoxby at Stanford University adapted the “nudge” apporach for use in higher education. Recognizing that social, physical and psychological factors can often discourage students from acting in their own self-interest, those scholars showed that nudging could help students navigate college and the complex bureaucratic processes that often create barriers to academic success.
Can a dark past lead to a brighter future for someone else? It’s a question Virginia lawmakers are asking, and trying to answer with House Bill 1980.
On Monday, the Senate approved three bills impacting higher education in the state of Virginia. Two were passed by narrow Democratic margins. One prohibits colleges from asking applicants on an application if he or she has a criminal history, an effort known as “banning the box.” The other requires five universities to identify their enslaved laborers and offer a scholarship or economic program to the descendants of the enslaved. A third bill that passed unanimously requires college governing boards to meet a higher level of transparency.